@davidgerard

Millie grazie

who the hell is playing warframe on steam deck at 0 fps

There’s a lot happening these days in the tech sector writ large - LLM chicanery, the ever-present security nightmares, the rug pulls that various open source projects and organizations are pulling in the name of chasing whatever it is they chase that isn’t the thing they said they wanted to do - and it makes it a shitty environment to try and hold together some semblance of safe harbor for people to create, to build things, to make things, as people. It feels like you need a whole open source project and maintainers and moderators and organization and a succession plan and maybe sponsorship to pay for some of this and it’s too big to wrap your arms around before it’s even off the ground. But that’s what it takes to build the things we’ve been building, because it’s all been built by organizations that size.

We’ll never build the things we want following the patterns of the huge scale things, and we probably really don’t want to anyway!

@Guillotine_Jones @mespique Here's a somewhat similar non-AI photo. It's not perfect, but it was the best I could get before the train conductor yelled at me.

I’m all in for gestures, but shutting down the government has no consequence only for Republicans. For Democrats, it typically does. Let’s not squander our wins by assuming we have a mandate beyond lowering prices and getting ICE off the street. Deliver first, and overreach gets much easier.

https://bsky.app/profile/pamboling.bsky.social/post/3mztf66ymm22x

@ai6yr

@dantheclamman When I pulled my boat out of Lake Michigan in August 2024 and drove it back to Washington state, I had to stop at 4 boat inspection stations along the way. Even though the boat had been power washed, inspectors at two of the stations found teeny tiny mussels tucked in crevices on the hull. Fortunately, the boat went right into salt water after about a week on the hard and that should have killed the mussels. But they are no joke and western states are taking them seriously.

It’s time for Senate Democrats to end the filibuster and transform American politics.

@todd

If the House impeaches Hegseth, removing him from office would require a two-thirds vote in the Senate — a high bar, even when Democrats take control of the chamber in January. https://theintercept.com/2026/11/09/impeachment-vote-looms-hegseth/

I took this on my walk. Hearing the crunch under my feet made me think "all this crunchy texture" so I submit to you my early submission for #TextureTuesday.

Nothing inevitable about Schumer winning Majority Leader

As pointed out by Will Bunch (Philadephia Inquirer) and Ezra Levin (Indivisible), the attempt by Chuck Schumer and 'savy' media like the New York Times to convince you Schumer is the inevitable next Majority Leader is an influence operation, not fact.

In fact, HE DOES NOT HAVE THE VOTES yet, as this ongoing and updated whip count analysis shows. In fact, Schumer has many more opposed than supporters...

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117587510921203471

$CRAB (Crabs LLC) -1.79 5.24 #TrendingNow #DayTrading #BTSE

Be helpful if you can.
Be a problem if you have to.
Be as dark as you wish.
Be the reason your town is considered haunted.
But most of all, be kind and stay weird.

Does anyone know anyone who is currently diagnosed with #Alzheimers and is on the younger side? I wanted to ask a few questions. Boosts really appreciated. #askfedi

There is a Charlie Brown tree on campus
#UCSB

A 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid just turned up carrying the complete genetic alphabet.

Scientists found all 5 building blocks of DNA and RNA in samples from asteroid Ryugu: adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine and uracil. Every one that life relies on.

Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft scooped that material off Ryugu’s surface and carried it back to Earth.

Here’s why that matters. These are the molecules that store and copy genetic information, and they were sitting in space rock long before anything on our planet was alive.

So maybe Earth didn’t have to invent life’s ingredients from scratch.

Maybe they got delivered.