Do: Cancel subscriptions to Big Tech, set up a monthly donation to the ACLU.

Don't: Hide. Wallow. Feel powerless.

Just your average day in Portland

Endless War on a Dying Planet The dual tragedies of war and ecological collapse in Israel and Palestine

"We keep ruining our planet as we kill each other, and one murderous cycle feeds into another."

From @mollytaft.bsky.social:

“this would fix me” and it’s literally just a 12oz Red Bull

Encoding converts data from one format to another, and not meant for security purposes.

Hashing is a one way process that takes an input and produces a fixed length string.

Encrypting transforms data into a different non human readable format meant to be reversible with the proper decryption key

a scene from Midsommar

Bluesky welcoming new arrivals from Twitter

"There Is A Growing Tendency To Think Of Man As A Rational Thinking Being, Which Is Absurd."
-Marvin the Martian

#EAMaddenFML

Thoughts and prayers to anyone working EA support. Madden 24 release and EA servers down. If they’re dealing with anyone- it’s likely the same person as my 13 YO raging. God speed.

I wish these tags were live like on Twitter.

#ps5 @eahelp @EAMaddenNFL

@EAMaddenFML

Louder for those in the back

Poorly-made three-panel meme of Gimli and Legolas that somehow has two different meme site watermarks on it. Frame 1, Gimli: Never thought I would die fighting side by side with a landlord. Frame 2, Legolas: What about side by side with someone who loathes Elon Musk? Frame 1, Gimli: Aye. I could do that.

Hell Yeah, Brother!

shout out to everyone writing up easy to follow tutorials on how to use bsky and tune it to your preferences. i however will not read any of them and intend to blindly navigate social media as I always have, like an idiot

Mantis shrimp strike by rapidly unfolding and swinging their raptorial claws at prey, and can inflict serious damage on victims significantly greater in size than themselves.

Mantis shrimp pack the strongest punch of any creature in the animal kingdom.

The mantis shrimp is notorious for their striking force, and have the nickname ‘thumb splitter‘, due to the painful gashes they can cause if handled without care by humans.

Smashers can punch at same velocity as a gunshot from a .22 caliber rifle.

A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept - slope_vs_starting.md

A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

If you just think about your slope and don't worry about where you start out you'll end up some place nice.