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We can imagine an alternate reality in which Trump—chastened by the midterm results—seeks to deescalate.

In that case, spineless Democrats would be in a position to collaborate with the administration, passing joint legislation and preserving Trump's agencies and policies into the future.

Instead, by elevating white nationalist Stephen Miller to White House Chief of Staff, Trump is doubling down on a combative strategy, setting the stage for an open conflict between his administration and the rest of society.

This is probably for the best.

But it will be up to us to mobilize grassroots resistance, rather than imagining that politicians will defend our communities for us.

https://crimethinc.com/hotpotato2026

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How to Write Your Own Space Invaders Clone
Week 28
now the fun part. first we provide the framework with the delegate which sets up the callbacks we need to provide, in order to recursively query the projectile server, so that in a few weeks we're going to be able to begin the infrastructure code that will allow us start work on the test suite which we can write the movement engine against. this will be very useful around Week 50-55 when we might be able to get some aliens on the screen

Meme friend sent to me...

#SoloGameDev #ViernesDeMemes

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness or, burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

No, no, check out how squimpch these babies are.

#hyrax

Margie is my favorite gilded age faded beauty

I had a customer fall victim to the tech support scam via a fake Geek Squad invoice email. In a moment of inattention during a bad day, they called the number & let the scammer remote in despite it feeling wrong. They caught on & force-shutoff the PC before the scammer could completely retaliate, but he got far enough to install the PC lock-out program that would've effectively bricked their PC.

All it takes for anyone to fall victim is just one single moment of inattention.

i am once again saying fuck GNU and the GPL

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/117579594140229264

If free software is not about ethics, then what the fuck is its point.

#meme #memes #frog

Can't settle on one evening · Alex Hyner

#art

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ugh I hate how many times this pattern happens:
1. clone repo
2. make a small change
3. try to run code, fails
4. what did I do wrong? time to back out my changes one by one
5. I back them all out
6. this code never worked in the first place

In the office, in Bristol.

Just popped out to stretch my legs, and I was approached by a young lady who had just exited the train station.

With *the* most comprehensively French accent I have *ever* heard, she said, “excuse me. Could you please direct me to the abyss?”

Excuse me?

“The abyss. Could you direct me please?”

Umm?..

“Sorry, my English is not too good. I’m looking for the abyss, could you help me?”

Your English is excellent. But you’re looking for the abyss?

“Oui. The abyss. The abyss hotel. It should be nearby”.

The abyss hotel?..
Whoah, hang on! You mean the IBIS hotel!?

“Oui. Oui. The abyss hotel. Oui!”

Oh, right, yeah. Just straight down here, across that footbridge and you’ll see it straight in front of you 😊

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ah, the incompetent AI scraper plague finally came for us…

I was wondering why the PHP sites on our VPS were responding so slowly, and then I discovered there's an endless series of timing out requests for slow MediaWiki query endpoints (RecentChanges w/ date span), that'd do it