Dannel Jurado

For disability reasons, it's been somewhat rare that I make it out to actual picket lines when they happen, or that I would hold a sign (my hands are usually on my crutches), but thanks to @rattusrose.bsky.social, I was able to commission what I would look like out there

There's a new newsletter because it was inevitable that I focus my dread about elections into a post about music, you can subscribe and read the archives here www.rumicat.com/the-music-i-...

I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

I am trying to keep to "no more than once a week" for newsletter posts but damn sometimes even that's tough

There's a new newsletter because it was inevitable that I focus my dread about elections into a post about music, you can subscribe and read the archives here www.rumicat.com/the-music-i-...

Just as a culinary note: if you go to a Peruvian chicken place and they serve you green pepper sauce instead of yellow or orange aji, they're only half trying

Liked one post and started getting hit by aoe slop. If only there was some sort of super smart gorilla that wears glasses and is from the moon with a short range toggle tesla cannon and a dome shield to protect me

Holy shit I never thought I’d see somebody make a Plants vs Zombies joke www.tiktok.com/@centro.musi...

Maaaaaaan this sucks, like I get it, but it also sucks

because it is relevant to my work, I have tried very hard to educate myself on how AI works, be fair and measured in how I evaluate it, and regularly test new tools to confirm or debunk my priors and tbh AI haters are just nailing it with less work like 99% of the time. keep at it folks

this php vulnerability is serious but also i am lmao at all the “i never liked php anyway” posts like it has allegations of malicious behavior. some of you need to come up with other ways to respond to news

Saying “TikTok boy band Boy Throb met Zohran Mamdani” should be some sort of MKUltra activation phrase

if you've convinced yourself it's ok if you cross a picket line (I wish you wouldn't) at least keep that shit to yourself instead of broadcasting shit that will do nothing but weaken other people's resolve and increase pressure on people who are holding the line you couldn't.

Another day at the Bluesky offices. Our lead frontend developer put his phone in the microwave after he couldn't find his charger and asked Claude how to charge it without one and it told him to put it in his microwave

Behold! My *checks notes* perfectly evolved artificial system that *checks notes again* self-regenerates in order to *checks two Wikipedia entries* annoy Meatwad

If I ever run for office of any sort my campaign poster would have at least one version that says “Dannel doesn’t want to do this but he keeps getting told that he’s the right person for this”

congratulations to kelowna's newest councillor

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

I can't wait to join my comrades at Circuit Breakers but first I gotta get my Quechua evaluation out of the way

I was curious about a post I saw online (Polygon about the new Avatar show) so I watched the show/episodes they were referencing and it feels like whoever wrote the Polygon article just doesn't understand the storytelling devices at play? It felt clickbaity as all hell :/

in the event of an apocalyptic event like nuclear war or zombie outbreak i will use my last remaining strength to write out notes that say things like "i don't feel so good, nobody had better open my safe, the code for which is 6816" and smear yellow paint on things

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

Do y’all know how disorienting it is to be learning introductory Quechua and every other clip on your FYP is in Huttese? Because it’s VERY disorienting

They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.

LAST CALL 📣 We are closing ticket sales tomorrow, Wed Oct 14th so get them now if you haven’t already! We have an incredible weekend for you, and we are so excited to see everyone in NYC. twcl.ink/circuit-breakers

"You booked your Access-A-Ride trip after 4:30 pm yesterday which means the system probably dropped it" I'm sorry WHAT

didn't know tenga was cool like that

You can write Markdown in Jira!* *you cannot PASTE Markdown into Jira because fuck you, that's why

I'm speaking at this this weekend, part of a retro of what we tried to do with a tech local. There's also a ton of comrades giving talks and sharing learnings, including several more @kickstarterunited.org folks

In this week’s newsletter I celebrate abandoning subtlety in media expression www.rumicat.com/the-music-i-...

Sometimes I draft a post just to get it out of my head

this is really really fascinating. what's happened on ravelry is almost certainly reflected across every single other creator space online — your youtubes, your tiktoks, your instagrams. there's just not a lot of space left in the middle:

re-uploading because I misspelled their name. I'm sorry Biddy Blas, you deserve so much better.

I do think any Quechua class in which I get my yachachiq (teacher) to laugh by making a funny beginner sentence in Quechua is a successful class

My online girlfriend was so shocked by the Ukraine drone strike on the Russian data centre that she's been too upset to message me all day.

The number of people I've seen pulling their hair out over the MAGfest hotel room situation is almost two digits now and I don't know that many people who still go

Something annoying about these modern times is trying to distinguish the AI perverts from the SFM meticulously posing models in a scene perverts