Jeff Forcier

Websites that let me log in ONLY via email recovery feel like they are personally punishing me as a password manager user... like, come on, I have an awesome, one click, client side way to recall a long unique password for your website but sure, allow me to personally increase your email service […]

the idea that I'd try to sneakily trans people by suggesting they wear skirts for practical reasons is especially strange in the context that I never, ever wear skirts. 😂 I can't stand them because I *was* forced to wear them as a child and teen to Perform Servile Gender. They make me profoundly […]

I am always seeing news stories about men getting caught not wearing pants (trousers) on webcam or seeing them openly fantasize about not having to wear pants. I have to conclude y’all find them extremely uncomfortable. May I suggest: skirts? Pants were invented to make it easier to ride horses […]

Like I know I don't have to tell y'all, here on the algorithmless fedi, that you-might-like-this algorithms will not tell you things about yourself that you didn't know, will not help you grow as a person, will in fact stunt you and restrict your ability to change, because they're designed to […]

5 days remain on this matching campaign, but sooner is better, $1.5MM is a lot to replace!

Had a dream that Wisconsin passed a law requiring that HRT medications only be taken by eating cheese laced with them to support the cheese industry. I was at a grocery store and was having a hard time finding regular cheese. Above the caption is a photo of three Wisconsin cheese, labeled estrogen, testosterone, and regular respectively.

I'm just as pissed off at the feckless/collaborating media as the next leftist, /and/ I support killing Nazis, but I'm not sure jumping straight to killing said feckless journalists is the right call here /s

We need to be killing the Nazis they are afraid of slash in love with! […]

Weird puffy robes

Weird puffy sweat pants

Instagram is constantly pitching me depressed loungewear with strong “I’ve completely given up” vibes.

This is your regular reminder that “T&S work is not a cost center. It is a profit enabler”

You can treat trust & safety as a cost center, and consequently under-invest in it because you don't perceive it to be leading to returns on investment, but the reality is that trust and safety is a […]

We can disagree about policy. But we should never disagree about whether a child deserves to eat.

We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.

Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

treymous CBS BROADCASTING Every producer who was laid off on my team is a person of color. Every producer on my team who will be relocated within the company is white

Just because you see it coming a mile away doesn't mean it’s any less horrific. 😭

CBS now that DEI is DOA:

User normal-horoscopes: TEEN HORSE GIRL MOVIE WHERE THE HORSE DIES AN HOUR IN AND THE SECOND HALF IS THE GIRL LEARNING OCCULT SCIENCE TO REANIMATE IT SO SHE CAN WIN THE BIG DERBY User hombredeflorida: Necroprancer User normal-horoscopes: TAGLINE: YOU CANT BEAT THIS DEAD HORSE

Torsdag!

Hey, so as a veteran and incident responder I need to warn you to pay attention to something in America.

The human brain is resilient. While you’re watching kids get dragged away from the parents and people being beaten in the streets, you’re accumulating trauma but also being desensitized.

Train car with graffiti rolling through Kamloops BC Canada

#kamloops #train #graffiti #art

@jsbarretto yup I had to tune some of the config options for exactly that reason. And there’s still some classes of nitpick that weren’t as easy to turn off so I just ignore them. Alas!

@jsbarretto re: LSP editor integration: I poo-pooed it for many years but finally gave it a shot (in regular ol vim, no less) and it’s actually super damn nice.

Granted, it also went hand in hand with having to write a lot more strictly typed code for work. But still handy even in my untyped […]

Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings : Foundation says it won't compromise policy of inclusivity even if that cash would've really helped

You can get more information about what happened with the grant here, and how the PSF is standing up for the community despite the cost: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/python_foundation_abandons_15m_nsf/

This week, the #Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work.

So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

Clearly we have some momentum so I have recruited two additional volunteers contributing to the matching pool: @amethyst is kicking in an additional $1000 to the match and @petrillic is adding $5000. The total contributed still stands at $3973.40 but that is now only 36.1% of the pledged match […]

Extremely 2025 experience of repeatedly failing to close the mobile game pop up ads on the app i use to track ice helicopters in my area

"1. Fun Fact: The Python Software Foundation’s AWS Open Source Credits usage has only grown 25% over the past 8 years, despite the explosive growth in usage of our services."

(In case you're wondering whether @ThePSF is appropriately responsible when it comes to PyPI)

Each news tidbit I hear about #CivilizationVII the more I'm convinced it's still secretly in Early Access. Woof. Latest one, https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/civilization-7-will-bring-back-the-ability-to-play-as-one-civ-for-the-whole-game-bypassing-the-divisive-age-system - making the ballyhooed […]

I am convinced that Zohran's breakout popularity is not because he's so uniquely progressive or radical, or that he's a generational charismatic political talent, but simply that he has positions based on specific beliefs and when you ask him what they are he will tell you. Later, if you ask him […]

I wish I had some communication with which I could tell some Democratic electeds and candidates that the idea of "moderating" is bullshit. People care about conviction and consistency. "moderating in the general" may have worked when only hyper-partisans were paying attention to primaries and […]

@jbcrawford haven’t dove into the post itself yet but I like the new design, much easier on the eyeballs!

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they […]

Whenever you hear a tech bro screeching about drug addiction in San Francisco, remember that crypto is supercharging the fentanyl trade and reflect on the quote historian Rick Perlstein attributed to Marc Andreessen in 2017:

“I’m glad there’s OxyContin and video games to keep those people quiet.”

@SnoopJ it is kinda cute, innit

@SnoopJ uh. Link??