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IMO Mastodon is better. https://mastodon.sdf.org/@aesc Location: Washington metro area ("DMV"), U.S.A.
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It’s a great pun in Chinese, since it’s pronounced very similarly (in some dialects identically) to an old title for the Emperor: 万税爷 wànshuìyé vs 万岁爷 wànsuìyé (the “Lord of Ten Thousand Years”)

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

Fuck Chuck

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

My professional answer to foreign counsel about why our government might react to client in illogical and self-defeating way

submitted 51 days ago • 14 comments

Chuck Schumer’s argument that a shutdown will enable DOGE to shutter agencies faster doesn’t make any sense. The courts are deciding whether they have that power. Even if it turns out they don’t, they have been. The damage is happening. The CR is the only leverage to get Republicans to rein them in.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 60 days ago • 1573 comments

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Pentagon to halt offensive cyberoperations against Russia, officials said.

submitted 63 days ago • 547 comments

In a heathy democracy, the WHCA would fight this by boycotting all WH and travel events until the old system was restored. But they’re going to roll over and do whatever it takes to maintain “access” so they can be lied to in comfort

submitted 68 days ago • 229 comments

People of the world: you cannot solve your problems by coming to the United States. People of the United States: you cannot solve your problems by deporting people.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

POWER CAME ON!!! Just in time for closing ceremonies ⚡️⚡️⚡️

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

Remember when Elon threw a tantrum over a teenager tracking his private jet because it was "a security risk"? Adorable. Now he’s got access to your tax returns. But don’t worry—I’m sure his respect for privacy remains as steadfast as his commitment to free speech.

submitted 75 days ago • 4 comments

Public education is the backbone of American democracy. In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.

submitted 79 days ago • 350 comments

Trump’s slashing the federal workforce. Who does it hurt? 30% are veterans! (Private workforce is only 5% veterans.) President attacking vets? No surprise since he called them “losers.” I'm pushing back! www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 80 days ago • 59 comments

The price of my breakfast sandwich has gone up by $1. Thanks, Trump.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Two weeks ago I taught a 3 hour workshop on cybersecurity at my local library and it was all women over 50 and folks, let me tell you, they were locked in. THREE HOURS.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

When Musk bought Twitter, there were offers of paid exits, code reviews, eliminating of diversity programs, cutting of rent payments, and a reliance on staffers from his companies to enact his plans. All of that is playing out now in DC. Twitter was a blueprint. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/t...

submitted 94 days ago • 61 comments

Google 2000: Don’t Be Evil Google 2025: Why Is To Say What’s Right Or Wrong

submitted 96 days ago • 52 comments

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

submitted 103 days ago • 60 comments

How much taxpayer money is Ancient Orange going to waste relitigating the meaning of the words "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside"?

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

So all we need to do to get rid of something that’s not a *de jure* President is to call them “President”?

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

The Book of Love is long and boring

submitted 444 days ago • 0 comments

(Updating Windows 8.1 VM to archive it) Ah sewer apples, this is slow, why is this such crap? (Checks config, set to 1 GB of RAM including graphics) Wow, I’m kind of surprised this works at all.

submitted 595 days ago • 0 comments

This is a tweet. A post on Mastodon is a tweet. *Any* microblog post is a tweet. (A microblog is short-form text distributed to followers as opposed to sent to a designated group.) It’s a generic term now. It’s not just for a service with a bird theme, if a bird-themed service still existed.

submitted 597 days ago • 0 comments