cactus friend

cactus friend

@im.thinkingabout.thosbeans.online

doesn't fish; has never opened a door recording musician, cat petter, software and electronics engineer

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Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

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i’m just so fucking sorry that my muslim friends have to be hit with this despicable racism every single day. it’s not ok and you should not have to tolerate it. this country belongs to all of us.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on El-Sayed: "His name is actually Abduladadalalalala. It's Adulbabababababa Mohammed Al-Sayed. So his middle name is Mohammed. So I was right. He's a jihadist."

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You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

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I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.

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Replying to @lukeplunkett.com

twitter was ground zero for a lot of the tech CEO insanity we're currently living through because even before covid it let them see how many people hated them and that sowed the seeds of madness

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this gaffe should follow Eric Schmitt around for the rest of his political life (Jack Smith was actually in Maryland at a HAWKEYES game, not in Atlanta colluding with Fani Willis as Schmitt alleged) (Win McNamee/Getty)

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Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

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It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

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Bay Area friends: A friend found these small kittens behind a gas station and we've been trying to find them a home for almost two months. For now, they live in a small bathroom. Would you consider adopting? They are vaxxed, neutered, and incredibly affectionate. Please help!

So there's a vacancy?

Reuters@reuters.com

Bosnian Serb general ‌Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the bloody 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died ‌in the United Nations detention center in The Hague, Belgrade's Informer TV reported reut.rs/3Sd1MSL

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We've been getting a lot of questions about how the Internet Archive digitizes books. The short answer: page by page, by hand. You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it. Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/m...

I mean, it sounds like your dumbass decision to give Flock more money is what cost the county money. Oh, and of course, the $1,000 reward if you ever plan to pay it.

404 Media@404media.co

The Lumpkin County Sheriff's Office in Georgia is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest after one of their Flock cameras, which was placed in a park, was found destroyed and left in the woods. "We will be placing another one there. You have cost the county money," he said.

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I had a Python script “break containment” once. It started scraping the entire internet. The only thing that stopped it was my lack of a budget for a credulous PR firm.

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El-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."

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I'm trembling while writing this: Kamaitachi no yoru—not the PC remake, not the iOS port, but the actual original SFC version—has been translated at last by ButThouMust, who graciously brought us an English patch for Otogirisou in the past. This is HISTORICAL.

Years ago, my LG TV started showing some new kind of ad that was blocking the UI and annoying the heck out of me. I contacted their support for how to disable it, and they linked me to docs for some OLDER firmware that was entirely different, then ignored me when I mentioned this.

gamersnexus.bsky.social@gamersnexus.bsky.social

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying

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guy with “iraq veteran” in bio: i think we should be nicer to guys that work at the murder factory

John Pettus@johngpettus.bsky.social

I had not seen this. I think it’s distasteful, inhumane and counterproductive to celebrate a death (except that one, when it happens). But… I think the next day or week should be a colonoscopy level analysis of the morality of that person’s life + condemnation and/or praise.