Daniel Farnitano
@dfarnitano.bsky.social
Queer Nerd, healthcare worker and general miscreant. Aro/ace, fan of Lancer, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and Tyranids among others
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Nobody thinks a guy doing the YMCA in a frog costume on a city sidewalk is a credible threat to public safety AND Oregon lawyers were able to leverage that perception to discredit the argument that Portland needed immediate federal intervention. Both tactics work in tandem to reinforce the other.
So, the frog stopped the National Guard from coming to Portland, along with astute lawsuits by Oregon. Only part of what's happening, but hard to understate how fundamentally the Portland Frog changed perceptions and helped morale. Humor, imagination, courage, savvy.
December 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Nobody thinks a guy doing the YMCA in a frog costume on a city sidewalk is a credible threat to public safety AND Oregon lawyers were able to leverage that perception to discredit the argument that Portland needed immediate federal intervention. Both tactics work in tandem to reinforce the other.
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Does my network contain a California tax lawyer who can help a widow straighten out a horrifying post-death earnings boondoggle? @dataandpolitics.net is the widow in question
Seriously, are there any tax lawyers who will tell a widow at the end of their rope what to do?
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
I don't know how to tell the iRS my husband is dead.
December 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Does my network contain a California tax lawyer who can help a widow straighten out a horrifying post-death earnings boondoggle? @dataandpolitics.net is the widow in question
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Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
December 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather
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December 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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i had to drop what i was doing to make this
December 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
i had to drop what i was doing to make this
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Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)
December 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Our upcoming game The Hearth and Harbour is fully 2D, but with some neat tricks we’ve made it look 3D. Ethan, our environment artist, did this with a special type of texture called a Normal Map. (Thread! 1/7)
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Our allies need to catch the fuck up and shouldn't be afforded this level of careful explanation but this bugs the shit out of me so here we go:
Biological sex, as an immutable binary, IS THE ACTUAL PSEUDO-SCIENCE HERE.
Y'all are getting played by language that just SOUNDS SMART to your ears.
Biological sex, as an immutable binary, IS THE ACTUAL PSEUDO-SCIENCE HERE.
Y'all are getting played by language that just SOUNDS SMART to your ears.
It is 2025. The EHRC in the UK keeps trying to materialize a trans bathroom ban out of a muddled UKSC opinion third-sexing all trans people. A bill to criminalise those who provide trans minors with transition care passed in the US House of Representatives.
And cis "allies" still think this helps.
And cis "allies" still think this helps.
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Our allies need to catch the fuck up and shouldn't be afforded this level of careful explanation but this bugs the shit out of me so here we go:
Biological sex, as an immutable binary, IS THE ACTUAL PSEUDO-SCIENCE HERE.
Y'all are getting played by language that just SOUNDS SMART to your ears.
Biological sex, as an immutable binary, IS THE ACTUAL PSEUDO-SCIENCE HERE.
Y'all are getting played by language that just SOUNDS SMART to your ears.
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As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
As I wrote today: www.readtpa.com/p/watch-rep-...
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For anyone worried: you literally can’t be found unless you opt into this.
December 17, 2025 at 4:53 AM
For anyone worried: you literally can’t be found unless you opt into this.
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Looking to hire an editor! Let us know your skill level and exepreince! Full time position, need to be local to Portland, Oregon.
Starting pay is $26.50-28/hr + annual bonus.
Benefits: health insurance, paid sick and personal leave, retirement plan.
Apply at forms.gle/dRSftwbBnwaX...
Starting pay is $26.50-28/hr + annual bonus.
Benefits: health insurance, paid sick and personal leave, retirement plan.
Apply at forms.gle/dRSftwbBnwaX...
December 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Looking to hire an editor! Let us know your skill level and exepreince! Full time position, need to be local to Portland, Oregon.
Starting pay is $26.50-28/hr + annual bonus.
Benefits: health insurance, paid sick and personal leave, retirement plan.
Apply at forms.gle/dRSftwbBnwaX...
Starting pay is $26.50-28/hr + annual bonus.
Benefits: health insurance, paid sick and personal leave, retirement plan.
Apply at forms.gle/dRSftwbBnwaX...
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If you would like to help me replace the $323 bit bill for Molly and maybe something toward her extra wet food and treats, we would very much appreciate it. It all goes for the human bed fund and feeding her goopy food.
PayPal.me/Quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Hoping to raise $350 for basics
PayPal.me/Quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Hoping to raise $350 for basics
Pay Quiara Hazlewood using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/Quiara and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
PayPal.me
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
If you would like to help me replace the $323 bit bill for Molly and maybe something toward her extra wet food and treats, we would very much appreciate it. It all goes for the human bed fund and feeding her goopy food.
