@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-03-16 17:05:47
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-04-17 09:35:13
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2026-02-17 02:41:30
It's been a while but I was reminded that Java is shit.
Python is better, but has issues, mostly because of macOS.
And macOS permissions for user-created applications are a nightmare!
But a big, big thanks goes out to tools like Platypus.
"Platypus is a developer tool that creates native Mac applications from command line scripts such as shell scripts or Python, Perl, Ruby, Tcl, JavaScript and PHP programs."
@cdarwin@c.im2026-02-13 06:08:32
I’m Derek Tran -- a veteran, small business owner, son of Vietnamese refugees, and the only House Democrat in SoCal that national Republicans are targeting in 2026.
This fight is personal for me.
My parents came to America after the fall of Saigon,
determined to give their kids a better life.
That’s the promise they carried with them.
I wore the uniform, and now I serve in Congress,
to make sure that promise is protected.
It was never my plan to r…
@cheryanne@aus.social2026-03-14 01:37:09
One for @…
I'm planning a visit in the near future
https://region.com.au/this-must-try-ba
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-03-13 16:11:39
Cowboys re-sign depth TE still looking for breakout moment https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/13/cowboys-re-sign-te-princeton-fant-free-agency/89136469007/
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scot2026-03-10 21:19:52
Got sent this email from the elderly convenor of a political group I sometimes sit with. Thank goodness I was alert and suspicious enough - his account had been hacked and this was an email spam that could have cost a lot of money. There was no "Dear Lilly", but they had signed off with his name at the end.
@chpietsch@fedifreu.de2026-04-11 19:06:37
What an energizing #CablesOfResistance workshop:
Jeff and Karl managed to have a fruitful conversation with a packed room. Lots of people contributed facts.
Having attended MP @…'s pr…
@drgeraint@glasgow.social2026-02-12 09:09:15