Having finished the series, I feel like we did some exploration of Carmy's compulsion, but somehow not enough, despite it being central to the overall narrative.

I came out of it feeling like the real problem was that he wanted to be an artist with food, but the model he had for a career was that he should be in control of the entire operation, and he was terrible at that.

And it was great to see it sorted out that Sydney was much better at working with people and encouraging teamwork, but I still felt like that didn't really point out the problem that there's no particular relationship between technical and artistic mastery, and leadership.

They set up a bit for his transition to architecture, but not that much. I had the impression you'd need to at least be working on a graduate degree to get an internship. And my impression is that architecture is as hierarchical as professional cooking, maybe more so, so I'm not sure how that helps him.

Stories are fundamental to humanity. We learn about the people and the world around us, and eventually about ourselves, through stories.

Pornography is a genre of stories about sexuality. Human sexuality (including asexuality) is very varied and that variation is also fundamental to humanity, and understanding your own sexuality and that of people around you is critical to being a compassionate human being.

I'm a fairly ordinary cishet white man, and I wish I'd read more pornography created freely by women a lot earlier in my life. I would have felt a lot better about my own sexuality, and I would have been better at expressing and sharing it.

(I was harmed by reading reactionaries who condemned sexuality en toto.)

There is a history of problematic pornography, because it has been contraband controlled by patriarchal assholes who want to maintain their control of it.

We should have more and better pornography, written by a wider variety of people.

Women don't owe the world children.

#feminism #feminismus #fuckthepatriachy

The vast majority of people Israel considers "terrorists" in the West Bank never target civilians and never even leave their home areas. Here's the story of Bakir, who engaged in armed resistance against the army that came to invade his city. In response, Israel bombed him and three other completely unrelated people, including two children.

Bakir is not considered a terrorist by any legal definition of the word. By international law, Bakir and other residents of Palestine have full legal right to armed resistance against the IDF.

Did the default number of workspaces in XFCE recently change from four to three? Or did I somehow accidentally change the setting?

1. code reviews are mostly rubber stamps, quit catastrophizing over them

2. Gay pron is fine, let people have fun

3. "Family friendly" is a hegemonic idea that acts as a cover for bigotry

4. happy Death to America day

I hope this wretched nation collapses like an 80 year old fascist getting heat stroke.

"Cancelled Due To Climate Change"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/04/washington-dc-fourth-of-july-parade-canceled-extreme-heat

#America250 #Heatwave #ClimateCrisis #July4th #WashingtonDC

Screens are infrastructure. For neurodivergent and disabled people, they're assistive devices, regulation tools, community spaces, lifelines. The "screen time" panic gets it backwards.

https://stimpunks.org/gaming/

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling.

I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

A 125 gram bottle of Marmite, once emptied and cleaned, nicely holds one standard set of 16 millimeter polyhedral dice.

#TTRPG #Dice

I'm honestly astonished when I see the photos of Trump's events and there are so few people present. I think the right is a minority, that their numbers are exaggerated. But, how is it that only a few dozen people at most come to an event in the middle of the US capital?

That's the turnout you'd expect from teens passing out flyers for their garage band, or for a neighborhood yard sale.

Be sure to get a larger pot when your cats have grown

#caturday #caturdayeveryday

personally i'm ok with AI techniques being less well known but there's a deeper thing going on here which is far more important IMO, because it's also partially why LLMs have taken over

== this thread is in response to this tweet: ==

https://x.com/krismicinski/status/2072303376629444764

Every day, Republicans devise a new way to kill us.

Trump firework plans trigger emergency air pollution warning across the D.C. area: report

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fireworks-air-pollution/

“Get your hands off her!”

A MASSACHUSETTS crowd yells at a cop who grabs a 14 year-old girl speaking out about data centers

The Silicon Forest is Out of Juice: Inside Hillsboro’s Silent One-Gigawatt Battery Explosion and the Hidden Power Crisis - The Hillsboro Herald https://hillsboroherald.com/the-silicon-forest-is-out-of-juice-inside-hillsboros-silent-one-gigawatt-battery-explosion-and-the-hidden-power-crisis/

"Add this tag to your profile to opt out of our shitty service" is *not* a valid way to run your bot/app/etc.

#NoBots #NoBot #NoTagsBot #HalfMyBioIsGoingToEndUpBeingOptOutsForYourShitServices #FuckBots

"If it's agreed by the FCC, this will be deeply regrettable. This will say that we are in a world where large corporations can determine the view of the sky above our heads, just as they can transform the environment on Earth."

https://www.space.com/astronomy/the-growing-number-of-satellites-in-orbit-could-soon-make-telescopes-obsolete-for-astronomy-this-would-obviously-be-catastrophic

#Space #Satellites #Astronomy

The world is so upside down that I read about the Pope excommunicating heretics and I'm rooting for the Pope.