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twin cities is such a wonderful place really deserves better than days like this

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

An old classic, but it was observed by Hubble again back in December, so here's the processed image of that last observation! 🔭 This is the jet produced by the M87 supermassive black hole, located some 55 million light years away! HD: flic.kr/p/2rauPHp

worth considering. my only hesitation in believing that motive is these groups seem genuinely blind to the harassment and abuse existing

I was having a discussion about product design and customization earlier today. The one thing that I stressed is that the defaults should be accessible. If the user then chooses to modify the look, then so be it, that's on them. But out the gate, a product should be accessible.

"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy *This*: - is why why the web was captured; - is why email became concentrated; - is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.

this is a cool project! in addition to automating offsite repo+blob backups, it has a web UI for registering PLC recovery keys (which you keep in a p/w manager, not remote service), and doing the adversarial PLC recovery process (eg, if your "old" PDS is unavailable) solid step for own-your-data

Cute how they keep inventing new names to help women not realise they’re autistic

have a hard time reading news without thinking it's the drip of a system waiting to receive how it needs to be something entirely different

ideas < execution < timing

there are far too many children who graduate into adulthood by becoming callous to what’s possible

some things are best preserved by letting them go and allowing them to be a stepping stone we moved beyond, trying to force a step live forever can guarantee it fails to serve its purpose

we have to subvert not just the things that led us here but the fantasies they’re currently selling us as the way forward

so tired of hearing people recast incompatibility as “disagreement” as tho they can exist within a reasonable shared framework

authoritarians do not believe a people should be allowed to own their streets, deserve to co create their shared space, they believe it is all out on a loan no matter how foreign your street is to them

I hold onto clothes so long after a while I can't figure how there's so much lint in the dryer but my shirt's still there

*sketching furiously on a whiteboard* if this is right there should be about 5.3 billion presidents