cait (hiatus-ish)

"bravely stopping abuse and exploitation by wasting our moderators' time on non-con smut that could have gone toward moderating abuse or exploitation" tale as old as fucking time. garbage site. where's everyone fleeing to next?

"oh no" pink comic blob above a screenshot showing a two page resetera thread with the topic "Sarah McBride voted yes on resolution honoring "the life and legacy of Charlie Kirk" "

Once again, Jesus Christ, if your own policy would ban, like, The Handmaid's Tale, The Colour Purple, One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Clockwork Orange, Blood Meridian, Measure For Measure, like.... what are we doing here. What is this for

Most disturbing thing I've seen all month. It's a text field. You Copy the text data, and you store it in memory, and when I next use the operating system's Paste feature, it inserts that data at the position of my cursor in whatever resource is active.

This was a solved problem before I was born!

Attempted to copy a field from an excel spreadsheet to paste into a form in a web browser, and I received a Clipboard Error:

"We couldn't copy the content to the clipboard because it's in use by another application."

What the fuck is windows doing that the clipboard needs to be thread safe???

the most controversial statement you can make in this world right now is that it’s bad that israel is committing a genocide

People who use AI, this is what I'm lumping you in with.

The U.S. Department of Labor generating the whitest fake dudes on the planet for recruiting posts that look like they're right out of Axel Braun's "This Ain't The Man in the High Castle" porn parody.

(Yeah, I checked, these are real.)

This is trans rights, too. There is no viable position for the Democrats other than “trans rights are human rights.” Trying to triangulate a position where you throw trans people under the bus “just a little” to woo swing voters only feeds the right’s argument that trans people are a threat 1/x

There is a classic Chicago “TARGET: RATS” poster stapled to a wooden telephone pole. It’s a yellow poster with rats in red crosshairs and instructs residents to “help to eliminate the rat problem in this area”. Next to it, I’m holding one of our campaign posters which is in a similar style. At the top is “WARNING” in red text above a red circle with a line through it depicting an ICE agent. A square next to it reads, “ICE OUT OF ILLINOIS”. The words in the box at the bottom of the poster read, “THIS IS THE REAL THREAT FACING OUR COMMUNITY. WHAT IF WE STOOD UP FOR FAMILIES INSTEAD OF TEARING THEM APART? KAT WILL FIGHT FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM.”

Corporate needs you to find the difference between these two posters.

enshittification definition covered in ads

it’s so fucked that “vibe coding” is the thing that it is and not programmers masturbating while doing their work. yes it’s okay to need the assistance of a machine to code but that code should be stimulating your genitals and bringing you to orgasm!!!! what are you doing!!!!!

"yes."

oh, so THIS is what neurotypicals feel like
god, this fucking RIPS
i am a shining golden god and my focus bows to no impulse

Fun fact: when I visit my partner in the UK, VPNs are the only thing that let's me handle various things like paying my power bill or checking messages from my doctor because they are region locked to the US.

But yeah it's about ~CHILD SAFETY~

Relatedly I think journalism could maybe use stronger professional style norms around not anthropomorphizing the computer systems we report on/reference in our writing.

president hunter biden signs historic executive order decreeing the immediate forced feminization of all manosphere influencers

Happy release day to Sword of the Sea, the latest game from Giant Squid, with ethereal soundtrack by @awintory.bsky.social :) I once again had the privilege of recording woodwinds, including this beautiful Mayan triple harmony drone flute. It has a haunting voice that's all throughout the score 🪈

it's so cool how i can literally feel whatever i was *just* thinking about flutter away like a little butterfly. it's incredible that i get anything done 😭

why is it that the "Tough Compromises" we have to submit to in order to combat fascism are so often things the fascists themselves want?

yeah that was a devastatingly effective subversion

it was a very good and poignant subversion!

thank you @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social and @taliabhatt.itch.io for writing and sharing this
definitely going to preorder the definitive edition once the adhd permits it ❤️
I still need to reed the viking yuri, i think, but that'll have to wait for another night 😔

20. wow what an ending

Everyone has completed their arcs, the girls are coming out and admitting who they are, and this has resolved nothing and even created more problems. Truly the perfect ending.

20. “Get out.”
i was fully ready to eat up the "elder who's been there and knows what to say" thing but god this is so much more satisfying lmao
almost satisfying enough to distract me from the Shiny New Impending Gambit Collision being set up lol

20. Nichole putting together the horrible tragedy of the Transfeminine Condition is equal parts brutal and satisfying.

20. oh, that went. not where i was expecting.