Jakob Homan

YouTube video by Yellow Cherry Jam Deep focus Pomodoro Timer 25/5 | NO AI lofi music | Cozy November Study /Work Special Session

The trio over at Yellow Cherry Jam are making some really awesome no AI background focus music...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_17...

two men standing next to each other with the words as god as my witness Alt: Herb Tarlic and the boss standing next to each other with the words as god as my witness I thought turkeys could fly. From WKRP in Cincinatti the tv show for their Thanksgiving episode the boss had the idea to do a giveaway of live turkey over a shopping center by dropping them out of a helicopter. One of the funniest episodes of television ever.

It’s that time of year

Our military is being paid by an anonymous donor.

Our WH East Wing was demolished for a ballroom - paid for by donors.

These aren’t acts of benevolence or patriotism.

This is the oligarchy assuming control, insidiously becoming part of how we function.

Every American should reject it.

Woman dressed as Statue of Liberty wearing an American flag cape is arrested by Broadview police with assistance from Illinois State Police.

Police just detained two protesters.

One dressed as the Statue of the Liberty.

Very straightforwardly detained by secret police for speech. I honestly don't know what establishment figures are telling themselves any more to avoid cognitive dissonance over this shit.

Several schools see a majority of students walking and rolling.

It's clear what those schools have in common:
-Nearby relatively dense housing (9+ DU/acre)
-Adjacent protected bike infrastructure
-Very little parking/auto circulation

Thanks in large part to Safe Routes to School (a program created in Marin before it was rolled out nationwide), Marin County sees 3x the rate of kids walking or rolling to school.

Over the past 15 years we've gone from 1 in 4 kids to 1 in 3 kids. This compares to 1 in 9(!) nationally.

Honestly, who wouldn't want this? Link includes pic of great child-sized park benches installed in the 20th. Kids also want to sit and visit

Text that appears when opening a PDF document in Acrobat: "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant” appears.

As a person who cares about reading and human thinking, I’d like to share the simmering rage I feel knowing that opening a 4+ page essay in Adobe Acrobat automatically prompts this message: “This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI Assistant."

Very good use of the comma there.

wizard frog is insane

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff

www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

@jackbern.bsky.social regarding your attempt to get rid of your mice in the most efficient way possible…

TaskMouster.

That is all.

“Pain only hurts”

This is the kind of activity Meta spy glasses were made for. The potential negatives FAR outweigh any positives, as I’m sure they’re well aware. There were probably many discussions about it. However, it could make them a lot of money. Also, they don’t give a fuck. So there’s that, too.

Fascism is fine, but jokes are cancelled.

Ask the FCC, which now stands for Fucking Christian Christofascists, BTW.

Yes, everything’s terrible, but still be kind

CABLE NEWS ROTS YOUR BRAIN. Seriously. It does. Stop watching as a form of self-care.

After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.

She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.

ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.

America Tips Into Fascism Today is different than before.

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

Google AI overview, in response to my search "the president is a ballsack with sideburns": Your statement includes offensive and disrespectful language. Please be respectful and refrain from using derogatory terms when discussing individuals, especially those in positions of authority.

Get fucked, Google AI. Tone police my entire ass.

web.archive.org/web/20100819...

I know it’s the most cliched thing in the world to point at something and say it’s dystopian but for fucks sake we are all living in a Paul Verhoeven film

Tour dates for the Shout/GKids Hong Kong Cinema Classics series of Golden Princess restorations.

gkids.com/golden-princ...

“What’s your design goal?”

“To utilize an OLAP datastore with the maximum capacity for being typo’ed, coupled with the largest potential hilarious or obscene consequences.”

“Ahhh. DuckDB it is then!”

a thing I learned to today:

Mexico had personnel on site to assist in the Texas flood aftermath before FEMA did

One Weird Trick cut in-town new-house prices in these three growing cities by $200,000. What was it? Zoning, of course. Read more in @ggwash.org:

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Yes, yes, and no. Thanks for asking. Let’s rebuild the party that has consistently failed at everything for the last 12+ years.