volt4ire 🌹 @volt4ire@mastodon.social

(well except for modern and Pixel)

I don't like any of these words

I appreciate the fact that Bernie's pride merchandise uses the POC-inclusive brown and black striped rainbow https://store.berniesanders.com/collections/pride (see https://www.cnn.com/2017/06/13/health/new-pride-flag-colors-trnd/index.html)

It says a lot about MSNBC's (lack of) progressive bona fides that Biden is disproportionately more popular among its viewers than Bernie https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Political-Intelligence-5.13.19.pdf

My favorite part about the whole Krassenstein brothers saga is that they spent thousands of dollars on bots and fake followers and yet barely managed to surpass a 1:1 follower to following ratio https://web.archive.org/web/20190522050734/https://twitter.com/krassenstein

Bye Theresa

"We are alarmed at the advent of proprietary network services as a proposed solution" to FOSS sustainability – @conservancy on GitHub's new "Sponsors" initiative https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/may/23/github-sponsors/

I'm not surprised that the guy who unironically wrote the line "first they came for the slavers" endorsed the candidate who bragged about his home state being a member of the Confederacy https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/442280-george-rr-martin-backs-bidens-candidacy

The three genders

Jeff Beelzebos

Another year, another 13″ MacBook Pro revision without an option for a dedicated graphics card or more than 16GB of RAM

It sounds like Jared's "Middle East peace plan" is just going to turn out to be a Trump hotel in Ramallah https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/19/trump-middle-east-peace-plan-1332981

"An annual growth rate of 3.5% would use up an eighth of the solar system's realistic resources in 400 years" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/may/12/protect-solar-system-space-mining-gold-rush-say-scientists

And he probably created the White Walkers as a false flag to get the Night's Watch and Northmen to forge a personal army just like Palpatine did with the separatists and clones

I feel like this is Benioff and Weiss breaking the fourth wall but 10 years is a wildly unrealistic timeline for GRRM to finish publishing the series

I was hoping for anarcho-communism under the Brotherhood Without Banners but that was laughed off and we ended up with God Emperor of Westeros

I'm really looking forward to the next season of Westworld https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gq8ae9/welcome-to-americana-brazil-0000580-v22n2

The one piece of good news out of Australia today: Tony Abbott lost his seat https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-18/ex-australia-pm-abbott-set-to-lose-seat-in-unprecedented-loss

You say he was a sitting [milkshake] duck
(I'll see myself out) https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/18/police-ask-mcdonalds-to-halt-milkshake-sales-during-farage-rally

OH: "The Clone Wars was the Phantom Menace of Star Wars prequels"