Budsofstone @budsofstone@computerfairi.es

The rich will not escape climate change and the ensuing catastrophic ecological collapse.

𝗚𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗹𝗲, 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗼𝗻𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘁, 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝘃𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹

❝According to the Peoria Police Department, which is investigating the police shooting, a woman called police, saying her 23-year-old ex-boyfriend was threatening her and pointed a gun at her in the area of 47th Avenue and Glendale Avenue around 7 p.m.

She gave officers a description of him and the pickup truck he drove off in.

The truck was parked on Diana Avenue along the north side of the park.

Officers approached the truck but couldn’t see inside because of the dark-tinted windows.

They tried calling for anyone inside, but no one answered; that’s when they noticed a man sitting at a gazebo at the park, investigators said.

Officers thought he was the ex-boyfriend, so they told the man to raise his hands.

He didn’t obey and “made a movement” toward his waistband, Peoria police said.

One Glendale police officer fired his gun, hitting the man.

The victim, only identified as a 46-year-old homeless man from Tucson, died at the scene.

No guns were found on the man or in the park, police said.

After the shooting, officers checked out the truck more and found the ex-boyfriend inside, who had shot himself, investigators said.

He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.❞

https://www.azfamily.com/2025/01/09/glendale-police-shoot-kill-unarmed-man-not-involved-domestic-violence-call/

#BlackJobs

Just got kicked out of a tech group chat for claiming that the standard Bay Area interview process is systemically racist. Invite me to your private spaces. I swear this isn't a frequent thing that happens to me!

shouting 'parkour' as I gently lower myself onto the toilet

#ACAB #PoliceBrutality #PoliceCorruption #PoliceMurder #BluePussies

same tbh

“If you’re seeing all the #AirFilters and #respirators being handed out for free in #LAfires, remember these resources are only available because #covid activists have remained steadfast in advocating for #CleanAir and mask use since 2020”

🐦 @inkylabrynth
#N95 #airborne #smoke #virus #gratitude

Everyone needs a worker’s union and I’m sick of people saying otherwise

Methyl Ermine.

The Mandela Effect, or as I like to call it, "White Americans typically don't pay attention to African politics."

Folks remembering #AaronSwartz today - remember that he was moving publicly-funded research out from behind a paywall.

Then remember the only reason the case went forward is because federal prosecutors, specifically Carmen Ortiz and Stephen Heymann, wanted to make an example of him.

“Theft is theft, and it doesn’t matter if you use a crowbar or a computer” were Heymann’s words at the time.

Notice how federal prosecutors aren’t bullying Sam Altman for the wholesale theft of content network-wide, to build a machine that spews bullshit and further destroys our ability to determine the truth?

It’s because he’s doing it for private profit, while Aaron worked for the public good.

Never let yourself be tricked into believing the legal system is a justice system.

When someone says you're biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they're not actually asking for fairness – they're demanding complicity.

Oh, dear. Here we go.

I get it, a woman boxer from Algeria gets smeared as being trans. That her elevated testosterone gives her an advantage. You know what really pisses me off when I see people rushing to her defense, even from within trans circles? That it's "she isn't even trans! See how anti trans sentiment hurts even cis women!"

It wouldn't even matter if she was. It wouldn't matter if pure testosterone dropped from her ears. It wouldn't matter if that gave her an advantage.

Why? Because this isn't the Kid's Participation Trophy League where everybody ends up on the podium at the end of the day. This is the Olympic Games, where top athletes compete. They are meant to be the most extraordinary athletes of each country.

Remember Phelps, who is genetically uniquely suited to be a swimmer, and had several proven biological advantages over his competitors? Did we give a shit? No, he was even hailed as extraordinary athlete for it.
Basketball players aren't disqualified for being taller than average, they are picked for it. In every discipline, the athletes with a biological advantage for it are encouraged, selected, specifically promoted to build on that.

Except women. Except if your melanin makes you different than ham pink. Except if in your past what a doctor jotted down at a glance didn't align with who you are.

This is the Olympic Games, not the Average Everyone Games. So flattening the defense of an Algerian boxer to "but she isn't trans" really sits badly with me, because what you're telling me is, being successful while trans needs further justification. That you see a trans person as lesser than a cis person, and being cis means you're beyond suspicion while being trans carries a burden of proof. You're telling me that you see us as being different from what we say we are - a man in a dress, a lesbian playing at being a man, someone who needs to pick a side already.

If you want to be around "more colourful queers" beyond gay and lesbian stereotypes (nothing wrong with those per se), you'll have to get rid of a looooooot of normative thinking.

You'll have to get used to trans people who don't stealth.
You'll have to get used to nonbinary people without expecting either an androgynous girl light, or a bearded guy light in a dress.
You'll have to get used to asexual people who will fuck your brains out.
You'll have to get used to aromantics who will perform the gestures like they were written by Shakespeare.
You'll have to get used to neopronouns.
You'll have to get used to a lot, because gender, sexuality, attraction, and relationships are a wild, wild cosmos.

And I'm not hopeful, since you seem to lose your mind already when finding out that a bi person stays bi when being in a monoamorous relationship with someone, and hasn't "decided for one side".

I accidentally found a local supplier of open-source scientific hardware - automated optical microscope, bioreactor, colorimeter. Nice! https://labcrafter.co.uk/

I kind of wanna do some biology now...