Frost the Folf

Today my mailbox contained four flyers urging me to vote for Amy Walen. It's wild to me how much money is being put into fighting the "millionaire tax". (the flyers are too late I already voted for Forsythe xP)

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Evan Sutton

@evansutton.bsky.social

Really wish Democratic candidates would go like 20% as hard as whatever Gen Z baller made this video for the Senate Majority PAC account

Senate Majority PAC@majoritypac.bsky.social

Republicans, they're not like us.

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This is still one of the most accurately funny things to me hahaha

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SwiftOnSecurity

@swiftonsecurity.com

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social

or.... make Taylor Swift secdef.

I think it's time to get a new ref sheet. My design has shifted somewhat from my original refsheet, and I want to nail down some extra details, too. I'd deeply appreciate recommendations for any artists you know or have worked with that are great with this kind of work! Thanks!

AGENTS .md and CLAUDE .md files in open source projects are both fascinating and infuriating to me in oodles of ways. This is *exactly* the sort of documentation that devs have been both yearning for, and been unwilling to provide, for AGES.

But what does it say about us to notice that we're more willing to write documentation for bots than we are for our fellow humans -- or even for our future selves? Does this say something about the SWE community? That they/we care more about the code than the humans writing and using it?

I don't know. I think there's probably something to be said here about software development being, at its best, a dialogue between humans, mediated by machine languages. Consider the end user, and the other devs that are out there. They are who actually matter, not the software.

I'm in a group chat of furs who work at my former tech company -- it is SO FUCKING INFURIATING how AI pilled so many people are in here. This chat has been completely out of touch for fucking years, don't get me wrong; it's just ten times worse nowadays.

You see every single bit of faulty reasoning on full display in there -- tech inevitability, "the crash hasn't happened yet so it won't", complete ignorance of the broader impact (and why others hate it and data centers), the expectation that it's just gonna keep improving exponentially forever...

Every time I open this chat I just get mad. I've been silent in this chat for a long time; I don't work there anymore after all. Maybe it's about time I say something.

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Morgan Johnson

@poormojo.bsky.social

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Four or five hours of digging thru udev documentation, learning about the audio CD format, and working around weird edge cases... I now can stick a CD in a drive attached to my server, and it'll automatically rip and host the contents on my personal media server ^^

The actual ripping happens as a systemd service, so I can walk away and check in on the progress remotely with journalctl. It took a lot of legwork, but I love how well it "just works" now. (But note to self -- if things are silently failing, make sure your scripts are marked as executable 🙃)

These are the projects I can really enjoy -- a rabbit hole down which I'm constantly learning little interesting things in a variety of domains, and they all come together into both a new level of competency, and an actual useful *thing*. Okay enough of this it's way past my bedtime GOOD NIGHT lmao

Had a really rough afternoon yesterday, but my overall emotional stability was saved by three of my closest friends being there for me when I needed them. Last night and this morning, I'm filled with just an enormous amount of gratitude for those folks; I hope they know how much I appreciate them.

(You ever get that feeling that, like, no matter what you do for the folks you really care about, you'll never be able to truly convey to them *just how much* they mean to you? I'm never gonna stop trying, you guys. Really, truly, thank you.)

Elizabeth DeLoria II: THE GHOST DIMENSION

I think it's genuinely, like, one of the "meanings of life" to experience the paradox of appreciating someone so much that there's no way to accurately express it, and still trying every way that you can, regardless. Feels like a "one must imagine Sisyphus happy" kinda thing.

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Kim McCauley@kimischilling.bsky.social

imagine being a heretic AND getting zero bitches? like pick a struggle

aria.dogEvery Platform is Hitler: mourning friendships lost—Aria’s BarksQuickfire Nuremberg for an infinite scroll of nazi bars. Epstein medals will be disbursed.

It's not that I didn't know (most of) this stuff. But reading it all in one place was a fantastic, sobering look at just how evil the internet has gotten, and it ends with a very compelling alternative view on what to do about it.

Dog with Glasses Plushie@dog.labeledrude.online

I am both sad and angry at the current state of the web, as the independent web becomes more and more invisible, as child-abusing billionaires from the USA own half the internet, and had to publish my feelings in longer form: aria.dog/barks/every-...

