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SNL should do a sketch where Kenan Thompson explains the Department of Homeland Security’s social media content to Andrew Daly as Benjamin Franklin from The Office

Explaining the Department of Homeland Security:

“So there’s a mythical place called hyperborea”

Nicotine subsumes basically all my other compulsive behaviors in one neat little addiction and as a bonus makes my brain function. Always a bummer when I’m reminded of this.

I photographed #NoKings today in Vancouver, WA. This was a particularly fun one. Current events may be dire, but you would’t know it from the joyful thousands in the streets. This feels like something different.

Full photo set here.

A person in an inflatable raccoon suit stands by a tree talking on the phone through the fabric A group of protesters with a person in an inflatable dragon costume in the foreground A smiling person inside an inflatable costume. Behind them a sign reads 'RIBBIT. RESIST. REPEAT. NO HOPE WITHOUT HOPE' with a frog illustration A motion blur flash photo of a tree with protesters in the background, and a sign that reads “UNTRUMP THE WORLD”

My $2,200 TV just interrupted my movie to make me accept some new terms of service. Wtf are we even doing.

Naturally I couldn’t find the remote.

Watching the Addams Family and after the scene where Wednesday fires a crossbow at Pugsley while he holds an apple in his mouth, I’m like “never do that kids” — to which my youngest (7, the Pugsley of the two) exclaims, “we don’t have a crossbow!”

I’ve been using Zen Browser today, and it’s very nice so far. It seems to have most of the features I was missing from Arc, without the junk that I don’t miss (AI features mostly).

“So, that’s why the frogs are important”

Just here me out..

Basically the frogs stand between America and the Insurrection Act.

In case y’all were wondering, Portland has always been this way. Here’s a pic I took in 2021.

Two people dressed in inflatable unicorn costumes holding signs that read “no love 4 nazis”

This was a particularly violent day in which the Proud Boys hosted a rally, originally scheduled for the waterfront but then moved to northeast Portland. Someone ended up shooting at antifascist counter-demonstrators downtown, and PB attacked people and destroyed several vehicles in a brawl.

This after the current president had told PB to “stand by”, and five years later pardoned many of them. Now the same president calls Portland “war ravaged”. It makes you wonder who created that impression in the first place.

gem.coop governance

Gem.coop’s governance was initially guided by Mike McQuaid.

Gem.coop’s Project Leader is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s Project Leadership Committee is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s Technical Steering Committee is not yet elected.

Gem.coop’s maintainers are not yet appointed.”

Truth be told I love that we got an anti-ICE inflatable frog this year and not the pepe-themed proud boy we had in 2020.

Managed to squeeze the full moon and Mount Hood into the same shot.

A twilight landscape at dusk with a full moon hanging in the pale blue sky above. Dark silhouettes of evergreen trees line the left side, while a snow-capped mountain peak rises on the right horizon. The sky transitions from soft blue to warm peach and orange tones near the horizon, with layers of distant mountain ridges visible in the middle distance. An open meadow stretches across the foreground.

Enhance

A snow-capped mountain peak illuminated by soft pink alpenglow stands centered against a pastel twilight sky. The sky transitions from cool gray-blue at the top to delicate rose and pink tones at the horizon. Multiple layers of dark blue mountain ridges recede into the distance, with a silhouetted treeline of evergreen conifers spanning the lower third of the frame. An open meadow stretches across the foreground in shadow, completing this serene blue hour landscape.<200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b><200b>

Re: bluesky, is it too much to ask to just not fuck up my fav and tbh probably last social networking site

Ruby is kind, and so we are kind.

Sam Livingston-Gray:

“MINASWAN” (Matz is nice and so we are nice) was never enough.

“Nice” isn’t enough, because “nice” is too easy to fake.

Be kind.

Ruby is kind, and so we are kind. #RIKASWAK

Zed is so nice. So many nice details. Like their native vim mode not only works great, but it works anywhere there’s a multiline text input.

All the Rails folks and Rails-adjacent folks who defend and enable him and pile on his critics, many of you who I know personally, what the hell is wrong with you?

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought

For those of you who aren’t sure why folks are so upset about DHH lately, this is a good short summary. It doesn’t even go into the many similar examples from the past 5 years.

It is not “woke” to say this is wrong.

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought

For those of you who aren’t sure why folks are so upset about DHH lately, this is a good short summary. It doesn’t even go into the many similar examples from the past 5 years.

It is not “woke” to say this is wrong.

What if all Portland photographers just took pictures of the residents enjoying their vibrant city as federal agents and the US military occupy it for no reason. Flood the zone with joy.

They probably renamed it to the department of war just so he could say he’s directing the secretary of war to invade Portland. Secretary of defense doesn’t have the same ring.

It’s extremely great that half the tech bros I know are more concerned about codes of conduct than American autocracy.

I was going to go to brunch today but the president is directing the US “secretary of war” to “deploy the troops” and authorizing “full force” in my US city. (source)

I was going to go to brunch today but the president is directing the US “secretary of war” to “deploy the troops” and authorizing “full force” in my US city.

Fascists would never issue a memorandum targeting the broad political enemies of fascists. That would be so unlike them.

Jeff Sharlet was saying earlier:

People use fascism loosely to speak of that which they dislike, but the term has a meaning. Most reductively: cult of personality; nationalism; eroticized violence, internal enemies, purity myths, politicized gender.

In happy Ruby news, I am so excited for XO Ruby in Portland on October 11. Look at that lineup, it’s like a Ruby reunion. (But don’t be intimated if you’re new, we’re friendly!)

And there are still tickets available. 👀

I was in the room with Mike Perham when we confronted Ruby Central’s executive leadership over their decision to invite DHH to RailsConf (which sponsors were not made aware of ahead of time). They knew that multiple sponsors had a problem with the continued relationship.

My apocalypse playlist

“Does anyone have a good playlist for the Rapture?”

Funny you should ask. This is a work in progress. I don’t use Spotify anymore, need to migrate this to Apple Music.

The Ruby community has a DHH problem

“If you are trans, a migrant, black, overweight, childless, have ADHD, then in DHH’s view you are somehow inferior. Instead of raising up and supporting the marginalised and vulnerable, DHH choses to exclude and punch down. This is not something the Ruby community can continue to simply ignore.” 🎯

Chris Tomlin and Phil Wickham leading worship for the Kirk memorial is insane. Not sure what to say. Fun fact, I briefly toured with Phil when we were kids in high school. How sad.

I’ve barely looked at the images on my camera this year, much less edited them. Here are a few I liked from UFO Fest in May.

A black and white photo of a group of people at a street festival, many wearing tinfoil hats. A high-contrast black and white photo of a street festival with caution tape in the foreground and the silhouette of two people sitting on the curb next to a tree. Four figures dressed as large hammers retreat ln the street in the distance.

I really don’t like this world where anyone can slurp up everything you’ve ever said or written online and write an email as if they know you. Familiarity was already the critical vulnerability in humans. :|