Today a girl showed me how comb picking works and I'm still kinda shook by how easy it is to defeat so many locks with almost no skill

the problem with being well read is your metaphors get more and more completely impenetrable and incomprehensible every field you branch into

I used to be an athiest, then I realized you have to believe in gods to kill them

what's your ai strategy?
what's your quantum computing strategy?
what's your ww3 strategy?
what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy?
what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy?
what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?

"Every bombed village is my hometown" - James Baldwin And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us.

"Why don't Americans–"

Motherfucker, I live in Minneapolis

Jawlene sighting

Image from the NASA Artemis II mission flyby of the Moon. Image is of the dark side of the moon, with sun rays behind the moon, almost as if it is a total solar eclipse from a different perspective.

i love her

Not to turn this into "everything is awful all the time" but we were also in Vietnam at the time of Apollo. I think it's valid to say that everything else [motions around] does not invalidate those that have been working hard on Artemis for many years.

feast your ocular orbs on this cross section of a miniature Nuvistor vacuum tube.

But why would I want to do a thing like that? [...] I chose somethin' else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you've got a SOLAS orange Pelican case.

We pack a handful of folks into a tin can loaded with explosives. The computers are running Windows and the toilet is malfunctioning. We hurl them at a distant rock. Everything about where they are is deadly. And it is sublimely beautiful, one of the greatest things we’ve done as a species. #Artemis

in that same genre, “transit accessible nonstandard mcdonald’s” bsky.app/profile/maya...

#Artemis2 is a challenging object to collect Doppler from with a small sensor. Since Artemis I, I began research into a method of Doppler extraction that doesn't rely on a carrier, demodulation or FFT.

I can report success! Nearly complete pass with heavy tree attenuation.🧵⬇️

ball bearing.

ball bearing.

ball bearing.

ball bearings.

going through amazon looking at large diameter ball bearings to admire the sets visible in reflections

Yeah I think of it like… okay imagine this was your boyfriend here making this exact same post but complaining that you got a haircut or a nose ring or a tattoo or something, and posting about how “most men think women with tattoos and nose rings look unattractive”, how would you feel about that?

Stumbled on a Reddit post where a woman’s complaining about her boyfriend getting into bodybuilding and how unattractive bodybuilders are and how women don’t like that look and people shouldn’t bodybuild and I can’t help but mentally turn it into a guy complaining about his girlfriend’s tattoos

lol neat, I was trying to guess the frequency by comparing the patch antenna (each square should be about 1/2 wavelength wide) with typical QFN pitches

back at my cliff still throwing things off, etc

good news everyone!

A print ad for "Prinapen 500™", a handheld inkjet printer from the year 1990. The largest photo in ad is one of a hand holding the printer, and etching the name of the product onto a shapely, moody lit, pair of buttocks.

We went wrong as a society the minute we abandoned the idea of ass printers.

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

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?

It’s done and now a pillow in my office.

Kim Ross (from Dark Science #168)

Vonnie Awning (from Dark Science #158)

Xiaoling Chavez holding Kim (from Dark Science #174)

Me: "So I'm designing this new female character..."

My friend: "Does she have short hair and big, well-defined shoulders?"

Me: "HEY, sometimes it's shoulder-length hair..."

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

it’s good that we’re not in the closet. you should see trans people out in public, and you undoubtedly already have.

individual actions of “visibility”, even in aggregate, do very little against the cultural and institutional support that is required in a free and open society. fuck tdov, tbh.

genuinely fascinating that we’ve hit a point where the full monetization of the internet and ai bot takeover has led to a majority of people wanting tech minimalism

**Q. You want to raise every boy as a girl?** Yes. **Q. Why?** A boy will learn to hate girls as long as he is raised in such a way where he is treated as better, and superior to, his girl peers, whenever he is cruel to girls. So, instead, we raise boys as girls. **Q. What if they say they are not a girl, and want to be acknowledged as a boy?** Then you know they are a boy, so you must make sure to understand them as a boy, and not a girl. **Q. What does it mean to be 'raised as a girl'?** That's up for you to decide. The only difference is that you should not raise boys any differently than you raise girls, since you raise every boy as a girl. **Q. Girls and boys are raised in specific ways for specific purposes, so it does not make sense to raise boys as girls.** If you raise every boy as a girl, then there is no being which is not raised as a girl, so anyone raised as a girl necessarily must learn to do anything and everything to grow up, without restrictions on tasks, labours, or interests. **Q. But boys and girls are different.** All two girls are different, and raising girls in one specific way destroys this individuality in favour of moulding girls to serve the same master. Still, the girls resist to live life on their own terms. If girls can be raised such that they know they can do anything they want, including not being girls, so too will boys raised as girls. **Q. Why not raise every girl as a boy?** Because if a girl does not exist among boys, then the girl is made. **Q. Why not raise girls and boys as themselves?** The self must be made in a world where girls and boys can first and foremost be themselves. One step towards this goal is to raise every boy as a girl. **Q. The way people raise girls is cruel, so why would you raise boys with that cruelty?** If you raise girls with cruelty, then you should stop being cruel to girls.