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Mr Green is doing a Conover

my ancestor, hakka warrior from the ming dynasty: this stone you hold contains the sum of all human knowledge me: yeah my ancestor: and every day you use it to read things that make you mad me: ok wait, that’s not really– my ancestor: give me another, what did you call this again me: four loko

For all you gamer girls

@loloverruled.bsky.social hey, hope a move from Substack to Ghost or Buttondown is planned for the future.

I love to push a button and receive a pellet. A delicious treat for me? Might as well push it again. If it gives me a small electric shock once in a while, well, that's just the cost of doing business

If I don't want to use #Ansible and I'll only use #Terraform if I'm being paid to, what are my other options if I want to say, deploy #Caddy on #Linux repeatably It looks like Jet was an alternative but the creator ran out of steam.

catstituent outreach

“Thermomix pays penalties for allegedly misleading customers over NDIS endorsement” www.accc.gov.au/media-releas... This is much funnier than it should be. IYKYK.

REMINDER! If you are in NSW the new rental laws have kicked in and your real estate agent MUST provide you with bank transfer or Bpay details to pay your rent if they haven’t already. You are free from those scammy middleman payment schemes!

Our message to London 👇🏻

Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) says far fewer people have bought tickets for the event this year as compared to last, with organizers believing it is due to the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and more aggressive detainment of travellers into the U.S. www.404media.co/email/b4eae3...

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

NEW: Nature's Cathedral tee and I'm actually so stoked, I have a new partnership with an NZ-owned apparel co-op, with fitted/femme tees, sizes thru 5XL! Also, $3 from each of these tees will go to Forest & Bird to support conservation. <3 Pre order here: pepperraccoon.com/products/nat...

great piece from @gnomes-chainey.bsky.social about being disabled at work

Apparently yesterday I upset some people by noting that Y2K was a quarter of a century ago. I apologise for the distress that the notion that Y2K happened closer to the Whitlam dismissal than to today has caused.

Oh damn shout out these guys i guess

abolish ice is the moderate position

this is only adjacent to the topic but I really hate the "this person will kick cancer's ass" style of discussion about illness. cancer is a tsunami. you might get lucky and survive it but you don't fight it. you get lucky enough to catch it early, and to have a cancer that we can treat, or not

hugh laurie is british for “big truck”

Newsletter: We are in the era of the Business Idiot, where middle management has seized power, breeding out true meritocracy and value-creation in favor of symbolic growth and superficial intelligence. This piece ties together everything I've ever written. www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

my loudest “skill issue” ever

On this day in 2020, early in the pandemic, I went down a rabbit hole that started with these drawings of Garfeye the Sailor Cat.

[Boost please] If you have read, are reading or will read usesthis.com (and you should) You should go put a coin in the jar at ko-fi.com/waferbaby which @wafer.baby is being shy about announcing.

The tech industry built this. We are responsible for this. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

RAW MILK TIME I was surprised to find most of the "raw milk cures ___" talking points from the last 20+ years come from one (1) raw milk dairy farmer in California. Let's get to know him!

honestly there's...non-zero overlap between old school RPG text parsers and the worst genre of bluesky replies > JOKE I'm not sure what that is > USE JOKE ON SOCIETY that doesn't seem appropriate here

Ow theonion.com/ow/

A thoroughly well-deserved Community Service Award given to @daisy for service during an exceptionally long tenre at the helm of @pyconau, presented at #PyConUS. It's an absolute travesty that she is unable to accept it here in person. I hope this country can start doing better by trans people […]

A *thirty six hour* outage, NDIA? www.ndis.gov.au/news/10717-p... You would think you would put this on a banner at the top of the page.

[Boost please] If you have read, are reading or will read usesthis.com (and you should) You should go put a coin in the jar at ko-fi.com/waferbaby which @wafer.baby is being shy about announcing.

RIP Roger Ebert, you would have hated The Minecraft Movie

I’m just glad the users of this site are finally focused on the real enemy: people who have girlfriends

May 15th is Nakba Day, the day that commemorates the on-going ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Israel. This year, it has been 77 years since Israel violently occupied a land full of people and made them into a people without land. 77 years.

people say bluesky isn't doing anything new or interesting but that's not quite true: this site has developed the first new way to get mad at the onion in 30 years

I've got a drawer full of ESP32s and plenty of solder, I'm ready for supply chain collapse

A few Palestinian YouTube channels have stopped because they were killed. These were kids. They sang songs & loved birds, and showed us the ocean. I'll never forget Medo, a young man growing a garden in the midst of a genocide. Israel killed him; he showed the world that Palestinians are human.

i hope sam altman paid adam conover a metric fuckton of money for that ad cause jesus i cant comprehend torpedoing my integrity like that

So let me get this straight. Adam Conover was the guest on Behind The Bastards last week. Another Cool Zone show, Better Offline, had a whole episode about how Worldcoin is dumb bullshit last week. And this week, Adam Conover is promoting Worldcoin. How does shit get this stupid this fast.

WGA board member, Adam Conover, is now a spokesman for a crypto, eye-scanning app. Moving forward, we should perhaps elect board members whose primary career is writing television and film, rather than whatever this is.

I want one of those Adam Conover Crypto Orbs mainly because I wanna crack it open like an egg and see what off the shelf parts they used for it that cost like 5 dollars on Aliexpress.

Adam Conover got famous for promoting critical thinking in his show “Adam Ruins Everything.” Now he’s getting paid to promote an orb that scans your eyeball in exchange for crypto currency, which was trained on poor villagers in Africa and Southeast Asia. Yes, really. skepchick.org/2025/05/adam...

Turns out Adam Conover name searches at a rate of 0.8 Wendig so I would like to let Adam Conover know that we're all very disappointed in Adam Conover.

about to launch the Butlerian Jihad, who up?