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Tech Venn Diagram Two circles, one says "Doing work that contributes beneficially to society."; the other says "Making enough income to support a family."

Life situations are bleak right now for a lot of people. In tech, the "Venn Diagram" of (1) positive work and (2) making enough money to support your family is increasingly non-overlapping. We all do what we can.
This image has been living in my mind rent-free for months.

WHAT IS CONVENIENCE???? IS IT WAKIG UP AT 6 IN THE DAMB MORNING AND SHOVELLIN SHIT SO WHEN YOUR TOO TIRED TO COOK AT 6PM YOU CAN PAY SOMEONE HALF YOUR DAMB MONEY TO BRING YOU FOOD ? IS IT ABDICATING YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO PIRATE CORPORATE VIDEO AND PAYING NETFLIX OR AMAZON TO "LET YOU" WATCH A MOVIE? IS IT SHELLIGN OUT $$$$$$ EVREY MONTH TO A LANDLORD YOU HATE WHO WONT FIX YOUR SHIT , SO YOU CAN LIVE CLOSE TO BUSINESSES WHO YOU ALSO HAVE TO PAY TO USE???????? WHY DOES EVERY THING IN "DA ECONOMY" REST ON WORKING CLASS PEOPLE TO SHELL OUT EVERY DAMN DOLLAR TO SOME ASS HOLE?????? WHY IS THE ONLY ETHICAL PURCHASE A SKELATEN TSHRIT FROM AN ONLINE TSHRIT SHOP???? I AINT MATLOCK SO I CANT SOLVE THIS MYSTERY ANY WAY "CONVENIENCE ISNT REAL IF YOU HAVE TO WORK IN A SHITTY BUILDING FOR 30 OR 40 HOUR'S A WEEK FOR A GUY YOU HATE WHO WORKS FOR A COMPANY YOU HATE TO PAY FOR CONVENIENCE ITS NOT REAL " - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

IM RIGHT - dashare.zone ADMIN

Ok, so let's talk a little bit about how the Romans understand magic and why they think putting phallus-shaped objects (fascina, sing. fascinum) are witch-craft related and how that connects to our word 'fascinate.' 1/

And if you want to order them already printed, you can get them printed by a union shop 15 different languages! $40 for packs of 100, get a thousand for $95!

Going to try again because I think this maybe wasn't enough.

Let's go back to the start again.

Alt text was introduced to HTML in 1993 for situations where images didn't load or loaded slowly. In those situations the alt text is visible in the space where the image would have loaded.

Example:

STILL TIRED - SLEEP 5 HOUR'S - SLEEP 8 HOUR'S - SLEEP 11 HOUR'S - ECT ECT ECT "FUCK THIS DOSENT MATTER STILL TIRED" - A SKELITON WHO DOESNT NEED A SOLUTION TO THIS, THERE JUST BEMOANING THAT THEIRS NOT ENOUGH ENERGY IN DA HUMAN BODY TO SATISFY THE NEED'S OF DA WORLD IN 2025 , DA BEST WAY TO GET ENERGY IS A GOOD NIGHT SLEEP BUT EVEN IF YA CATCH UP YOUR ALWAYS BEHIND ,WHO CAN EVEN SLEEP AS MUCH AS YOU NEED TO, AND EXERXISE AS MUCH AS YOU NEED TOO, AND EAT DA SHIT YOUR SUPPOSE TO ,STARTING TO THINK THAT THE PERFECT LIFE ALWAYS BEING OUT OF REACH IS BY DESIGN , A SOCIETY SET UP SO ONLY THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP OF THE MONEY PILE GOT ENOUGH TIME TO DO EVERY THING RIGHT AND WHEN EVER YOU HEAR FROM ONE OF THOSE FUCKERS THEIR CLEARLY NOT HAPPY EITHER, SO WHAT DA FUCK , ,,,, WHAT DA FUCK - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

ZZZZZZ - dashare.zone ADMIN

This is an internetism! I usually see this construction (the [noun] of all time, with an adjective purposefully omitted) used as a way to highlight that the noun is noteworthy in some way but that is too complex to be easily described.

