Thinking about the time someone’s pet fish committed credit card fraud 🤔

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_neon_tetra#Credit_card_fraud

Happy Skynet-goes-active day to all who celebrate.

Arch Linux isn't an operating system. it's a Tamagotchi for IT nerds. You don't actually use your computer to do any real work. You just keep the OS alive. It is the life mission now because you refuse to go to therapy or let go that 20 years old Thinpad. You have to feed it ⁠`pacman -Syu⁠` every day, massage its broken dependencies and pray the new kernel doesn't shatter your graphics drivers. It’s cute, but some of us actually need to open a python code or browser without checking a wiki first

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This needs to be said in a loop until it sticks.

"What people are not getting is that we can’t turn this back – the CO2 to a large part remains in the air for thousands of years,” said Rahmstorf. “Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”

- Stefan Rahmstorf, Climatologist.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/30/europe-wildfires-climate-crisis-heat-summer

#climate

The joke to tell your wife on the way home from The Odyssey

I just remembered that I have my own cat now so I can post her instead of boosting other people's cats or rodents

Measles up.
Explosive diarrhea worsening.
Salmonella in millions of eggs
Cancer research cut.
Disease monitoring stopped.
Vaccine efforts devastated.
Pseudoscience and snake oil medicine proliferating.
Parasitic flesh-eating screwworm in Texas.

But Fauci.

🔥

Sources and bonus timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/063.html

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

Old MacDonald had a server farm
AI AI O.

Random pet peeve du moment:

Companies that give their products a common human given name, making it weird for the people who actually bear those names in real life.

The latest major example in date being Claude.

@catsalad

Fedi folks in/around the Seattle area who have tattoos (or who know people who have tattoos):

A friend of mine had to undergo surgery for breast cancer a couple of years ago. She is healed and fully in remission, yay! She is also at a point where her skin has healed enough and her feelings about her body are neutral-to-positive enough to begin thinking about getting a chest tattoo that partially covers her scars and celebrates her survival.

Obviously this is not a job for just any artist!

If you are in/around the Seattle area and know of a tattoo artist who has experience with tattoos of this nature, could you drop their name, please? Thank you!

Boosts very welcome! 💜

Some hashtags to make it easier to find, maybe!

#tattoos #Seattle

My conspiracy theory is that some people at work are addicted to setting up meetings because no one listens to them at home, and they don't know how to start a podcast.

just a reminder to everyone that #ai companies are buying old books and then actively fucking destroying them once they've been used for training data by removing the spine

so you being your own little librarian is more important than ever. get books, keep books, especially old books. humanity will thank you for it.

Imagine telling your investors, "we have a durable advantage because we purchased lots of one-of-a-kind books for our AI training and then destroyed them so none of our competitors could use them as sources" 🤬