Educated City Rat 🏳️⚧️ ☠️
@kingratjello.bsky.social
Boring old queer trans guy. Currently in a war with squirrels for my garden. I will talk about that endlessly.
I hate that apps, websites, and services just change things up willy nilly, with no warning. The same service etc you have used for years will just up and shift icons, where things are at, etc.
I know I hate change, but sometimes a bit of warning would be nice.
I know I hate change, but sometimes a bit of warning would be nice.
December 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
I hate that apps, websites, and services just change things up willy nilly, with no warning. The same service etc you have used for years will just up and shift icons, where things are at, etc.
I know I hate change, but sometimes a bit of warning would be nice.
I know I hate change, but sometimes a bit of warning would be nice.
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Youtube I closed that video because I didn't want to watch it, not because i was hoping to see a smaller version of it still playing in the corner of my screen.
If you told me everything google did was designed around how to piss me off, I would believe it.
If you told me everything google did was designed around how to piss me off, I would believe it.
December 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Youtube I closed that video because I didn't want to watch it, not because i was hoping to see a smaller version of it still playing in the corner of my screen.
If you told me everything google did was designed around how to piss me off, I would believe it.
If you told me everything google did was designed around how to piss me off, I would believe it.
So my garden is done for the year, and I have learned that my new hardware cloth, 1/2" X 1/2" square metal mesh did, indeed, keep the squirrels and cats out. Now the squirrels and cats lounge on top of the thing, but I can live with that.
December 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
So my garden is done for the year, and I have learned that my new hardware cloth, 1/2" X 1/2" square metal mesh did, indeed, keep the squirrels and cats out. Now the squirrels and cats lounge on top of the thing, but I can live with that.
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New pathfinder dragon book confirms, dragons keep kobolds just cause they’re cute.
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New pathfinder dragon book confirms, dragons keep kobolds just cause they’re cute.
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Gay kobolds (they tails are wrapped together)
December 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Gay kobolds (they tails are wrapped together)
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"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter
it's diagnostic
So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
"But what does that say about my job if a machine that's wrong 75% of the time can do for me and no one notices?"
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
Hi, you are participating in the most inefficient and needlessly cruel version of UBI possible.
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American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
American Classmates Having Difficulty Understanding Better Educated Foreign Exchange Student https://theonion.com/american-classmates-having-difficulty-understanding-bet-1828551698/
My coworkers were shocked I am still not buying at Starbucks becuase of the strikes. Like coffee at Starbucks is a luxury item I don't need to survive, and I would rather it be provided by workers that are treated better.
Starbucks workers and unions in 10 countries will be protesting Starbucks in support of US baristas on national ULP strike.
This is what solidarity looks like 💪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This is what solidarity looks like 💪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starbucks workers and unions in 10 countries to protest in support of US baristas
Starbucks workers and union allies in 10 countries are set to demonstrate on Wednesday in support of striking US employees.
www.bbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My coworkers were shocked I am still not buying at Starbucks becuase of the strikes. Like coffee at Starbucks is a luxury item I don't need to survive, and I would rather it be provided by workers that are treated better.
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#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.
ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...
projects.propublica.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
#ICYMI: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detailed the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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A local barista developed second thoughts about proposing to his girlfriend after encountering a foreboding save point.
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paletteswap.site/dif...
December 8, 2025 at 11:28 PM
A local barista developed second thoughts about proposing to his girlfriend after encountering a foreboding save point.
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
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Garbage in, garbage out, back in again, and out, endlessly expanding in bubbling waves. The "public sphere" is fast becoming a grotesque toxic cesspool -- and there's little effort being made to contain and limit it.
In fact, it's as if the overwhelming public policy consensus is to accelerate it
In fact, it's as if the overwhelming public policy consensus is to accelerate it
Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
Apps like OpenAI’s Sora are fooling millions of users into thinking A.I. videos are real, even when they include warning labels.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Garbage in, garbage out, back in again, and out, endlessly expanding in bubbling waves. The "public sphere" is fast becoming a grotesque toxic cesspool -- and there's little effort being made to contain and limit it.
In fact, it's as if the overwhelming public policy consensus is to accelerate it
In fact, it's as if the overwhelming public policy consensus is to accelerate it
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Look, the shingles vax does kinda suck.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Look, the shingles vax does kinda suck.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
You know what is like 10,000 times worse? Shingles.
This is a phenomenal build. He had to calculate every piece he put in. That's some fucking skill right there.
I Made the Whole World out of Pallet Wood
YouTube video by Epic UpCycling
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December 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
This is a phenomenal build. He had to calculate every piece he put in. That's some fucking skill right there.
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Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
December 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.
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Thread, long but very worth it.
My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Thread, long but very worth it.
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We do not play any kind of Elf On The Shelf games at River Side Casino. If you see an elf watching you, get the fuck out of there!
December 8, 2025 at 4:15 AM
We do not play any kind of Elf On The Shelf games at River Side Casino. If you see an elf watching you, get the fuck out of there!
On a recipe for roasting acorn squash halves. You can't bake it whole. It just . . . no. Like this isn't the directions. . .
I have no faith in humanity anymore.
I have no faith in humanity anymore.
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
On a recipe for roasting acorn squash halves. You can't bake it whole. It just . . . no. Like this isn't the directions. . .
I have no faith in humanity anymore.
I have no faith in humanity anymore.
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WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
WATCH: A nurse nearly blinded by a tear gas canister. Protesters trapped, struggling to breathe.
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Under Trump 2.0, federal agents have routinely countered protesters using crowd control weapons and fired on people in ways that some experts say might be criminal.
With @frontlinepbs.bsky.social