Hear, hear!

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A tweet from BrooklynDad_Defiant! says: “THIS.” followed by several clapping emojis. The image text reads: “Let’s give teachers $50k signing bonuses, $100k salaries, and $60k student loan forgiveness. You know, the same as ICE gets.”

"Now, we must all fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil which we must fear most. And that is the indifference of good men."

Ah, Boondock Saints. Fun movie.

#MovieNight

Outside of Speaker Mike Johnson,
there is no bigger poster boy for the rubber-stamp Republican House majority than Jim Jordan.

Jordan’s purpose for running the House Judiciary Committee is to abuse its power to investigate those who tried to hold Donald Trump accountable for alleged crimes.

While Republicans in the House filled their committees with leaders who would be loyal to Trump,
Democrats filled their positions with experienced investigators and legislators who know how to use oversight power and navigate congressional hearings effectively.

Rep. Jamie Raskin is one of those Democrats. -- He is an attorney and constitutional scholar, and a person who understands how to properly and effectively use House oversight.

When Jordan gave Raskin a big opening by trying to investigate former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Maryland Democrat seized on it.

Jim Jordan wants Jack Smith to testify behind closed doors.
Smith wants to testify in public.

Raskin wrote a letter to Jordan urging him to allow Smith to testify before the nation.

Rep. Raskin wrote:
Last week, I applauded your call for transparency about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into how President Trump knowingly retained hundreds of highly classified records at his Mar-a-Lago club and then defied subpoenas, obstructed law enforcement, actively hid evidence, and lied about his continuing retention of those records.

I commended you for apparently joining us in demanding the full release of Mr. Smith’s report
—paid for by American taxpayers
—as well as all accompanying records which the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been desperately concealing.

https://www.politicususa.com/p/jamie-raskin-outsmarts-jim-jordan

US people: If you are white, not racist, not a supporter of ethnic cleansing, but are struggling to pay bills, or don't know how you will afford food next month...

First of all, I am genuinely sorry for the stress you are dealing with. Truly.

Second, this stress was placed on you intentionally. By racists.

Their idea is that you will stop caring about other people and become more racist as you become more desperate.

These racists don't care about *helping* other white people. They don't care about you.

They care about *hurting* Black and brown people, and creating their white ethnostate.

They happily shared stats showing that in pre-war Germany, the nazi party got the most support where hunger and hardship were highest.

They also celebrated the eugenic cruelty that followed the Influenza pandemic, back when "long Covid" or "long flu" were not terms that people understood.

No, I do not think that they invented Covid in a nazi lab.🤦🏿‍♂️

But the worst of them definitely celebrated its arrival, and said "Let 'er rip, this helps us," at first because of the high Black death toll, and later because of the impact on the elderly, and the desperation and healthcare callousness.

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Twitter screenshot: @mekkaokerekebye An official DOD webpage posted an article celebrating a Nazi war criminal yesterday. It barely made the news. The Alt-Right wrote years ago that a widespread US economic crash and food insecurity, was necessary to foment the callousness required to proceed to the "next phase." 9:09 AM Dec 18, 2019

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Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye Dec 18, 2019 The theory is: Many white people will care less about adequate nutrition or flu vaccines for brown people in concentration camps, if they themselves are starving and without medicine. This will allow the camp death toll to rise without actually needing to execute people.

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Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye What're black folk saying today? * If you don't stop the GOP from deregistering /disenfranchising us, Dems will lose in 2020. And y'all will act surprised. Again. * 2020 Trump is gloves off, Phase 2. * Buttigieg is trash * Biden is trash, but we know what's in the can.

Roo reaction

[description: kangaroo checking out a Halloween display is scared by the cackling skeleton -- you can see the roo running away far down the street]

#kangaroo #roo #animal #halloween #humor #humour

Resurecting the ghost of Reagan turns out to be unexpected political dynamite. Since Republicans no longer believe in facts, but they do worship deities, this puts them in the irreconcileable position of having two of their gods issuing unequivocal and diametrically opposite decrees. Feel like we may be hearing more from the Almighty Ronny in the days ahead.

France : un dimanche matin en cuisine

India Rose Crawford
#embroidery #food #animation #cooking #art

Knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein was not the monster.

Wisdom is understanding that Frankenstein WAS the monster.

Enlightenment is understanding that I, the person who brings this up at every chance in every conversation, am the monster.

Why does the government tackle benefit fraud and ignore tax cheats? Could it be prejudice?
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10/23/why-does-the-government-tackle-benefit-fraud-and-ignore-tax-cheats-could-it-be-prejudice/
The National Audit Office issued a report yesterday on efforts being made by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to tackle benefit fraud, and the rate of errors being made in payments of what I call social security.

