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militarism 

It is really bonkers how much the modern world has normalized flagrant displays of militarism and no longer sees the omens approaching horrors.

big head mode cheat has been enabled for portraits of authoritarian communists

now reading: Blood: A Critique of Christianity 

Gil Anidjar pointing out this quote for me was really eye opening.

After September 11, say Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell, “the excessive desire to give blood was perhaps driven by a sense that the body politic was itself wounded in the attacks.”

@thufie we've packaged a lie detector with our lying machine

if god didn't want us to break our old lcd screens then he shouldn't have made them make pretty colors when you push on 'em

In 2036 workers finally get the hard-fought union-won right and requirement to industrial moon shoes on all construction sites.

Chair of my department sent out info on a "peace studies" fellowship for PhD candidates funded by the DoD, anyway satire is dead

“htmx ~ Why Gumroad Didn't Choose htmx”

htmx.org/essays/why-gumroad-di

> AI and Tooling Support: It’s worth noting that AI tools are intimately familiar with Next.js and not so much with htmx, due to the lack of open-source training data.

A risk with "AI" for coding I’ve talked about is that it's trained on legacy code so it's going to be a conservative force in software dev, driving people to use outdated but popular approaches. This is the first time I've seen that happen in the wild

subtoot, extreme european antisemitism 

protesting at Auschwitz is antisemitic.

don't care, no excuses. stop disturbing the site.

why not try wheelchairs!? we got

- people in the way
- people who aren't in the way going "sorry!"
- let me stand in that doorway for you
- wheelies!
- "sorry!"
- hair in your castor bearings
- crack team of 6 rugby players ready to lift you over a 15mm kerb
- "sorry!"

most explicitly antisemitic movie I've ever seen from this century. basically a long form machinima for right-wing conspiracy weirdos.

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English IPA 

ju bɛtɚ nɑt hæv soʊld mi aʊt sæskweɪt͡ʃ!

I am proud to announce Bigfoot vs The Illuminati (2020) asses the bechdel test!

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