Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Marry someone who says:
- I love you
- I’m proud of you
- yes we can go take the ferry
- no taking three round trips on the ferry isn’t too much
- yes we can take the ferry again
- no I don’t mind ruining my good hair day with sea spray
- yes I’ll buy you pretzel from the galley

A calico kitten, asleep, while being held in a human's arms.

Here's my 6-month-old kitten Kikimera asleep in my partner's arms like the complete and utter baby she is ☺️

Stilts I thought that everything would change when I got the surgery.

here for no particular reason is a short story i wrote a while ago about a young man who is radicalized into violence by a public figure he admires and eventually kills www.otherstrangeness.com/2024/09/30/s...

They definitely aren't in Seattle! I've seen more broken EVgo chargers here than every other charging network put together. These days, I stick to ChargePoint, municipal chargers, or if all else fails, I break out my NACS adapter and hit a Tesla station.

Illustration of someone being pelted with lemons coming out of a chute while in the process of pressing them into lemonade, it's a big mood

Constant mood

Tall glass with tasty adult beverage has a tennis ball in it, behind sits a young black dog

Ok so I didn’t really need that in my adult beverage but thanks for sharing

A reminder that every small bit of good you do - whether it be putting art into the world, helping a friend or stranger, donating to a good cause, or just listening to someone who needs to vent - offsets all the evil in the world just a little bit. And sometimes that's just what the world needs.

Morning. Song,,🐦🐦

So Sticker Mule scrubbed all their pro-trump posts from their insta and they’re deleting comments that bring it up fast af. This is ur reminder they had a 100+ foot pro-trump sign installed on their building just 6 months ago. NO TAKE BACKS, ANTHONY. WE MEMBA.

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Hope it was worth it to stop a few of us from peeing.

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

Come check out my economic policy Wallop Myself in the Dick and Balls Nonstop Over and Over Again. If you notice the walloping, I will triple the walloping of my dick and balls. At the end my dick and balls will feel good somehow. How does this work? I will not elaborate.

oh your neighborhood has five guys burgers? haha yeah I guess that does sound like a lot of guys

In Michigan, bottle returns are typically found in grocery stores, so back when I lived there, my bottle deposits would end up going towards the overall grocery run.

The Emperor’s Luxury SUV Isn’t Good, But He’d Still Kill Us All To Keep It | Victoria Scott Get more from Victoria Scott on Patreon

hey I wrote a story about trying to remain functional as the country collapses, bad luxury SUVs, the contradictions of wealth, and quitting my job. if you wanna read it, it’s available here for free: www.patreon.com/posts/125140...

GNU Terry Pratchett.

Gulf Map Generator - MapQuest Explore and customize your own Gulf region map with our interactive map tool.

Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…

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Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

“Scientists found a cure for fascism!” From left to right: a dragon with ruffled feathers and a wooden bat, which she is holding a little too tight. A red dragon in a lab coat with a crowbar. A silver fox that seems a little too happy. A white-eared opossum lurking in the background. And a doggy that with a bat and an attitude. What important work they’re researching!

Punching Nazis is FDA approved!

The weed number is now 582 due to inflation

For those who need to hear it today 🏳️‍🌈