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Sometimes I too wish I could tell my employer I can't work anymore because I reached my session limit and that they should wait till 7:00am PT for full reset.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116930629527718551
This should get interesting...
To be sure, I absolutely HATE how this administration has been ruining anything and everything connected to the law. Since the judges appointed here (correctly, btw), there is some extra to this particular act of shittiness.
RE: https://mas.to/@zzt/116929828422069774
Yep, I'll repeat it: "just fork it" is as useful an advice as "mate, move to a different country if you don't like it here!" is. Technically it's maybe possible, but the financial and social cost of doing so means only the few most privileged ones can realistically have that option.
Rise and grind
@heyheymomo
I'm four little weeks on vacation till tomorrow and will do this : D
In 1991, about this time of year, I went to Toronto, at a time when it being wreathed in smoke from forest fires was not yet a high annual probability.
By flying there I played a tiny part in edging up that likelihood.
To show how much we’ve learned in the intervening 35 years…
to screencap this image from Reuters, I had to first watch an ad from Airchina, delivered in a web page that pushed 103 Mb at me to deliver a 44 second video and about 10 KB of text
I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and nonexistent environmental practices. https://flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea8r50z/-/a-uqOOTanZQHe-8X_AdQQaMw%3Aa%3A1693190246-%2F0
@sundogplanets I don’t watch, but I do enjoy a good explosion as long as nobody gets hurt. Unless of course, a billionaire is on board.
My desktop computer is six years old now. Performance-wise, it's still way more than I need. But in 2026 I live in fear of some component dying
@jalefkowit Yea, I totally get this. I bought a new laptop EOY 2025 before the craziness because of this.
@yogthos There's degrees of proximity of the harm. Tire and brake dust are the most location based. Move just a few streets over and the impact to health is minimized. Poorly efficient ICE cars will produce smog that covers a city, and the most efficient ICE cars will still produce emissions that warm the planet.
With that said, China does far, FAR better than our country at public transit, and even better still than the US does public transit. It's a country that grew and industrialized so rapidly. How do you accommodate that without grasping at every transportation option at your disposal, even less ideal ones like cars? Rhetorical question, China did what they could/had to do.
@sleepysaf a lot of it comes down to central planning actually. Major Chinese cities are moderately walkable and there's been upward trend between 2000 and 2010.
If you plan necessities like grocery stores, schools, hospitals, parks, and so on based on the population density then people don't even need to use transit a lot of the time.
This is a good paper talking about walkability in Chinese cities incidentally.
https://www.adb.org/publications/evolving-walkability-major-cities-prc
It's divide and conquer shit.
Whenever white supremacist patriarchy succeeds at defining someone out of womanhood and stripping them of rights -- whether they're trans, gay, bi, Black, indigenous, intersex, whatever -- it makes everyone more vulnerable.
Sooner or later, you look around and there's no one left to help you.
And if you accept this, encourage it, you're part of the problem.
Every attack on trans women is misogyny. Every attack on trans women becomes an attack on all women. They always say they're "defending" women. They mean they're trying to control their "property." The end goal is always stripping us of rights. No sports, no jobs, no bank accounts, nothing. Totally dependent on the men in our lives for everything. THAT is what they want.
I quit smoking. Apparently nature did not. My city smells like cremated anus.
My bf told me there were a lot of knitters on mastodon so here i am dumping photos of the project i finished today, in case anyone cares! it is quite an easy pattern and a scrappy project, which I love. The designer is called loupystudio, you can find her stuff on insta/ravelry/her website.
#knit #knitting
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/07/hp-fined-1-4-billion-rupees-for-cartelization-of-ink-cartridges-toner-pcs/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica
That framing of compatible as "counterfeit" is exactly the problem, you know?
It's 2026 -- DOES YOUR HARDWARE ACCELERATED WINDOW MANAGER CAST SHADOWS ACCURATELY?? 1996 for comparison.
Moved on up to the 3-seater office (may have a seat available in the new year if you’re cool and are interested in co-working with the Blacksky team here in Brooklyn!)
Carl Sagan testifying before Congress in 1985 on climate change
Imagine if we would actually listen to the smart people instead of the loud ones.. the possibilities would be endless
oh fucking hell it's smoke outside
On drive to work today co worker is playing Jeff Wayne’s abysmal war of the worlds album.
It is taking a whole lot of energy not to express the disappointment I feel for his taste.
Three minutes until the drive is over…
@NanoRaptor You are entitled to your opinion... even if it is wrong.
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