Alex

A plush purple slipper in the shape of a square headed creature known for his loneliness in a chat app, standing on a deck.

Yes I am wearing slippers in the shape of the wumpus head and it’s 11:42am. How did you know I work from home?

Some days I wake up and am like “I would like more E today, can I just have some extra as a treat?” But I’m too much of a rule follower to actually do that.

In software specifically, I see folks talking about how AI is better at writing go - a language that eschews abstraction because it’s easy for google to hire people who can just deal with it.

It’s not about solving hard problems, it’s about noticing the patterns we couldn’t be bothered to solve because capitalism made it cheaper to just pay people to wade through the menial bullshit.

This applies to art and writing too. Why is AI great at arguing with scammers or getting insurance to pay you? Those are both menial, BS tasks.

AI pushes our systems towards bullshit jobs and menial crud. That it works so well for so many software problems is an indicator that most of our abstractions for software suck and require a lot of menial glue to get held together.

A large grey rabbit is flopped on his tummy on some beige carpet, one back leg extended behind him and one drawn slightly toward his body. He is extremely handsome and cute and a good boy.

the wisest member of our household says it’s time to flop for a good rest 💖

“My detention at Guantanamo changed me. The isolation, the deprivation… it broke us down.”

A Venezuelan man who entered the US for a CBP One appointment on Jan. 19, 2025—and violated no laws—describes the horrors of Guantanamo detention aka imprisonment.

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Yup.

Did y'all know that the Kindle Fire, iPhone, iPad, Palm Pilot, Android, Walkman, Discman, iPod, and GoPro,were all designed in the USA within about 20 miles of deAnza Boulevard in San Mateo?🤯

The US is over 3.8 million square miles! But the entire world's HW talent is overly concentrated here

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.

Here’s one step I hadn’t considered before, but imagine the communities we could make if community were how we moved information, not ads: simone.org/advertising/

Today I’m going to try imagining a better world. Tomorrow I’ll return to thinking about how to make this one a little less bad. As @prisonculture.bsky.social says, “Hope is a discipline”. 🌺

Josh Hawley's Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 03/31/2025 · Bonus · Subscribers Only · 1h 21m

Nothing like listening to @michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @notalawyer.bsky.social dunk on Josh Hawley on @ifbookspod.bsky.social to remind myself that I have so little desire for Masculinity. How the hell did I ever think that made sense for me. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

GoFundMe, Mandy Moore and the unfairness of disaster relief: ‘If you were poor before, you should stay poor’ Aid was historically seen as a way to ‘restore the status quo’. Now the actor’s bid for help amid the LA fires raises a question: who deserves to crowdfund?

I wrote about the LA wildfires, the GoFundMes of rich people, and the long history of disaster relief reproducing inequality.

I’m gonna let my fellow white people in on something: if some shit goes down and the people going ‘I thought everything was fine’ are mostly white and the people going ‘that sure was some shit’ are not white, a little sensor should go off in your head that maybe your perspective is limited here

There are so many folks in need right now and I'm very moved by the support my friend has already received, and -- this is my friend, Jenn, and her partner, Sam, who have lost everything in the Eaton Fire. They are such kind people. If you have a little to give, their GFM is here:

Today I got confirmation from a friend that their house burned to the ground in the fires in LA. Chaparral wants to burn, and these fires have been in some of the most difficult conditions for firefighting. My heart aches for all those impacted.

as a disabled & depressed person, I’ve developed a lot of skills in finding & communicating with health professionals. I’ve helped multiple people close to me (in different states!) find doctors, therapists, etc. if I offered consulting services around this would that be of interest to folks?

More #travelingwhiletrans I used to visit the restroom before my flight. Now I’m waiting to board - at least airplane bathrooms are unisex.

I love all the papers coming out showing that RTO mandates were a dumb idea. And I notice all the data-driven CEOs are not rapidly issuing retractions. It’s not about “collaboration” it’s about control.

Please continue to submit oneshot ideas, panel proposals, giveaway prizes, etc. to #Games4Gaza! I am THRILLED with what has come in so far, and we still have room for many more proposals. Pitch your stuff here! ⬇️ #ttrpg

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Today I’m travelling while trans. My hair looks different from left and right (my head is shaved down the middle) and I’m counting the times I get multiple pronouns from the same person.

Red text and images of red watermelon slices appear on a black background. The red text reads: Games For Gaza: Mutual Aid Edition. In a green text box below, the following words appear: January 3-5, 2025 Directly benefitting Palestinians in Gaza - Pitch a oneshot or panel - Offer production services - Donate giveaway prizes Direct questions to: anuminousproduction@gmail.com Below the text box is the hashtag #Games4Gaza

Announcement time! I'm bringing back #Games4Gaza, this time as an event from Jan 3-5 that will invite people to donate directly to the fundraising drives of several families in Gaza. Pitch your oneshots, panels, giveaway items, and volunteer services using this form ⬇️

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If anyone speaks crow, I’d like to say “um, actually the neighborhood cats have been a much larger contributor to your mortality rate than the birds” but I don’t speak crow or reply-guy. Please help.

Once again the crows have radicalized against the hawks and bald eagles (neither of whom give a shit about crows other than to think they are annoying). They try to dive bomb the big birds, and the big birds just look at them like “buzz off”

Dreams on a Pillow announced - a game based on the 1948 Palestinian Nakba.

From the dev behind Liyla & The Shadows of War - the 2016 game about a girl living under the war in Gaza.

Expression and stories like this are important - back it if you can.

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Pie chart: 74% hydrogen 25% helium 1% other (in tiny font)

Atoms are binary. They are either intended to be hydrogen or helium. We can't just scrap this worldview just because of a handful of exceptions

Opened tumblr for the memes, got an ad immediately for the Wall Street Journal. I’m not in the overlap in that Venn diagram. I’m not even sure that overlap can support life.

lefty shit posters: the harris campaign is chasing Good Republicans, and this is not going to work

harris campaign vets: we chased Good Republicans, this is the only possible strategy, there are no others, and it failed because trans people exist