Flutterby™! (short)

Mx Amber Alex (she/it) @amberage@eldritch.cafe

The key words "AND MAKE IT FAST", "ABSOLUTELY NOT", and "LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE SHIT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.

Osma Suominen @osma@sigmoid.social

@amberage The key words "MUST (BUT WE KNOW YOU WON'T)", "SHOULD CONSIDER", "REALLY SHOULD NOT", "OUGHT TO", "WOULD PROBABLY", "MAY WISH TO", "COULD", "POSSIBLE", and "MIGHT" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 6919.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6919.html

Since it's December, I can note this: I don't want a lot for Christmas...

Abolish parking minimums and upzone those brownfields, let's get some shit built!

Woooh! 8 out of 10 on today's Rule34dle!

https://rule34dle.vercel.app/

Quinn Rhodes on Genderbent: Loving masculinity when men are in crisis

Figuring all of this out – slowly accepting that I do not have to feel guilty for how good it felt to be a man – was my masculinity crisis. In some ways, the wider quote-unquote “crisis of masculinity” is eerily similar.

Quinn Rhodes (he/him) @onqueerstreet@mastodon.social noted:

@girlonthenet I want to clarify that I wasn't tying to make this all about me, more to express that I get where the 'men are trash' sentiment comes from, because we let men like this define what it is to be a man, and that version of masculinity *is* trash.

noé ‪@celechii.itch.io‬

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

As I said on my re... what the fuck are they on BlueSky, skeets? ... of this thread: This entire thread is absolutely beautiful, and I'm torn between "Fuck MacOS, I don't want to put any energy into it" and "my Mac could look so much better" (even though, functionally, it so lags Linux... except for Logic Pro).

GOP lawmaker turns heads with odd fundraising pitch about furries

Rep. Tom Barrett (R-MI) sent out a bizarre fundraising call to action for his supporters on Friday, headlined, "the furries are coming for me."

"I'd heard of furries, but to be honest, I didn't think they were real. Then one filed to run against me for Congress," stated the email. "Samuel Smeltzer, whose furry name is Elyon Badger, announced he's running against me, in costume, on a far left progressive platform."

‪Elyon113‬ ‪@elyon113.bsky.social‬ noted:

This is going from the dumbest, to the funniest timeline so fucking fast. 😂😂😂

Republican mayor in Kansas facing deportation over voter fraud

A recent profile of Ceballos, written by Roy Wenzl for The Wichita Eagle, revealed that the 54- year-old did not understand that as a Mexican immigrant, he was not eligible to vote in U.S. elections, which he has been doing since 1991. Ceballos also said he “probably” voted for Kobach and President Donald Trump multiple times, because he instinctively chooses the candidates with an “R” next to their name while voting.

Kansas mayor charged with alleged voter fraud; state leader says ‘hundreds’ more cases expected

The point in that latter article is made that even though this is a handful state-wide, in this case it was an election in a town of 2,653, where a vote or two can swing the results.

Installed VLC on my phone because I finally got fed up with what Google has been doing to the Android music player that's become YouTube Music, and holy shit what a revelation it was to have a tool that does what I want it to do, and isn't just a big funnel to get me to pay more money.

OMG, Google, I fucking hate you.

(Ctrl-G quits the current operation in Emacs, to have that suddenly be toggling Gemini is about the most obnoxious thing that could possibly occur.)

Sensing a pattern here, Google...

Fired up Firefox to retrieve an old password, and it's claiming that a one-off password used only for Facebook was part of a breach on September 30, 2023?

I've changed it, but I'd expect that'd have gotten more press than it apparently did, can't find anything on such an incident...

Oh, fucking charming, Homebrew has somehow destroyed my PGVector install, so my Postgres database is now unusable.

Have I mentioned in the last 15 minutes how much I hate this miserable excuse for a platform?

Darrell Owens: The Fire Department vs. Traffic Safety Advocates

A firefighter sympathetic to the fire officials argued to me that traffic calming slowed the fire department’s ability to respond to fires. But firefighters and EMT affiliates spend far more time collecting bodies from car accidents enabled by car-oriented road design than they do fighting structural fires. Between 2010 and 2022, structural fires in Berkeley injured an average of 2 people per year, while between just 2017 and 2022, traffic accidents injured or killed an average of 694 people annually. (Report here). This is proportionally true of most cities in the United States. This month, a cyclist was hit and killed on one of the streets fire officials want to keep free of street festivals.

How long until we see J1772 plugs in our houses? My car charger can boil water really fast (YouTube video). Dude gets a UK 240v 3k watt tea kettle, and, with a side track into Saudi Arabia's electrical code and NEMA junction boxes, and various different liquid volume measurements, uses a car charger...

With a diversion into putting 6kW into a 1.5kW tea kettle...

Thanks, Google AI, that's helpful.