A question for all.

I care greatly for my country, this is a monumental achievement for our democracy to have worked for 2 1/2 centuries. Athens lasted 2.

But I have no interest in celebrating. I don't feel as if is worth the time.

I feel as if all the joy I have felt over each of my 80 4th's of july is gone. As if this is not something to celebrate.

So that is what I am doing, Not celebrating what should be something to create joy.

My question; How many of you feel the same?

RE: https://mastodon.online/@stimpunks/116856631119673748

I've been saying this for years, every time some Karen or Kevin starts spouting off about "SCREEN TIME BAAAAAAAD"! Screens are important for me, and even more so for my son.

Welcome back, Furries!
#Pittsburgh is always so pleased to have you. My opinion: it's the huge smiles on those costume faces! They just spread a lot of joy and cuteness around the city.

(HYDRATE, FURRIES, HYDRATE!)

#anthrocon2026 #LovePGH #furries #anthrocon

Just heard '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover' which always annoys me, I mean, it's a great song but how many ways to leave your lover does it actually give? Oh is it five? FIVE, Paul Simon???? you lazy cunt

A year or so back we had reservations at a restaurant, but they called us up and said hey we can't do a full dinner service tonight because one cook broke his ankle, one server had her water break, and another server had to take her to the hospital, and did we want to cancel?

We said nah we'll just come for drinks and apps, that's fine. So we got there, and the only other people there were at the table right next to us, and they turned out to be Michael and Denise Okuda, and their partner whose name I forget, from the Roddenberry Foundation.

That was fun. Glad we didn't cancel.

we desperately need to bring back mandatory Civics classes

Not Bible classes. Civics.

My veterinary oncologist explained that there are three drugs in the chemo regimen but they are given on a four week cycle, like drug A, then B, then A, then C.

I almost said no, it should be ACAB, but he knows best.

I know a lot of people are thinking it's hard to celebrate the USA on this July 4th, so don't.

I'm not celebrating this shit.

(I wasn't consciously trying to clone it, but what I came up with wound up being pretty close to this.)

I'm sure Antelope gets better part prices than I could, though, and has at least some economy of scale. And they already wrote the software, and if I built my own, I'd have to do that. (Which would take me years.)

On the back of an envelope I wrote a quick approximation of this device, and worked out how much it would cost to build. I came up with somewhere around $1000-1200.

Yikes, those are smaller margins than I realized.

https://www.thomannmusic.com/antelope_discrete_8_oryx_synergy_core.htm

Met a guy at the bar when ordering drinks, lovely fella, great bit of chat, returned to my ashen faced friends who informed me I'd been joking with Robert Plant - glanced out of the window at the great big, fuck off tour poster of him.

You make my life richer. Yes, YOU.

Gonna repeat it until people get it: The climate cost of AC is infinitesimal compared to meat, flying, electric and fuel heating in poorly insulated housing, car commutes.

Worry about those first.
Actually, screw all of this: worry and try to do something about the climate impacts of the military industrial complex first.

Here's one reason why birthright citizenship is important in the USA.

Suppose my citizenship is questioned. Mine specifically, I mean. The government wants to deport me, detain me without trial, take away my voting rights, or prosecute me for being in the country illegally.

I have an easy answer to this. I produce my birth certificate, which says that I was born in New York State in 1969. They confirm this with the New York State Department of Health, and that is the end of the matter.

Without birthright citizenzship, with the regime that Alito and Gorsuch want, it's *not* the end of the matter. The government can look at my birth certificate, scoff, and demand that I prove my parents were here legally. And they can imprison me until then.

Okay, but I can prove that they were here legally. After all, they were citizens from birth. I produce my parents’ birth certificates, showing that they were born in New York State in 1939 and 1943 respectively. Do you see where this is going?

But that's not good enough because without birthright citizenship, just being born in the USA is not good enough. I also have to prove that my grandparents weren't here illegally.

And proving that my grandparents were U.S. citizens is not good enough. In fact my paternal grandfather was brought here as a child, 1913. Can I prove he was here legally? Perhaps his immigration paperwork contains a misstatement of fact, his naturalization was void all along, my father has been here illegally for 87 years, and I am subject to immediate deportation to Hungary or El Salvador or South Sudan.

Without birthright citizenship, every person's status is in precarious.

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Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too.

A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI:

ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

@deivudesu @pluralistic I feel like we went wrong when people switched from web forums and e-mail lists (decentralized) to Facebook and apps (centralized).

The air was thick with catcalls, no pun intended

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@CTHW/116811306187155845

Canadian healthcare has its problems -- I see them daily, working in a hospital -- but they by and large can be solved with one simple trick.

Money.

There has been a concerted withdrawal of resources from public healthcare across the country, since at least the 1990s. This has led to massive infrastructure debt, long wait times, and over-stressed and underpaid workers making mistakes. In spite of this, a lot of excellent work is still done; all we need to improve things is to remove the "efficiency" (i.e. austerity) mindset and build out a healthcare system that is about not only helping everyone without charging at point of care, but about having first-class care, without long waits, and with built-in capacity to handle unexpected surges in illness and injury.

Healthcare is a right, and the ghouls who think that they should be able to extract profit from those who need it should at the very least be utterly ostracised by any decent person.

"Autism isn't a lifestyle, it's a severe psychological disorder."

No. Autism is a neurodivergence and a disability and it is a lifestyle.

My everyday life, how I cut and style my hair (or don't), the clothes I wear (or don't), the food I eat (or don't), the social life and relationships I have (or don't), how I spent my holidays (or don't), the books I read, the music I listen and dance to, the interests I have, how I communicate, my worldview, my financial situation, my sleep (or lack of), all this is part of being autistic for me.

Several things can be true at once.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #neurodivergent @autistics