Blaise Hartley

So long, Checkov, I hope your afterlife has fields of quadrotriticale!

You can always tell when something gives a little bit of power back to the people, because the government always finds a way to make it unusable! reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments…

Musk dumps another $76 million into the midterms How the hell are we allowing this to continue? Musk is literally buying our government, again. wired.com/story/elon-musk-just…

Plants of the genus Fenestraria produce optical fibers made from crystalline oxalic acid to transmit light to subterranean photosynthetic sites. There. That's a really fascinating thing you know, now!

Does anyone else long for the days when your email was just text with some tags for embedded images, instead of the "All CSS, all the time!" nightmare that is Outlook 365? Sure would be nice if we could resize images, but apparently the css won't allow it!

Oh, for chrissakes! My internet service price jumped by 20% last month. Fuck it, I'm going satellite...

I hate government, but this rule, I would stand for. People convicted of fraud should have their pants literally set on fire! While they're wearing them...

Size the day! (Yes, I know what I said.)

After decades of trying to get my family not to abuse my tools, I have finally found a way to force them to select the right tool for the job!

Pete Hegseth Deploys 3,000 U.S. Troops On Beer Run https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-deploys-3000-u-s-troops-on-beer-run/

When will we learn that a big chunk of the people who enter police academies are there specifically because they want power over others? timesunion.com/news/article/sh…

I feel safe. Do you feel safe? Of course you do... 404media.co/flock-taught-cops-…

Even when it's literally in your town, no one with authority will stand against it!

Windows Notepad can no longer be associated with text files. The one product Microsoft ever did well is now not allowed to be used. 0.o

Mark my words. The Epstein/Techbro totalitarians are intentionally trying to thin out the population!

Trump is now threatening to DEMOLISH the Kennedy Center if he doesn’t get his way. This comes after his handpicked board pushed to put his name on the building, rename the plaza for him, and credit him personally for restoring it.

Rebutting cries of "castration" with "circumcision" was a total fail. There are a million 'good' arguments....

But *DAD*! There's nothing to eat for snacks!

It's kinda freaking me out that I now live in a nation where you can tell exactly how badly someone wants to destroy the last few things that are good about it by how loudly they proclaim their patriotism...

Joke-hack Announcin'... [!upload-image.png]

Just to be clear, by the end of this year, your Android device will only be allowed to run apps that have been directly approved by Google. Now is the perfect time to wipe your device and get /e/ OS or GrapheneOS, so you will be Google-proof... keepandroidopen.org

I mean, it's not wrong...

Oh, car-shopping, you still suck just as hard as you did 15 years ago, but now there are contracts about who they will sell your driving behaviour and location to! My god, is a luddite revolution the only way we'll ever find privacy again? I just don't have the time or patience to hack a car...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but how are the Democrats going to know what to do if they don't have AIPAC giving them orders and writing their legislation for them?

There comes a time in every man's life when "Those goddamn kids" becomes a mantra...

I feel a little better about being wrongly and permanently separated from 20 years of my own content and hundreds of friends and family by Facebook's AI banbots, knowing the service is full of literal NAZIs! futurism.com/artificial-intell…

Welp, that's it. Mastodon.cloud will be gone tomorrow. It was my very first home in open social media. It was a unique (and rather Japanese) experience, and now, after nearly 12 years, it will be over. Well, at least my followers can come with me!

OK, I don't root for the bad guy, or anything, but this is still really bothering me. Why didn't Vechna just snag a boombox and play Kate Bush in the Upside-down?

To be clear, if Palantir is allowed to buy Flock, a private company will have every single American under 24-hour surveillance, and somehow that's OK...

I added the password for my password manager to my password manager, and set it for autofill. Now there's this hissing tear in the fabric of spacetime...

MySpasce has decided to go back to being social media. I'm not sure how to feel....

What the hell god of picayune minutiae did I offend that the HR robots insist I take sexual harassment training for the second time in three months? I. WORK. FROM. HOME! Maybe they think I've got my eye on the printer?

I feel this... [!upload-image.png]

The party of stupid wants to start giving hormones to military members who need them to stay healthy. One year after banning trans people from service because they need hormones to stay healthy.....

This is the kind of insight that could turn you into a more humble public servant or a nihilist, and I think we know which option Graham chose.

Apparently, Amazon's AI has decided that I need a 200-ton press... Now mind you, it may be right, but I've just gotta know what I bought that told it I'd want that, of all things...

»Hey Blaise Your kindness today may feel like a small gesture, but for someone going through a difficult time, it could mean everything. Please visit my page and read the pinned post. Thank you for caring.« I will NOT be adding this kind of spam to my polyspamorous network!