calchas.bsky.social

The dissonance of begging Democrats to do good things that aren't "popular" like medicare for all, but they'll go to the mat for shit that'll cost them elections like transphobia and supporting Israeli apartheid.

It's far too early to say we held through the storm. But we've held this long, and I am incredibly proud of every single member of my community who refused to return to the closet, go stealth, or become a quisling.

Next year, we will assign one issue to every kid in America. This will be the first of many.

God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins

The reality is our money and our time are worth half of what they were five years ago. We are worth half as much as we were before Trump.

The United States is turning into a kind of reverse Omelas: everyone is miserable except for a single child, Donald Trump, who inexplicably must be kept happy.

logging on

last piece of free corporate critique/advice i will give today: you must have shareable development branches of your blog/newsletter just like your products! you need to see what the entire page will look like before you publish. this is trivial in 2026, especially for *literal content deliverers*

What happened at the Supreme Court is about anti-Blackness and curtailing Black political power. Trump as a corrective to Obama. Anti CRT/ DEI as a corrective to Black Lives Matter and Black progress in education and the workforce. Anti-Blackness is America’s favorite manner of self-harm.

Fascism is affirmative action for stupid people.

a little annoyed that it's taken years, billions of dollars, and grandiose lies for tech companies to start catering better to power users

A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud

Write code to make being human easier. Rip code out if it makes being human harder. Write code to make caring for each other easier. Rip it out if it makes caring for each other harder. Empathy driven development has literally never failed me. It’s done me better than everything else combined

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before and after hegseth's directive