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I’ve had this contingent of the language police show up in my replies a few times now over the word “cosplay,” and look…
OK, I get it, I get the instinct to say “Don’t drag me into this!” and I applaud the effort to push fascists out of communities, yes to all that…
…and also we need to recognize that what ICE is doing absolutely •is• cosplay. The word means “costume play.” It refers to assembling and wearing costumes that are not necessarily functional, but show affinity for a particular subculture by reproducing characters from that subculture’s popular narratives.
ICE are cosplaying Call of Duty. That is an accurate description of what’s happening. (Listen to “Gear.”)
I make software and I make music. I don’t think either one of those things •should• be about violence. I don’t •want• them to be about violence. But both are used in the service of violence, like it or not. I shout the violence out whenever it shows up. But would be ridiculous for me to point at what Palantir does and say “That’s not software!” Unfortunately, it •is• software. To deny that would be beyond self-defeating; it would be irresponsible.
ICE •is• doing cosplay, and we hate it. It’s an insult to the cosplay subculture. It is an insult to the whole of humanity. Fascism creeps into all of our spheres, into every beloved craft and community, and the response is never to pretend it’s not there. The response is to drive it out.
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https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@wildrikku/115956545807535535

By post, it's mostly web rather than Phanpy.
Suspect it's mostly replies over stand-alone only because of threads here really. Most of a thread counts as a reply because it's a reply-to-self.
I mostly use the web interface for new posts rather than the phanpy one because I can't type an emoji in Phanpy. Only instance custom-emojis can be typed starting with a colon and I usually want 😄 or 😉 or 🙄 not the custom emojii. Can't type them on Phanpy. So I mostly compose on web.
Maybe the Phanpy dev has some kind of emoji plugin or something? Dunno why he makes it only do the custom ones.
But this is why I mostly post from web even though I almost entirely read from Phanphy. Which means replies mostly come from Phanpy but standalone mostly from Web.

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…

TikTok Blames Technical Problems After Users Claimed It Blocked ICE Posts
Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.

TikTok says the new US entity has not updated its algorithm since the joint venture was announced, after users accused it of suppressing posts related to ICE (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/tiktok-ice-minneapolis-techni…

TikTok Blames Technical Problems After Users Claimed It Blocked ICE Posts
Some users had accused the app of blocking them from posting videos about Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The app said it was a power outage issue.

At least I can now continue to use GrapheneOS with a clear conscience, which is an incredible relief for me and my workflow! I bought a Pixel 10 Pro XL shortly after it was released, which then sat in storage for a long time because porting it to GrapheneOS took longer than expected “thanks” to the new restrictions imposed by Google (which was not GrapheneOS's fault, but Google's attempt to screw with custom ROMs).
Since this device is practically brand new, hopefully it will wo…

I can help but feel this "feature" should raise more concerns than it does alleviate them.
"Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records addresses this need by targeting DNS changes that customers can make within 60 minutes of a service disruption in the US East (N. Virginia) Region."

Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Route 53 now offers Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new business continuity feature designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This enhancement enables customers to continue making critical DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, ensuring greater resilience for mission-critical applications.

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/its-whack-a-mole-alarming-rise-in-pet-trade-fuels-wildlife-trafficking-into-california/<…

It’s ‘whack-a-mole’: Alarming rise in pet trade fuels wildlife trafficking into California
In October, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer at California’s Otay Mesa border crossing noticed an odd bulge inside a man’s pants. Jesse Agus Martinez, a U.S. citizen who lives in Tijuana, repeatedly claimed the bump was “pirrin,” a Spanish word for penis. His history of smuggling birds into the U.S. prompted further examination, […]

"It’s tough, acting. you have to walk two lines of a tightrope. there’s the all consuming fear of failure… and there’s also confidence – you have to be confident to try new things – And they fight each other all the time."
—Jessica Chastain
#acting #coaching

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
VOICE: [V.O.] Supreme Commander?
SERVALAN: Yes?
VOICE: [V.O.] Governor Le Grand of Outer Gaul for you.
SERVALAN: Le Grand. Well, well, well. [Le Grand appears on the communicator screen]
SERVALAN: Governor.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/379

Starlink says it has reached 9M "active customers" across 155 countries, territories, and other markets, up from 8M on November 5 (Polly Thompson/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-customer-number…

Elon Musk's Starlink is adding 20,000 new users a day as it hits 9 million customers
Customer numbers for SpaceX's Starlink internet have surged by 1 million in the past six weeks, the company said on X.