Tertium Quid
@shinyhexagon.com
I.T. Ops nerd, aspiring Real Programmer, philosophy enthusiast, leftist, queer liberationist. ACAB.
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It is not my birthday anymore but these are good pictures
Goodmorniiing
Today is my birthday! You should follow me if you like cool art!! 🎉🎂🍰🥳🎊🎁
Today is my birthday! You should follow me if you like cool art!! 🎉🎂🍰🥳🎊🎁
September 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It is not my birthday anymore but these are good pictures
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If you just assume that most stories about crime waves being pushed by the police are propaganda without much (if any) basis in fact, you'll rarely be proved wrong.
‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare
‘Fear and anxiety’: What our police FOI requests uncovered about Vancouver’s stranger assaults scare
Internal emails obtained through Freedom of Information requests shed light on the Vancouver Police Department's media strategy related to stranger assaults ahead of the city's 2022 election.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:08 AM
If you just assume that most stories about crime waves being pushed by the police are propaganda without much (if any) basis in fact, you'll rarely be proved wrong.
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Basically, the Liberals are such corrupt refs that they're ruining the game, even for the teams they're rigging it for.
August 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Basically, the Liberals are such corrupt refs that they're ruining the game, even for the teams they're rigging it for.
Dear @theguardian.com: fuck you and fuck your transphobic garbage rag.
I am one of the 14 authors who chose to leave the Polari Prize, and I find myself frustrated and saddened at the way this entire story has been represented. 1/
John Boyne says LGBTQ+ fiction prize backlash brought him ‘close to the edge’
August 16, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Dear @theguardian.com: fuck you and fuck your transphobic garbage rag.
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it's great how we tag team too. like the admin appoints someone new and this site is like "alright defense bros, you're up, whos got the good posts on this"
I love how half the people staffing the administration have been dunked on by people on here
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
it's great how we tag team too. like the admin appoints someone new and this site is like "alright defense bros, you're up, whos got the good posts on this"
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It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209.
Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.
www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...
Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.
www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...
Sign the Petition
Stop Bill S-209’s De-Anonymization of Every Canadian Adult
www.change.org
August 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
It was only a matter of time, but Canada has joined the censorship bandwagon with Bill S-209.
Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.
www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...
Sign the petition, call your MPs, raise hell.
www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...
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Thinking about the TNG ep where they thaw out some 20th century knuckle heads and how they were able to use the wondrous new technology without creating an account
July 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Thinking about the TNG ep where they thaw out some 20th century knuckle heads and how they were able to use the wondrous new technology without creating an account
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what's it gonna take, people? like there are SEVERAL people who i respect who do really good journalism who won't fucking leave substack and it's driving me MENTAL.
I’ve tolerated the Substack app because writers I value publish there, & its daily notifications for people I don’t follow are tedious but ignorable. Today it pushed me straight hate speech. I hope settings>notifications>preferences>marketing>”suggested content” is the way to turn this off but oy
July 29, 2025 at 2:20 PM
what's it gonna take, people? like there are SEVERAL people who i respect who do really good journalism who won't fucking leave substack and it's driving me MENTAL.
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If you work for MasterCard or Visa and want to blow the whistle on the situation internally toward Steam / itchio, create a ProtonMail for E2E encrypted conversation and email me at: anavalens@protonmail.com
July 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
If you work for MasterCard or Visa and want to blow the whistle on the situation internally toward Steam / itchio, create a ProtonMail for E2E encrypted conversation and email me at: anavalens@protonmail.com
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i guess if i had one regret it'd be so much better than the real number
July 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
i guess if i had one regret it'd be so much better than the real number
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Turns out the old editions are fine and you don't need to support this garbage
It's been brought to my attention by a friend that the folks at Renegade/World of Darkness are using AI art now, though I reckon this has been going on for a bit longer (gestures to my review of the V5 Players Guide).
The Art director is incompetent & WoD STILL does not care about quality control.
The Art director is incompetent & WoD STILL does not care about quality control.
July 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Turns out the old editions are fine and you don't need to support this garbage
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BCers, you have until 2 pm today to tell this electoral reform committee to get rid of first past the post. Or to keep it, if you're some kind of weirdo. Like, the bad kind of weirdo.
Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.
Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.
Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform - BC Green Caucus
In Summer 2025 the British Columbia Legislature is hosting an All Party Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform, which includes public engagement. We want YOU to participate!
bcgreencaucus.ca
July 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
BCers, you have until 2 pm today to tell this electoral reform committee to get rid of first past the post. Or to keep it, if you're some kind of weirdo. Like, the bad kind of weirdo.
Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.
Submitting is easy, you just have to make an account and then write your comment in a text box. That's it.
Absolutely immaculate take. This 100% will happen.
lol you’ve got an AI girlfriend?? ur putting techbros in charge of your relationship??? ok buddy lmfao ok champ
July 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Absolutely immaculate take. This 100% will happen.
