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madsjesty.bsky.social
She/her. Arts, puns, makes computers do Stuff for a living (via Typescript, predominantly), and soon to decamp to the world of Dragon Age
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Here's apple doing a better job integrating cloud native linux than linux distros. Again.

I have cleared the garden of like two square meters of bishop’s weed and somehow the pile is calf high already??? How does it DO that?

you can prompt inject a repository coding bot with a malicious pull request, because of course you can arstechnica.com/security/202...

All those young people studying coding when it turns out the real careers of the future will all be in smuggling.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

a lot of white cis women better wake the hell up about the future of their careers under the Musk/Trump junta

Begging writers who don’t own a home to talk to someone who does before writing a “plucky heroine fixes up old house with help from handsome local handyman” story.

Found out that TWENTY emails is considered a lot to politicians on an issue. TWENTY. As in, they call that getting slammed. So next time you see a request to email your rep, or call, keep that in mind. TWENTY is a lot.

USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney Studios' first Silly Symphony cartoon is a wordless masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. ➡️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/welcome-to-the-public-domain-in-2025⁠

I grew up in a highly patriarchal system that stressed perfection & was baffled when men in power (only men were in power) were angry when I met all their expectations instead of proud & how they seemed almost RELIEVED when I was finally gay so they could throw me out until I finally realized:

Yeah man this is like my eighth rodeo. I'm just really stupid

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

My #miniature of the Deep Roads from #dragonage that I've been plugging away at for two years. Reposted with videos instead of gifs because gifs apparently don't work. 🫠 #dragonageart The full set: approx. 2' wide, 7" deep, and... 3' tall? ish. 1:220 scale, which means one 6' human is 6mm tall. 🧵

Another prophesy fulfilled.... #arttag

THE SMOKE RING (1988) Acrylic - 32" x 48" I was already fascinated with Larry Niven's free-fall environment, and then in this book I was especially taken with his descriptions of life in and around the "Clump." 1/7

every year around christmas time the ballet dancers who play the rats in the nutcracker come out with a series of unexplained banger tiktok videos and anyway this is my favorite part of the holiday season

If you think about it, the very best books are really just extremely long spells that turn you into a different person for the rest of your life

Necromancer in love #datv #EmmrichVolkarin

“CEO slayer Luigi” implies the existence of a second, older & more experienced CEO-slaying brother.

THIS is anarchy and mutual aid at work. THIS is what we mean when we say “we keep us safe.”WE create the systems we need. My g’d, I love everything these women did so fucking much. And we can do it all again if we have to.

ME PLAYINGE VEILGUARDE: Neve: "A killinge yn the open yn the most exclusive cabaret yn dock towne. We must move swiftlye and quietlye and fynde the answere..." My Rook: [SYSTEMATICALLYE DESTROYINGE EVERYE BARREL AND WOODEN BOX AROUNDE USINGE FLASHINGE BOLTS OF LIGHTNINGE]

Inside the hunt for hidden cells in Sednaya prison, Syria’s ‘human slaughterhouse’

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

Huge congratulations to Manfred (Dragon Age: Veilguard) for winning the 2024 award for Best Little Guy In Gaming! Thanks for all the great little guys for being part of the games we love. You all got lots of votes.

I think I just found my anti adhd impulse purchase mantra. Damn.

If I have to see this so do you

I gotchu! and so does the CFPB. bsky.app/profile/raha... One caveat: use their letters as a start but don't just copy them directly; many collections agencies will refuse those as "obviously a form letter". Make ABSOLUTELY SURE you include the statement of non-acceptance of the debt:

The level of bias implied here are BREATHTAKING

"AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power." That line HIT. What a great coalescing of things I’ve been picking up on but not able to really express.