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From the archives: 2025-06-09 at 22:42 PM Matt Mullenweg and the Wordpress debacle - we told you so, you fucking fools!

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

I say this as someone who thinks the 10/7 attacks were massively underdiscussed and underrepresented in anglosphere media: this is psychological torture. Making people watch images of atrocities in order to prove a point is torture. No, I do not give a shit what you think about Greta.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

hey, i'm on this too. text maia via signal below, or via encrypted email on its site — insiders, hacktivists, anyone with info. please: - use a personal, non-work device - have a name and profile picture that does not identify you we will keep you safe!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Oh, it's me. Well, not really: I don't think that intervention in the first instance was a good idea, nor that trying again would be anything other than a disaster. That said, invading and then withdrawing after twenty years, leaving a whole lot of women and pro-democracy people strung out to dry

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have just been called gay for baking my own bread and growing vegetables while also running Fedora KDE and using UV as my Python environment manager. I feel this is unfair: I don't even know Rust.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Lots of commentary on the domestic implications of this, less on the international ones. Australia is pretty small population-wise. It's much more interconnected than the US. People know each other and in general, people watch the same news. This idiot cop just did an awful lot to alienate...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It’s kinda morbidly fascinating how any sufficiently large and lasting riot and crackdown reinvents premodern warfare from first principles.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Not to be a vulgar Marxist again, but this is what we mean when we say that material conditions overdetermine ideological pressures. However anti-woke he wants to be, taking his troops away from him will consistently lead to him taking the right stance in the end.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Not strictly related to the original post being quoted here, but this is... I'm genuinely lost as to how these authors have created such an effective bubble for themselves that they think everyone else is in the bubble and they're the only ones with objective access to social reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

From the archives: 2025-06-08 at 21:50 PM Migrating my website part 2 - Containerised Website Deployments

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Yeah, this is basically it, isn't it?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

One would think that it would be difficult to be Jewish and not-Jewish at the same time. Same for being Zionist and Antisemitic. Alas.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

US cultural dominance will be the death of me

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Argh

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

You know, I'm genuinely curious as to why the Atlantic/NYT columnist elite are so obsessed with trans people. We have approximately zero bearing on their existence, and they don't materially benefit politically from it: in fact it probably hurts them. Nor are they religiously obliged to hate us.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Yes, and honestly, Matt doesn't even mean what he claims to when he say a). "Accurately" means "conforming to Matt Y's biases, especially around trans people"

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment