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toaster.codes
Leftie, scientist, research software engineer, fan of alternative comedy and tabletop gaming.
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I'm not going to be tricked into thinking that hate is a sin. That vitriol from below is somehow equivalent to death from above. The sin is tearing families apart. The sin is fascism. The sin is staying silent, being unmoved by the currents we all feel. Hatred is what we need

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

Will be thinking about "hardens to a carapace over their faces" for a while

This is an excellent example of how the Republican Party is a political party- an ideological apparatus operated to achieve political goals- and the Democratic Party is a country club for wealthy safe-seat donor buddies.

(at mar-a-lago 3 months ago) Elon: “Badger badger, mushroom mushroom” is merely the video’s overture. Next it enters a refrain of “a snake, a snake” to humorous effect. Comedy for the win! Trump: (inner monologue) I do not like Mr. Computer. I am going to invent a new type of prison for him

At #PyDataLondon2025! The talk on PyScript was fascinating and mad. A full Excel-equivalent spreadsheet using Python & Pandas that runs locally in the user's browser!? pysheets.app

#PyDataLondon interesting talk on modelling football data, neat animations of how the matrixes change over time with player movements! (i didn’t record the movement ;_;)

At @pydatalondon.bsky.social! The GF breakfast is so fancy I can’t even tell what some of it is. #PyDataLondon

The Financial Times editorial board calls on all members of the European Union to -Ban trade with Israeli settlements -Sanction settlers and settler organizations -Suspend offensive weapon exports to Israel -Sanction Smotrich and Ben-Gvir -Recognize the State of Palestine

lmfao

If trans people have been misled into thinking they could use the toilet of their choice without having to go through some kind of vetting process, then surely we all have.

the president wont see your cheap dunks against jeffery epstein . But your friends who have ties to state sponsored pedophilia will

Notice how Super Mario and all his supposed “enemies” are happy to get together and go go-kart racing? Wake up. It’s all kayfabe

Three men sit in a cell in El Salvador. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned. He replies, "Because I criticized Elon Musk." The first man responds, "But I am here for praising Musk!" They ask the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back. He answers, "I AM Elon Musk".

We will win, the age of the fossil fuels is ending. What matters is how fast this happens.

Good example about how living right now is designed to make you go insane

If you change the times of an event. You should change the calendar invite.

$500m in revenue - not profit! - for the one Microsoft ai product people actually like. Pathetic! Also back in 2023 the WSJ reported that Microsoft lost $20 for every $10 copilot a month subscriber. Amazing stuff everybody www.tomshardware.com/news/microso...

I was also thinking about how DRM shares a kind of flavor with a lot of asymmetrical conflict remediation measures; DRM inconveniences every single person who uses a digital technology every time they use it but only has to get cracked a single time to be useless

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

They're literally doing the meme

when a billionaire gets mad at trans people

Our latest on the seasonal worker visa. What jumped out at me when reading this government-commissioned report is that farm-owners will quite openly say that they prefer migrant workers to accrue huge levels of debt, because this pushes them to work harder so that they can pay it off.

When former Norwegian PM announced the "longship" carbon capture project, she said the name came from the Viking ship, then paused for a few seconds, and then highlighted that she didn't agree with everything the Vikings did

My art for Lancer: Operation Winter Scar has been nominated by the CRIT Awards for Best Cover Art. I'm very proud of the work I've done for Lancer and if you've ever enjoyed my art, please take a couple minutes to vote for me. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

guys we HAVE to get rid of DEI. it’s about FAIRNESS

People online will really be like “you believe in having principles? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, conceding every principle to build a winning coalition” and then not build a winning coalition

Illinois today

LETS GO - dashare.zone ADMIN

What very normal thing did your wife spend her weekend making?

Really like @oinkgames.bsky.social’s new Dying Message! It’s made it clear I *really* should not get murdered though, my blood-scrawled messages are too convoluted.

Dr. Who is a terrifying premise. Don't like the idea of an alien that can go any where any time but still chooses to mostly hang out with the British.

It’s odd to me that “we need to restore Christian values to Europe” is not coded as anti-Semitic even though it is, quite literally, anti-semitism’s original form.

"How would the punters get to them?" absolutely entering my political meme lexicon, thanks Ash

Ok I have been fairly good, only 4 games and two are Oink games…