working in technology right now is great, the most PT Barnum motherfuckers you ever saw are all like, we have invented a time machine, and now 78% of all discourse is required by law to include endless hours of strokey-beard waffling about the endless political and social and economic implications of time travel and the deep impacts on our whole society and how we all must take time travel very seriously and shovel all our money into the time machine furnaces or we will be stranded in some terribly unfashionable decade with no snacks or friends and we’re all so busy worrying about that we’ve somehow failed to realise that there is no fucking time machine

You're not supposed to use the 2-in-1 shampoo because it violates the Unix philosophy

I rewrite Ars Technica links myself instead of boosting their posts because their links contain Google Analytics trackers while I repost with those stripped off.

Firefox recognizes it as unwanted, too. Right-click on a link, then select "Copy Clean Link (U)" instead of "Copy Link."

Someone should make an extension that replaces Google's trackers with something like:

?utm_source=notices_your_bulge&utm_medium=anal_tracking_implant&utm_content=owo_whats_this&utm_campaign=orgasmic_sharing

I saw the silly lil creature in a toy store yesterday, had to draw it

I'm also reminded of how absolutely pathetic it is that all these insecure manchildren want to pretend to be hardcore, edge-y, and cyberpunk....my guys, I'm out here hacking my biology with unapproved or even illegal application of pharmaceuticals as I take on the most wealthy and powerful individuals on the planet by living a life that they have declared both impossible and a crime. Oh, and I also smooch other gender criminals while looking badass with an undercut while people say that children merely seeing me will shake the foundations of the current world order.

Just saying...being trans is pretty fucking badass.

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Technical documentation is really fucking hard, requires a different mindset from programming, requires constant attention and is even more thankless than programming.

I know, I've dabbled in both.

It is a wonder we have any of it at all, and we should be paying much more attention to it.

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"COVID-19 spreads year round. Here’s how to track it."

Tea Burns: "Even when local risk levels may be lower, there’s still good reason to mask up at any event...

"Just because local risk levels may be lower, that doesn’t mean that people don’t get sick. People can still get sick, and it may not even be a SARS-CoV-2 infection, but it could be another respiratory pathogen. Masking up is still, for me, the standard because every time you mask up, every chain of transmission that you break is a life saved either from an immediate death, from an acute COVID-19 infection, or slow death via Long COVID and organized abandonment."

Source: thesicktimes.org/2026/05/05/co

YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=jDNnlxtfWI

For the first time in its history, the San Antonio City Council on Tuesday issued a proclamation recognizing Trans History Week, May 4-10.

sanantonioreport.org/first-tim

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

i messaged him on whatsapp to say i love his profile picture, and he responded

I’ve had that one for years, it annoys the right people!!

like actually go off lmfao what a legend

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ok go off 50-60 year old who also volunteers at my heritage railway and owns two locomotives (insane) who also has the profile picture on whatsapp "my faviorite gender neutral pronoun is comrade"

like fucking go off holy shit what a legend

NM trans death 

Luca RedBeard, Transmasc New Mexico Farmer, Fatally Shot in Apparent Homicide

The 39-year-old is being remembered as “a chef, a poet, an adventurer, a musician, a farmer, [and] a healer.”

Them: them.us/story/lucas-redbeard-k

I have NoScript installed, which lets me see when Cloudflare gatekeeps a website behind a link I follow. That lets me know just how little the website's operators value me in advance.

Hey don't worry! They limit it to $100 / month by default once you go past their limit of free credits.

Their free credits of ONE THOUSAND TIMES the default upper limit.

So once you have a business running, once you've crossed that limit...

I'm sure it'll cost about $100/month on average by then. Yeah! That seems likely!

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Cloudflare continues to push the worst shit combination of centralization of the internet and genAI bullshit but congratulations, they've hit a new combo so bad I didn't even consider it possible blog.cloudflare.com/agents-str

That's right! Your agents can now provision servers, spend money, and do everything for you!

You don't even need to hand them a credit card!

What's that? Why's that?

Because they've teamed up with Stripe! Why yes, if you've signed up with Stripe Atlas (don't "shrug" this Atlas off, friends!), which is Stripe's "launch a startup for you" company-to-make-companies, they'll give you $100k of FREE credits!!!

That first hit! It's free! Hey!

I bet all the future hits will be too, right? And uh, who will be left holding that bill after you've established this nice dependency?

Vibe coding? That's nothing! Time to go all in on Vibe Founding!

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