current events - 8chan, antisemitism violence mention
so apparently 8chan just got search warranted in relation to the san diego synagogue shooting
the FBI is also going hard after facebook groups that encouraged/abetted the shooter as well
i hope they straight-up waltz in there, take the servers, and then spend the next 6 months handing out charges like halloween candy.
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on being a "spoonie"
@kara_dreamer @chara
...Heh, yeah. ))o_#(( you do that, punk.
James Corden?
well, there's this: https://twitter.com/jackallisonlol/status/1118173127815491585?lang=en
but there are also a *lot* of accounts of corden treating crew and fans like utter shit and just generally being unpleasant to be around. he's basically no longer welcome in the uk lmao
I love the aesthetic of the Vostok radio room clocks
They were meant for the radio rooms in ships, the first 3 minutes of every quarter hour are highlighted in red because during those minutes ships are (were? I don't know current high seas radio procedures) meant to maintain radio silence and listen out for distress signals
PSA: meta, rich text, gargron
Gargron has officially denied the winning option in the poll and announced that he is refusing to implement it anyway, before closing any and all discussion on the pull request.
Mostly because he does not want it, but as well, based on a combination of two options on the poll that aren't the same adding up to 47% or "half".
Please stop using vanilla Mastodon, he's making quite clear that this is his project and his project alone, and the community wants do not matter to him.
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/10629#issuecomment-501741304
climate change horror, garbage science, fluff journalism
someone in one of my group chats linked to some news article about
someone in pennsylvania, usa
who decided that the increased number of tornadoes
is due to all the traffic circles
...
the thing is, I think everyone has that sinking off-balance feeling that the weather is going wrong in subtle ways that we can't pin down but can feel in the patterns
and it's climate change
there's other shit going on but it's climate change
and some reputable news outlet is out there talking about someone who's blaming traffic circles as if this is newsworthy as anything bigger than an example of the intensity of that anxiety
maybe the article itself is better than the preview but I don't even ... I can't deal with that
I can deal with not thinking about it because I can't think about it myself but I can't deal with this shit
so I accidentally wikipedia and learned that the eastern bloc made westerns where the native americans were the protagonists: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sons_of_Great_Bear
like, I've vaguely imagined a scheme where you could make completely disposable one-use batteries exploiting the oxidation of a more or less harmless metal, like magnesium or aluminum
but it would be really cool to make a phone where you could just feed it bits of scrap aluminum and empty out the Al2O3 periodically
birdsite link to terrible visual math joke
just...just look at it
Today I learned that MIT students built a Gutenberg-work-alike printing press, and they print books with it.
Yelling about cyberpunk 2077
CDPR: Ya, you see, of course megacorps would cater to trans people with advertising it's 2077 gender is accepted in this world so corps want their money
Also CDPR: No, of course you can't PLAY as a trans person trying to take down the megacorps that control everything, that's just not realistic
@Sylvhem One of the truest but hardest lesson I was ever taught, by Esmeralda Weatherwax:
«If you trust in yourself...and believe in your dreams...and follow your star... you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.» #Pratchett