This is precisely what the fascists want. They want people rioting so they can take pictures of cities on fire and use it as justification to escalate.
Mass action: yes. But people need to be smart about it.
General strike. Hunger strike.
Pluto posting means you get Planet X’d:
Hell yeah!
I don’t know if this would be possible given the bounty’s requirements.
Let’s say you come up with some new firmware for the fridge that replaces all the hostnames on the advertising calls with ‘localhost’. Great. But if all other features on the device need to keep functioning, including any phone-home firmware update functionality, the fridge will re-enshitify itself on its next update. It either needs new fridge hardware (not allowed in the bounty requirements) or some kind of network container (like pi-hole, also not allowed).
So the entire bounty is an exercise in futility. But… perhaps that’s the point.
This is a demonstration of why the law, as written, is fucked and needs to be changed. I think that may be the main point.
This shit is how the Overton window shifts right. I don’t trust any of those fucks.
It’s not just one router model, they’re talking about banning ALL TP-Link products:
The Commerce Department has reportedly proposed banning sales of devices from California-based TP-Link Systems, a company whose products make up over a third of the home router market, according to The Washington Post.
I’ve only seen the animated series, so that.
Barakamon (2014)
After torpedoing his career, a young, lonely calligrapher gets sent to a remote island community where he befriends the local townsfolk and a precocious child. Its quite lovely and I think you’ll like it a lot.
And it looks like someone has put the entire series, with English subtitles, up on YouTube:
I’ll admit that this does sound kind of like a joke suggestion, but I’m serious, after a hard day, sit down, suck up your pride and put an episode or two of Bluey on. It’s a warm blanket on a cold day.
Ages and ages ago, I was looking for free stencils of a fist for a screen printing project and found this one in the commons:
I swear I’ve seen it everywhere for the last 15 years.
I don’t know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I’ve ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.
Skeets & toots ahoy!
Revision draft:
“The only boots worth licking are your dommy-mommy’s.”
Reposting a comment when this popped up two days ago:
If you have the stomach for it, the 2013 documentary Let the Fire Burn is worth your time.
JustWatch says it’s streaming on AppleTV, Ovid and Kanopy.
FYI, Newsom also vetoed a bill that would allow trans folks to stockpile their HRT for a year:
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/gavin-newsom-vetoes-important-hrt
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB418
The Creature from the Black Lagoon, by the Monsters
A short list of things you didn’t realize were false, stolen from the most recent episode of the You Are Not So Smart podcast (on Intellectual Humility, Sept 14 2025):
For fucks sake…
If I ever have to sit thru another debate over what a monad is, it will be too soon.