In short: the sicker/worse you feel after a booster/vaccine, the better for you.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent charged with terroristic threatening in Kapolei

"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police responded to a report of a woman allegedly being threatened by a man on Monday morning in Kapolei.

At around 10 a.m., officers responded to the residence where the 33-year-old woman reported being threatened.

According to the Honolulu Police Department, the 42-year-old suspect allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm during the incident.

When officers arrived on scene, he reportedly identified himself and presented his credentials as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent...."

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/02/us-customs-border-protection-agent-arrested-terroristic-threatening-kapolei/

#fascism #ice #cbp #crime

Found the orange cat that's been hoarding all the collective brain cells.

Oh my god 🤣

This misfeature rolled out in Office365 last year and was the final straw for me that led to me cancelling my MS subscription and ditching Word.

You should aim to do likewise: if you don't, you're one EULA change away from losing control of everything you say/write using their tools.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115132426182084126

Thank you Euro Truck Simulator for making me aware of the best border sign ever made ( photo source )

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A large blue sign cantilevered over a road, with text in Georgian followed by, in English, ‘Azerbaijan border / Good luck’

It gives me great pleasure to reject the silly American convention of putting punctuation in quotes, regardless of whether it’s part of the quote. (The practice comes from antiquated situations where an unsightly gap was caused by monospaced type, and it has no business surviving today: https://style.mla.org/punctuation-and-quotation-marks/.)

Just like the Oxford comma, I am all for the British quotation standard, even with American double quote marks.

Cat vs printer - which is reliable?

(by Lynn Miclea)

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A Venn diagram compares "CAT" and "INKJET PRINTER". The left circle is labeled "CAT" and is yellow. The right circle is labeled "INKJET PRINTER" and is purple. The overlapping orange section, representing shared characteristics, lists "MOODY", "SPEND A LOT OF TIME SELF-CLEANING", "UNRELIABLE", "DEMAND FEEDING WHEN CONTAINER IS FULL", and "IGNORE REQUESTS". A cat's head is visible in the bottom left corner, looking up at the diagram.

(And this is one of the very few times I will side with Texas: the best chili has no beans.)

I love The Pelican Brief (1993) because it's an amazing fantasy of justice, good journalism and "the good guys" winning and "the bad guys" getting what they deserve

Tip: If the pharmacist gives you trouble about giving you the COVID vaccine, just wink and tell them you have "unbalanced humours". They'll know what you mean.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) : “Our Maternal Death Rates Are Only Bad If You Count Black Women.” And this guy’s a fucking physician. #BillCassidy #Louisiana #GOPRacist

MAY-2022

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/bill-cassidy-maternal-mortality-rates

it has been zero days since a customer told us we're not allowed to handle their proprietary code on an internet-connected machine and then sent us a setup script that depends on the internet to bootstrap

Voting should be easier than buying guns.

if you are not happy single, you won't be happy in a relationship.

true happiness comes from chaining together obscure `sed` and `awk` commands to parse a log file, not from someone else.

The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global

It's royalty free and there's already six, generic manufacturers lined up.

https://newatlas.com/infectious-diseases/hiv-prevention-fda-lenacapavir/

The NYT reports today that members of the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded a copy of a crucial Social Security database in June to a vulnerable cloud server, putting the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk of being leaked or hacked, according to a whistle-blower complaint filed by the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer.

From the story:

"Mr. Borges did not indicate that the database had been breached or used inappropriately."

"But his disclosure stated that as of late June, “no verified audit or oversight mechanisms” existed to monitor what DOGE was using the data for or whether it was being shared outside the agency. That kind of oversight would typically be provided by the agency’s career information security professionals, Mr. Borges said in his account."

'And his complaint cites an official agency security assessment that described the project as “high risk” and that warned of “catastrophic impact” to Social Security beneficiaries and programs if the database were to be compromised."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/us/politics/doge-social-security-data.html

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• Bad at Everything! 👎
• Kills the Planet! 🌍
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Artist: Phineas X. Jones
Order one too: Octophant

Thanks to @tante for the fantastic recommendation! https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114863463868788391

#NoAI #HumanArt #NewShirt

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Photo of a person wearing a black t-shirt with only the torso part showing. The t-shirt has an amazing illustration from artist Phineas X. Jones, showing a punk woman holding a chainsaw and kicking a robot in the face. Above her the words: "Destroy A.I." and below the design are three sentences: "Bad at Everything!", "Kills the Planet!", and "Brain Atrophy!"

Do you ever think about how the fine for peeing in public is substantially more than the fine for dumping tonnes of CO₂ in public?