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This is going to be a potentially triggering 35 part thread.
If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it.
Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.
If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it.
Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.
September 30, 2023 at 4:49 PM
This is going to be a potentially triggering 35 part thread.
If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it.
Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.
If you wish to share it, for the sake of your audience, please do not repost every section of it.
Share the start of the thread and allow your readers to decide whether to read the whole thing.
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Yesterday, I had to do some very quick thinking on my feet to address a senior leadership directive to embrace LLM tools. I think the best metaphor for what I did was departmental judo because the executive in question agreed with me while also looking mildly concussed.
July 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Yesterday, I had to do some very quick thinking on my feet to address a senior leadership directive to embrace LLM tools. I think the best metaphor for what I did was departmental judo because the executive in question agreed with me while also looking mildly concussed.
Just fucking pac-manning their way up the acronym, exactly as I expected they would
🚨🚨🚨 You cannot erase the T and the B from Stonewall. This is another step in delegitimizing people, living people, their safety and their rights.
1. Earlier this year, Trump erased transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument webpage, digitally burning the history we helped create.
Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people.
No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets.
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Now, he's doing the same to bisexual people.
No marginalized group will be safe from the admin's moving targets.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
July 10, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Just fucking pac-manning their way up the acronym, exactly as I expected they would
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Tech companies invented an "AI" that speaks like corporate middlemanagers and came to the conclusion that it meant the AI was sentient instead of the correct conclusion that middlemanagers aren't
June 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Tech companies invented an "AI" that speaks like corporate middlemanagers and came to the conclusion that it meant the AI was sentient instead of the correct conclusion that middlemanagers aren't
"Digital asbestos"
*Yoink* into the lexicon with ye
*Yoink* into the lexicon with ye
I'm going to be honest here, I think AI is going to do so much damage to the usable internet that even after it's inevitably crashes out, it's going to take years to disentangle from every space it's polluted, like digital asbestos it's gonna be time consuming effort and likely expensive venture.
I think AI is going to eventually tank in the longterm, but...
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
the only real way to combat this is single-interest communities. Forums, user comms, etc, with a barrier to entry. They become trustable knowledgebases. It's really the only way forward is to return to what worked best the first time
June 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Digital asbestos"
*Yoink* into the lexicon with ye
*Yoink* into the lexicon with ye
"It is what it is" and I am going to keep making it a problem until it fucking isn't
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
"It is what it is" and I am going to keep making it a problem until it fucking isn't
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Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
DriveThruRPG delisted a tabletop game about revolutions over “hateful” politics
Rebel Scum's censorship reveals the limits of Roll20's apolitical guidelines.
www.rascal.news
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Roll20, which owns DriveThruRPG, told Rebel Scum's designer (@9thlevelgames.bsky.social) that allowing their "hateful content" and political speech on its platform constituted a "slippery slope."
@reverendjesus.com you probably already knew this but apparently the Five-fingered Hand of Eris got into Unicode (U+2BF0): ⯰
This has to be one of the most convoluted magical workings of all time. Naming a dwarf planet from Greek myth is unsurprising. Making the symbol of it from a cheeky "fake"...
This has to be one of the most convoluted magical workings of all time. Naming a dwarf planet from Greek myth is unsurprising. Making the symbol of it from a cheeky "fake"...
June 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
@reverendjesus.com you probably already knew this but apparently the Five-fingered Hand of Eris got into Unicode (U+2BF0): ⯰
This has to be one of the most convoluted magical workings of all time. Naming a dwarf planet from Greek myth is unsurprising. Making the symbol of it from a cheeky "fake"...
This has to be one of the most convoluted magical workings of all time. Naming a dwarf planet from Greek myth is unsurprising. Making the symbol of it from a cheeky "fake"...
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Happy Summer Solstice!
Today is also World Humanist Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day.
We'll be celebrating with some of our members at Burnaby Village Museum today but wherever you are, take a moment to reflect on your connections to humanity and the lands you live on.
Today is also World Humanist Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day.
We'll be celebrating with some of our members at Burnaby Village Museum today but wherever you are, take a moment to reflect on your connections to humanity and the lands you live on.
June 21, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy Summer Solstice!
Today is also World Humanist Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day.
We'll be celebrating with some of our members at Burnaby Village Museum today but wherever you are, take a moment to reflect on your connections to humanity and the lands you live on.
Today is also World Humanist Day and National Indigenous Peoples Day.
We'll be celebrating with some of our members at Burnaby Village Museum today but wherever you are, take a moment to reflect on your connections to humanity and the lands you live on.
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anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america
June 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
anyone who's gonna go "it sucks but you gotta win over people first, slowly build the case for rights" for trans people should tell me, without looking it up, when they think interracial marriage reached majority approval in america