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the babahuck

@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

16 Sept

rip annie dillard

Maaaaan I love it when stuff just works sometimes. Copied an rclone configuration file plus a user systemd service that mounts a particular remote folder locally to a new machine, started the service... poof, all my files appeared. Effortless. So satisfying.

reddit.comFrom the ClaudeAI community on RedditExplore this post and more from the ClaudeAI community

I've been out of the software industry for... well, since AI started taking over. I've definitely had very mixed feelings on being out of my industry for so long. This post and its comments feel very validating -- especially considering that it's on r/ClaudeAI! www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s...

20 Sept

god dammit man I don't believe in the concept that the universe throws challenges at us just to make life harder but cooking threatens to change that every single time

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ZIMA!

@zima.ong

20 Sept

threw a curveball and played some chiptune. mashup went crazy. purple narb: @swooshalicio.us

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The Needling

@theneedling.com

18 Sept

New AI Literacy Program Awards Students Free Pizza If They Don’t Know How to Read Books Anymore: tinyurl.com/sdxp58dm

variety.comLilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

17 Sept

... How have I been in this community for over 5 years and not known about National Fox Day? Maybe that's my cue to take out the fursuit for some public suiting...

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ZIMA!

@zima.ong

14 Sept

We are so back. Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/zimayeen/rev... Alt: stream.zima.ong/revival-2609...

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Ben Collins

@bencollins.bsky.social

11 Sept

25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️

@wcwit.bsky.social

11 Sept

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

12 Sept

Holy shit. I figured Seattle was pretty safe; I didn't know *how* safe.

rondezvousWA@ronpdavis.bsky.social

Imagine if the @seattletimes.com and other news outlets were intellectually honest and published, i don't know, charts like this? Seattle is safer than almost all our peer cities, except the other one governed by a Democratic Socialist. Thanks @mayor.seattle.gov and @mayor.nyc.gov!

11 Sept

It would be nice if I could think to alter my clothing at least a day before the event I want to wear it to 🙃 (If I were better at alterations than I am, this wouldn't be much of a problem -- but no it's taking me like 2 hours just to shorten the length of a shirt. Aaaaaaaa)

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Gomi Deer

@gomi.gay

gomi.gayAs Furry Conventions Grow, Our Expectations Need to ChangeFurry conventions depend on volunteers giving extraordinary amounts of their time. As our events grow, we need to ask when that generosity becomes something our conventions depend on.

I've been thinking since I stepped down from FWA leadership about how much furry conventions have grown, and how much we now ask of the volunteers who keep them running. I decided to put those thoughts into words, and I'd appreciate it if you'd give them a read: gomi.gay/blog/26-09-0...

Went down a long rabbit hole tonight of old My Little Pony stuff with a friend who was never into it. It felt really great, until it didn't. Life was so much easier back then. Not really, and not better, either; I just had a lot more certainty about a lot of things.

Today... ugh, everything's so complicated. Since then, I've discovered needs I never knew I had; really figured out what it meant to feel loved by a companion, before those feelings became scarce. The world is scarier. My future is way less certain than it felt back then.

It felt so good to go back to that simpler feeling, less uncertain past. I know my memories aren't quite true, and I know my life is actually in reality so much richer now. I should be happy for who I've become. I wish I could truly feel that way about it right now, though.

I have grown so much. I've become so much more authentically myself, and have had so many new and different experiences unfathomable to past me. I thought I had everything so figured out back then. I didn't, but god, how much easier it was when I thought I knew it all.

Even that's coming thru rose-tinted glasses. I had always tortured myself over my hobbies, never being "good enough" to feel deserving of self-esteem. (Still working on that one.) Still. Ignorance really was bliss.

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surasshu

@surasshu.com

4 Sept

you used to have to become unfathomably wealthy to experience this, but the horse head kicking industry has been disrupted and now you can get the same results for a fraction of the cost. that's innovation babyyyy

Dave Levitan@davelevitan.bsky.social

Increasingly convinced this is the most important post

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Shasta 🐦‍⬛

@shasta.corvid.dev

3 Sept

I’m losing it at the placement of this hole in the wall

4 Sept

The only time LinkedIn emails me about recent hiring is when it's, like, the FBI or Northup Grumman. Uh. No, thanks.