2026-09-25T16:29:04Z https://njump.me Legit_Spaghetti https://njump.me/npub1kvd2pwxp88v4ape2qj07mzum0f9xvqe5lrkhddjxncw50ny9573qrtpsl0 https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/accounts/avatars/109/621/520/891/552/950/original/fb76f980304fc2d9.jpg https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/accounts/avatars/109/621/520/891/552/950/original/fb76f980304fc2d9.jpg https://njump.me/nevent1qqstdv658l9hsxnrnckthxjr0qjz884vm58kjsp08p494rrpxass27szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y7f60h7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0c9nqf8rnfng9tzhyvkf5duzawjfs77345gwle5s62689ksppdcv9scrv'>nevent1q…scrv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like &#34;swarm.&#34; Has the right connotation, like an insect infestation.<br/><br/>&#34;Satellite swarm&#34; has a nice alliteration, and it&#39;s kinda fun to say.<br/><br/>Though I wonder if there&#39;s a way to emphasize the point that these are all *temporary* satellites and that their ultimate fate will be as heavy metal pollutants smeared across the sky after they combust during reentry. 2026-08-02T20:45:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswtl4kjeytxjmgf5k4v0px9hsrzgqaxgewe63exka40r407w02wfqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y56xdh3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg9gp8grwjy34wrmvc4tfup0ygr5hc7xxxkyp8d7lxtju45ydekdggy3tx9'>nevent1q…3tx9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I wonder if maybe from a strategic perspective, the most effective talking point isn&#39;t the scientifically accurate &#34;We don&#39;t have sufficient data about what will happen&#34; but the media-friendly &#34;The pollution from all those artificial chemicals in the air is causing permanent damage to the atmosphere, and we can&#39;t even begin to calculate the full scale of the devastation.&#34; Technically correct while still using simple scare words. 2026-05-04T04:02:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrctr3m9pzecpnvat5rayet5u7xdlyyg46flg3j8w7dq8c7vt2dvszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ydvqlku In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8xkxglcl3exddqvknfp2v3ts8vldxvzm942hmz548kwm4gf6e00sjr5qkm'>nevent1q…5qkm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;ve translated different RPG systems to different VTT environments. It works, but it never feels *natural,* because these systems were originally designed for table play, not virtual play.<br/><br/>So I&#39;m thinking about this in terms of a system that exists first and foremost as something that plays extremely well on the VTT, *and* can also be played at a table with pen and paper.<br/><br/>It&#39;s an interesting design challenge, and as far as I&#39;m aware, no one has tried anything like this before. Could be fun! 2026-03-28T04:54:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszuptyanyuu86v2mfvwxhhkvfkayn9edn7tk6e0cprhwh0l6jxj6czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yj9552e <a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ambition">https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ambition</a><br/><br/>#Comics<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/116/205/932/249/768/535/original/cd0749cdbab62849.png"> <br/> 2026-03-10T16:59:33Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs90c3mjvcmfu92j8cvhg0n9cmu35d0fqwczw4yeef5rc7jutw79kszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y06fef9 Fediverse, help me test a preconceived notion I have about y&#39;all with a quick #poll.<br/><br/>The most important part of cooking is... 2026-03-02T05:50:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy7mm48v5y98myv45uhqyz9kcexwdeclfzzhufr987gj07nv240zqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yjldwzh There are many different types of programmers and software engineers, and they all sit on various points along a number of axes. One such axis concerns name length for variables and constants.<br/><br/>One one end of that axis, you&#39;ll find things like &#34;int torps;&#34; on the other end, you&#39;ll find things like &#34;uint NumberOfCurrentlyActiveTorpedoes&#34;<br/><br/>Personally, I like long and descriptive names, but experience shows I&#39;m in a small minority. 2026-01-03T04:57:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsflyzlwkmzhcv7z7gvjyz57n8ysu5w9j49uuf3pw3n9thz0mmxjhgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ysjhr6d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd95q6u9y5s53xkacgs6fsczx6d5clg90yh7hldzk4p3q3ytnk0zq9u98qg'>nevent1q…98qg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The other day, I was talking to a friend about how our world is an unsettling blend of *Fahrenheit 451, Brave New World,* and *Nineteen Eighty-Four.* I can&#39;t believe I have to now add *The Hunger Games* to the lineup. The fucking Hunger Games!<br/><br/>Well, at least we&#39;re still a long ways away from *The Night Land.* 2025-12-24T05:08:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0fhgw2eu7ygh77fnudmlpcl5axxtd0uah5z0af0n7k7rw4rpn3kgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y3wl8e5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswsysc6uzdn5plsf8dmrlp2cfngs2ml2x63dcrmvshpkx88s4s36qzu8lp9'>nevent1q…8lp9</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Justice for John Mastodon! 2025-12-16T14:50:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcgcd8z3ucrzhrerc6cf02p2dtcl7ys48r3w44yku66xfexx0f3qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ync69jj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrefvn32qq9qgwfmcd7ukx5du8klvu95d0ac2vkpvcvn9nhwtn9pghl3fqq'>nevent1q…3fqq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>We tell our kids that &#34;Santa&#34; is the spirit of kindness and generosity that lives in all of us, and we all have the capacity to be someone&#39;s Santa. So in that sense Santa is real, but his marketing is just a bit over the top. 2025-12-09T17:52:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswfc9n2rwrnuelvfm3qgc9tr8uxfws66yaedp62mkt2muhjtwwpuczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2ylee4 On February 4, 1912, inventor Franz Reichelt leapt from the Eiffel Tower, wearing a parachute of his own design which he (incorrectly) believed would allow him to land safely. Instead, his parachute almost immediately wrapped itself around him as he plummeted. His body struck the frozen ground at full speed, killing him instantly.<br/><br/>This tale about a delusional man confidently trusting in faulty technology with disastrous results is about company leadership trying to replace workers with LLMs.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/662/708/029/551/566/original/ae3d2f9de4840ab1.jpg"> <br/> 2025-12-04T18:28:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvdcj435zkn3rgp70nfxz8xrsjg8kas9yev67jrmha7y6uvun3weszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4qzcvn I don&#39;t want a lot for Christmas<br/>There is just one thing I need<br/>I don&#39;t care about the presents underneath the Christmas tree<br/>I just want this for my own<br/>More than you could ever know<br/>Make my wish come true<br/>All I want for Christmas is the full, unredacted Epstein files<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/642/308/694/657/336/original/6ed10bb6b0d3f504.jpg"> <br/> 2025-12-01T04:01:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf578knv705v6mwa3drsphusvs79rmfpvj5e35n7w5z3x8pgj5qnqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yc857f0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9t46awtfzuh0m4c8knsrcuqh8cuss44zw6jf43qnxfy7fsk83ljclu626n'>nevent1q…626n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Alright, I&#39;m gonna need to know what game this is! 2025-11-27T19:53:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfdkylnsjqfwxaprnq2jumr2dk8hzegtf3574gxv9zuf3n2yl3s5szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y6a67fk There&#39;s this person whose posts the LinkedIn algorithm keeps showing me, and all his stuff is about &#34;bad game programming/good game programming,&#34; and all his &#34;good&#34; code is objectively terrible. I don&#39;t have an IT degree (dropped out before I could finish) and even I know that stuff is jank.<br/><br/>But ohhh boy, the software engineers are NOT kind to this fellow.<br/><br/>I can&#39;t figure out why LI keeps showing me this stuff, other than perhaps to make me feel more confident about my own code? 2025-11-24T03:51:18Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst6yuxrg232d2j0ynr83mrw5zulmcl35dunyezeyqvscwdlqh6rmgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2lnac9 I love it when the dog is dreaming and her legs are going like she&#39;s running. It&#39;s both wild and wonderful that animals dream. What a shame it&#39;d be if our kind were the only ones who did.<br/><br/>Sweet dreams, little one.<br/><br/>#DogsOfMastodon<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/572/255/861/269/382/original/d5eafa3eb6e17d44.jpg"> <br/> 2025-11-18T19:07:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2fsxz2c6ukeazht99jug62c2hyyut3ntlnsf3cqjgcv7dn0evr7czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y7xwjf4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvd77gdf9vhj09ntnsyg77tagk53kf89u33zst92wx0lglumtzxuqh0samq'>nevent1q…samq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You really gotta wonder about the internal configuration of someone who keeps engaging in affairs with gross, old, married, republican politicians, and then pretends to be an impartial reporter.<br/><br/>Fucking ew. 2025-11-18T17:26:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvmckscyznxp6vzsr3w6ehf370hqp5nauj0pk75hysqpwsh82dxfqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yhv7gpd There&#39;s this sinking feeling that between the Panama Papers and the Epstein Files, such a large part of the monied élite is embroiled in monstrously evil shit that a complete and utter rejection of the entire fucking apparatus of power is the only sane response. It all makes a pretty god damn convincing point in favor of taxing wealth above a certain threshold at 100%. 2025-11-17T05:13:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9cumcmz4z3jyq59g8gs7fc5eq0vllteezh74x72vpu9hre6nlgdszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2mp5as In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf9rulse82nklg9usdrugz4gkmzfnx3jgjdyhf9rmydqcl4ssdpqql8zujg'>nevent1q…zujg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>From what my coworkers who survived the layoff that got me are telling me, A.I. ain&#39;t replacing shit, management just asks the remaining people to do more.<br/><br/>The layoffs are driven by A.I., just not in the way it&#39;s presented. The chips are expensive, so people are getting laid off so the company can buy more chips. <br/><br/>We&#39;re headed into the dumbest crash imaginable. 2025-11-09T15:13:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8lce2qw2xr7dsj203raaf7w3tajneqhvtwh6jv9wll7q5lap9vkczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ycr02nd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstppe2ch9fy0rympyasmg0ulhm06zs5cmcfvqml089q9s7h8u3pec3l2l72'>nevent1q…2l72</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>God, if there were a fediverse alternative to LinkedIn, I would switch in a heartbeat.<br/><br/>Huh.<br/><br/>Now THERE&#39;S an idea... 2025-11-06T06:57:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs232k0z2cu5l87h202atcx3w5ufkg6grd2ncfgmgzv9mdmeahj7pczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ykfk4nx &#34;Our numbers stink like donkey piss. We need to do layoffs.&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;Because we sunk all that money into A.I. and it&#39;s turning out to be just an overblown fad that&#39;s never going to be profitable?&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;I see you&#39;ve read my secret internal memo.&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;But if we come out and say that our whole A.I. strategy is built on sand, that&#39;ll tank our stock.&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;What if we say we&#39;re doing layoffs because A.I. is so great that we don&#39;t need those folks anymore?&#34;<br/><br/>&#34;Oh clever, I like it! Copilot, draft an email for me...&#34; 2025-10-28T03:46:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs98sgduhn475ej3fl3sdznhn3mlfwgg28mt3k77ktrnjwcp9w2wvszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yasglzw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst7qfgz9ljnxwf9mfxpyesyh4lvw332q8u5p70kc22qfj9et7yd3gszavpz'>nevent1q…avpz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;Nah bro, this tech is only going to get better bro, just trust me bro, everything&#39;s going to be A.I. bro, you&#39;re not gonna hafta lurn anithung brah, computors r guna mak gams fr brah&#34; 2025-10-27T17:18:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs852mjkr2sp54yvuz2l0zngj5y5v9ud8p7ytwhfjmz55dqh4qlaaczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9hd8r6 Things I don&#39;t want billionaires to own:&lt;li&gt;Newspapers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;TV networks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Websites with more that 1000 MAUs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Film studios&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Book publishers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Museums&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theme parks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Islands&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Political parties&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Airlines&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cellphone networks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Email platforms&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Game studios&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Satellite launch capability&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Radioactive materials&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;People &lt;/li&gt;<br/><br/>Things I&#39;m okay with billionaires owning:&lt;li&gt;Bicycles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Their own mistakes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Fancy clothes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lots of books&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A GeoCities page&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A little condo downtown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A pet hamster named Willie&lt;/li&gt; 2025-10-27T04:28:11Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8c6vw7dyudjlvvyhaeg4mtynudn8rdjhefcfq5g52f3p76azf7hszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9naslp Letting people contribute vibe-coded pieces to open-source projects as long as they clearly label their stuff as such is a little bit like letting people bring peanut butter and literal human feces sandwiches to the cookout as long as they clearly label their contributions.<br/><br/>Even if I stay away, your nasty-ass shit&#39;s still gonna stink up the whole god damn cookout.