I actually currently have all 5, but the fucking capitalists are trying desperately to yank #2 and #3 off the list.
22.02.2026 03:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@krysscom.bsky.social
Software engineer, dungeon master, woodworker, weightlifter, metalhead, animal-lover, and unapologetically-pragmatic progressive.
I actually currently have all 5, but the fucking capitalists are trying desperately to yank #2 and #3 off the list.
22.02.2026 03:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The tech oligarchs pushing AI do not care if you can afford a computer, because they do not truly love the computer. aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd...
19.02.2026 20:00 β π 1879 π 597 π¬ 12 π 33Reddit slapped me with a 3-day ban for "inciting violence" because I said "I hope the ICE agents get everything coming to them" πππ
19.02.2026 20:13 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's emphatically not a "weird obsession", it's an EXTREMELY common sentiment among everyone outside the left-wing groupthink bubble. Young men absolutely did abandon us for exactly that reason. The rebound is because they're realizing fascism is worse than misandry, per my original point.
18.02.2026 17:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That's a strawman argument. The course correction is to simply call out misandry, and other toxic and prejudiced attitudes, whenever our side uses them. That has literally nothing to do with "abandoning vulnerable groups".
Blowing it off as "made up outrage" just makes Steve Bannon's job easier.
But there's an underlying reason that rhetoric was so effective that it cost us the 2024 election. There are millions of swing voters turned off from our side because we can be incredibly toxic without even realizing it, and if we just pretend that's not the case then we jeopardize future elections.
17.02.2026 20:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Our side needs to drop the misandry. Casual anti-male sentiments are all over the place, and we had the audacity to act surprised when Gen Z men turned against us, hard.
And our focus on political correctness pisses off everyone, often including those we're trying to help.
No war but class war.
..... while true, it also strikes me as a sign that we on the left should make an effort to be less annoying (at least to the political normies)
17.02.2026 03:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I used to really like the joke "The world is run by 80-year sociopaths, but at least my D&D dice collection is cool."
Except now I have to amend it to "The world is run by 80-year-old PEDOPHILE sociopaths" π
Y'know, if those central and western Oklahoma families didn't want to deal with poverty and food shortages..... then they shouldn't have voted Republican. They fucked around and voted for Trump, so now they're finding out. Sorry folks Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
10.02.2026 15:43 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The fact that Caleb is built like a pro bodybuilder drives me nuts.
"I grew up starving, and sleeping in dumpsters."
Really? Wow, that makes it extra impressive that you were able to eat 200g of protein every day and never miss an arm workout for five consecutive years. (Read: STEROIDS AF)
I'm liking it overall, but it does swing wildly for me. Love the captain, and the Doctor, and the Klingons, and SAM...... but I find Caleb to be excruciatingly insufferable as a character. I'm half-tempted to just start fast-forwarding through the 'teenage romance/drama' plots, lol
09.02.2026 16:53 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This scene from S1E1 of #StarTrek Starfleet Academy was FUCKING AWESOME.
09.02.2026 07:09 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0I'm a leftist down to my bones, but I won't hesitate to whack someone on my own team upside the head if they're acting stupidly due to groupthink.
This has led to me being banned in a couple of the more counterproductively-puritianical subreddits.
Which leads to ironic juxtapositions like this.
This comment has gone viral as a response to the kind of hyper-cynical incessantly-counterproductive chronically-online leftists who tell you tHeRe'S nO WaY wE CaN vOtE oUrSeLvEs OuT oF tHiS, and I am here for it.
07.02.2026 17:00 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Much as I love Ian McKellen's attempts to use Shakespeare to appeal to the humanity of right-wingers who hate immigrants, those people have a hard enough time comprehending basic modern English above a 3rd-grade level. Asking them to understand Shakespearean English might be a *bit* much.
06.02.2026 17:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Holy shit.
06.02.2026 15:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0TIL that the #dnd 2024 Monster Manual states that Dretches are basically just Republicans.
04.02.2026 22:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It's so fucking true. I started working remotely in 2021, and it's been one of the best things that has ever happened to me.
The country needs a full-blow revolt against and reversal of the RTO bullshit that so many companies have been pushing the past couple years.
Still among my all-time favorite Futurama jokes.
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04.02.2026 07:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well, it's officially Black History Month. Which means we're about to get an Executive Order demanding that it be renamed "The-Upsides-To-Slavery Month" or some shit.
01.02.2026 17:55 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I can only think of ONE exception that would make me want to leave my job. Europe is currently pivoting toward home-grown open-source software solutions that will let them decouple from the stranglehold that American tech companies have on the world.
I would LOVE to help the EU on those projects.
That is quite a bit more than I am currently making as a full-stack software engineer with 16 YOE, at my Minneapolis-based health-research nonprofit.
And yet I don't find any of these emails even remotely appealing, because the people I work with are all so great.
Probably the most bad-ass trailer for any Smash game thus far.
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