@sue as someone who learned to code for scientific computing but then has rarely needed the skill since grad school, using an LLM to support the occasional bit of coding I do has been great. Kind of like how Duolingo has been effective at improving my Spanish, which I took years of in school […]

@Nonilex I saw a sign up at my local Home Depot asking for pennies and wondered if it had to do with this. Their pricing is still not rounded, so it must be a real headache!

@heidilifeldman
The bases for my protest are rooted in a mix of love, despair, fury, and hope for my country.

It's been angering to be continually mischaracterized by Trumpists and the cowed media as both weak and violent, as both hateful and meek, as humorless easily bullied stiffs.

What […]

@emptywheel.bsky.social it was a demonstration of power - to define reality for those who will nod along, and “fuck your feelings” for anyone who finds it outrageous. Also one of those things where it’s a joke if you’re smart and think you’re in on it or real if you’re dim enough or racist […]

@mattblaze agreed. If we have to defeat each other, let’s do it in courts of law and in elections and debates. These conflicts will then strengthen our systems not undermine and upend them.

@leahmcelrath.bsky.social could be more practical for events when you have to put out a couple hundred folding chairs. And easier to maintain. But definitely uglier. I just take it as a minor instance of him needing to piss all over everything just to assert his dominance.

@thetnholler.bsky.social WTH does “don’t belong” mean - where are murderous people supposed to belong?

The notion of perfect victims only makes more victims because no one is perfect. And no one should need to think they need to be perfect to be taken seriously, or to get help to get away from someone who is exploiting them.

These "imperfections" also allow abusers to fail to see themselves as […]