<br/><br/>#AI 2025-10-24T21:00:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp7pfwtjzfpq6g6ckzgesuh0fzaw4gmemmnk8jfes2ft4hv4hddfczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yqssmny Got to explain to a couple of normies how the A.I. bubble is part 2001 DotCom bubble, part 2008 Global Financial Crisis. Like in the dotcom bubble, the tech will still be around afterwards but valuation is utterly out of whack; like the 2008 crisis, there&#39;s a mountain of bad debt piling up that&#39;s going to get toxic very, very soon. 2025-10-20T03:10:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8xd2e25je6a9zkuy4j2c3wj4hz27yzh7pc0nqhd4m7sud698gxpgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yzx6yrp #3GoodThings&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hmmm...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Uh...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, shit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/li&gt; 2025-10-15T21:42:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsr5xsqh6cvklsg29hgmcqzzelv08xcr8lnp948p9cfzfyvyd39rdczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yyt9f25 There are a lot of popular themes in post-apocalyptic storytelling that you see over and over: &#34;War never changes,&#34; &#34;People are the real monsters,&#34; &#34;Man&#39;s hubris will be our undoing,&#34; &#34;Civilization is defined by people, not laws,&#34; etc.<br/><br/>I think a theme we need to explore more in times like ours is *&#34;Nobody is coming to save you.&#34;*<br/><br/>It&#39;s up to us. We can&#39;t sit and wait for a hero to swoop in and save the day. We each have a part to play, and every little thing helps.<br/><br/>All we have is each other. 2025-10-13T03:54:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszufek84wh7vve7x0xedm6eyeluxdtrhus07ng8jpcv3mpm7sfgvszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y44tjj6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp2zsf6pqcl3y049llt67v37s3wt6r5432thd00uh7sekv805txcqs3w3zs'>nevent1q…w3zs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>You have more self control than I would in that kind of situation.<br/><br/>Bon appetit! 2025-10-13T03:00:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9huw9vrzayr2mflzt8xmhf0xzw899jcv6w7m4uc7xdavszhmayfszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9pxjd0 So, uhhh, we have a dog now? She&#39;s a rescue. A schnauzer poodle mix, her fur was pretty matted and flea-bitten, so one of the first things we did was get her groomed and washed. That trim produced a pronounced mohawk, so my wife thought it might be cute to dye her mohawk pink. Turns out dyeing a dog is not trivial, so now she&#39;s got a pink mohawk and slightly pink fur overall. She doesn&#39;t seem to mind, but people (especially kids) are delighted to see this pink dog.<br/><br/>#DogsOfMastodon<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/115/347/979/560/028/461/original/96f8c7fd6121ae6a.jpg"> <br/> 2025-10-10T04:35:08Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvv2gvxg5ejag6kf3hceyle4tr2aeddymjps7w8zlnmfldddemrsczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ye25hv8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvsssjvs8k293t94zskuugvnjuwtlyy6yjpttvvrr5u05kec7g5rcw7yl78'>nevent1q…yl78</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>*reads the artist&#39;s bio*<br/><br/>Wait, hold up, you made this using only free, open-source tools?!? That&#39;s even more impressive. If you don&#39;t mind me asking, what&#39;s your preferred drawing software? I&#39;ve been using Photoshop since forever, but I&#39;ve been itching to move to something else. 2025-10-09T00:58:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvsssjvs8k293t94zskuugvnjuwtlyy6yjpttvvrr5u05kec7g5rczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yxys7mn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstq9p2lstxudk90z9fgflxpl2ndem566llukey9qru9pxq550u8ws3gljwq'>nevent1q…ljwq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Oh god this is the best thing I&#39;ve seen all year! 2025-10-08T22:25:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdn300qtf64etmvuxae852xgsdapdjkca4ecxlc2qzfjsygmny5vqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yg3vgve In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsyt5jxg5e3ywnfv2wz3lk9tx0zffpgxs57kcu49n3fwn0fqzatqjcxph22q'>nevent1q…h22q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Not pictured: The third kid, Blort, who was lucky enough to end up with fish top and horse bottom. 2025-10-08T17:20:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs253lcag9klqajal3laqjmfm3sydchcuxys388lypdmwhytgr87vczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yxd2yds If your only tool is tariffs, then every problem starts to look like *they&#39;re all laughing at you, buddy, because they know what you are, they&#39;ve always known, just like your dad could see right through you and your pathetic facade, yes the old man had your number didn&#39;t he, except you wished he&#39;d laugh, but instead he filled your heart with poison and bile, and here you are, misbegotten homunculus, and they&#39;re all laughing at you* a trade deficit, doesn&#39;t it?<br/><br/>What were we talking about again? 2025-10-01T05:20:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsda50y2ag5cmdutkreq3rxxgg0rmjcxcyt066mwyfyhe345224u3qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yye4p0u The realization that I am under no obligation to interact with assholes has saved me so much headache. 2025-09-14T17:54:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxv2rrdjpqtkcf7k6ehy7qrlqc3hkzdg2y3mslzg74q47m6et2m7czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yjzyu0m In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrhdn299lqf0zdk2yz4pujwq7368dhm6r4f6p3d7kfrd4s7s4ka3syr7dj0'>nevent1q…7dj0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>During the reign of Stalin, the Soviet leader tried several times to assassinate Yugoslavian president Tito. Fed up, Tito eventually sent a letter to Stalin, which read in part:<br/><br/>&gt; *&#34;Stop sending assassins to Belgrade. We&#39;ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle [...] If you don&#39;t stop sending killers, I&#39;ll send one to Moscow, and I won&#39;t have to send a second.&#34;*<br/><br/>No further assassins were sent.<br/><br/>That is the language Russian leaders understand. 2025-09-09T23:40:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdqx9us7qk2udqeuv4c4zley3qp0dfl949nkrpj90mv7kxth0j2zszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y338vrg That whole immigration raid in Georgia where ICE killed a multi-billion dollar project and 8,500 good jobs is like some shit straight out of Ozymandias.<br/><br/>*Nothing beside remains. Round the decay*<br/>*Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare*<br/>*The lone and level sands stretch far away.* 2025-09-09T03:52:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswapqcwc9yljpe6hsmnxtexl3y687wf4lu0ptvd9q49e97383qcrgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yqg9gsy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnt8h0mlcrj7jsgnfwvsyl4xqpa8tu8y5mfq7w752zeygwm8pv7s4gxr0y'>nevent1q…xr0y</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Like, the people who voted for trump obviously want to burn this place to the ground, hoping that from the ashes they&#39;ll build a new nation, with people like them at the top.<br/><br/>But the people who threw away their votes on a third party or by staying home also seem to want the system to end rather than get marginally better each election.<br/><br/>And history has shown that great resets never end up like those people think they will. It&#39;s always mass death and pointless suffering. 2025-09-08T03:50:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswnt8h0mlcrj7jsgnfwvsyl4xqpa8tu8y5mfq7w752zeygwm8pv7szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4hgvw7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs262uz3xjt77fm78u76qpz4j2gaf629u0mt45lq4ckf2qxmstt7pc4z2e8w'>nevent1q…2e8w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I was listening to a podcast about Pol Pot, and something occurred to me.