Thommy
@thomaswebb.net
People on bluesky - follow @ap.brid.gy if you want me to be able to follow you back.
Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in […]
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Ⓐ🏴 software engineer and occasional street food vendor. Sincereposter in […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@thomasjwebb, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
"Okay students, which number is greater, 1 or -2? Write what you think on your board."
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"Okay students, which number is greater, 1 or -2? Write what you think on your board."
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*pulls mask off kid who wrote -2, revealing a space alien made of antimatter*
*cracks whip*
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
November 12, 2025 at 7:19 AM
*cracks whip*
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
I’m going to force feminize this workplace
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115533541290508750
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115533541290508750
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
I can say anecdotally that some teenagers see importance in finding their own history (lgbt, therian/otherkin, game fandoms, etc.) on forums, listservs and usenet but there's a gap of more recent stuff because of walled-garden social media […]
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I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline:
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I'm teaching Sonic Pi in a music tech class, and because we were using the TB-303 synth in class, I felt compelled to modify what we did to make the Charli XCX “365” bassline:
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
#sonicpi #ruby #algorave #charlixcx
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[trans healthcare advice (US-specific)]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
Original post on enby.life
enby.life
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
[trans healthcare advice (US-specific)]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
PSA for my US trans friends: there's a Telehealth HRT clinic called QMed (QueerMed) that serves adults **and minors** in 47 states (excluding DC, unfortunately). They accept lots of private insurance (but not medicare/medicaid), and also offer a payment […]
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Most of the waste and distortion of capitalism results from artificial abundance of material resources, and artificial scarcity of immaterial resources.
Just removing all subsidies to irrigation water, and making long-haul trucks pay the full cost of roadbed damage via weight-distance tolls, would massively decarbonize and relocalize US agriculture.
this I think is pretty easy if you just price water correctly
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Most of the waste and distortion of capitalism results from artificial abundance of material resources, and artificial scarcity of immaterial resources.
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America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:55 PM
America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.
Okay it was obnoxious of me to use unicode characters in my screen name and few people actually call me tjw these days anyway. Might as well use the space to ramp up what I'm going to start going by, Thommy or Tommy.
Not changing my legal name and I kinda recommend against it in most cases.
Not changing my legal name and I kinda recommend against it in most cases.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Okay it was obnoxious of me to use unicode characters in my screen name and few people actually call me tjw these days anyway. Might as well use the space to ramp up what I'm going to start going by, Thommy or Tommy.
Not changing my legal name and I kinda recommend against it in most cases.
Not changing my legal name and I kinda recommend against it in most cases.
#uspol
Davis' petition overturning gay marriage in the supreme court was extremely unlikely. Anti-trans stuff ending up in the budget is fairly unlikely. It's irresponsible to talk about all disastrous possibilities as though they were equally probable but it's also irresponsible to pretend rare […]
Davis' petition overturning gay marriage in the supreme court was extremely unlikely. Anti-trans stuff ending up in the budget is fairly unlikely. It's irresponsible to talk about all disastrous possibilities as though they were equally probable but it's also irresponsible to pretend rare […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
#uspol
Davis' petition overturning gay marriage in the supreme court was extremely unlikely. Anti-trans stuff ending up in the budget is fairly unlikely. It's irresponsible to talk about all disastrous possibilities as though they were equally probable but it's also irresponsible to pretend rare […]
Davis' petition overturning gay marriage in the supreme court was extremely unlikely. Anti-trans stuff ending up in the budget is fairly unlikely. It's irresponsible to talk about all disastrous possibilities as though they were equally probable but it's also irresponsible to pretend rare […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115526055374759833
Just give it a decade and it may come back. Over strange aeons even death may die.
Just give it a decade and it may come back. Over strange aeons even death may die.
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115526055374759833
Just give it a decade and it may come back. Over strange aeons even death may die.
Just give it a decade and it may come back. Over strange aeons even death may die.
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I wrote about the fecklessness of the Democrats ending this shutdown for my newsletter this morning. www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
What Was the Point of the Shutdown?
Democrats asked voters to weather short term pain from the shutdown to get long term gains in extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. Then they threw it all away.
So, what was the point of all ...
www.burnsnotice.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I wrote about the fecklessness of the Democrats ending this shutdown for my newsletter this morning. www.burnsnotice.com/what-was-the...
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Everyone seems to hate you. You’re blamed for shit you couldn’t possibly have been responsible for. People make up conspiracies about you and your friends constantly, say the most heinous shit about you with impunity. In many places, someone freaking out so bad they kill you is a legal defense.
November 10, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Everyone seems to hate you. You’re blamed for shit you couldn’t possibly have been responsible for. People make up conspiracies about you and your friends constantly, say the most heinous shit about you with impunity. In many places, someone freaking out so bad they kill you is a legal defense.
The filibuster is anti-majoritarian but so is the body it happens in, the US Senate. A minority of senators, representing a majority of the population, can stop a majority of senators, representing a minority of the population, from passing something by ceaseless yapping or threatening to do so […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The filibuster is anti-majoritarian but so is the body it happens in, the US Senate. A minority of senators, representing a majority of the population, can stop a majority of senators, representing a minority of the population, from passing something by ceaseless yapping or threatening to do so […]
Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations are fall themed. Christmas decorations are winter themed. Western Christmas is early Winter in northern hemisphere. Therefore it makes more sense for xmas decorations to go up shortly before xmas and stay up until way after instead of going up way before […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Halloween and Thanksgiving decorations are fall themed. Christmas decorations are winter themed. Western Christmas is early Winter in northern hemisphere. Therefore it makes more sense for xmas decorations to go up shortly before xmas and stay up until way after instead of going up way before […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lzg/115521435198238044
The people who make mistakes programmers make about names think they know what you want and what's good for you.
