"In 1955, a California man named Jack Scruby began making inexpensive miniature models for miniature wargames out of type metal."
HEY WIKIPEDIA, QUICK QUESTION: WHAT'S TYPE METAL MADE OF?
Who needs a Smart Fridge for it to be Dumb? It's once again time to reset the timed Order Filter light on our Whirlpool fridge. We don't even have the tap hooked up, because the installer refused to touch our copper water line without deferring to a unionized plumber from another company.
It's been a struggle for reporters to get DHS to provide the names of officers who violate people's civil rights.
Now, in our case against DHS's construction-site raids, the government is arguing in court that its employees names are "confidential" and should not be made public during litigation.
Here is a thread about a person being booted for an event for "Zionism" when they had not in fact done any Israel/Palestine related advocacy at all and appear to have been targeted for simply being Jewish
bsky.app/profile/wren...
Re: Harbourmasters accepting AI contributions.
Maybe it's better that when you're not a lot of developers and you're spread thin and burning out, you should just retire and stop writing software altogether.
And if nobody really joined in to contribute to the project in the first place while you were still working on it actively? Maybe that way, nobody will miss it when you delete it from existence, either. Surely if it mattered, a dozen clones would have already sprung into existence while it lived.
Whee, apparently some corners of the Internet were watching Alessandro Durando at Gamescom yesterday morning and think he looks like Epstein. Going so far as to say "Only Epstein knows what the shirt means."
It will never stop being "funny" to me that lgbt furries go nuts for fnaf. Like, the creator HATES us, what is you doing numbnuts? No you're not "taking it from them" you're making them mad money just so you can be horny. Find other shit to enjoy
Hi, it me. I don't understand jokes or sarcasm, much like I don't understand why people aren't always sincere. Join me on this twenty part epic as I overshare constantly and wonder why nobody else does... </end>
It was sad watching artists rip down years, decades even, of web galleries full of comments and stats and proof of life before generative AI just to reupload it with some sketchy anti-AI overlay applied. Training methods mooted it almost instantly, and the damage to art history is permanent.
What does it say about me as a person that I either don't know anyone who's ever been assaulted, or am not aware of anyone having been assaulted, or my brain has completely blocked any memory of such out, but I happen to still post on the Something Awful forums in TYOOL 2026?
Very Cool, I'm apparently now blocking the Bridgy bot, because it is now following Jesse Singal, and I'm subbed to the Jesse Singal Followers blocklist.
I was going to reply to someone in my timeline, but I noticed their posts are locked, and my account isn't, so my replying to them would just be an unwanted gateway for the public to see and respond to their posts.
So, guess that @gizmodo.com has been hacked??? or something??? I can't even access articles on mobile without this prompt popping up.
Because I searched and this seems like a malware/phishing attempt since the captcha seemed fishy.
(further info here: consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-ale...)
Every time I look at social media, I feel like I already spend way too much time engaging with reality. Do people really wonder why others don't want to engage with reality all that much?
Cool, looks like Gnome is so allergic to Server Side Decorations, that their Gitlab self-destructed when I attempted to open a Merge Request for implementing them.
almost got infected by the recent malware shit thats happening on the arch aur, some package i had got sniped but only after i did my last system update im fucking dodging bullets out here
I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.
Is it bad that, in any argument involving someone I know rather well, I automatically side with the person I know over the relative nobody they got into a fight with? And then feel the need to vacate communities completely when this relative nobody is being invited to them one by one?