PayPal.me/Quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Hoping to raise $350 for basics
PayPal.me/Quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Hoping to raise $350 for basics
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people often change it to “let us live to make men free” in modern performances and I say that’s coward shit
"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," goes harder than any Civil War song has any right to go.
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
people often change it to “let us live to make men free” in modern performances and I say that’s coward shit
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China: "How do we get kids to give a shit about our history and folklore?"
The Guy About To Invent Wuxia: "...what if a dude kicked like, fifty other dudes in the head?"
The Guy About To Invent Wuxia: "...what if a dude kicked like, fifty other dudes in the head?"
December 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
China: "How do we get kids to give a shit about our history and folklore?"
The Guy About To Invent Wuxia: "...what if a dude kicked like, fifty other dudes in the head?"
The Guy About To Invent Wuxia: "...what if a dude kicked like, fifty other dudes in the head?"
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the deep oceans of fanfic on the internet are so great because, yeah, apparently everybody *does* have a novel in them! it just turns out that a lot of those novels are about transformers being gay together
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
the deep oceans of fanfic on the internet are so great because, yeah, apparently everybody *does* have a novel in them! it just turns out that a lot of those novels are about transformers being gay together
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My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
November 27, 2025 at 3:41 PM
My nephew: Are you a girl or a boy?
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
Me: a boy, I used to look more like a girl but then I turned into a boy
Nephew: How???
Me: I went to the doctor and they gave me some medicine
Nephew: …
Nephew, bragging now: I’M a boy and I didn’t even HAVE to go to the doctor
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if you, U.S. resident, forgot something and absolutely have to go shopping tomorrow, it's cool, we all understand. unless you say something like "I can't believe they're making you work the holiday!" in which case your cashier is legally entitled and morally obliged to shoot you in the face
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
if you, U.S. resident, forgot something and absolutely have to go shopping tomorrow, it's cool, we all understand. unless you say something like "I can't believe they're making you work the holiday!" in which case your cashier is legally entitled and morally obliged to shoot you in the face
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🔮 @leftistlawyer.com could you please help share my mutual aid I am a Native Two Spirit person trying to raise funds to take the month off of work my doctor recommended after I was violently raped
myself and other Natives would appreciate you sharing our mutual aids today
ko-fi.com/marallmighty
myself and other Natives would appreciate you sharing our mutual aids today
ko-fi.com/marallmighty
Support MARAllMighty
Support MARAllMighty
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
🔮 @leftistlawyer.com could you please help share my mutual aid I am a Native Two Spirit person trying to raise funds to take the month off of work my doctor recommended after I was violently raped
myself and other Natives would appreciate you sharing our mutual aids today
ko-fi.com/marallmighty
myself and other Natives would appreciate you sharing our mutual aids today
ko-fi.com/marallmighty
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Bedtime boost. My driver’s side wing mirror is snapped at the base. It needs a new assembly and the door panel has to be disassembled. I live on about $900/month and coming up with nearly $500 is beyond my ability. If you can help, I would appreciate it.
Jesus. They want $473.33 to fix my mirror. Not only do I not have that, I have no way to get that. That’s parts and labour. If anybody can help at all, I may be able to borrow a little from my brother. Please. I cannot keep driving without a rear view mirror
PayPal.me/quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Not $app
PayPal.me/quiara
Venmo: QuiaraH
Not $app
Pay Quiara Hazlewood using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/Quiara and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
PayPal.me
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Bedtime boost. My driver’s side wing mirror is snapped at the base. It needs a new assembly and the door panel has to be disassembled. I live on about $900/month and coming up with nearly $500 is beyond my ability. If you can help, I would appreciate it.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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November 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.
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Her first film will be g rated
United Talent Agency has signed literal type of cheese Parmigiano Reggiano to its roster with the goal of finding product-placement opportunities for the brand in film and TV
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
www.vulture.com/article/parm...?
Beloved Cheese Parmigiano Reggiano Signs With UTA
The blonde Italian bombshell is about to be all over film and TV.
www.vulture.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Her first film will be g rated
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squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
November 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
squirrel: *points gun*
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
me: what do you want me to do?
squirrel: *gestures at sign*
me: alright, i get it *opens book drop*
squirrel: *makes hurry-up motion*
me: NOT A SQUIRREL!
squirrel: *disappears into book drop*
me: *whispers* forgive me, keith
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial