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Profile photo is not my cat, she prefers to avoid the scrutiny of the public eye. The photo is from my local rescue placeโ€™s listings. Banner image is โ€œThe Forestโ€ by Bokuyล Katayama

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Jesse singal literally wrote a whole article about an imaginary me and then asked people to be furious at his fantasy version of me.

04.03.2026 12:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 2344 ๐Ÿ” 366 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 63 ๐Ÿ“Œ 34
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We mourn our craft I didnโ€™t ask for this and neither did you. I didnโ€™t ask for a robot to consume every blog post and piece of code I ever wrote and parrot it back so that some hack could make money off oโ€ฆ

feeling this one today

02.03.2026 18:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 177 ๐Ÿ” 39 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

excited to hear tech companies will now be allowed to build their own power plants for their data centers. i am sure the makers of "the app that tells kids to kill themselves" will responsibly operate coal plants

25.02.2026 02:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 5408 ๐Ÿ” 848 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 95 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
Closeup of the newscaster in the top right frame of above screenshot. Theyโ€™re in a parka with the hood up and a cloud of snow (I think?) is blocking their face

Closeup of the newscaster in the top right frame of above screenshot. Theyโ€™re in a parka with the hood up and a cloud of snow (I think?) is blocking their face

Movie poster for The Thing (1982)

Movie poster for The Thing (1982)

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23.02.2026 16:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So

With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

New York Times headline: Libertarians: We Told You So With an image of a big black boot stomping a snake

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart

1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks

2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

09.02.2026 18:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 11196 ๐Ÿ” 2354 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 326 ๐Ÿ“Œ 175
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ICE detainees from Maine being held under โ€˜inhumaneโ€™ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell โ€” men and women in some cases โ€” with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

07.02.2026 13:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 4403 ๐Ÿ” 2710 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 134 ๐Ÿ“Œ 222
ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

03.02.2026 23:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 11300 ๐Ÿ” 3247 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 635 ๐Ÿ“Œ 778

This is the golden era to just be a normal dude because dweebs and twerps are exposing themselves at an alarming rate. We have never seen or heard from this many dweebs and twerps at any point in history before this. The dweebs and twerps are here and they're curing droughts with their tears.

03.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 705 ๐Ÿ” 163 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

Man on a local news street interview: The earth is a resort for like 500 rich people and the rest of us are just the staff.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

01.02.2026 00:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 15052 ๐Ÿ” 4761 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 51 ๐Ÿ“Œ 117

quite frankly I believe the word โ€œnubileโ€ needs to be exiled from the English language. it exists simply to be used by mouth-breathing horny old men

01.02.2026 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 326 ๐Ÿ” 30 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

To add to this, one of my students who uses a wheelchair simply could not get to class last week because of the unshoveled sidewalks. They tried for over an hour and had to turn around and get home because their wheels spun in the snow and they couldn't get to crosswalks. Really awful.

01.02.2026 18:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 46 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Well well well would you look at that

01.02.2026 01:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Everyone giving goku energy from the spirit bomb

Everyone giving goku energy from the spirit bomb

Every time thereโ€™s slightly irregular news from the White House.

21.01.2026 04:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 5684 ๐Ÿ” 1053 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26 ๐Ÿ“Œ 20

just a little more training bro then ice will be okay, i swear just some more training bro i promise, we can reform this

14.01.2026 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2419 ๐Ÿ” 454 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Tariff bills are making business all-but impossible for my Morningside store Erin Love runs Firecracker Fabrics in Morningside. Tariff bills are making her business of serving Pittsburghโ€™s maker community all-but impossible.

Yards of fabric and โ€œtariff bills in the thousandsโ€ โ€” Erin Love, owner of Firecracker Fabrics in Morningside, walks us through the local impact of President Trumpโ€™s trade pressures.

02.01.2026 14:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
How Did We Get the "Heebie-Jeebies"? : Word Routes : Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus: Word Routes - It turns out we can pin down not just the coiner of the heebie-jeebies, but the very day the word was coined.

???

The term was coined by a 1920โ€™s cartoonist with the meaning it still has today. I can find no evidence of a basis in antisemitism

18.12.2025 23:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

12.12.2025 16:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2817 ๐Ÿ” 185 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105 ๐Ÿ“Œ 87
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Supreme Court Strips Samus Aran of All Previous Suit Power-Ups in 6-3 Ruling - Hard Drive WASHINGTON โ€” The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that bounty hunter Samus Aran must surrender all suit power-ups prior to the start... Read the full masterpiece

Goddamnit.

25.11.2025 15:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 564 ๐Ÿ” 107 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 18
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing Iโ€™ve ever seen

24.11.2025 13:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 12692 ๐Ÿ” 2126 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2285 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2666

Itโ€™s really cool watching people on this website cry about how anti-technology and progress the world is re: AI and hearing, from the small number of instructors I know in real life, how this stuff is just destroying traditional instruction with no effective mitigation for public education systems.

21.11.2025 04:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 946 ๐Ÿ” 138 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 31 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

*Smirks haughtily in Erlang/OTP shared-nothing concurrency model*

19.11.2025 18:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This archived Twitter thread from Feb 2020 feels especially relevant.

Women move through the world knowing that you can name a field of endeavorโ€”any field of endeavorโ€”and a few of the Great Men in it, & you'll find rapists. And that we are required to make some kind of peace with that knowledge.

12.11.2025 23:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 295 ๐Ÿ” 83 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

It becomes a much more manageable turn-based game if you pause/resume constantly

12.11.2025 19:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for usโ€”who else is there to cheer for?

10.10.2025 12:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 8358 ๐Ÿ” 2224 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43 ๐Ÿ“Œ 76

I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. โ€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,โ€ Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoโ€ฆ

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleaguesโ€™ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. โ€œWe could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,โ€ Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Shoโ€ฆ

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

09.11.2025 20:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 10352 ๐Ÿ” 5679 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 119 ๐Ÿ“Œ 338
Sticker from the MS Teams โ€œLegalโ€ sticker pack. Itโ€™s a hammerhead shark in a business suit, standing up on its dorsal fin with its head bowed over in shame or disappointment. Text next to the shark says in all caps, comic sans, โ€œWE GOT SUEDโ€

Sticker from the MS Teams โ€œLegalโ€ sticker pack. Itโ€™s a hammerhead shark in a business suit, standing up on its dorsal fin with its head bowed over in shame or disappointment. Text next to the shark says in all caps, comic sans, โ€œWE GOT SUEDโ€

Iโ€™m partial to this one myself

06.11.2025 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 47 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mamdani going through this list and upzoning every one that went Cuomo + 40

05.11.2025 03:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 420 ๐Ÿ” 50 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

04.11.2025 23:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 918 ๐Ÿ” 109 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Show me one example of them adopting a symbol of any present or historical enemy *besides* the nazis

22.10.2025 19:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0