Daniel Fahlke

A Tumblr post by user taffywabbit. The entire text is as follows: I think more people should make fursonas and I'm dead serious. the process of self-exploration that naturally comes along with creating a funny little critter to represent yourself is SO valuable, as you consider the types of animals you vibe with and what kind of aesthetic/colours/personality/etc suit you and stuff like that (fun fact this process is how I figured out I was transgender lol. not saying that will happen to you but just proving that you can learn a LOT about yourself through this design process and any subsequent design changes) and then when you're all done, you have a little freak you can do whatever you want with! edit them poorly into memes, commission lavish oil paintings of them to hang in your mansion, use them as a personal online mascot, design a fucked up evil twin for them to fight, soak them in milk and throw them at the wall, anything really. same stuff some people do with fandom characters they really like, except it's 100% yours and nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong! also now you have an animal your friends can associate with you and they'll send you funny pics/videos of that animal that make them think of you. literally it's just wins all the way down for you and everybody you associate with. everyone should have one of these things!!

very good tumblr post about why to make a fursona, and in the replies, a couple followups on how to make a fursona

lol was watching batman this morning and got hit with "ignore all previous instructions"

Lugia #pokemon #lugia #vgencomm

One time an IT Director complained about the age of a system by reminding people it was released years before Frozen.

And yes they are a dad.

He knows exactly the date Frozen was released.

Also use 3D assets A LOT and trace photos everytime you can!
I have built Miguel's apartment in 3D using blocks from CSP primitives.
I take photos of my city for the background, I also trace directly from Google street view a lot.

In other words, because my art can be considered anime, and I draw D&D characters, my financial information could get flagged by MasterCard's AI and I'll lose everything. PayPal, Ko-fi, my bank account- everything.

It's not about porn.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Spending hours gaming is better for your mental health than hours of doom scrolling through social media. Games give you critical thinking, strategy, stories, goals and actual dopamine, as opposed to anxiety.

"What are you working on?"

I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work.

"A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself."

"Do you have a transmitter too?"

I plugged the power in. "Not yet."

A newspaper appeared in the machine.

"I will, next year."

'Harry Potter' author J.K. Rowling says 'a ton' of fans are 'still with me' after trans remarks J.K. Rowling addressed her controversial comments about transgender women on 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' podcast, saying many 'Harry Potter' fans were 'grateful that I'd said what I said,' and ...

Hey yall not what I wanted to do on my birthday but let it be clear

"Death of the artist" is all well & good but you cannot Seperate the art from the artist when the artist is still alive, a terf & every penny they recieve reinforces their beliefs & is used to actively harm Trans folks!

Let it Go!

ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!

Pusheen and a bento box.

🍱

Dies.

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.

[technical writer hat on]
This is an extraordinarily well written deprecation post by @tabbysable.bsky.social! Super clear, provides the kind of high level detail an engineer needs to communicate this change to the higher ups (& why they might need to throw engineering resources at it ASAP), etc.

Love the decoder ring for my front yard

Fun fact, Twin Cities: that giant stripe in the sky all of you are posting right now? I think that’s a STEVE

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEVE

This is DoorDash’s “Breakfast Basics Index,” which tracks only 4 items: three eggs, a glass of milk, a bagel & an avocado & excludes coffee, bacon, bread & OJ, all of which have gone up in price this year. They cherry-picked a quirky DoorDash metric and spun it as proof of an economic turnaround.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

girls

What really counts is the role each one chooses to play, and how to make this role sustainable so its able to last.

Even many non actors have a bigger problem with keeping the role they choose up. When it then fails its often described as a lying, "acting" or change in personality.

Its more obvious there, but identity is for many similar complex, especialy with people used to masking.

While many key parts (and red flags) stay, many other parts are fluid and can differ in front of different persons and groups, as well as they change over time.

Screenshot of a tweet from Officer Lew (@officer_Lew) on Twitter. The tweet reads: “CONFIRMED: Spoke to at least 6 NYPD officers and they told me that many of the rank and file have already started to put their early retirement papers in and are actively looking for departments in North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. All thanks to Zohran Mamdani getting elected..” Below the tweet are three images in a collage: 1. Zohran Mamdani smiling and looking to the side on a city street, wearing a dark blazer and white shirt. 2. An NYPD SUV parked at an intersection in Times Square with people walking nearby. 3. A group of NYPD officers standing in uniform indoors, hands folded in front. Timestamp: 9:22 PM · 11/6/25 · 215K Views.

Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!

DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis Couple weeks ago Cloudflare announced it would be sponsoring some Open Source projects. Throwing money at pet projects of random techbros would hardly be news, but there was a certain vibe behind them and the people leading them. In an unexpected turn of events, the millionaire receiving money from the billion-dollar company, thought it would be important to devote a whole blog post to random brokeboy from Athens that had an opinion on the Internet. I was astonished to find the blog post. Now that I moved from normal stalkers to millionaire stalkers, is it a sign that I made it? Have I become such a menace? But more importantly: Who the hell even is this guy? ### D-H-Who? When I was painting with crayons in a deteriorating kindergarten somewhere in Greece, DHH, David Heinemeier Hansson, was busy with dumping Ruby on Rails in the world and becoming a niche tech celebrity. His street cred for releasing Ruby on Rails would later be replaced by his writing on remote work. Famously authoring “Remote: Office Not Required”, a book based on his own company, 37signals. That cultural cache would go out the window in 2022 when he got in hot water with his own employees after an internal review process concluded that 37signals had been less than stellar when it came to handling race and diversity. Said review process culminated in a clash, where the employees were interested in further exploration of the topic, which DHH responded to them with “You are the person you are complaining about” (meaning: you, pointing out a problem, is the problem). ### No politics at work This incident lead the two founders of 37signals to the executive decision to forbid any kind of “societal and political discussions” inside the company, which, predictably, lead to a third of the company resigning in protest. This was a massive blow to 37signals. The company was famous for being extremely selective when hiring, as well as affording employees great benefits. Suddenly having a third of the workforce resign over disagreement with management sent a far more powerful message than anything they could have imagined. It would become the starting point for the downwards and radicalizing spiral along with the extended and very public crashout DHH will be going through in the coming years. ### Starting your own conference so you can never be banned from it Subsequently, DHH was uninvited from keynoting at RailsConf on the account of everyone being grossed out about the handling of the matter and in solidarity with the community members along the employees that quit in protest. That, in turn, would lead to the Rails Foundation starting Rails World. A new conference about Rails that 100%-swear-to-god was not just about DHH having his own conference where he can keynote and would never be banned. In the following years DHH would go to explore and express all the spectrum of “down the alt-right pipeline” opinions, like: * Woke is so bad that it made me a racist * People call me racist, but I found a book telling me how nice I am * Fat people are bad and should feel bad * DEI is bad * DEI is bad part 2: trigger the libs with git branches * Cheering for Affirmative action being banned in the USA * The 80s were so great cause they were not woke * Andrew Tate is awesome * Therapy is so bad, that I shall platform transphobes * Therapy is so annoying that I’d rather make an Arch distro instead * Leave your work problems at therapy, instead of making it the problem of your boss (me) * People not wanting kids are bad and Jordan Peterson nailed it * Elon Musk and DOGE are awesome * This private school is making my kids GAY * London is full of “non-native Brits” and I am going to praise a race purity rally * Words are not violence * Words ARE violence, when they are against me ### Omarchy You either log off a hero, or you see yourself create another linux distribution, and having failed the first part, DHH has been pouring his energy into creating a new project. While letting everyone know how he much prefers that than going to therapy. Thus, Omarchy was born, a set of copy pasted Window Manager and Vim configs turned distro. One of the two projects that Cloudflare will be proudly funding shortly. The only possible option for the compositor would be Hyperland, and even though it’s Wayland (bad!), it’s one of the good-non-woke ones. In a similar tone, the project website would be featuring the tight integration of Omarchy with SuperGrok. ### Rubygems On a parallel track, the entire Ruby community more or less collapsed in the last two months. Long story short, is that one of the major Ruby Central sponsors, Sidekiq, pulled out the funding after DHH was invited to speak at RailsConf 2025. Shopify, where DHH sits in the boards of directors, was quick to save the day and match the lost funding. Coincidentally an (allegedly) takeover of key parts of the Ruby Infrastructure was carried out by Ruby Central and placed under the control of Shopify in the following weeks. This story is ridiculous, and the entire ruby community is imploding following this. There’s an excellent write-up of the story so far here. In a similar note, and at the same time, we also find DHH drooling over Off-brand Peter Thiel and calling for an Anduril takeover of the Nix community in order to purge all the wokes. ### On Framework At the same time, Framework had been promoting Omarchy in their social media accounts for a good while. And DHH in turn has been posting about how great Framework hardware is and how the Framework CEO is contributing to his Arch Linux reskin. On October 8th, Framework announced its sponsorhip of the Hyprland project, following 37signal doing the same thing couple weeks earlier. On the same day they made another post promoting Omarchy yet again. This caused a huge backlash and overall PR nightmare, with the apex being a forum thread with over 1700 comments so far. The first reply in forum post, comes from Nirav, Framework’s CEO, with a very questionable choice of words: > We support open source software (and hardware), and partner with developers and maintainers across the ecosystem. We deliberately create a big tent, because we want open source software to win. We don’t partner based on individual’s or organization’s beliefs, values, or political stances outside of their alignment with us on increasing the adoption of open source software. > I definitely understand