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There's no way to give the anti-trans movement what they want without mostly harming cis people's privacy. But maybe being creepy to little girls was the whole point all along. I am worried even in this likely blue wave that this law could pass because the public is so bad on this issue […]

Tonight’s earworm: Nox Novacula - Plague www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtnT... #earworm #goth #PostPunk #deathrock #NoxNovacula

"It’s the fourth time the late professor has been vindicated. This time, scientific publisher Taylor & Francis concluded their investigation without substantiating any claims. But don’t expect to see this news splashed all over the headlines though. Because why would the same outlets who […]

I'm going to be in the greater LA area yet again starting tomorrow if any mutuals want to meet. This time, I'm more in the Santa Monica area rather than the valley. I'll have more free time on Thursday and some on Tuesday.

This is a good primer on Israel's political situation going into tomorrow's election. But I'd like to go deeper on something he only touches on, which is that part of the reason for Israel's electoral doldrums (and resulting geopolitical chaos) is its broken political system bsky.app/profile/avis...

This is precisely how I feel about homonationalism/pinkwashing too. It's something we have to oppose, for queer reasons, because it specifically harms queer people.

Canadian friends have suggested I move there to flee the Trump regime and indeed living under a dictator sucks. But were we to move to Canada, it would have been to BC, which just voted in a far-right government. Sometimes you have no choice but to run away from fascism, but you have to be […]

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There were undoubtedly a non-zero number of closeted trans children who suddenly became hopeful or even got useful information from those fake pro-trans mailers. I've been saying, a lot of us have been saying really, that this toothpaste isn't going back in the tube, but some on the anti-trans […]

Being reminded of Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows for a vocabulary word, anemoia, by a talk at GameSoundCon reminded me of words I've made up...

Indian Supreme Court rules that cancer drug markups are extortionate, orders them to drop Prices are expected to drop about 70% Sadly the woman who sued to bring the case to court did not live to see it. RIP Sarojam Radhakrishnan […]

In his world, there is no such thing as updating priors. What the polls once showed got locked in his brain and apparently they can never, ever change, and everyone needs to work around that reality, because reality can never change (even as it has).

The story isn't that Graham was gay, since there's nothing wrong with that. The story is that one of the prostitutes he paid was 17 at the time. He is yet another one of the pedocons. The irony goes away when you realize that men who prey on boys love all the opportunities homophobia gives them.

DOGE ended up costing the federal government money rather than saving it, but it turned into a cash cow for Musk’s teeny-bopper squad. newrepublic.com/article/2165...

So apparently in my panic during my recent business trip, one of the servers I turned off out of caution didn't even have any php services. I just kinda assumed I had WPen everywhere but nope! No unused php packages installed anywhere. I'm going to organize servers and jails better when I move […]

Under markets, there's a booth somewhere out there that serves what you want. Under capitalism, you're either in the territory of Coca Cola gang or Pepsi gang and what you're even allowed to experience is dictated by which one you're in. "Oh shit, there's a Starbucks in this truck stop. That […]

I hate the general notion of "written communication is prone to misunderstandings, you should better talk to the person". Fuck no. Written means I have time to fact check and cross-reference. I grew up in a household where I was regularly told that I "misremembered". Now that I mostly […]

Not an ai apocalypse doomer or whatever, but entering a world where the normal operation of cybersecurity is vast swarms of hacker bots battling vast swarms of defender bots 24/7 at a scale beyond human comprehension doesn't seem like a *great* path forward.

The Social Security Administration is stumping for the current president. Totally healthy, non-failed democracy we have here 🤦‍♀️ #uspol

If you sell proprietary software, the end-user will reverse-engineer it using an automatic reverse-engineering bot but if you move that functionality to the cloud, they will pwn your servers using an automatic script kiddie bot. lmfao

Holy cow. The Guinea-Bissau offices of the two Danish researchers who were funded by RFK Jr. to conduct an unethical experiment with the HepB vaccine just had their offices raided and vaccines seized by the police. Great work on reporting this story once again by @melodyschreiber.com.

Hell yeah, more of this kind of messaging https://youtu.be/Gt_IZoM9KuQ?is=IBxhw_CjV2Mcmg-b

"Republican Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch on Monday declared the fatal police shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley 'justified'" How do you reform a system that calls shooting a toddler justified? (Spoiler alert: you don't) https://www.commondreams.org/news/kohen-wiley-killing-justified […]

Game audio people - I'm going to be at #GameSoundCon this coming week if you want to meet up. I can show you stuff I've been working on and you can show me what you've been working on if you want!

Didn't take long for the NHS transphobic guidance to claim a life

This is also not me saying you can't criticize other countries. You just have to know what you're talking about and not do it out of trying to feel better about yourself. Americans are very prone to this! We often invoke North Korea yet the huge proportion of us in prison are living the most […]

first steps made, help improving NetBSD support on RK3588-powered MNT laptops wanted: https://community.mnt.re/t/status-of-netbsd-on-the-rk3588-pocket-reform/4699

Vegnews keeps quoting Ricky Gervais because he has snappy one-liners but he’s just a transphobic douchebag. I always see this parallel with not-quite-mainstream media being unprincipled and isolated from the left. Vegetarian outlets and gay outlets alike just gushing over celebrities who are […]

That music video that appears in that Apple ad bugs me because they show a closeup of that tootsie pop to show off how sharp macro shots are, but it doesn't focus on her face after she pulls it away. I feel like if I did this in a video, people would just think interpret it as me not knowing […]

I decided to finally get off my lazy ass, dust off my blog and write a new post. Where I ramble on about existential dread and how I'm avoiding that. Updating all of you on what I've been doing lately and what some of my plans are […]

More evidence that the cloud itself is the problem.

somebody should do /dev/sine and /dev/sawtooth to complement /dev/urandom for audio testing

At some point around when my older kid was 3 or 4 I stopped uploading photos containing my kids’ faces to social media on the grounds that a small child can’t meaningfully consent to their likeness being publicly viewable (even if I always made such posts friends-only) and just thinking about […]