August Lukens

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Transitioning from punk rock to giving a damn. Bi/Pan.
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Old school Plex users, it looks like they're turning on the sell-your-data spigot. Opt out here:

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“The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.” https://www.collegetowns.org/p/celebrating-the-timeless-allure-of
Celebrating the Timeless Allure of Tintin's Aesthetics

The Adventures of Tintin officially entered the public domain in 2025. We now all own the alluring aesthetics of this timeless classic.

College Towns
Honestly I can get behind this. #nbpy
What is with techbros obsession with selling ads? Shouldn't we be using the power of technology to not ever have to look at an ad again? Literally no one wants to look at an ad. No one.
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A simple reminder of why you should never use a browser provided by an AI company for real web browsing. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

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One of my favorite things about being fluent in Vim keybindings is the occasion when you forget whether you're in insert mode, start typing, and wreak utter chaos on the file you're editing.

Possibly related, I'm quite fastidious about committing changes I want lest I mess them up later.

It is telling that they label this as anti-Trump graffiti despite it not referencing him at all don't you think?
trying to hide malware by changing the file extension
I miss AIM status messages.

Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.

(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)

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Pedro Pascal responding to transphobia on social media: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.” https://www.capitalfm.com/news/pedro-pascal-trans-instagram-sister-lux/
Pedro Pascal calls out "vile and pathetic" transphobic trolls after defending trans rights

Pedro Pascal, whose sister Lux is a trans woman, is a prominent trans ally and he has no time for transphobia.

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