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I am a PHP/Python programmer living in Austin, TX. I also dabble in AI-generated images for fun. The banner is Ned Flanders in Army of Darkness, BTW. Ping me if you would like a custom-generated banner and I'll happily see what I can provide.
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If a government no longer cares about it's citizens, why do we owe it loyalty?

The value of government is in it's people, who provide information and services to all citizens. What is the value of a government that is being dismantled no longer exists?

Giving in tp apathy and despair won't help … but being consumed by absolute f-----g hatred and rage isn't helping either. If I drank, I'd need a drink right now. Or a tranq. Or both. There are times I wish I was in a coma for the next 30 or so years.

At what point do we consider anyone still working for Xitter to be complicit with racists? Actually, at what point to do we consider anyone working with or for Elon Musk to be complicit?

Trump's been in office less than 2 weeks and Google is already bending over for him. Goddammit … I guess I've got no choice but to switch to DuckDuckGo now, except some of their results come from Google ... Dammit.

Dear President Bonespur, It's the Gulf of Mexico and so it shall remain in this household. That is a pointless and stupid (redundant?) act, but you are incapable of much else. Get over yourself, you assclown. Fuck you, Me (With a middle finger salute)

#chatgpt is down and it wasn't me that caused it? Goddammit. I want to be famous for *something* ...

"Money doesn't buy happiness.." Will someone offer me enough money that I can test this proposition once and for all? Thanks in advance.

@f4mi.bsky.social I just watched the new video and 1) It was brilliant. 2) you are my new hero. Carry on.

We really need something that can show us which businesses are rolling over and showing their bellies to Trump. So we can boycott them. Permanently.

@bagpuss.org I would also suggest having it look for other languages as well (if they exist). I want to watch the whole world shit/shite/poop on screen. Uh ...

@bagpuss.org Are you accepting suggestions? If so, I would suggest adding a way to test for novelty of a curse. Watching a shithead roll by unsaid in a forest of shit and fuck is slightly disappointing.

I like everything about #PyCharm Community, except for the New Terminal two-line command prompt. #Jetbrains, please fix that ASAP. Thanks.

Making French toast with Italian loaf feels like crossing the streams.

If your ad is unskippable, your business is totally skippable. #advertising #ads #youttube

That moment, when you realize that your iPhone just did a voice recognition on Wooloomooloo.

That moment when you just have to say: “well, shit …”

Why does most of the #advertising on #YouTube seem like #HSN rejects at best or complete #scams at worst?

The question that gets to ask my iPhone the most: hey Siri, where are you?

"What Is Love" vs. "What A Fool Believes" kind of describes my situation ATM.

Celebrate Pi Day with this picture of Tom Hanks holding an apple pie!

Stars of the AI-ndy Griffith Show. #aiart

I am working on a Python HTML tag library at github.com/drivingmenut... mostly because I can. I had different intentions originally, but that has been halted while I figure out some things about Context Management. #python

Gradio and Streamlit (and to a lesser extent, NiceGUI) have all made styling an app waaaay more complicated than it should be by hard-wiring in the styles. Of course, it stems from the fact that programmers hate designers and decided to do it all themselves. And they fucked it up. #rant #react

What's not fun at all? Ripping out all the bullshit styling that React programmers add in code, that could have been handled much more easily with SASS and including a stylesheet. Christ, I hate React. I've got my eye on you, too, Angular. #rant #react #angular

I created a thing: github.com/drivingmenut... because I could. There are several other things there, but they aren't ready for publicity. #python

Am experiencing that moment where I don't remember the status of a project I was working on and I didn't keep good notes. I think this is called being an idiot. Or maybe just a programmer.

AI Models have a real problem with representation. First, they are overwhelmingly white, female and perfect weight. Very few overweight, unattractive or non-white. Same for men, but it's even more noticeable. Except for celebrities and there is a shitton of those. #aiart

I can't decide if any of my models know who Max Headroom is. It seems like he would be the PERFECT candidate for full digitization. Anyway, here's what SD thought he looked like. I guess I was hoping for more angularity. #aiart #socialist_magazine_covers

Started therapy for anger management. So it goes. Actually, not that bad, but I'm looking forward to the point where the person I am is not the person I was. #therapy #anger_management

I block Bitcoiners.

How do you determine if something is "more pythonic", "less pythonic" or "just plain wrong and you should burn that code"?

Stable Diffusion thinks Lenin looks like that MAGA guy you keep running into at your local c-store or coffee shop. You know, the one who starts out friendly and five minutes later you're looking for a way to disengage without setting him off.