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Do not surveil your lover like a security camera or panopticon to control or punish their behavior, but rather surveil them in the nature of "sickos: Yes... YES", to get off on it.

So, I don’t know exactly why this is happening, as I’m no longer involved, but I do have some experience with the collection of npm download counts. This smells WAY MORE like a data collection error, not a sudden unexplained behavior change on the part of the entire world in tandem.

New English-language exclusive on drone attacks and public sentiment in Russia en.thenewtab.io/drone-attack...

New translation! A literal fluff piece (with pretty photos) en.thenewtab.io/russia-popla...

A pair of new translations — both reported pieces from freelancers still working in Russia — out today with @thedialmag.bsky.social www.thedial.world/articles/new...

I am rooting for mutual annihilation www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/a...

I am exasperated with people accusing programmers of "gatekeeping" programming. We were practically dragging people through the gate. Do you know why a mindless LLM can tell you so much great programming information? It's because we've been sharing that information for free online for decades.

I appreciate @acollierastro.bsky.social’s desire to not make anyone feel dumb, which is noble and the correct stance for an educator. But I am a former academic from basically the wordsiest of disciplines and I composed in LaTeX. Because Word is the literal worst. She is 100% right about this!

I'm doing an experiment! Write to me at chat@emilylaskin.com if you want to get an email newsletter from me between 1 and, idk, 20 times a year.

New translation! Read about one of Russia's political prisoners, jailed for "distributing" a book that's available to the public in Russian libraries and for free on the Internet. en.thenewtab.io/grigory-skvo...

I wrote about how much I hate ballot propositions and whatever the hell else you call direct democracy measures, because I'm a contrarian asshole but/and I care about political power. emilylaskin.com/2026/06/dire...

Having love and lost is way worse than never having loved at all. Like it’s not even close.

It's Beltane! Days are still getting longer, but by a little bit less every day. They'll be getting longer and longer slower and slower until the summer solstice. Anyway, here's my music selection for this season. open.spotify.com/playlist/4qV...

Hi science journalists and child development folks, I am looking for information on the impact of traffic, active vs. car commute, and commute times on toddlers. Point me in any direction!

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Here is an insane piece of lore inside SQLite's source code I am researching VACUUM and I was studying their code. In VACUUM, SQLite creates a temp file prefixed with `etilqs_` Here is why:

I am basically a homebody and I was childless in 2020/21, so covid social isolation truly was easy mode for me. But it did suck for a lot of people and I don't quite know how to put this but I think we should cultivate more gratitude for people doing shitty hard things for the collective good.

Anyway ALSO everyone should read American Hippo by @sarahgailey.bsky.social because nothing says 'yes fun' like both riding hippos and man eating hippos and queer people. torpublishinggroup.com/american-hip...

you don't see husbands realizing they forgot their anniversary and searching for a gift and seeing the necklace their wife wanted in a window for $50 and pulling out an empty wallet and moths flying out and then seeing a poster that says "BOXING MATCH FIRST PRIZE $50" and saying "hmmm" much anymore

[an awkward minute passes as Death struggles to pick up change from the countertop] Death: (embarrassed) ha ha slippery coins Drugstore Clerk: nah man it’s cuz you got them bone hands

Yeah bsky.app/profile/grav...

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

The other possible doctrinal conclusion is that blasting rope to waluigi hentai is not a sin

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Classic laughter demon summoning fuel

Angine de Poitrine, Vol II Sarniezz is the stand-out hit, imo. Utzp is legitimately hilarious. open.spotify.com/album/3FqqIe...

Next year in peace. Free Palestine.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

At this point, if someone ran for president on the single campaign promise that they'd hang Trump and Hegseth for war crimes, they'd have my vote. Hell, I'd knock on doors for them. That is not even an extreme leftist thing, "killing fascists" is like, a 1940s-era conservative position.

Absurd Trolley Problems neal.fun/absurd-troll...

why is this so funny to me

London Liverpool Street, London Laugherpool Street, London Loverpool Street.

This is clearly a fake image. Earth is nowhere near that close to Saturn.

Trump: “okay can you guys just say I won and we go back to status quo, no harm no foul” IRGC: “lol, and furthermore lmao”

I’m not crying your crying 😭

the airport really is the ultimate pressure point for senators, huh

I extremely hate that "prove this wasn't authored by AI" is a thing that people think is worthwhile or possible. It's not just foolish and harmful — it's embarrassing. (See what I did there?)

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Many moons ago I used to give a talk to coding bootcamps about how to be a web developer. It was very popular and I gave it over 30 times. At long last I have got around to making it into a website, so more people can read it: stuffeverybodyknows.com

Periodic reminder: "ask" has been used as a noun in English since Old English "ascian" (and its variant "acsian" as well.) Both "ask as a noun" and "pronouncing 'ask' like 'aks'" are *centuries older than the word "ask"*. When someone complains about either, they are admitting to prideful ignorance

We’ve modernized those old stodgy “academic” “subjects” and replaced them with poop from a butt. That’s right. No more long hours studying, just to be a bore at parties. Now, students will have that stamp of academic approval on the poop from their butts as they prepare to enter the job market.