Queenie ☠️

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

The kids can't know that we have butts

For nine nights now, the steady thrum of Black Hawk helicopters has circled over Portland. The sound is constant, invasive; a low mechanical beating above our homes. It’s expensive. It’s intimidating. And it’s unnecessary. Our protests have been largely peaceful. There is no insurrection here. Yet this federalized military presence makes us feel like we are living in a war zone (the very kind of chaos this administration claims to be protecting us from). The irony is painful: it is only this occupation that makes Portland feel unsafe. Each hour of helicopter flight costs taxpayers between $2,000 and $4,000, depending on crew, fuel, and maintenance. Multiply that by multiple aircraft over multiple nights, and you’re looking at hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of dollars burned into the sky.

Meanwhile, the Woodstock Food Pantry at All Saints Episcopal Church — which feeds working families, elders, and people with disabilities — has seen its federal funding slashed by 75%. How can we justify pouring public money into intimidation while cutting aid to those who simply need to eat? This is waste, fraud, and abuse in plain sight: * Waste of public resources on military theatrics. * Fraud in the name of “public safety.” * Abuse of the communities that federal agencies claim to protect. Portland is a Sanctuary City. A sanctuary city is not a fortress. It’s a promise — a living vow that a community will protect the dignity and safety of everyone who calls it home. It means that local governments and ordinary people alike will refuse to criminalize survival. That schools, clinics, churches, and shelters will remain safe spaces no matter who you are or where you were born. But the term reaches far beyond policy. It’s an ethic of belonging; a refusal to criminalize need, difference, or desperation.

Sanctuary isn’t weakness. It’s courage. It takes moral strength to meet suffering with care instead of punishment, to believe that our neighbors’ safety is bound up in our own, to insist that safety is not achieved through force but through community, inclusion, and trust. It is living Matthew 25:40 out loud and in deed. It is an act of moral imagination and moral defiance. To hold sanctuary is to say: you belong here. When we hold space for the most vulnerable — refugees, the unhoused, the undocumented, the disabled, the working poor, the displaced — we become something larger than a collection of individuals. We become a moral body. We do more than offer charity. We offer witness. We declare that the measure of a nation is found not in its towers or tanks, but in its tenderness. Sanctuary cities are not lawless; they are soulful. They represent the conscience of the nation, a place where the laws of empathy still apply. To make sanctuary is to affirm that the United States is not merely a geographic territory, but a moral experiment: a republic that must constantly choose between fear and compassion, between domination and democracy.

A nation’s soul is measured not by the might of its military, but by the mercy of its people. When helicopters circle our skies in the name of order, while food pantries struggle to feed the hungry, we are forced to ask: What are we defending, and from whom? The soul of a nation survives only when we make sanctuary for one another. Not through walls or weapons, but through compassion and collective will. If we allow intimidation to replace compassion, we will have traded our conscience for control. Please know that despite the hum of war machines overhead, the conscience of our city — whimsical, creative, stubbornly kind — can still be heard. Portland is not the problem. Portland is the reminder. A reminder that a city can still choose to be sanctuary. That a people can still choose to be human.

This heartfelt and meaningful statement by Portland resident and author Cristina Breshears on another social media platform bears reposting here. I don't think the intent is to idealize Portland but to remind all of us what is important and why. (Posted here with permission.)

Well the owner did a nazi salute when our fascist dictator won the election, and the place is full of nazis and nazi bots. Their AI called itself mecha Hitler. They allow nazi rhetoric without banning people.

Anyone who falls in love with AI should have to take enough coding classes to understand how dumb that is. May as well fall in love with an abacus.

If you make over a certain amount of money you should have to go on your own rich guys internet, the working class shouldn't have to listen to your rich people complaints

Going to attempt to play Crusader Kings III again, wish me luck (could not get into it before, felt like an overwhelming learning curve)

Why would anyone want to stay on that nazi platform is the real question you should be asking yourself

It would be really cool if there was any mainstream media that could be trusted

This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

I just want to live in a place where most of the world doesn't even remember it's a place most of the time, and isn't run by a warlord.

Got 4 hrs of sleep. Sjjrdnwbdjdbnendnssssdrdghh

“Everyone who is rich enough or close enough to reactionary politics is effectively in a cult with beliefs loonier than the median Heaven’s Gate member” is a relatively straightforward description of the current moment. I don’t know how we live like this

This whole situation is making me pro-eugenics. We need to identify what traits make people incapable of empathy and basic respect for life and remove them from the gene pool. Sorry.

My daughter is graduating this year. I know I'm going to cry. The last really big one that got me good was when I found a toy that she had been carrying with her everywhere she goes for like 3 years just thrown onto the floor of her closet. Started bawling on the spot. End of an era.

The American Dream

All Republicans are nazis who are guilty of protecting and aiding a cabal of ultra-wealthy child rapists. Sorry. Maybe don't support them if you don't want to be a nazi pedophile accomplice. I'm just delivering the facts.

I am so sore and tired constantly that I'm considering actually speaking to a doctor about it, so you KNOW it's serious.

Watch it

Today I am creating the design document for the prototype of my game. I'd like to take at least one small step each day towards realizing my dream of creating a great game. Going to just operate as though everything will still be here in a year.

I can assure you that I did this to my knee in a very normal and mature way and not fucking around in a store with the shopping cart and biffing it in a way that I'm concerned about the security footage showing up on the internet.

I used to think some military tech was cool because I'm a dude or whatever but now that there is the prospect of high tech weaponry being used against me personally, I'm having what you could call "mixed" feelings

It's a joke, guys, not meant to be evaluated for accuracy

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

Tony Hawk 2

TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2
EDGE OF REALITY/NEVERSOFT 2001
N64

The new Watermelody is great but Enlighten Mint will always be my true love.

You people belong in jail

Man, the whole Charlie Kirk assassination really didn't pay off for Stephen Miller like he'd hoped. Turns out no one can pretend to give a shit about him for more than a week.