@operationpuppet seriously

from all outside experiences it seems i complain much louder and more frequently dealing with linux stuff, but that's because i'm trying to get something done instead of trying to triage and mitigate increasingly inexorable damage

I know learning & switching to #Linux seems intimidating but imagine not being in a war of attrition with your own computer. #microslop

@moonsea @bardascott ...ok but this *is* a parody, right? because the more i think about this one line in the psalms the more i'm convinced the reference has got to be intentional https://biblehub.com/p...

https://www.gutenberg....

@moonsea @bardascott THE SHOE THING I THOUGHT ID BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING JUST FOR HAVING LOOKED AT THIS

HELP MEEEEE THIS IS TOO FUCKING FUNNY https://www.instagram.com/reels/DS8IqySjgkj/

hopefully this will be the most doomposting thing i will share all weekend https://www.science.or...

For the bus enthusiasts 🚌

Just a note because somehow it oftentimes gets overlooked when folks are getting hammered with scrapers:

Static websites can sustain an incredible amount of load on even a small server. You don't have to pick between people being able to view your content and people having to go through a captcha for read-only stuff. Only put the capchas on the parts of the site that must be dynamic.

@puppygirlhornypost2 ok but that would be more forgivable just because people really do argue that honey is vegan (because you're not really eating anything secreted by the bee (i personally do not believe this) and the bees are always free to leave the farm)

I rode passenger today on a patrol watching for ICE in my neighborhood in Minneapolis.

Our ride was mostly uneventful, the neighborhood we patrolled has been a target but just not this afternoon.
It took me a while to follow everything that is going on, and I felt rather incompetent even as a passenger. These communities are rapidly developing processes and their own kind of professional standards even as new people are constantly joining in. There is a large set of Signal groups covering different portions of the city and into the suburbs, as well as many subdivisions for reactive response. There's a schedule of dispatchers who run calls, formal handoff, other support people to take notes and follow the chat. Drivers are trying to spot ICE, peering into the tinted windows (so many people have tinted windows!), looking up license plates.

There's a protocol that I don't yet understand for what to do when you encounter an ICE vehicle. Several times a day I hear the caravans of ICE and observers honking as they go down one of the streets by my house; protocol is only to do that after a direct encounter and ICE officers leaving their vehicle. I'm not sure what that implies in terms of numbers.

Throughout the neighborhood many corners had people in hi-viz jackets on guard. It was around the time kids were coming home from school. These are being organized separately, by schools, community organizations, churches, and the many ad hoc groups that are popping up block by block.

This is all heartening, and impressive, and also sad because it's not nearly enough. People are doing their best, but their best can only slow down ICE. We can't solve this from here.

My work in 2022 vs my work in 2025. Can you notice a difference that 3 years of practice makes?
#progress #artandairplanes #art #woodworking #wood #woodart #mountains #waterfall #moon #canadian

@woof vote blue no matter who (pro-CCP hong kong officials)

Kamen Rider: Rise of the Lycans

@vitalis

In fact, in reviews of Grove's life's works, this book is often skipped over, as if it's some kind of embarrassment. I think it might be his masterpiece.

I will say that if you don't know a LOT about ants the book is probably a bit confusing. Grove assumes you know what all of the various species of ants he mentions look like.

It has an *unreliable* ant narrator and many jokes that are ant-centric. I think it would benefit from illustrations.

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Music on a Stick - or a Clip
PC Mag - January 2000
https://books.google.com/books?id=6qzzglITYTYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA10#v=twopage&q&f=false

@futurebird We got it! And thanks for the help.
It was a naturalist and the film is "Angels And Insects" after the novel "Morpho Eugenia". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_and_Insects

The film: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fco6e

I'll watch it again to find out if there were ants. 😁
Edit: Yes, he studies garden ants!

@poppyhaze @shrew and even that wouldn't be too bad if the battles were tactically interesting (the specific choice of tactics (and other's emotional responses thereto) in a fight scene is always a lovely form of characterization) but western sff tends not to explore that beyond tropes and stock character roles