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I think if God had not intended me to swear He would not have surrounded me with so many assholes.

“Wow you’re good at computers”

“I just click everything”

“But how did you know which menu it was?”

“I just click everything”

“But then you were able to find the correct thing in the drop-down”

“I just click everything”

“How did you learn the new system so fast?”

“I just click everything”

“You must have some deep systems knowledge”

“I just click everything”

So we’re all agreed that the AG nomination was really just a ploy to give Gaetz an excuse to resign his seat before he got forced out, right?
Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
Note how “concerns about fairness in sports” has already transformed into unvarnished transphobic bigotry
"While pundits have busied themselves over the past 10 days nitpicking Kamala Harris’s campaign, one thing is abundantly clear: She was held to the highest standards of leadership while Trump was held to no standard at all."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/anna-gifty-kamala-harris-glass-cliff
Kamala Harris’s hidden barrier

Her rise and fall illustrates the Glass Cliff.

Public Notice
My water heater's app is so unreliable I just installed Home Assistant and ordered parts to plug a wifi microcontroller into its diagnostics port

You know how when you go to the house of an absolute colossal nerd and you ask them

🐇 Hey, how do I watch Netflix?

🦝 Yeah no problem, well first you've gotta turn on the amp. That's the power button on this remote here. The right-hand power button that is, the left-hand one isn't programmed to anything yet

🐇 OK

🦝 Sometimes that makes the TV come on automatically, but if it doesn't then you've gotta turn on the TV. That's this button here on this other remote.

🐇 So we're on two remotes now

🦝 Nearly finished. Oh by the way, if you want to adjust the volume, use the first remote, the volume on the second remote doesn't do anything. Well it does, but it sounds terrible because that's the TV speakers, so leave that at zero

🐇 But I'm *watching* tv

🦝 Yes but you're *listening* to the amp. Oh, sorry, forgot, set the amp input to 2.

🐇 on the amp remote?

🦝 Yeah, the video goes through the amp too.

🐇 In my house we set the TV to a different input, should -

🦝 Don't do that here. Don't. The TV stays on input 1 with its sound muted. Next you've just gotta use this third remote, for the -

🐇 for Netflix?

🦝 Well, technically for Kodi, but that's nothing to worry about yet

🐇 yet?

🦝 We'll come to that,

🐇 I'm being *so* patient right now, I'm really proud of myself

Anyway, imagine that, but your your lightbulbs. This is what Home Assistant promises

If you are progressive like me, then this analysis of why Trump is in power and the Democrats are not says it all, as far as I'm concerned (yes, there's misogyny, racism, and many other bad things, but this is the most fundamental).

For my fellow #canadians, including the Alberta NDP, there is a lesson here too. #ableg #yyc #yeg

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/so-what-does-that-mean-in-practice

So What Does That Mean in Practice?

Democrats ponder whether to do real or fake populism.

How Things Work
Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense