Mastodawn

Replying to my European and Asian friends recently to check in with them and I am making sure to let them know I have always opposed the idiotic sociopath that is Donald J Trump for office vocally since 2015. I have never understood people who were too "polite" to "bring up politics". Except I reject the notion when we are dealing with someone so clearly demented and destructive for humankind generally.

Susan Potter 1d ago

recursive 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

Most people engage in an incredible amount of self-deception to avoid the reality that, beyond some external constraints, there is quite a range of people you could choose to be

Is this the person that you want to be? Why not try being someone different?

Beyond the actual commitments you have made, it is unlikely you owe the other people in your life this prison which you have put yourself inside of

Susan Potter 2d ago

I am channeling my inner Scottishness today. In conversation with a friend, "I think we have a c*ntification problem in modern society at the top...we promote c*nts to leadership roles and this isn't new but the stupidity and cruelty in the age of Trump has gone off the charts."

Before it was just about enabling c*nt behaving people who might have known a little about what they were talking about. Now we are enabling stupid c*nts.

I don't think the word "asshole" cuts it here.

Susan Potter 2d ago

Remote jobs will be back in vogue sooner than Jamie Dimon thinks.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/world-response-iran-war-energy-crisis-oil

Drive slower, work from home and ditch the tie: the world responds to Iran war energy crisis

Oil crisis triggered by blockade of strait of Hormuz prompts emergency measures to protect supply and halt rising prices

The Guardian

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Susan Potter 2d ago

Part of this is media-induced nihilism though.

Susan Potter 2d ago

I was listening to two farmers this morning at a gas station chat and it only just occurred to me why there is such deep-seated rage against the "expert-class": Epstein.

Some prominent university professors and administrators chose child rape money over human decency and that has been known about for many years (pre-COVID).

I never connected the rage with this before though. Yes, I'm slow.

Ironically these farmers chose a very dumb child rapist, Epstein BFF, and fraudster to run the country.

Susan Potter 2d ago

The world watched an old unwell man having a health event giving a rambling incoherent ChatGPT 2.5 written speech (yes, I meant 2.5, I remember how unusable that was).

Susan Potter 3d ago

If I never work for (directly or indirectly) a tech billionaire again, it will be too soon (includes VCs or angels). I am so glad that is over (I hope) for me.

Susan Potter 3d ago

The dumbest man alive started World War 3 because Netanyahu manipulated him like a young child.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-deploying-fighter-jets-turned-drones-near-taiwan-11760411

China Deploying Fighter Jets-Turned Drones Near Taiwan

Introduced in the 1960s, the J‑6 could find new life in a 21st-century saturation attack against the island, analysts warn.

Newsweek

Susan Potter 4d ago

Another week, another sigh of relief that I no longer have to touch the NPM hellscape for work.

https://snyk.io/blog/axios-npm-package-compromised-supply-chain-attack-delivers-cross-platform/

Axios npm Package Compromised: Supply Chain Attack Delivers Cross-Platform RAT | Snyk

Meta description: Malicious versions of the Axios npm package (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) were published via a compromised maintainer account, injecting a hidden dependency that deploys a cross-platform remote access trojan. Here's what happened, who's affected, and how to check your exposure.

Snyk

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