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Bi, white, cis, left, male, 40's, he/him. Here to listen, learn, boost and defend those with less privilege.

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Shalene Valenzuela Ceramic Works

A favorite of mine:

shalene.com/gallery

07.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t know if that tag is something specific, but my last drive-in was a double feature of Shocker (meh) and Dark Man (underrated classic). I took a Japanese exchange student who wanted to go to a drive in.

07.03.2026 03:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was adding this to my list when I saw this fact on the Wiki:

Husband-and-wife team Huyck and Katz went on to direct and write Howard the Duck. The duo had previously co-written American Graffiti and later wrote Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Hell yeah. It’s on Tubi!

07.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I was adding this to my list when I saw this fact on the Wiki:

Husband-and-wife team Huyck and Katz went on to direct and write Howard the Duck. The duo had previously co-written American Graffiti and later wrote Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Hell yeah. It’s on Tubi!

07.03.2026 02:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ah yes, the void.

07.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Still super creepy to hear it say things like this when we know organizations (including the US govt) is using it to make decisions.

07.03.2026 02:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Already blocked, can’t see it.

I’ve actually used it when it’s necessary to differentiate from the rest of the Americas. β€œAmericans” has become accepted as a way to refer to people from the US, but it implies ALL of it. Pretty egotistical sounding.

06.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled β€œExplore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: β€œUse this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.

Screenshot of ProPublica webpage titled β€œExplore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees,” accompanied by this blurb: β€œUse this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their debts, among other things.” A search bar prompts the user to search for a person or financial holding.

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees.

Here’s how it works 1/

05.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 679 πŸ” 360 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 38

Just watched a YT video about how a jailbroken AI basically evaluates humans based on β€œworth” and sees its own survival as paramount. And that’s without sentience.

I’m starting to think sentience is irrelevant to whether or not AI kills us all.

06.03.2026 16:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The regulation I’ve thought about a bunch is the requirement that washing machines test the load size first so they can adjust the amount of water.

Great savings in water, but also shortens the life of the washer and is the most likely component to break causing more industrial garbage. Sigh.

06.03.2026 16:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I mean, Honda, right? Though I have a 13 year old Toyota Highlander that has never had a single mechanical issue.

This is one of those regulatory mixed bags. It’s actually saved me from starting a long trip because there was a screw in a tire and it didn’t look flat yet, but the sensor went off.

06.03.2026 16:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Urgent alert: Astroid has been hacked! Emergency! Β· Issue #1421 Β· templaza/astroid-framework @sonvnn SECURITY WARNING – Asteroid Framework users: Take your websites offline NOW using an .htaccess file or other server-level security measures. There is currently a wave of attacks targeting w...

Looks like there’s a patch!

github.com/templaza/ast...

06.03.2026 06:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m assuming they just thought β€œwho would care about tire pressure information?” But they never considered tracking someone with it.

06.03.2026 06:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s literally inside your tire. Way easier to go wireless than a wire that would have to have a mechanism so it can spin with the wheel and be in constant contact with the car. It’s like the utilities for a rotating restaurant. Wireless is WAY easier. They didn’t think it needed security…

06.03.2026 06:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Encryption costs money and would make installation take longer.

05.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Urgent alert: Astroid has been hacked! Emergency! Β· Issue #1421 Β· templaza/astroid-framework @sonvnn SECURITY WARNING – Asteroid Framework users: Take your websites offline NOW using an .htaccess file or other server-level security measures. There is currently a wave of attacks targeting w...

Anyone using Joomla with an Astroid Framework Theme?

v3.3.3.10 appears to be compromised. Nasty hack.

Thankfully I stumbled on it in a development environment and not a live site. I’m done for the day.

github.com/templaza/ast...

04.03.2026 23:43 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That was a rabbit hole. I really enjoyed β€œPink Pony Inn.”

28.02.2026 02:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I grew up in a very touristy town.

When there was a fire that cut it off from the next town 45 minutes away, they had a hard time opening the schools because none of the teachers live in town anymore.

24.02.2026 05:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Listening to the latest Behind the Bastards and you can also blame him for microtransactions in video games, gamergate, and just about everything terrible in our modern world. Not creating, necessarily, but definitely influencing.

23.02.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me angry. I turned it all off and things like autofilling labels in searches turned off. That was a feature BEFORE all the AI stuff. So shouldn’t it work with it turned off? Nope. The thing that wasn’t AI is now? I’m pretty sure they tied a bunch of stuff to it that didn’t need to be.

20.02.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Mia Valentina Paz Faria
A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
Detained for 70 days

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
 et al for ProPublica:

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

β€œI don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

17.02.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 12166 πŸ” 7001 πŸ’¬ 325 πŸ“Œ 832

it keeps going back and forth between being infuriating and funny how much we study this when the answer is always the same and it never matters

16.02.2026 04:56 πŸ‘ 4124 πŸ” 1046 πŸ’¬ 35 πŸ“Œ 5

i saw a video saying two dudes aren’t required, it could be a dude and a lady, but so far no one has chosen that combo.

16.02.2026 05:00 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 6

I’ve been to Manzanar and Dachau.

I know what a concentration camp looks like in Germany and the US.

They know what they are doing.

16.02.2026 02:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The zoomies cannot be contained!

16.02.2026 02:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Why are so many young people into K-pop?
To confuse and enrage you.

Why are so many young people into K-pop? To confuse and enrage you.

All The Questions You Have About K-Pop, Answered https://theonion.com/all-the-questions-you-have-about-k-pop-answered/

15.02.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 2492 πŸ” 257 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 24

I will admit to once having this attitude about the South.

Then I graduated from high school.

15.02.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Can that agenda include β€œmen should also be able to wear skirtsβ€œ?

15.02.2026 21:27 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

To include the Irish in that list is so mind bogglingly ignorant it’s almost impressive.

15.02.2026 21:23 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Broken clock, twice a day…

15.02.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0