smona 🏴

smona 🏴

@smona.bsky.social

hacker 𐤟 egoist 𐤟 trans/humanist 𐤟 sharp of mind, pure of heart I'm a software engineer and Linux enjoyer (nixos btw), working on a browser-based DAW with realtime collab. ask me about my projects!

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welp I disabled updates on the Twitter app when musky boy took over, and today it finally stopped working. and giving up microblogging apps was a failed experiment. so ig it's time to give bluesky another shot!

I set up koreader to make my lock screen show the cover of the last book I opened. it feels great to stop reading yuri and see the screen flash to this

if you let your agentic coding tool add shitty code to your PR and I'm reviewing it, it's not going to save you time. it's going to waste both of ours. i don't really enjoy paying #AI startups money to waste my time, and i'm not letting vibe slop lower my standards.

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Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

disgusting behavior, but i expect no less from the NYT at this point. they're just a mouthpiece for power at this point.

eva (^_^)/@eva.computer

hello cis friends this is what people mean by trans genocide if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

this is huge. we still have a semblance of human rights protections in this country, for now

The New York Times@nytimes.com

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Bureau of Prisons from enacting President Trump’s executive order to house transgender women with male inmates and stop medical treatment related to gender transitions.

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sometimes it is kinda surreal how me wanting to inject myself with hormones that make me feel good and make me enjoy living is apparently so scandalous that the government is unmaking itself to stop me from doing that.

i went to a really cute open mic night at the gay bar this week, and now i'm thinking i should replace like 90% of my social media time with stuff like this. literally i can go watch an up and coming artist perform a heartbreaking choreography for free?? come on, beauty is still out there

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My new essay comic, Antisemitism in a Time of Genocide, is now up at Le Monde Diplomatique in France. I’ll thread the 8 panels in English here, and link to the French at the end.

i have basically no hope for her in 2028 right now. but if she keeps this sauce in the pot that might change!

I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

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Replying to @lisieshy.catgirl.fr

The issue isn't the crabs. Crabs in the wild do that to securely hang on to each other when predators like stingrays are above them. The issue is the bucket and the asshole who put them there. So if you find yourself in a bucket, quit blaming other crabs and start looking for the fisherman

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"OptumRx, the group’s pharmacy benefit manager, along with its two main peers, Express Scripts and CVS Caremark Rx, have pocketed an extra $7.3 billion over cost thanks to price gouging, according to the findings of a report by the Federal Trade Commission." Lina Khan really is That Girl.

fortune.comUnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.

I feel so bad for everyone in LA right now, especially the ones evacuating/losing their homes. Stay safe out there y'all, really hoping things will break for the better soon 😢

my ex used google maps every time they drove, and by the time we got together they had no idea how to get places in their own hometown. this study seems to confirm one of my long-time fears about a "google maps for thinking". use it or lose it is a universal rule when it comes to the brain.

Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

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Everything reminds me of him

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Health insurers are limiting coverage of prosthetic limbs, questioning their necessity. New reporting finds that fewer than half of people with limb loss have been prescribed a prosthesis because plans are denying coverage. About 2.3 million people in the US has lost a limb.

I will never get over realizing that apparently, nothing can be done to stop this

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

For Christmas Day, Israel went and bombed the last operating hospital in North Gaza. It persevered, so today Israel assaulted the building, all medical staff has been forced into concentration camps, and the hospital was set on fire. Israel's genocide can't have any survivors in Gaza.

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Replying to @austingmackell.bsky.social

I do need to point this out more often I think. Gaza is the proving ground for tech and tactics that ultimately make it into the hands of American police. the IDF and mossad regularly train american law enforcement on urban warfare and crowd control.