The evolution of computer mice is funny. The newest mouse is usually ultra-light, has speed-holes now, and sensitive enough to put your pointer on the literal moon. Meanwhile, I want a mouse that's large, heavy, and slow, because I have adult hands and my monitor is not a 56'' TV.

In the meantime, you can access the censored Amnesty reports on gender critical groups here. Make sure they cannot erase these documents from the internet. Like a snowball. dn711306.ca.archive.org/0/items/amne... A growing threat. archive.org/download/rep...

I agree that the tech backlash has a lot to do with the fact that Silicon Valley has pretty much given up on giving us cool things - and has trained us to assume that tech products that *seem* cool are probably secretly evil. I wrote about this last year:

I Just Want a Cute Robot Lamp That Isn't Evil

Apple's engineers have figured out how to design a robot lamp so adorable that everyone I've shown the video to says they'd die for it. By studying how to translate human expression into the movement...

little-flying-robots.ghost.io

Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room

I need journalists to start asking both parties what policies/actions are expected to produce "affordability". B/c it seems to just be a free pass to say the word affordability.

Maybe hot take: It's funny to see so many people vindicating Kingdom Hearts, years after organized collections have been made available, as if the critics were crazy. No, the mismanagement was the whole problem. The collections are why you can claim it's easy to follow.

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Jeremy White@jeremywired.bsky.social · 2w ago

POWER TRIP: ICE’s new electric shock gloves are designed to overpower subjects through intense pain. But it turns out there is a simple way to stop them working. Read the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-pa...

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

I'm a huge fan of Jordan Peele's movies, but I will never not immediately think of the continental breakfast guy. Absolutely iconic.

I just joined DSA, b/c I'm mad about politics quite a lot for someone putting $0 into doing anything about it. So now I have a little skin in the game. I like their product and think they should have some walking around money.

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

404media.co

you can always block that guy

The only responsible attitude for liberals and progressives to align on is that all right-wing grievances, claims and believes are not only false, but malicious lies. Nothing passes the mouth of an American conservative in public life that is not meant to harm and destroy the lives of millions.

the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons

I just saw a reel of a young man doing a thing called “What’s on Grandpa’s Turntable” - & he reviewed the album the Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails. I’m just going to lay here and turn into dust now.

Imagining a trailer for a Doctor Who prequel that goes "before they were Ncuti Gatwa, they were..." and going through every actor including William Hurt before getting to the new first-first Doctor, starring in Normal Gallifreyan.

'politically homeless' is the one that most screams 'i think of myself as a good person but whenever i say what i believe people call me racist'

Folks, Linux already just works I genuinely don’t know what else to tell you. I put it on my PC and it just worked. I push play on steam and run Deadlock and PoE 2 as good as they ever did on my old ass hardware. You are waiting for nothing. The future is right now.

One of my favorite things to see on Bluesky is somebody quoting what they tell you is just the most toxic, disgusting post and you look and see "Blocked" instead. Lol.

Hot take: Doomsday could be good.

Alright America, now what's the next international sport we can pin a halftime show on? Chess? Figure skating?

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Forbes@forbes.com · last mo.

Taylor Farms, which supplies major fast food and grocery chains, was identified as the possible source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak Thursday.

If it's any consolation, we can legitimately call our tormentors evil without qualification, and anybody who tries to both-sides and moderate the history of the 2020s is going to look like an absolute idiot. Imagine trying to tell a school-kid, "Put yourself in RFK Jr's shoes."

Remember, it's not a double-standard. The standard just isn't fairness. The injustices of society are all perfectly consistent with the worship of sadism and greed, and the hatred of vulnerability and empathy. See? That's a standard.

Every so often someone posts about the wonders of CRT+pixel art and I just think, "Yay. The migraine machine of my youth has returned." I can almost feel the splitting headaches again. Yeah, I'll pass. Gimme that modern chunky version, actually.

remember the conservative plan for schools: 1) elite secular academies for the wealthy, 2) religious instruction to brainwash the middle class and 3) a prison-like rump public school system to discipline the lower classes into mindless servitude

Texas Observer@texasobserver.org · last mo.

New from @josephinelee.bsky.social, in our magazine: Districts across the state are arresting and citing young children children for common misbehavior, leaving lasting trauma as the Legislature rejects bills to raise the age of criminal responsibility and floods schools with even more police.

we're in a literal war with these people. and theyre literally murderous, committing (intentional, violent) murders at industrial scale in the caribbean and iran to name just two theaters. theyre also shooting your neighbors in their cars it's just the facts. it's their policy. they declared it

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