<br/><br/>A key part of the atrocities carried out by the Khmer Rouge was the idea that they needed a big reset to bring about their utopia. They wanted what they believed was best for everyone, and to get there required destroying all that had come before.<br/><br/>Which in practice meant killing A LOT of people.<br/><br/>I see similar ideas for a great reset in America. And that scares me. 2025-09-08T03:47:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstr9yrn5hj6qsyfjgqx4kkze8kgfyz4smd2zvhsl2vqsvy0kkhavczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yzkmaly When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that&#39;s amore<br/><br/>When a fish bites your thigh so hard you fear you&#39;ll die, that&#39;s a moray<br/><br/>When you think you might try something different this time, that&#39;s a foray<br/><br/>When a passage is wide with a slab made of pine, that&#39;s a doorway<br/><br/>When an elk in the wild flips your car on its side, you&#39;re in Norway 2025-09-05T05:28:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfngvlshw5dys73z56ecjku8qwuyvgw86ac95w5cc9hhvsv7yqr6czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yuq5j4a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxk4fhtdezsd7zkqmgdcxfxhyeu3smd8zhhpuc8y42fv6dmnlxa2cdpdkj4'>nevent1q…dkj4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>With uBlock Origin on desktop, I can create a custom filter that nukes the Shorts carousel.<br/><br/>From orbit.<br/><br/>It&#39;s the only way to be sure. 2025-08-30T22:44:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq57f4qwgujwrag435yyj0g9hftnlqv3hg6yf9cftcumcflmpktzqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yr2fywh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0w2g5hznw8ay47gmhzsrgkpwm6e6qn8dgv92yet09v6f55fqm63cdpe64z'>nevent1q…e64z</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That&#39;s the quiddest pro quo I&#39;ve ever seen. 2025-08-22T20:41:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfdpvd6e24zfe9haxd3jvv25pf43t5t0cm5edpz4ewvyw5q33vc4gzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yehwkf6 Listen, I&#39;m not some super smart foreign policy wonk or whatever, but I think that the most important thing about the Alaska summit between Putin and the other guy is that we really need to see the Epstein files. 2025-08-16T03:45:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdv4d3q6av8cua9fr62n7eg6qt7r62t8zldq6n44txn7x7czw8asczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ym9navv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswx8hmw08vrqyg8t8ft4m522553kyfyhdwlfvvryrcnre6q062n7szpgt8r'>nevent1q…gt8r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There&#39;s a quote from M.A.S.H. that I like.<br/><br/>War is war and hell is hell, and between the two, war is worse. There are no innocent bystanders in hell. War is full of them. 2025-08-09T05:15:59Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp6lgvmnd96h68vsmyfk3tsw84dacwj635p98fvtv0fag9djzcgzqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ypfsk6w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zh72fhavc7nrq9hazs2f7nr5k0d3jf2hf2x0s4djt29sy2ys5eq036t88'>nevent1q…6t88</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I mean, look at this thing. This is what the internet used to look like.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/979/835/727/755/911/original/a6c3075ef2c58595.png"> <br/> 2025-08-06T04:05:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9zh72fhavc7nrq9hazs2f7nr5k0d3jf2hf2x0s4djt29sy2ys5eqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4mwq9f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfd0r0dzuqkm73zq8jy4v7xj0wzrtu6720s0sp346ra3ev76jzf4c2phtu7'>nevent1q…htu7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I miss the old World of Warcraft website from around 2006-2007. We had a lot of fun working on that one. It was a nightmare and a half to maintain, but it sure looked epic.<br/><br/>Lemme see if the Archive will serve up a screenshot. 2025-08-06T04:01:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstskt8me2lvv0th0dh50g0r2rept3tkeetmvttly08zkfnserxu6czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ycwm60p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdr8utyngmg8vf3q75vy7llm9m3r62cnvut0xhz0vdft7cwf5tvhqy5ggyy'>nevent1q…ggyy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; We are coming for you<br/><br/>As soon as we finish updating this firmware. And then install those server patches. And resolve those merge conflicts. And troubleshoot these new error messages. But as soon as we&#39;re done with that, ya better watch out, world! 2025-07-27T22:37:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszvnwzpgjfry5364480tyvavqfdf98v2mefcrm6pqwzk6yalw480szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yy6c2dw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8vsw7zjglx2z3x20fhzv6qmp9rwg4h3meyd9ufay7j80uskahd2s8mf6jp'>nevent1q…f6jp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>He can come join us here on the Fediverse. I get the sense he&#39;d be welcomed with open arms. 2025-07-22T04:07:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdjerjl247hea3cnc47cf8tlwakxpzee60c7l24nedwmlnf2vvzqszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yh6q2qd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqtsvthz7ce4dg0rllks6gnh92scljle4unqjxjc3dgp7e0scutdq8awg5t'>nevent1q…wg5t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The people who filmed The Apprentice have footage of the guy saying truly, genuinely heinous shit that would make him persona non grata even among his conservative enablers. THAT&#39;S the footage I want to see unearthed.<br/><br/>Still, every little bit helps. 2025-07-18T22:07:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2rcdwx3nyuuuffm8s94lsthuk7e5k25kmrk3vq9e6n3qxj9nppyszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yj7l34h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrfh2qfc4cuat0qp28jyljyd6qs5vml06d4t5kpm8448lrwn8qv6g2252yg'>nevent1q…52yg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Mamdani really is the best example of what happens when voting doesn&#39;t suck and people actually show up and vote. This is what everyone who feels marginalized and left behind should look at and think, &#34;Huh, maybe my vote DOES matter.&#34;<br/><br/>Biden won by 50,000 votes. The hamberder guy won in &#39;24 by less than 150,000 votes. Literally every vote matters. 2025-07-13T22:53:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqwklvtfcge7p3t0js9670scsq7zup6tn9vf858ngt0xxgldr3avszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ycxflmv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp7u6a4hzzv5ety2me7hy78qaqnmg50z57jj74pg6j8r8daznhmgcva998g'>nevent1q…998g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think it was <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1xw72jymypjdstdz82h6srlmtdv9u5xg70nn3xaazlkel8dsc7ljqger9m5" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce)</span> (<span class="italic">npub1xw7…r9m5</span>)</a></span> who made a pretty good point recently about Democrats and messaging: Democrats focus their messaging on people who actually turn out to vote.<br/><br/>So when you focus on reaching the people who do show up at the polls, that&#39;s gonna skew how you message. If conservative voters show up and liberal voters stay home, then Democrats adjust their messaging to swing more conservative.