Original post on my-place.social
A quotation from **Molly Ivins**
> The odd thing about these television discussions designed to “get all sides of the issue” is that they do not feature a spectrum of people with different views on reality. Rather, they frequently give us a face-off between those who see reality and those who […]
22.10.2025 15:16 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Daughter of Discord (@CosmickTrigger@social.edist.ro)
The myth of Nazi efficiency is one of the reasons people don't recognize actual fascism rising around us. We keep expecting some terrifying Ubermensch-led regime to show up and whip the nation into a well-oiled machine. That's what fascism looks like to most Americans. Turns out, however, that the Nazis were actually a bunch of bumbling chucklefuck imbeciles whose sheer incompetence would be hilarious if it wasn't for the whole 'genocide' thing. Hitler was a lazy ignoramus who ate too much cake and farted constantly, and his government never had any clue what the fuck was going on or what he wanted them to do until the last minute. The Nazis largely ignored stuff like 'physics' and 'reality,' because that was stuff for evil Jews, not proper Aryan supermen who wanted to waste their time and money building big stupid tanks that would sink into the ground or gigantic fucking railway cannons that were only ever used a handful of times, all while the Allies were busy storming their way toward Berlin. Fascist governments aren't what you see in the movies. What you're seeing is how fascists *want* to be portrayed, the way they *imagine* themselves to be. In reality, fascist governments are a nonstop circus of dumbfuckery, lurching from one human rights atrocity to the next, ruining countless millions of lives for absolutely nothing at all beyond the shameless greed of sycophants and grifters who want desperately to curry favor with their limp-dicked shitsack of a leader. That's what fascism looks like, and yeah, a particularly stupid and pathetic version of it has been slowly squeezed out of Satan's asshole over the last four years in Washington, D.C. Don't look for hyper-organization, don't look for efficiency, don't look for "the trains running on time." Look for pointless, stupid, ignorant evil. -- Justin Coates
[uspol, fascism (boost with CW)]
https://social.edist.ro/@CosmickTrigger/115415015006133228
22.10.2025 02:17 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
An actual human-drawn version of the HOP design as a T-Shirt? Sign me up!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2019846827/hop-shirt
#hop #nokings
21.10.2025 04:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on mastodon.online
There’s assholes out here trying to tell you that today’s demonstrations were useless virtue signaling.
Asserting your values and showing up for each other is never an empty gesture.
No circular firing squads. No trolling. No woker than thou sermons.
We build together. We live in truth. We […]
19.10.2025 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
Original post on sauropods.win
@PizzaDemon
When I was at a little bookstore up in Halifax I found a book from The Museum of Jurassic Technology and I was deeply confused by if it was real or not. It was an old looking book and claimed to be from the 1930s a catalog of the Museum with descriptions of the offerings.
I decided […]
19.10.2025 13:22 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND
The Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, California is an educational institution dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and the public appreciation of the Lower Jurassic.
Like a coat of two colors, the Museum serves dual functions. On the one hand the Museum provides the academic community with a specialized repository of relics and artifacts from the Lower Jurassic, with an emphasis on those that demonstrate unusual or curious technological qualities. On the other hand the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of "life in the Jurassic"....
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On the left there is an image of a right handed glove ,palm view. On the right there is an image of a right handed glove, backhand view.
@futurebird reminds me of this... which is also not entirely real tech
19.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Hear me out, but maybe it's not superb that most of the internet is hosted on three very large providers?
20.10.2025 13:08 — 👍 2 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Apparently I'm missing some rather epic plumbing events due to being at this week's in-office day 😱
20.10.2025 20:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
New book review on my website!
Usurpation, Sue Burke
★★★★☆
A different sort of book than Semiosis and Interference, taking place entirely on Earth long after the second Pax expedition returns. Can the bamboo keep humans' chaotic conflicts in check? Where do the robots fit in? With so many […]
18.10.2025 23:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on bookmarks.kvibber.com
**LMDE 7 “Gigi” released! - Linux Mint**
I didn't even remember there *was* a Linux Mint Debian Edition. Version 7 is out, based on Debian 13.
"Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if Ubuntu was ever […]
16.10.2025 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on mstdn.social
Drew Struzan was an amazing and iconic movie poster artist. He was forced to retire a while back due to Alzheimers. His passing just calls to mind all the incredible work he did.
Thank you, sir, *anticipation* of entertainment that you gave me in every poster.
#DrewStruzan #RIP
'Star Wars,' […]
16.10.2025 00:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
MegaFLOPS always sounded it should be a term for movies that lost a lot of money.
15.10.2025 18:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on bookmarks.kvibber.com
**Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false**
People who'd rather win an argument (or just disagree to be contrarian) than be right.
Not surprisingly, it tends to correlate with an authoritarian mindset. Which means those who want to be authoritarian leaders can […]
15.10.2025 17:31 — 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
So Apple's announced the M5 computers.
I'm going to wait for the M6. I saw what happened when Daystrom installed an M5 on the Enterprise.
It didn't go well.
15.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fleeting point math
14.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
The teenager sent me this link on how JavaScript handles dates: https://jsdate.wtf
Definitely an appropriate use of the "WTF" TLD!
#JavaScript #wtf
14.10.2025 03:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
New book review on my website!
A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
★★★★★
The Earthsea series is one of my regular re-reads. It starts here, with the tale of how a goatherd grew into a wizard in a world where magic is woven through everything from the poorest village to the greatest palace […]
13.10.2025 05:29 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm once again begging people to stop blaming the victims of shitty techbro nonsense. Switching cost is never zero.
11.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 4 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
New post on my website!
Unhide the Windows 10 ESU Offer
Windows Update is a bit flaky about making the offer to enroll an Windows 10 system in an extra year of security updates. If it's not showing the offer, this can make it re-check whether your system qualifies: cmd /c ClipESUConsumer.exe […]
11.10.2025 05:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
New post on my website!
Downgrading a Microsoft Surface Device to Windows 10
You can reinstall Windows on a Surface tablet or laptop using a hardware-specific recovery image and a USB drive. Microsoft will want you to log in and provide the serial number of the device you want to reinstall […]
11.10.2025 01:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
First impression: Almost a remake, discarding some of the weird stuff later games in the series added that didn't work as well (your hero does not wander onto the battlefield!) and keeping the hex grids. Better graphics of course. More complex skill/troop/building trees. Some interesting new […]
10.10.2025 04:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on notes.kvibber.com
The demo for Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era has been up less than a day. It already has around 350 reviews, over 80% of them positive.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3241970/Heroes_of_Might_and_Magic_Olden_Era_Demo/
The first I read about this game, it was described as going back to […]
10.10.2025 03:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface.
#USpolitics
03.10.2025 18:16 — 👍 17 🔁 105 💬 7 📌 0
he mined a hate forum for the subjects of this piece which has become the bible of well meaning anti-trans people. every parent of a trans kid i know has been sent this article multiple times by friends and family encouraging the parent to crackdown on their child.
03.10.2025 18:12 — 👍 645 🔁 134 💬 7 📌 1
Wait, why are people trying to rehabilitate Jesse Singal of all people? Dude isn't just a fascist, he's one of the very few people who willed the anti-trans wedge movement into being.
03.10.2025 18:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With a Friend like this, who needs enemies?
I’m inclined to agree with the graffiti-ed ads.
I saw a billboard for one of these the other day and could not figure out what the heck it was supposed to be.
With a Friend like this, who needs enemies?
> Friends make life better, but a mean, glowing AirTag on a shoestring isn’t what I call a friend.
03.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In Science We Trust reposted their short comic bio of Jane Goodall https://social.tinyview.com/Za0tquu37Wb
02.10.2025 04:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson
Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.
harpers.org/archive/1941...
01.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 7948 🔁 3161 💬 242 📌 304
End of support for Windows 10, Windows 8.1, and Windows 7 | Microsoft Windows
Make a smooth transition to Windows 11 from your unsupported operating system with help from Microsoft. Enjoy the benefits of upgrading to a Windows 11 PC.
Confusing the issue is that the Windows 10 end-of-life page still says it's $30/device.
But the actual Windows Update app offered to let me add my desktop for no additional charge since I'd already enrolled the Surface tablet through the same Microsoft account.
01.10.2025 03:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
