Iris

things that help stop antisemitism:
-not committing a genocide and using antisemitism as a shield
-being forthright about issues that matter
-not conflating antisemitism with anti-Israel sentiment

things that do not help stop antisemitism:
-“hey guys, you should stop. It’s bad!”

seeing an ad from the “Jewish united fund” that Jewish hate has risen and telling people to stop … with a hotdog … is one of the stupidest capitalism death knells I’ve seen

fun stuff this weekend. went to a bunch of places with my wife, and bought some fun things (there's a Sailor Moon-themed Werewolf board game?!). Excited to get back to the house tomorrow :)

(i had to delete five j's to get this post to fit within bluesky character limits. i'm being censored by society)

here's my pitch for a smartypants episode: there should only be one name for every person. why does everyone know a matthew, luke, and john? they instead could know a kmattieigher, schluuuuke, and jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjohn. (pronounced the same way) think of the human creativity we could unleash

Also, it feels laggy and there aren't really ... any apps for it. I suppose I'll hold onto it and will check back in a year, since volte has started to get rolled out to ... one device. It's neat to have regardless, even though the device I bought doesn't have convergence support :p

i just received and flashed a phone for ubuntu touch! feels very weird but neat to have ubuntu on a phone. god do they have a manpower problem though ... like, it still doesn't support volte. and they are running on 20.04 stable - which is, if you haven't noticed, just a smidge old.

i'm actually still so annoyed at myself for this because a race condition is the main thing you run into with multiprocessing ... and I myself have run into it programming a multiprocessing program!! lol. (if you're adding a bunch of stuff this can really mess you up)

ever have an interview for programming, and remember that race conditions exist but just completely forget their name or how to describe them?
... anyways it wasn't principally about that, I'm sure it's /fine/, but geez lol

on the other hand i am kind of enjoying the incredibly stupid thought experiment of 'which pacman ghost was the originator of all AI in the world'

"why do I watch everything from the selfish viewpoint of how it affects me" is something I thought in real life for like ten seconds just now, and then i realized that i am me. so. uh. obviously that's fine???

game changer is the feel good tv show of the summer

just called and wrote every payment processor that did the 'let's ban NSFW content' stuff to hopefully ... make this sort of stuff ... not happen. i'm trying to do my part!

Wow, I really love the idea behind this!! Backed :)

me: "i made this song about nothing! it sounds great though"
person: "i love the lyrics! they're so meaningful. i love the message"
me: "????????????????"

still so excited about this actually!!

Spent an hour becoming really good at using google sheets today. somehow it all worked, too

i guess that explains the cowboy hat!

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

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... i feel bad for laptops on ebay that are too cheap. humans can really anthropomorphize anything

yeah. it's actually way worse in xcom because you can't, like, try again immediately and the whole campaign is like a ton of hours instead of failing an island in 30 minutes ...

I've been figuring it out a little bit. But you just have to sacrifice your guys and then lose over and over and I'm not a fan x.x same reason I never got into xcom, to be honest.

i'm trying to learn how to play into the breach but the whole permadeath stuff is something i hate with my entire being so ... yeah

Erin's post isn't one of those humorous summaries, as I'd assumed. It's a word-for-word quote.

Aren’t those rental units that are subject to rent stabilization ones that were built before 1974? He says specifically that it will “limit new construction”, which is just strictly not the case if rent control does not apply to new construction?

theoretically the democratic party's neoliberal wing can fully fall apart and the 'let's try to make the country better' wing can take over but the odds are long. but it is ... better than nothing. and really the only shot democracy has imo

the thing that makes me still semi-hopeful about where america is going is that the people currently in power seem more reticient than i expected to make changes that explicitly break the rules of law in obvious ways. but 2026 is ... we'll see what happens.

I bought $30 in gems from mtg arena because I’m playing it again for final fantasy only, and it’s been a week, and I have gotten 0 gems. Support tickets? Unanswered.

However, I did buy the final fantasy text emotes with saved gems and now I get to spam “Hear. Feel. Think.” So, it’s not all bad …

why is it just strictly better to play video games that are natively on windows on linux instead? what did microsoft even do to their OS. wild

having four hot dogs in your lunch and then seeing this really makes you think about life