Ever since I decided I should "learn more about the stock market" I've been having a rolling, ongoing multi-week crisis.

I'm just... shook.

"Girl? You live like this?"

The most interesting thing I've learned is how there are fewer public companies on the market. This is also responsible for market inflation. Everyone seems to nod and agree that ideally a market shouldn't be a speculative thing, but based on the value the companies generate, but everyone vested benefits from dislocation.

The Māori people descend from Polynesians whose ancestors emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia between 3000-1000 BC, and then travelled east, reaching the Society Islands 1000 CE.

After a pause of 200 to 300 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.

#archaeohistories

Often computer history focuses on the US (or UK), but rarely Australia.

This article reveals how Ozisoft, the Aussie distributor for Sega, went into print publishing and shut out Mattel (which distributed Nintendo):

"The news section of Megazone issue 11, dated December 1990, starts with a glorified press release. It states that over 100,000 Sega Master Systems have been sold in Australia and that things are going gangbusters.

"What it fails to mention is that the magazine’s publisher is OziSoft. Which also happens to be the local distributor of Sega products.

"The cover of that same issue featured the new King’s Quest 5 game for PC alongside a glowing preview across several pages. Coincidentally, King’s Quest is another one of OziSoft’s local releases.

"Growing up, I didn’t know any of that. Because a 12-year-old kid doesn’t really know or care about licensing, distribution, or ‘corporate synergy’.
...
"While Megazone went out with a whimper, its final issue barely noticed, the magazine’s legacy, and its influence on Australian gaming can’t be underestimated. It made Sega a household name, sold a generation of kids on the Master System, and helped OziSoft outgun and outsell Nintendo when the 16-bit generation arrived on our shores.

"For better or worse, the conflicted nature of Megazone shaped a generation of kids. Even if we didn’t know it at the time.
...
"Looking back at Megazone with the benefit of hindsight it’s clear that the lines between journalism and marketing were often blurred.

"That’s a view that Stuart Clarke agrees with. And he should know, given he was the editor from 1992 to 1993."

https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/megazone-history/

#retrocomputing #retrogaming #retrocomputers #retrogames #Amiga #Atari #Sega #Nintendo #Commodore #ausmedia #computers #computing #computerhistory

I'm currently rebuilding the "about" website for nogoo.me into a multilingual one and identified two funny things:

• French sentences are wayyyyyy longer than English ones.
• When I write in French, I tend to assume people reading the text will be normal (hear non-tech) users. Whereas I tend to write in English as if only geeks will read the text.

That's all. Time for sleep now. G'night!

How 2025 is going.

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An LED highway sign near San Diego reading "LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY"

Because we need good news: Gary Larson is drawing again (he bought a tablet, taught himself how to use it, and suddenly drawing was fun again): https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

why have an AI bubble when you can have a

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subsequent gay boy boom

I lolled hard

Squirrel.

Nut.

No discernible zippers.

#squirrel

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Squirrel nibbles a nut while sitting atop a concrete garden sculpture of a fruit basket

About syntax highlighting https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

Made for reasons i'm not going into...

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A small stool, in a sample test tube, with a blue top, held in my hand.

My spouse and I now have an interesting experiment going: which enhances your 5G reception more, getting a Covid shot and a flu shot in the same arm on the same day, or getting one in each arm? Confounding factors: we have different length arms, and I'm not sure which is a better match for 5G wavelengths. Also, I use a computer a lot more, which means that the extra microchips I've just been injected with will help me a lot more.

tupperware

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pie chart of time spent using Tupperware: there's a small blue slice labeled storing fresh food. 20% or so is green and says storing rotten food. and the rest is red and it says searching for the right fucking lid. 

We’re getting to the point where as a tech company all you have to do is not be fascist or actively sabotage your own product with AI bullshit. You don’t even have to be good, you just have to not actively be bad

Inside of you are two wolves and now you're questioning the life choices that lead to you agreeing to shoot this Teen Wolf parody porn in the first place.

I laughed

"If you allow politicians to violate your rights in times of crisis, they will create crises to violate your rights".

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Une photo de pancarte de manif. La pancarte dit : " Si vous permettez aux politiciens de violer vos droits en temps de crise, ils créeront des crises pour violer vos droits".

#Meme #Humour

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A meme with the title "My bucket list:". Below the text is a numbered list from one to five. Next to each number is a picture of a different type of bucket, making a literal pun on the term "bucket list."

there's a high correlation between having gay sex and writing good software; so my number 1 tip to people aspiring to write good software would be: have more gay sex