Blaise Thompson @untzag@mastodon.social

Wanna have a bit of fun watching people get all confused while revealing society's inherent patriarchal bias?

Refer to your sewing machine as a 'power tool.'

I'm doing a gritty reboot of breakfast.
...
I'm having grits for breakfast.

@pbandkate

[ looks at kitchen waste basket ] hmm does not spark joy. guess i'll leave my trash in a pile from now on

Constantly finding myself viewing myself in metrics of capitalism, especially when it comes to relationships. Will legitimately describe myself as "high risk low reward" or "not worth the investment" or "having no value" in my head

folks, computer programming. what a concept

cities should operate their own public mapping and transit timing programs so that people can get directions without getting spied on by google

A while back I built a site that converts RSS feeds to ActivityPub actors that you can subscribe to from Mastodon and other ActivityPub-compliant social networks: https://bots.tinysubversions.com/convert/

I've now also published the source code: https://github.com/dariusk/activtypub-to-rss

Python is the new FORTRAN
Java is the new COBOL
Javascript is the new BASIC

C is the new soldering iron

Public Domain Day Is Finally Here!.

Copyrighted Works Have Entered the Public Domain Today for the First Time in 21 Years: http://www.openculture.com/?p=1059485 https://t.co/DDetCRTt78

me literally every fucking time i use the healing selection tool

new year who dis

Happy GNU Year everybody!

#Mozilla, please don't do this. We don't want this. It might not be an "ad" but it makes you look bad nonetheless. Especially now given that #Firefox is the only non-Chromium browser out there, you need not alienate your user base.

Here's hoping this gets boosted enough. 😞

https://venturebeat.com/2018/12/31/mozilla-ad-on-firefoxs-new-tab-page-was-just-another-experiment/

So the thing I WANT to draw are a couple of really bitter comics about kid's story tropes. My hand is too cramped to actually draw it so it's just the framework

Let the Fountain Pens Flow
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/26/style/fountain-pens.html

(submitted by CaliforniaKarl)

The key to getting in shape faster is joining a gym you can't exit.
#NewYear #Resolutions

so excited, fiance and i are adopting a cat sometime in the next few days. we're gonna be catdads

Honestly, like 90% of "should we treat robots like people?" sci-fi narratives are almost inexcusably lazy, because they're willfully ignoring the much more uncomfortable reality.

How can we be willing to acknowledge whether or not robots should be treated like people, without acknowledging the reality that people are already being treated like robots.