MacDhomnuill

There’s too much “you can’t use Claude because it is against the terms of service and opens a dangerous can of worms” and not enough “you can’t use Claude because that’s idiotic you might as well use a magic 8 ball”

Russia-backed hackers breach Signal, WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, Netherlands warns Russian-backed hackers have launched a global ​cyber campaign to gain access to Signal and WhatsApp accounts used ‌by officials, military personnel and journalists, two intelligence agencies in the Ne...

I dedicate this post to everyone who has ever argued with me about the security and safety of telegram, WhatsApp, signal, and any other supposedly secure messaging/email system. Nation states eat private security for lunch have a nice day!

Being retired is amazing. Sadly I have 3 school age kids so I still have to get up an hour early to get them to going. I was in the army for 20 years and gained the ability to sleep two or three hours and be fully functional for a couple days in a row. Then it’s complete failure time lol

Rascal Crossword 2: Wyrm Edition I heard you like dragons?

Our second crossword will wyrm its way into your brain. Stop dragon your feet, and get in here!

FDM for the win!

My favorite thing about daylight savings is the fact that car accidents heart attacks and domestic violence rates soar during the following week. Oh and deer/vehicle accidents triple in the Midwest states.

Last July. Art of the Deal.

It’s cool that this generation gets to find out the answer to “what would you have done when we started interning the Japanese?” and “what would you have done when we invaded Vietnam?” and “what would you have done in Watergate?” all at the same time.

Will single handedly trying to create a fuel shortage panic is peak bluesky trolling.

Second-campist American leftists are insanely gullible. Completely unable to see AI slop.

They're the mirror image of gullible MAGA imperialists.

I still see people sharing that obvious fake "US bombed F4 drawings" pic, where the planes are bigger than the buildings. Insane.

oil futures above $109

Feeling pretty good about my decision to put solar on my roof and get an electric car.

EV are so damn good, level 2 charger in the garage and laugh every time I pass a gas station. And the maintenance costs are so low it’s absurd!

Yes, in USDA data "farmer" means "farm operator" (a business owner) not "farm laborer" (a hired worker). There is a sleight of hand used in advocacy: when writers want farmers to sound poor and in need of support, they quote income statistics for all farmers (many of which are small),... (1/2)

Good!

1910 Women could wear pants 1920 White women could vote 1963 Women gained equal paid rights (sort of) 1965 Black women could vote 19 69 Women were allowed to initiate divorce 1972 Women could get birth control, without a man 1973 Women could choose to get an abortion, legally 1974 Women could buy a home, without a man 1988 Women could own their own business, without Nomesticial protection agains 2022 Women lost the constitutional right to abortion

Strong reminder: women have not been independent for as long as some folks would like you to believe. We’ve lost rights that we never should have lost.

And people flee rural American now because there are few jobs and even less services available.

It goes for all News media

What I despise most about Trump and MAGA, is how they’ve made me into such a bitter person, who relishes bad news and taking joy in their misery of higher unemployment & prices.

IMO, they won’t stop supporting Trump, until they lose everything: their jobs, their homes, their lifestyle…

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Wish I had done that with my game collection, it’s so easy to accumulate a mountain of stuff you will never use/wear.

Don’t underestimate them but also don’t believe they’re propaganda bullshit either. Wait till they prove it.

I love the Pesh but they are not up to the task.

Imagine if films were reviewed the way folks review TTRPG adventures.

"The movie's 124 minutes, 5 minutes is credits and 1 minute is an intro, so 118 minutes of movie. There are plenty of characters in there. At the 47 minute mark there's a bird"

When do we get the sequel to Slipstream? 😉

The FAOs were trying hard to bring back lessons learned but once it hits Leavenworth anything not written by a life long light infantry guy with zero experience out side of infantry land is instantly memory holed.

Ah yes enjoy the block.

Biden didn’t look at his watch during the transfer only after it was over

And because the ‘Biden looked at his watch during one’ propaganda is rearing its stupid head because Trump wore a baseball cap to a dignified transfer ceremony and the cult is trying to deflect, here you go. 👇 bsky.app/profile/maud...

(this will result in some Bluesky Knower telling me the REAL real way to use this website properly. & I will get on my metaphorical motorbike & disappear in a cloud of dust)