that not everyone will agree with taking a big tent approach, but we want to be transparent that bringing in and enabling every organization and community that we can across the Linux ecosystem is a deliberate choice. Mentioning twice a “big tent” as the official policy and response to complains about supporting Fascist and Racist shitheads, is nothing sort of digging a hole for yourself so deep it that it reemerges in another continent. Later on, Nirav would mention that they were finalizing sponsorship of the GNOME Foundation (12k/year) and KDE e.V. (10k/year). In the linked page you can also find a listing of Rails World (DHH’s personal conference) for a one time payment of 24k dollars. There has not been an update since, and at no point have they addressed their support and collaboration with DHH. Can’t lose the money cow and free twitter clout I guess. While I would personally would like to see the donation be rejected, I am not involved with the ongoing discussion on the GNOME Foundation side nor the Foundation itself. What I can say is that myself and others from the GNOME OS team, were involved in initial discussions with Framework, about future collaborations and hardware support. GNOME OS, much like the GNOME Flatpak runtime, is very useful as a reference point in order to identify if a bug, in hardware or software, is distro-specific or not. It’s been a month since the initial debacle with Framework. Regardless of what the GNOME Foundation plans on doing, the GNOME OS team certainly does not feel comfortable in further collaboration given how they have handled the situation so far. It’s sad because the people working there understand the issue, but this does not seem to be a trait shared by the management. ### A software midlife crisis During all this, DHH decided that his attention must be devoted to get into a mouth-off with a greek kid that called him a Nazi. Since this is not violence (see “Words are not violence” essay), he decided to respond in kind, by calling for violence against me (see “Words are violence” essay). To anyone who knows a nerd or two over the age of 35, all of the above is unsurprising. This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun. Here’s a dude who barely had any time to confront the world before failing into an infinite money glitch in the form of Ruby on Rails, Jeff Bezos throwing him crazy money, Apple bundling his software as a highlighted feature, becoming a “new work” celebrity and Silicon Valley “Guru”. Is it any surprise that such a person later would find the most minuscule kind of opposition as an all-out attack on his self-image? DHH has never had the “best” opinions on a range of things, and they have been dutifully documented by others, but neither have many other developers that are also ignorant of topics outside of software. Being insecure about your hairline and masculine aesthetic to the point of adopting the Charles Manson haircut to cover your balding is one thing. However, it is entirely different to become a drop-shipped version of Elon, tweeting all day and stopping only to write opinion pieces that come off as proving others wrong rather than original thoughts. Case in point: DHH recently wrote about how “men who’d prefer to feel useful over being listened to”. The piece is unironically titled “Building competency is better than therapy”. It is an insane read, and I’ll speculate that it feels as if someone, who DHH can’t outright dismiss, suggested he goes to therapy. It’s a very “I’ll show you off in front of my audience” kind of text. Add to that a three year speedrun decrying the “theocracy of DEI” and the seemingly authoritarian powers of “the wokes”, all coincidentally starting after he could not get over his employees disagreeing with him on racial sensitivities. How can someone suggest his workers read Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me” and Michelle Alexander’s “The New Jim Crow” in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing and the BLM protests. While a couple of months later writing salivating blogposts after the EDL eugenics rally in England and giving the highest possible praise to Tommy Robinson? ### Can these people be redeemed? It is certainly not going to help that niche celebrities, like DHH, still hold clout and financial power and are able to spout the worst possible takes without any backlash because of their position. A bunch of Ruby developers recently started a petition to get DHH distanced from the community, and it didn’t go far before getting brigaded by the worst people you didn’t need to know existed. This of course was amplified to oblivion by DHH and a bunch of sycophants chasing the clout provided by being retweeted by DHH. It would shortly be followed by yet another “I’m never wrong” piece. Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view? I think there is hope, but it demands more voices in tech spaces to speak up about how having empathy for others, or valuing diversity is not some grand conspiracy but rather enrichment to our lives and spaces. This comes hand in hand with firmly shutting down concern trolling and ridiculous “extreme centrist” takes where someone is expected to find common ground with others advocating for their extermination. One could argue that the true spirit of FLOSS, which attracted much of the current midlife crisis developers in the first place, is about diversity and empathy for the varied circumstances and opinions that enriched our space. ### Conclusion I do not know if his heart is filled with hate or if he is incredibly lost, but it makes little difference since this is his output in the world. David, when you read this I hope it will be a wake-up call. It’s not too late, you only need to go offline and let people help you. Stop the pathetic TemuElon speedrun and go take care of your kids. Drop the anti-woke culture wars and pick up a Ta-Nehisi Coates book again. To everyone else: Push back against their vile and misanthropic rhetoric at every turn. Don’t let their poisonous roots fester into the ground. There is no place for their hate here. Don’t let them find comfort and spew their vomit in any public space. Crush Fascism. Free Palestine.

"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."

(Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

lmao????????????

The temporal onion makes a move
#Grovyle #Celebi #Illustration #Pokemon #pmd #mysterydungeon #DigitalArt