<br/><br/>I don&#39;t AGREE with that strategy, but I understand it. 2025-07-13T22:31:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgpexl7vme20hdc037fq9cqx4cmeljmnnqln0dw7zw8t4napz9rjqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yyhd09s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8djvna9kgal4qx2xkgu2r6975zw7pumgtn8flnpkrtdhurddwsfq68js5g'>nevent1q…js5g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; China wouldn&#39;t intentionally destroy its agriculture sector<br/><br/>Well, today you&#39;re gonna learn something new!<br/><br/><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine</a> 2025-07-12T15:07:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf98xxa55w88f47c4k43vj4fv7ahugx57u032v4eh77lzgn4fn8kqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yf8494x Welp, after 21 years with Blizzard Entertainment, I was laid off today. What an incredible journey. I got to be part of challenging, exciting projects, and I played a part in shaping the company&#39;s voice for over two decades.<br/><br/>One thing you learn living in California is that the most intense growth usually follows after a wildfire. Some plants even require fire to release their seeds.<br/><br/>So we&#39;ll see what comes next. If you need an editor on your team, hit me up.<br/><br/>#GetFediHired 2025-07-02T17:25:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgaujk992mpcucqeu02rkdcz48p2geyqk99ctv2azwf9nre7p805qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ydedan0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9r8hammxs26dsc8p5nl09z06j05fszhpvsntmdt54w7jf5r3ah6gxt0eyq'>nevent1q…0eyq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>At this point, I only use LI as a cover in case anyone demands to see my social media accounts. It&#39;s where I post all my anodyne, inoffensive shit. 2025-06-28T17:08:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstvula5j4jv53qlzt4xmv5z88vs3mr8sruy8pky74lxeqvv40zfzgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yj3qt9a It&#39;s 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.<br/><br/>It&#39;s 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.<br/><br/>It&#39;s 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/724/351/125/667/689/original/f0e2d799577256e0.jpg"> <br/> 2025-06-22T01:16:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9zw0fwmqv8jzmmftlp09xk7ymcf3w20rlqrcq4utpzdfq4t3jxqqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ymqnecm The shitgibbon in chief looked super tired during his failparade yesterday. That fucker kept nodding off. If they can&#39;t keep him perky even when all the cameras are on him, I assume he&#39;s basically a cantankerous zombie when the cameras are off. Caught in a state of permanent rage, confusion, exhaustion, fear, and disgust.<br/><br/>GOOD.<br/><br/>I&#39;d say he can rot in hell, but it appears as though he&#39;s already there. 2025-06-15T13:27:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswj27lffh3f0xeac8jytjvezsaq8rce2aqk2yhfslnjfvslztlv9qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yp4vsa6 Just watch, soon as the trump wealth transfer bill goes through, they&#39;ll pull out of L.A. and claim mission accomplished.<br/><br/>And if the bill is defeated, they&#39;ll queue up their next evil scheme. Good god I&#39;m tired. 2025-06-12T23:50:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf79ngwhlesrmx6awzedfj4ux7zhv367stdkxe3kq05q7h9zlf6mqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4ymvy2 Back in &#39;21, after we had the vaccine, there was a subreddit with a very simple premise: find social media posts of people who were anti-mask, anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown, then find the social media posts from when those exact same people caught COVID and died.<br/><br/>Even as they were dying, most of those people couldn&#39;t admit where they&#39;d gone wrong. Even death wasn&#39;t enough to open their eyes.<br/><br/>In case you were wondering if we&#39;ll ever be able to reach some of the people who got us into this shit. 2025-06-12T05:46:36Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs277lvpfakftyfent242eg7qxcaeg0acnsy673g4qrclrmrpmpqxszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2wzzfp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0s6yg6px09r2lry9sshhp2au45k4h2teq8fx9h6q54gp3gyc3f9szls0eg'>nevent1q…s0eg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m ALSO not suggesting that if you&#39;re a national guardsman driving one of those trucks, maybe you get turned around and take the wrong exit. Happens all the time. We got a really confusing road network. 2025-06-08T01:12:41Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0s6yg6px09r2lry9sshhp2au45k4h2teq8fx9h6q54gp3gyc3f9szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yga5ugg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0f34nv7fwmuksatfeegl6064rmugp3p26s0pt34usw5v5c8q637gmautpe'>nevent1q…utpe</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>No I&#39;m not saying &#34;rioters&#34; should block major freeways in the area. That&#39;s definitely not what I&#39;m saying. Whatever would give you that idea? 2025-06-08T01:09:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0f34nv7fwmuksatfeegl6064rmugp3p26s0pt34usw5v5c8q637gzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ypslsf4 So they&#39;re sending in 2,000 national guard to L.A. to deal with the &#34;riots?” <br/><br/>Be funny if they got stuck in L.A. traffic and didn&#39;t get there until the party&#39;s already over. 2025-06-08T01:07:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvcpx5ga4qu98and6qjgsr64s9a7g60chvya4ddrqmhrs36g4v7hszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ynuhjqu If you ever find yourself in a meeting where people are fawning over A.I. and there&#39;s a Q&amp;A section, and you have a question that you think might be a bit critical, ASK THE QUESTION.<br/><br/>Signal to others that it&#39;s not only okay but actually important to be critical of blind acceptance of these tools. There are other people in the room who are just as uncomfortable as you, I guarantee it.<br/><br/>Normalize A.I. skepticism.<br/><br/>#AI 2025-06-03T16:32:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy7nhl5vsqjugxtxckx9jahxhqfesj4f6c8umu3epeeujnhastxaszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yp4c9uf Masked &#34;law enforcement&#34; people who don&#39;t have to identify themselves are L-I-T-E-R-A-L-L-Y the secret police, aka Geheime Staatspolizei, aka GeStaPo. What the frick. That should *never* be tolerated. 2025-05-10T22:56:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9q6ctffua86hqh6thpvqx2fjykt8d0n62g2jrmxlvrvf75k3gguqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y8hr8cu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfy888e3tgqvjfdexfch5dhumxhus5pqggl3k6dm7dsln9p53pr6g05fq2w'>nevent1q…fq2w</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I took my son to the Nixon presidential library, we toured the whole place, spent ample time with the Watergate exhibit, then we read Hunter S. Thompson&#39;s obituary for Richard Nixon, which can be found in its entirety here:<br/><br/><a href="https://archive.ph/rbwXl">https://archive.ph/rbwXl</a><br/><br/>Nixon did good things. But the lesson my son learned is that people are complicated, and a few good deeds do not excuse a lifetime of being a rat fuck cheat and a crook. 2025-05-08T00:21:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvkpfw6dqeya9w638jsnscwn3g6n3xctlxwkw3tczxep5uez2v30czyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9z3amq In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf33p3gmsms7ehaq976hr278jrcq45c0lxdlqnawceyrzwq5d7pwg2hnerg'>nevent1q…nerg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Honestly, same. Comments from people on other platforms have become completely intolerable to me: bland, boring, big dumb, and benighted.<br/><br/>Mastodon is my preferred kind of unhinged. 