The people who make mistakes programmers make about names think they know what you want and what's good for you.
mastodon.social
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lzg/115521435198238044
The people who make mistakes programmers make about names think they know what you want and what's good for you.
The people who make mistakes programmers make about names think they know what you want and what's good for you.
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Watson's racism & sexism were infamous. but this obituary sheds light onto something else: he was essentially an earlier rendition of what's happening now with tech CEOs & pundits who are convinced they're always the smartest person in the room & how this inevitably leads to anti-"PC/woke" brain rot
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Watson's racism & sexism were infamous. but this obituary sheds light onto something else: he was essentially an earlier rendition of what's happening now with tech CEOs & pundits who are convinced they're always the smartest person in the room & how this inevitably leads to anti-"PC/woke" brain rot
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For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
For @teenvogue.com I wrote about the death of trans athlete Lia Smith and how trans youth kind themselves with central pillars of their lives being constantly ripped away from them because of politics. www.teenvogue.com/story/politi...
My attempt at doing tsukemen birria (but veganized, so shiitake and tofu instead of beef and veggie broth base) was a success. I was worried my family would be lukewarm about it, but they actually liked it, even my wife who doesn't like Mexican food. The only thing is I'd definitely use ramen […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:59 AM
My attempt at doing tsukemen birria (but veganized, so shiitake and tofu instead of beef and veggie broth base) was a success. I was worried my family would be lukewarm about it, but they actually liked it, even my wife who doesn't like Mexican food. The only thing is I'd definitely use ramen […]
My vision of transhumanism is more fantasy than sci-fi. Faeries aren't real? Like hell they're not, I'll make them real and make myself one. I don't want to be further away from nature, I want to lounge on a flower. Aphids the size of my fist.
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My vision of transhumanism is more fantasy than sci-fi. Faeries aren't real? Like hell they're not, I'll make them real and make myself one. I don't want to be further away from nature, I want to lounge on a flower. Aphids the size of my fist.
TIL "-ila" as a suffix is diminutive in Gothic meaning that Wulfila is like "little Wolf" and therefore Attila was a nickname basically meaning "lil' daddy" grammatically like papacito (Spanish) or papatje (Dutch). So very much gangster vibes where Romans are scared shitless of papatje coming to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
TIL "-ila" as a suffix is diminutive in Gothic meaning that Wulfila is like "little Wolf" and therefore Attila was a nickname basically meaning "lil' daddy" grammatically like papacito (Spanish) or papatje (Dutch). So very much gangster vibes where Romans are scared shitless of papatje coming to […]
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[USPol, NYT both-sidesism]
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ […]
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
[USPol, NYT both-sidesism]
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ […]
“Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling ‘appraisal’ surgically excised.”
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/ […]
RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/115510452161239697
I like heirloom varieties (and so does Sarah, see the thread) and agree with this.
I like heirloom varieties (and so does Sarah, see the thread) and agree with this.
mastodon.online
November 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
RE: https://mastodon.online/@sarahtaber/115510452161239697
I like heirloom varieties (and so does Sarah, see the thread) and agree with this.
I like heirloom varieties (and so does Sarah, see the thread) and agree with this.
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My main response when I see goons romanticizing a mythical past of workplaces that are just a huddle of indistinguishable men in suits smoking their cigarettes, no women in sight, is that this person is evil, ignorant and fucking booooring. But I also sincerely feel sorry for people like this […]
Original post on thecave.social
thecave.social
November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My main response when I see goons romanticizing a mythical past of workplaces that are just a huddle of indistinguishable men in suits smoking their cigarettes, no women in sight, is that this person is evil, ignorant and fucking booooring. But I also sincerely feel sorry for people like this […]
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[uspol, transphobia]
reading the thing about the 6th Circuit Court's decision today re: allowing bullying of trans students, and how whoever wrote the ruling used the phrase "biological pronouns"
the phrase "pronouns are stored in the balls" sounds like a shitpost but that's the actual […]
reading the thing about the 6th Circuit Court's decision today re: allowing bullying of trans students, and how whoever wrote the ruling used the phrase "biological pronouns"
the phrase "pronouns are stored in the balls" sounds like a shitpost but that's the actual […]
Original post on social.treehouse.systems
social.treehouse.systems
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
[uspol, transphobia]
reading the thing about the 6th Circuit Court's decision today re: allowing bullying of trans students, and how whoever wrote the ruling used the phrase "biological pronouns"
the phrase "pronouns are stored in the balls" sounds like a shitpost but that's the actual […]
reading the thing about the 6th Circuit Court's decision today re: allowing bullying of trans students, and how whoever wrote the ruling used the phrase "biological pronouns"
the phrase "pronouns are stored in the balls" sounds like a shitpost but that's the actual […]
I don't try to convince people of anarchism but rather that you have other options available to you than just working through the system. Activists understand this, of course. Anyone else who is politically minded should too.
"Don't comply in advance" is a great sentiment, but you can go […]
"Don't comply in advance" is a great sentiment, but you can go […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I don't try to convince people of anarchism but rather that you have other options available to you than just working through the system. Activists understand this, of course. Anyone else who is politically minded should too.
"Don't comply in advance" is a great sentiment, but you can go […]
"Don't comply in advance" is a great sentiment, but you can go […]