It’s funny how the RTO crowd all think getting into the office makes you more productive. Meanwhile I’m sitting at home waiting all day for a response from people because they’re in the office socialising instead of working…

Writing code for a retail org and hey guess what the day after Thanksgiving is not a day off here. Ah well.

We do the writing. We do the editing. We do the reviewing. We do the formatting (we typeset everything in LaTeX). We do the proofreading. We correct the mistakes introduced by proofreaders. What do publishers do? They make us sign silly copyright forms, stamp their logo on our papers, and then proceed to charge *us* (either as authors or readers) ridiculous amounts. People think academics/scientists are clever. We might be. But we are also stupid. And vain. #openaccess

Attached: 1 video Hold X for trans rights

Content warning: Lewd, stds

I finally finished Loki s2. No spoilers but I wasn’t feeling the first few episodes and almost gave up. The end was pretty great though and I’m glad I hung in.

Little bit of work news. The charity I work for has just landed a significant amount of funding. https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/news/government-announces-51-million-for-our-future-health/

The world is going to hell and I’m growing tits about it

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a fun much-needed refresh of the 2D Mario series, with new sprites and animations to replace ones from the aging New Super Mario Bros line. The visual refresh is excellent, …

It’s giving… thanks

i ain’t no susi

Spoke with @timothep@hachyderm.io for @devjourney@octodon.social on #SmallWeb and more and the podcast is now out. Listen at: https://devjourney.info/Guests/280-AralBalkan (Or wherever you get your podcasts.) 💕 #podcast #devJourney #SmallTech #BigTech #web #dev #design #decentralisation #technology #kitten

Today, I'm announcing a privacy focused web browser based on the excellent Mozilla Firefox browser. It's called Mozilla Firefox

Attached: 1 image "Jacky, be serious" Me: (I am going through backups b/c holding ~1 TB of media over my life is getting wild and SO MANY DUPLICATES)

Attached: 2 images Me when the cops are cool versus me when they aren't:

What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What To Blog About https://css-irl.info/what-to-blog-about-when-you-dont-know-what-to-blog-about/

Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate the act of invading foreign regions and exterminating the local population: an extremely contemporary topic too, I reckon.

Content warning: CEO Chat

😯 😠 am baby

follow here for: - don’t - this is not a place of honor - no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here - nothing valued is here - what is here is dangerous and repulsive

yeah sure keep using pgp! that way I know not to email you

Content warning: kink

You can now ask Bard about youtube videos. A cocktail recipe gets turned into >10 minute video, sprinkled with ads, protected by adblocker-blockers, to be digested by AI, analyzed via state of the art cpu arrays, to extract the original cocktail recipe for further marketing. Collectively, we are an amazingly dumb species. https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/22/23972636/bard-youtube-extension-update-search-video-content