2025-05-04T21:07:24Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxj5mclgwy44qw6uamm4s0rfrswr3ck2uvtzp2wxeegt7nxcffk2szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yxx9uhv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqye5zgawfzsl5mk09jjfpz3t9e9vq3uq0jv5c9k6p4a2rafs6x3ghgl8wf'>nevent1q…l8wf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&#34;I only use organic, small-batch apps lovingly hand-coded by my local cruelty-free software collective. They have a stand at the farmers market where they sell their apps on 3.5&#34; floppy disks. All their work is done in Assembly, so you know there&#39;s no artificial middleware bloat.&#34; 2025-05-01T16:44:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgdslfulvlk2f0c3aaswvjkad6ywtsu3dkpp3cl8hsdw9dwyyevqszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yy6wlyw Any fan of boardgames and tabletop role-playing games who voted for this bullshit or didn&#39;t vote at all should have all their games replaced by Monopoly.<br/><br/>#TTRPG #Boardgames<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/355/223/332/568/651/original/57a766cc1ceacf14.webp"> <br/> 2025-04-17T20:37:56Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxytf5kxzg6jxju3xkxgmaj0wqvea65zzare5dpnccu2xdstkvk7qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2s03su If I know anything about Russian psyops (I don&#39;t know a lot about Russian psyops) it&#39;s that in &#39;26 we&#39;ll see a lot of messaging along the lines of &#34;Democrats haven&#39;t earned my vote because they&#39;re not resisting hard enough&#34; or &#34;what&#39;s the point in voting D if they&#39;re not doing enough to stop trump&#34; or &#34;it&#39;s their fault we&#39;re in this because they ran Biden and then Harris, so I&#39;m voting third party this time.&#34; <br/><br/>It&#39;s the kind of propaganda that has just enough truth in it to be effective. 2025-04-13T13:53:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfd3x8tamuetsze7mm3t9c2wkzzpmnss8f78scjjumeuhm6022zcczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y3aft9h God, the &#39;90s were such a good time.<br/><br/>Communism was defeated and the constant threat of mutual nuclear annihilation no longer loomed on the horizon. When you did something stupid and embarrassing, there was no permanent record of it, so you could just be you without worrying about provoking the ire of perfect strangers half a world away. Air travel was breezy and awesome. The weather was way less extreme.<br/><br/>Sure, the rot had already taken hold. But for a brilliant moment, things were looking up. 2025-04-13T05:45:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszm7v7pwf3mvjjgear96nmz6r30af7qxwqm2qceppnu66nezhteuszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yue2x5s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0jexwqhujrcka6llcgpedn8dynqttpngtseq538c2s28hu6mqaks99u3y3'>nevent1q…u3y3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I smell an opportunity here... what if we do a reverse Steve Bannon and convince a generation of insufferable, disillusioned young men that they&#39;d all be getting laid if only we had open borders, free trade, equal rights, a thriving biosphere, and vibrant pro-labor institutions? 2025-04-08T19:17:32Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsxun2anc5shsyse39vjt6m29d042qeuky9va6ytkknz03fsm5qkpqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ykqcsj5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsprxs4tsjzuzuh84lzxzd9ykk09h2jg3c0amf7j896jzngl8f00egmafkjh'>nevent1q…fkjh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; how does one relax knowing what&#39;s going on?<br/><br/>I vaguely remember something about mental health statistics tanking hard during the guy&#39;s first term, and I expect similar and worse this time around.<br/><br/>I also expect people to rely more heavily on, uhhh, &#34;chemically enhanced&#34; relaxation.<br/><br/>So, you know. ThisIsFine.jpeg 2025-03-15T15:39:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst5zjtyrsw37mdal0lq75w9n2mw0x9su9cxnvcmq5sm6uw4ztyuxgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y08t7md Recording artist Azealia Banks, who has close ties to the Tesla billionaire&#39;s former partner Grimes, confirms that he had a botched penis implant surgery that left him impotent.<br/><br/>The world makes sense again.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/114/116/120/931/473/187/original/c4e11a1ce6784e7a.png"> <br/> 2025-03-06T15:13:39Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2qzu5h5ekp4dfw7wnpwxmtp8td2vspw4cdkxhfegvfxvqrv89qrszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ysqhdm5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspxpsduf55q39pllujad4d256kvz6aajhy6fshuhqvv5tfe4kpfeq2s0gv6'>nevent1q…0gv6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Carville suggested Democrats should &#34;play dead.&#34; Which is TERRIBLE advice. But damn if it doesn&#39;t look like that&#39;s exactly what Democrats are doing.<br/><br/>We&#39;re so cooked. 2025-03-01T15:52:13Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstrpelgkr3ent7t64hdvcunuzfk42dg3xqmqcef7f7e5lg2artqsqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ys4zd74 The existence of the succubus implies the existence of the succutram, succutrain, and other forms of succublic transportation. 2025-02-26T01:59:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8akjaerh3sdyl7uuz76csccf5lf3vl5zvgpsts59upmgpwuypzrqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ykdpfyu #Avowed is good. I like it.<br/><br/>#Gaming #RPG 2025-02-14T02:50:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8n4yevklzm7kmtnxnteq96azeal93j5fher3c6gdv0cffr4fj5jczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yaetvqf &#34;You won&#39;t let us use racist slurs so we won&#39;t let you use your woke words&#34; is such kindergarten bullshit. 2025-02-10T15:05:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszdw9mpz4mkv5kx2usjcwr5afq7a4t6u5gg6tfa6q4wdnkp5mapmszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ylusylt Boy, I&#39;m sure glad they did all that &#34;trump proofing&#34; in Biden&#39;s final weeks in office, can you imagine how much it&#39;d suck if that lunatic were allowed to just run rampant and rip up our government from within, haha. 2025-02-08T15:21:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsds5f8vmmfkhgngkdnkkdeezu0wjczdnthfgqfj9yswjwnt0g2xkqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yrlaesx Good news: Fever broke, energy levels up, congestion way down.<br/><br/>Bad news: Bubbleguts. Oooohhh, I do not like the bubbleguts. 2025-02-07T21:51:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0mwkjeuwyw68yz6t9577ya52fnl2gxvfyd5kcpw99yg4eyw2m4yczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yy6uc8u trump: I DEMAND THAT YOU GIVE ME THAT COOKIE.<br/><br/>ME: No.<br/><br/>trump: GIVE ME THAT COOKIE OR I&#39;LL SHIT MY PANTS!<br/><br/>ME: Still no, but do go ahead.<br/><br/>trump: WELL CAN I AT LEAST LOOK AT IT?<br/><br/>ME: You&#39;ve been staring at it this whole time bro.<br/><br/>trump: AH HA! I GOT WHAT I WANTED! THANKS FOR CAVING, SUCKER!<br/><br/>Me: Yeah, whatever.<br/><br/>trump: ALSO I JUST SHIT MYSELF. 2025-02-04T04:26:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw5yvfun6mmp60eug6azta8tzt48am2zjz82qth5rvnusquj32dygzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4uc899 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswrtdx0vjkmret6sztmhkx84svgj5dyprch490eytp2kjz4y3l2gs44p83a'>nevent1q…p83a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; “what if the D&amp;D rulebooks fell from the sky in a fantasy world and it was considered a religion that described the world. So everybody got a “character sheet” and it was expected to reflect what you could do, but the actual world operated wholly differently?”<br/><br/>Oh my god that sounds rad. 2025-01-28T19:50:37Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqtczvqz24cyqmcdyttcwttdhygwzchvatst3ey2vd6k39aaypneszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y43fc0n Are there any tabletop RPGs where the entire world is a simulation, its denizens are aware they are simulated, and the player characters in particular are aware they&#39;re being played by actual people in the real world, and the goal is to break free? Like sometimes the character you play actively tries to resist you, the player?<br/><br/>I&#39;m tempted to go crazy with this idea if someone hasn&#39;t done so already.<br/><br/>#TTRPG 2025-01-28T18:26:28Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrwn0zzzh2qpjx634mp5j5fmvvt68089jc6pej0u667jg3qfh562qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y43wwuk In 2017, trump did an Oval Office interview with CBS Washington correspondent John Dickerson, and when pressed about some shit he said, he responded with this:<br/><br/>&gt; **TRUMP: &#34;I don&#39;t stand by anything.&#34;**<br/><br/>And I feel like, that&#39;s everything anyone needed to know about him. That&#39;s who he is. A shell. Some kind of approximation of a person, void of conviction or belief or anything that&#39;d make him genuine.<br/><br/>Nothing that followed, continues to follow, should be a surprise to anyone. 2025-01-26T18:14:14Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8syy6v4n0yptjauyjuuds2cvsurwtj6atmj8fzlatgu4hx774slgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ynr994x Just watch, there&#39;ll be a hostage release and ceasefire in Gaza, trump will take full credit, the media will play right along, and he&#39;ll FINALLY get that Nobel Peace Prize he&#39;s always wanted ever since Obama got one.<br/><br/>Don&#39;t get me wrong: I would HAPPILY trade trump getting the Nobel in exchange for an end to the suffering in the Middle East. <br/><br/>But damn. This timeline stinks. 2025-01-14T06:10:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0lcn40e0m89usfq4uc298swqvv5hrvha8y6rxwkjj63r5d3cpg2gzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yukpswy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsx506n6w5f5a6dwrhc6u7uec6h8x45k932rz445wclkan4zqqhxcced7x7g'>nevent1q…7x7g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>&gt; The reality is, if you can’t organise, win people over, and win elections in a liberal democracy with free speech, free association, and a universal franchise, you’re not suddenly going to be able to win in authoritarian herrenvolk democracy without any of those things, much less under full totalitarianism. You’ve never beaten the first level of the game on bunny mode but are convinced you’d complete the entire thing easily if the difficulty went up to nightmare plus.<br/><br/>No punches being pulled. 2024-12-26T05:18:00Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx506n6w5f5a6dwrhc6u7uec6h8x45k932rz445wclkan4zqqhxcczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yr98egg &gt; For the socialist left specifically, it’s also a morality play about society, one in which fascism isn’t a movement with ideas and goals of its own, but the punishment for neoliberalism, an inevitable and deserved consequence of it. Socialism then emerges from the ashes as our reward for having accepted our chastisement. The world doesn’t work like that.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/">https://www.liberalcurrents.com/a-disease-of-affluence/</a> 2024-12-26T05:15:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8es75ypeyemnnpqdyks2kh8x7vhqrpmevrktclmfhax7xc9c2whgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y2nahaq My daughter is getting airbrushed shoes for Christmas.<br/><br/>Now, this is my first time airbrushing shoes, and I didn&#39;t have much of a plan beyond &#34;Hey, I could airbrush these!&#34; Next time I&#39;d probably do something a bit more ambitious.<br/><br/>Still, I like how these turned out.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/113/698/843/187/276/386/original/4aa8a17393dc1b78.jpg"> <br/> 2024-12-22T22:33:09Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs25wjvqkxfgrg60fra56rg336z68vwu878h95lxfwh40em4kvtpvszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9arpy9 I&#39;ve never seen a business that was run democratically.<br/><br/>It&#39;s always a feudal system where the nobles in upper management curry favor with the monarch CEO, who in turn relies on the Clergy in the boardroom to prop up his regime. The nobles extract labor from the serfs (regular employees), sometimes granting privileges to the bourgeoisie (middle management) to keep the peasants in their place.<br/><br/>So when someone says they want a government run like a business, that&#39;s what they mean. Monarchy. 2024-12-22T17:25:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstl5xtk7nujpwge4t64efkm08l5x7ge3f6966pcej62jwgl5mwgvczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yuvj80c Our 5-year old will drink ranch dressing like it&#39;s milk and eat bananas with ketchup, but chicken nuggets are a bridge too far for her.<br/><br/>I&#39;m morbidly curious what her adult palate will look like. 2024-12-22T02:58:38Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs05e2cdj0qu6lq09ldefyltj85zm6gk33g526xjjcxgflhleeeckgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y8036f3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsplu5we7muupwvymm3xf7y3ydajnu2cs6nwt2vclc3vfett32q49cm22ujs'>nevent1q…2ujs</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The previous year starting with &#34;WTF&#34; was 2020, which...<br/><br/>...oh, crap. 2024-12-20T04:17:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdt66pah70q504ts62xsgv9x9htx74eep3rj9vgdr302swlk7fzcszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yt4shhu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvav3aq2adsr8kj6f9t5m5jnjw0xwhsr02w5vjhagp69ayzzf3j5cpy8ujd'>nevent1q…8ujd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Y&#39;know, adapting to a diet that included meat is one factor of how early humans got the extra calories that allowed them to develop those big brains, so I&#39;m looking forward to our hyper intelligent squirrel overlords. 2024-12-19T04:08:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsx5ce25w9ed743evh642lrhsympnvk24sn7yvc2wm6pf9mk2av7kgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yt3smkv In This House, We Believe <br/>Lizardfolk put chemtrails in the sky<br/>Raw milk is medicine<br/>The Earth is flat<br/>Man has never walked on the Moon<br/>Birds aren&#39;t real<br/>Neither is Bielefeld<br/>COVID came from a lab<br/>As did Mark Zuckerberg <br/>There was a second shooter on the grassy knoll <br/>Fluoridation is mind control <br/>And water has memory <br/>Chiropractors are better than doctors <br/>Secret Jewish space lasers control the weather <br/>Climate change is a Chinese hoax<br/>Astrology is science <br/>Masks don&#39;t work <br/>Vaccines cause harm 2024-12-16T15:47:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0p0cjwsmsry675pzctmdtsy3g9fjcg8mu43jfkv8mayg968s22nczyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yh7eqt3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvg92ypnv2t3yryzsw974tvs04acmw8fupwf9huxm056qrfsfrfs0e69ah'>nevent1q…69ah</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Small Domino: Ralph Nader decides to run for president against Bush, Gore<br/><br/>Large Domino: Vehicle crash reporting requirements are gutted <br/><br/>Yes, I am STILL bitter about the 2000 election. 2024-12-13T16:10:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsydmvzr7zx3fcjh2hrgzf6fup2y79qw0rvy6pvls3fpx93gg4y8lszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y9m2ywc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgcmym4737xhyyv5z0ahd2pwaulkhcz4a6rlvdd9nw2mrlu0y9e3gdrmhdp'>nevent1q…mhdp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>There are plants native to Southern California whose seeds need fire to open. Wildfire is such an integral part of the land, it&#39;s even in the DNA of the things that grow here.<br/><br/>What&#39;s not natural is our fire suppression efforts. California&#39;s original inhabitants knew how to live in harmony with the fire, mastering the art of controlled burns long, long ago.<br/><br/>We shouldn&#39;t build where things burn. We should allow smaller fires to prevent the massive conflagrations we see each year. 2024-12-09T05:19:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy8fatgkedppkzdul00tpt77rczejez9w4c6hwa8hpajfrc6cjq5szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yx7y522 Okay listen, this is important.<br/><br/>After the Soviet Union imploded, Gorbachev handed the reins of Russia over to Boris Yeltsin. The most important things you need to know about Yeltsin is that he was a dupe, a drunk, and hilariously corrupt.<br/><br/>Yeltsin oversaw the transformation of Russia into an actual oligarchy. He wasn&#39;t smart or cunning enough to install himself as the head of this new order, but his chosen successor, Putin, was.<br/><br/>What I&#39;m saying is, trump wants to be Putin, but he is Yeltsin. 2024-12-07T00:46:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv90nxrr6gpzts3kjtkypzxmsum660wutnjrycgfumzxpvxa4tdfszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yvs6ggr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxjfzvfu7kk9k99jc4574kufmctxrqgldu2t439m3nnknz8t0pl5cqpnrtk'>nevent1q…nrtk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Anytime I hear something like &#34;company reverses course after outcry,&#34; I always wonder *which* outcry specifically managed to make these Grinches hearts grow three times, allegedly. Was it the media coverage? Was it the grousing on social media? The letters from the subject matter expert organizations? <br/><br/>Because whatever works, we should do more of. 2024-12-05T22:22:50Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszde4m3caw02w2jxcnwd5rk2ts58gkrj5s9e5v8cp9ppyvxd5vmsqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yv47svd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsraswr5ea5xr644vpnpln66q2zp7v7clekkuxjgj68lkunentwh8gg7d73a'>nevent1q…d73a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Pictured: The White House 2025 Christmas dinner menu 2024-12-02T03:46:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz24j99pate0jwz6vm88aghun0j3ys44pz4fglz36m2y7slscc56qzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y4rhrl6 I am trying a new (to me) technique of gently drybrushing a mini after I&#39;ve applied paint. Started out just slapchopping everything, now I&#39;m doing a combination airbrush/hand brush/dry brush approach, looking to make my paint jobs look more interesting. Next time I&#39;ll probably dry brush gray rather than white.<br/><br/>LEFT: Before dry brush step.<br/>RIGHT: After dry brush step.<br/><br/>Please clap.<br/><br/>#MiniaturePainting #Battletech #TabletopGaming<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/113/569/297/475/100/894/original/4e8034ffd30912e8.jpg"> <br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/113/569/297/761/767/602/original/3849e6eac3f24d63.jpg"> <br/> 2024-11-30T01:29:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8wlwg628yhsravcfztrklnryzap62vw8jfep5pqh043y2cn4s26szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y08mmnr So, anytime we&#39;re on the road and we see a cybertruck (an incel camino, a deplorean, a wank panzer), I loudly yell &#34;Boo, boo, bad cybertruck, boo!&#34;<br/><br/>Today we were driving to the beach, and as we passed one of those misbegotten abominations, our 5-year old, UNPROMPTED, started yelling &#34;Boo, bad cybercar, boo!&#34;<br/><br/>Some parents beam with pride at their child&#39;s violin recital. Me, my heart soars when my kids loudly denounce fascist-coded vehicles.<br/><br/>#Parenting 2024-11-29T04:01:44Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp8ahfgydf9lzz9euhv4jx73k6ru76xzhx9xxmk6cakqmnxdylnrgzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yc2hmn2 Things I will accept as payment for work done:&lt;li&gt;US dollars&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Euros&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Stock grants, bonds&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Homemade sweet potato pie&lt;/li&gt;<br/><br/>Things I will NOT accept as payment:&lt;li&gt;Crypto &#34;currency&#34;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&#34;Exposure&#34;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sexual favors &lt;/li&gt;<br/><br/>In short, anyone who advocates for a national crypto stockpile but not a national sweet potato pie stockpile is outside of their gosh darn mind. 2024-11-28T05:53:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswj9rgeyr36krnmh44ukz0wpzpyvzgu2uey6s56wdp0f8hatfzgcszyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ysqph9h I am actually angry.<br/><br/>My mom bought my daughter a book to read at bedtime, and as I&#39;m reading it I realize the entire god damn thing is A.I. slop, front to back. The illustrations are OBVIOUSLY Midjourney, and the text is most likely ChatGPT.<br/><br/>I love children&#39;s books. Reading to my kids at bedtime is one of my favorite things. So I am exactly the kind of person who would get pissed off here.<br/><br/>My mom&#39;s always had awful taste in literature, but this is a new low.<br/><br/>#Parenting #Books #AI 2024-11-27T02:55:42Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf43jft4mvgajaj92xmfq7zk3xgtalsu5f33ufgn4q27et7qk2u0szyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6ycup3f0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8fntxuke62qdj9mj5u5n9lvf50jxg8jmc2wcvm9825eu0dqhpz2g6yez55'>nevent1q…ez55</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Y&#39;know, before everyone in America lost their god damn minds over the border, we had a steady flow back and forth where workers would show up for seasonal work, then take their earnings back home where that money would go a lot farther. Still not *great,* but so much better than the current situation where people seriously voted for a guy who promised to build an actual fucking wall.<br/><br/>Just let people work and live where they want. Restricting freedom of movement is bullshit. 2024-11-24T18:41:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs28sul79mpurp2qvpac2z3zyl64uqtkluyvspktenkm0h5yh27weqzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6y26e03l # <br/><br/>Did you think they were joking?It sounds like a lot of people in the media are JUST NOW waking up to the fact that the guy is serious about throwing millions in concentration camps, *including American citizens.* OF COURSE he&#39;s going to try to use the military to do that.<br/><br/>But first, he&#39;ll need to purge the military of anyone who won&#39;t toe the line.<br/><br/>I&#39;d say buckle up, but we&#39;re already in the ditch.<br/> <img src="https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/mastodo-neoliber-al/media_attachments/files/113/504/929/391/825/668/original/f80df3b368c42937.png"> <br/> 2024-11-18T16:39:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgp6y2g32dnhcg0q3k0asmqakvw7jvk6xlh8a0fz45lnrneql3vngzyze34g9ccyuajh589gzflmvtnday5esrxnuw6a4kg60p637vskn6yxkt8gk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwcr65c5sq3z0vpwspx9f02crfcfa0le08g6qewkjgdwmmgaja9g83ksxp'>nevent1q…ksxp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Holy shit I didn&#39;t realize your brother is in Kyiv. Hope he is safe.<br/><br/>Jesus, fuck. 2024-11-17T05:33:03Z