Russell Harmon

I would love a way to turn MacOS Spaces off. Entirely off. All the way off. No rearranging my windows. At all. Really stop it.

(There are options to turn things off. They don't turn everything off. Try arranging two screens verticaly and size a window to fill them both. Good luck! I won't wait up.)

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Pr...

@eff.org: "Websites subject to [Wisconsin's SB 130] are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet."

Moral panic about rough sex gives way to censorship in the UK British regulators and lawmakers are hot on a measure that would make possessing or publishing strangulation porn a crime.

Hidden in the controversial about UK "choking ban" proposal are a host of even more egregious proposals that could:

* make camming illegal
* redefine escort ads as pimping
* render model contracts unenforceable
* criminalize discussions of teen sexuality

And a whole lot more ...

Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy

The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.

Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...

A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!

Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!

My to-do list has achieved sentience and is stomping out of Tokyo Bay.

It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

I can’t wait for the articles—“Democrats won big Tuesday night. Here’s why that’s bad for Democrats.”

😂😍 The face!

I don't drink coffee so not crossing this picket line won't be difficult for me, but the rest of you should probably be prepared to caffeinate in an alternate fashion

Comic. [Person sitting at desk with laptop with machine labeled E-21 making “click click” noises on the floor behind] VOICE FROM LAPTOP: Hey all! Does your E-21 humidifier make an annoying clicking noise? Mine did, but I finally figured out that there’s an easy fix, so I made this video in case anyone else… PERSON AT DESK: Oh my god. Yes. *Yes.* [caption] I know there’s more important work in the world, but I feel like these people deserve, at minimum a statue.

Repair Video

xkcd.com/3163/

Government outlines punishments people will face for breaking new porn ban The UK government is banning strangulation and suffocation as part of a crackdown on violent porn, which is leading to a rise in violence against women

British MPs rolled out details on their ill-defined "strangulation" censorship law, saying that mere *possession* of consensually produced content, even a private video made with your partner, would carry a two year prison sentence.

That "total absence of scrutiny" must be why so many sites are blocking traffic from the UK right now. I hope you guys over there are able to reclaim your representative government, we're working on ours here too.

Obama: They never miss a chance to scapegoat minorities and D.E.I. For every problem under the sun. You got a flat tire? D.E.I.. Wife mad at you? D.E.I..

2025 Forms of Censorship:

"We're not blocking access, we're making it really difficult to access."

"We're not banning books, we're making them hard to find."

"We're not banning content, we're saying you can't sell it."

"We're not banning speech, you're just legally responsible for who hears it."

I want to be half as badass as Kat when I grow up.

(I'm twice her age)

*totally surprised face*

I'm teaching my 'Oops' class again this Saturday with some significant improvements, 14 tickets left. Link: www.strangertickets.com/events/16920...

Of all the classes I've taught, I'm most proud of this one; to my knowledge it is unique.

It’s long past time for Speaker Johnson to do his job and swear in Arizona Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva. She won on September 23rd that’s 26 days ago.

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Issues with Shipping ElectroGel into the USA There are a few issues with shipping e-stim ElectroGel into the USA.

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Worth noting this is ‘personal lubricants’ not just electrogel. The ‘medical device’ classification isn’t new, but the level of enforcement is.

(lived in Maine until I was 19, have extra feelings about politics there)

Exactly, fuck that. I just gave money to Graham Platner's campaign.

*totally surprised face*

The Discord age-verification hack is much worse than was originally reported. 70,000 users were affected, with images of IDs, selfies, user names, IP addresses and, in some cases, financial details.

Hackers are posting screenshots from over 1.5 terabytes of stolen data.

Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

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