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Mog: Headshots
Apr. 26th, 2025 10:04 pm
( More shots... )
That's my cat, that is.
Having a bit of a moment - I had to double-check with Mog that I did indeed take these, because I really like them. Anyway, now you can enjoy them too.
( More shots... )
That's my cat, that is.
Having a bit of a moment - I had to double-check with Mog that I did indeed take these, because I really like them. Anyway, now you can enjoy them too.
The Beano does DOGE
Apr. 24th, 2025 02:25 pmI honestly don't know what to say.
I haven't removed the background to prove that this is, in fact, actually real. THE BEANO, 2025-04-26. Yes, I know that's the future, but that's the date on the issue.
For USians, this is very much a childrens' comic.
New doofer! Dedicated terminal monitor.
It's just a monitor with a 1920x720 resolution, but I've got my terminal fullscreened on it.
So useful.
What's the Word
Mar. 7th, 2025 05:32 pm
It's always happened, but with the MS decline I am 'losing words' ALL THE TIME now. It's pretty hard to deal with, I value my ability to express myself.
Anyway, I realised that with Warp's AI integration, I can just ask my terminal now. I wanted 'abstract' and pow.
Backdoor accessibility :D
The Long Future
Mar. 2nd, 2025 11:18 amMy main problem with dying is not seeing what we become.
I firmly believe that over a long enough timeline - including the scenario where we blow ourselves up, and have to recover for thousands of years - we're going to be stellar.
It's just tragic that our ten-year-scale fluctuations hurt so many people.
Transing the kids
Feb. 27th, 2025 06:05 pmThese people go off about transing kids. They say "well my kid thinks they're Optimus Prime". But no. That's not it at all. But you're actually closer than you think.
It's not about forcing a child to be trans, just like it's not about forcing a kid to be Optimus Prime. It's about letting them explore that as a part of their identity, and see what sticks. Chances are they don't think they're a giant robot for very long. But things that are plausible - they can take longer to process.
You know what most kids who are allowed and supported in exploration of their gender turn out to be? Cis. But wouldn't you rather that your kid got the chance to try to figure it out for themselves? What harm is really done by calling them by their chosen pronouns - until they change them, or they don't?
The answer is none. Cis kids will eventually decide that they're cis. Trans kids won't, and that's the point at which you know that you can start thinking about how to take them through the process - a process from which they can walk it back at any time.
Nobody is doing surgery on kids. Hell, most ADULTS have to wait years and years before they can get permission from multiple mental health authorities to control their own body. Puberty blockers, too, are very rare. But they are also entirely reversible when you stop taking them. Which the child, teen, adult can choose to do at any time.
Trans people are not a threat to you.
ELON MUSK Act
Feb. 18th, 2025 06:44 pmDemocrats are simply not doing enough to combat Trump. And don't sit there and say this is Kamala Harris' fault, that's racist, oversimplified bullshit. She tried, you let her down.
Anyway. One thing that did make me laugh was the naming of this bill.
Mark Pocan introduces "ELON MUSK Act" to try to stop Musk’s government-destroying rampage
Boomerposting
Feb. 13th, 2025 04:45 pmMy mum is so good. This is some weapons-grade boomerposting. But it's always, always the ones that aren't dunking on any marginalised groups, or even earnest 'kids of today' nonsense.
It is - incredibly, unthinkably - actually possible. Who knew.
get to the chopper
Feb. 9th, 2025 08:56 pm
remembering this image today for two reasons
- that time I met arnie, that was pretty cool
- once upon a time you could wear a dogecoin hoodie because it was a big joke instead of a tacit endorsement of literal fascism
CDC Datasets: Single File
Feb. 6th, 2025 10:28 amUpdate on the compressed single-file version of the CDC datasets: the ingest to the Internet Archive is now complete, and my redirect has been updated to point there.
You can pull the file from them directly, or use their torrent.
That link again: https://dave.io/go/cdc
CDC datasets
Feb. 4th, 2025 04:19 pmThe CDC datasets shared yesterday were not ideal for everyone to archive. They were loose files, and uncompressed.
I've compressed and tarred them up.
It's uploading to archive.org, but their ingest is very slow. This URL will redirect there once done, and until then, to Dropbox.
Brain drain
Feb. 3rd, 2025 02:02 pmObviously there's a ton more going on but I can speak with conviction about what's happening in my own back yard - a friend pointed out recently that if Trump really wants to rout all queer folks from the systems of the Federal government, God help him when he tries it with tech.
There are plenty of 'quite good' people in tech. The few absolutely stellar engineers I know? The ones who quietly keep things together and at a level where 'quite good' can do the rest?
All queer.
All of them.
Principia Discordia
Feb. 2nd, 2025 07:09 pm
Somehow, Amazon displaying images of a tin of roasted butternut (with garlic!) for this item is more perfect than I could have ever imagined.
Not the President
Jan. 31st, 2025 11:01 pmDelilah Bon, the artist behind DEAD MEN DON'T RAPE and WITCHES, in a very different tone this time.
Don't mind me, just over here doing the Ugly Cry.
Today I am remembering that time I spent the day being interviewed by every CBC Radio local station one after the other about the Tories' porn filter plans, and needed a mic stand, so I grabbed a netbook and a ring gag.
Job job job job
Jan. 30th, 2025 04:31 pmYour best wishes, please. A senior DevOps position has opened up at FetLife and I just had my first interview. Well, I say my first interview, it was arranged as a 'screening call' but they told me there are no further interviews. So either
- They fucked up the event text
- They really hated me
or
- They've already decided they want me
The interview went - from my perspective, anyway - really well. I don't let myself get excited about things like this as I don't take getting let down well unless I keep it down to start with. The fact that I'm losing my mind should serve as an indicator of how well I thought it went.
Fingers crossed!