STEREOGUM: People my age, we talk about how we were lucky that we didn’t have social media growing up, and there’s no record of all the dumb shit we said and did. You didn’t have social media, but everything you said and did in those years is on record, and you’ve got to live with it now. That’s tough. VIOLENT J: And the amount of gay Juggalos out there is really surprising. I think about them doing their research and getting the old records, getting excited about it, and getting their hearts broke or something, you know? I tell my daughter, “For the rest of your life, when your friends ask why your dad said that, say it’s because your dad was a fool. Don’t defend me. Say I was a fool then, but I’m not now.” There’s no excuse. I was going with the flow, and that’s the very thing we preach against — being a sheep. And that’s what I was doing. https://www.stereogum.com/2083804/icp-interview-juggalos/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

I cannot recommend you enough to install the Wikipedia app on your devices and use it like you would any search engine. Nowadays they even have tabs so you can open many articles at once.

And, if you can, please donate to the foundation. It has survived the internet enshittification that way.

And the incidents described in the article demonstrate this sort of violence exactly.

Speaking as a former queer kid in a small town: quiet villages that seem to have not much going on are exactly where I would expect a "culture war." Wanting to come across as normal creates a norm of attacking anyone different. There is a lot of violence in these places; it's just not as obvious.

Soot covers the face of a trader as she stands behind her stall minutes after a Russian drone struck the roof of the indoor market, in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk. More photos of the daily dangers in Ukraine's frontline towns: reut.rs/3KKTSvB 📷 Thomas Peter

Harrell’s boy’s club:

www.kuow.org/stories/moni...

Automation labeling individuals with prosthetics as “adult content” needs to be understood as ableism, full stop

give greta thunberg a gundam

The audacity to anthropomorphize machines being built by corporations
--stealing data
--exploiting the labor of the people who are actually the "undesirables" under eugenic thought
--killing the environment,

and then compare criticisms of such eugenic practices to, wait for it, eugenics.

We don't, there will be a new (and hopefully better) normal after this, that said, for the rest of our lives we'll have to be aware a non-trivial number of neighbors and fellows voted for actual fascism, and that's always going to be a bummer

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

“This is not the time for hope” will live in Seattle political infamy.

Watching the new #CriticalRole with our newly set up sound system and the warm bass of Travis's voice booming throughout the room is just incredible

The Exandria Unlimited prime crew (minus team mom Fy'ra Rai) have always been one big polycule to me 🥰

Please - stop doing the screenshot no link thing on Bluesky. This platform does not punish you for posting a URL. You picked up the habit from Meta apps? Stop doing Mark Z's bidding. Link ESPECIALLY to authors, reporters, bloggers, etc. where you quote the work.

National Guard Already Lost at Powell’s Books: tinyurl.com/4mw4n9h2

Some transgender people see only darkness in front and behind them.

The current climate is especially accelerating this.

Transgender people just want to love the people they love and live their lives as themselves.
Let's all join hands and change the world🫶🌏🫶

Free pro tip: when using Google Translate from English to French, if you want to switch from informal-you to formal-you, end the sentence with "sir." To achieve the opposite, end it with "you bastard."

E.g., "You had one job, you bastard." (I'm rehearsing my lines en route to meet my landlord. 🫠)

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This thread is the most sensible take I've seen so far. And while ppl dunked on the original survey, it points to what we have known (or should have known) for years: leftists do not have a policy problem, they have a messaging problem.

Seattle's mayor in 1909 💪🏻🚽💪🏻 we're going to build 25 bathrooms underground with "marble stalls, brass fixtures, oak chairs, white-tiled walls, and terrazzo floors" with an ornate glass and iron pergola on top.

Seattle's mayor in 2025 💩🪠😫 maybe the county can do something about this???

...anyway if you want a satisfying shooter experience just play Warframe lol
The narrative won't rot your brain cells AND you'll save 70 bucks