Followerpower: I want a commandline tool that can do the following: take an SVG file input and produce a square-sized SVG output with the input centered and filled with transparency? I.e., let's say input is 50x100, output would be 100x100 with the input's content shifted 25px to the right.
But also, don't just rely on primaries. Go hound them, right now. Go picket their offices. Figure out where they live and protest at their houses. If they're spotted in restaurants, call them the fuck out for being Nazi collaborators. Make them regret ever casting their vote.
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My wife spotted this on Facebook: it’s apparently posted somewhere along Kings Hwy near Bungendore. #Christmas
3 drones reportedly spotted flying over Belgian nuclear power plant: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/drones-reportedly-spotted-flying-over.html
Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.
A supermassive black hole fleeing its home galaxy at 900 kilometers per second
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:yiht2spe2sqm23m3iowdlhgz/post/3mbmnulz5sk2v
Duolingo stock falls 25% after saying it expects bookings to range between $329.5M and $335.5M this quarter, falling short of a $344.3M estimate (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/duolingo-duol-stock-q3-earnings-2025.html
A bright-eyed spotted towhee, Pipio maculatus, in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #bird
Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…