John Nelson

A screenshot of a conversation with one person saying, “it’s Halloween time to get spooky.” And the other saying it’s June. It ends with an image depicting a jack-o-lantern monster (with “me” overlaid on their chest) firing a “get spooky laser” at a person in armor which has the text, “someone telling me it’s June,” overlaid on their chest

@burnishedbat.bsky.social this made me think of you #itsalwaysspookyseason

No need to bring morals into this. They’re unethical. That’s bad enough.

We're about 3 lines deep into the "first they came for" poem. It's not a very long poem, folks

🎯

YouTube video by Alex Bale The COCOA PUFFS CONSPIRACY (Theory by Alex Bale)

This absolutely killed me when I watched it last night. It's so clever, and so surprising, and so brilliantly made. I want more of this in my feeds. I miss stuff like this.

youtu.be/iPtS_zEJKKI?...

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

From Stephen King & Mike Flanagan.

The mystery of a lifetime.

THE LIFE OF CHUCK.

How do you describe the indescribable?

See for yourself in theaters June.

A screenshot of an elon musk tweet. Elon, in a quote tweet, says "Costa is committing crimes." He is quote tweeting KanekoaTheGreat who says "Valerie Costa, the far-left activist behind the so-called "Tesla Takedown" fueling a spree of vandalism nationwide, proudly admits her campaign draws inspiration from Luigi Mangione. She labels Elon Musk's DOGE initiative as "criminal," even though Trump won both the popular vote and presidency, specifically while championing Musk and DOGE's vision to balance the budget. Clearly, Costa has no genuine respect for democracy, elections, or the people's choice. Ironically, Costa's "TroublemakersCommunity" and "Oil & Gas Action Network" previously targeted fossil fuel companies to fight climate change. Now, in a stunning twist of hypocrisy, she's attacking Tesla—the very company that's arguably done more than any other to combat climate change. Did she ever honestly care about climate change, or was she always just virtue-signaling the DNC's latest talking points? Digging deeper reveals Costa’s career specialty: advising left-wing NGOs and nonprofits on fundraising and securing government-funded grants. Precisely the kind of waste and abuse that Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency are courageously battling to eliminate." It includes a video. The link to the tweet is https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898803819535819146

Dear Elon Musk, protesting is not a crime. Organizing online to protest isn't a crime either, even if you don't like the protesters' goals. We oppose any efforts to mislabel peaceful protesting as illegal—protests are foundational to our democracy.

Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer

People seem stuck on the idea that this is conservatives vs. liberals. It’s NOT a policy war, it’s not even a culture war, it’s a CLASS WAR and everyone other than the top 0.01% is losing. Just look at what they’re targeting… consumer protections, welfare programs, drops in the federal bucket.

It really is. I’m finding that working on my master’s degree online is making it more bearable though. Maybe just because I don’t have time to think about how exhausted I am. 😜

Image from Reddit which says: IHAVE BIPOLAR II DISORDER My moods change more often than the seasons, and with my moods, my energy levels change also. I am either too up or too down, but I am rarely in between. When I am down, I cannot just snap out of it. I cannot think positively to make it all go away. I can barely pull myself out of bed and into the shower. Being around people is just too hard. I don't always feel sad, sometimes I don't feel anything at all. It may seem like I am giving up, but this is when I am fighting the hardest, just to stay alive. When I am up, life is wonderful. Nothing can go wrong, and I have all the energy in the world. I want to go out, I want to DO, I want to accomplish. I am confident. I talk too fast, I think too fast. And it bothers me when those around me can't keep up. Sometimes I am irritable or snappy. I want things done my way. I want everything done at once. I'm impulsive. I like being up more than being down, but I am down much, much more often. The hardest part of this disorder is that I never know when my mood will change. It is a rollercoaster, and it is exhausting to ride a rollercoaster every single day of your life. I hide what I'm going through in order to make you feel more comfortable, and I'm tired. I did not ask for this, any more than a person asks for cancer. I fight it every day. I am stronger than you know.

Saw this on Reddit. I think it’s important to share.
#bipolar2 #mentalhealth #depression

Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards On December 14, James Harr, the owner of an online store called ComradeWorkwear, announced on social media that he planned to sell a deck of “Most Wanted CEO” playing cards, satirizing the infamous “M...

Great article highlighting yet another reason I don’t intend to go back to Meta platforms.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

The rules, if you are keeping track:

If a single left activist anywhere in the world says "defund the police," it becomes the official position of the Democratic Party, now and forever.

If the president's top surrogate repeatedly sieg-heils on stage, it's ambiguous, impossible to interpret.

Every historian and expert on fascism: “It was a Nazi salute.”

The organization responsible for protecting us from Nazis:

odds n ends I spent some time in the booth this morning, recording some pickups on an audiobook I still can’t believe I was chosen to narrate. I believe it will come out in March, around the same time as…

odds n ends wilwheaton.net/2025/01/odds... I love Wil. Did you know we share a birthday? Many years apart, but the same day nonetheless.

People are surprised by something?

and in the end we get augmented lives with digital and analog combined. The computer gets to experience true creativity through the eyes of their human companion and the human gets essentially perfect memory and advanced logic skills from their digital best friend.

we can call them daemons like in the Philip Pullman novels ‘cause daemon is also the name for computer system programs

Probably doing some things better, but definitely doing some things much worse than the child and they learn from each other.

What if we give every kid a blank neural network connected to sensors like microphones, cameras, accelerometers and such (not necessarily in the form of a phone, but yes a phone has all those things) that learns alongside them and as they grow up, the computer grows with them?