Xana, Bereft of Ducks and Defender of Gay
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Compromise with those who want you exploited or dead will not save you
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the trans person’s dilemma
We will always be defined in the manner which most disadvantages us, even if it directly contradicts a) observable reality and b) the way the same people defined us five minutes before
December 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
the trans person’s dilemma
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What if small government when helpless to stop capitalist exploitation and Big Government when helping capitalist exploitation?
December 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
What if small government when helpless to stop capitalist exploitation and Big Government when helping capitalist exploitation?
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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here we go (police incident report follows)
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 AM
here we go (police incident report follows)
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Working on a thought-tool called "stupid drunk guy in a bar". Works like this: If the take you're responding to is essentially being mumbled by a clearly very stupid drunk guy in the bar you're at, is it worth starting a big public discussion with him?
Today we've decided to center:
- some genre author with fewer than 2k followers who said something insipid about an industry where he has no relevant experience or connection
- a Cato Institute ghoul with the handle "normative" and a substack smugly saying we need to be more serious about eugenics
- some genre author with fewer than 2k followers who said something insipid about an industry where he has no relevant experience or connection
- a Cato Institute ghoul with the handle "normative" and a substack smugly saying we need to be more serious about eugenics
December 4, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Working on a thought-tool called "stupid drunk guy in a bar". Works like this: If the take you're responding to is essentially being mumbled by a clearly very stupid drunk guy in the bar you're at, is it worth starting a big public discussion with him?
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It's sad Americans believe they can vote their way out of the capitalist hellscape that the American ruling class have condemned them to. But bourgeoise electoralism won't save them cos the blue maga genocidal democrats and red maga fascist republicans are two wings of the same capitalist party.
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It's sad Americans believe they can vote their way out of the capitalist hellscape that the American ruling class have condemned them to. But bourgeoise electoralism won't save them cos the blue maga genocidal democrats and red maga fascist republicans are two wings of the same capitalist party.
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Great reporting and a knockout final line:
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
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‘Tinted windows and out-of-state plates’: How ICE watchers look for agents in their neighborhoods
Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make their job as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors.
share.google
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Great reporting and a knockout final line:
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
“Not long after, as the sun was going down, an SUV with tinted windows and an out-of-state license plate was seen barreling down a nearby street. It was followed closely by three cars, with drivers laying on their horns and whistling.”
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He's presenting this as an indictment on Bluesky, but this is the reaction Mark Cuban should get everywhere.
Bluesky is just a rare place where people who should receive hostile reactions to their very presence receive exactly that.
www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...
Bluesky is just a rare place where people who should receive hostile reactions to their very presence receive exactly that.
www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...
From the BlueskySocial community on Reddit: Mark Cuban Says ‘It Became Pointless’ To Post On Bluesky Due To The Hate He Gets There
Explore this post and more from the BlueskySocial community
www.reddit.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:40 AM
He's presenting this as an indictment on Bluesky, but this is the reaction Mark Cuban should get everywhere.
Bluesky is just a rare place where people who should receive hostile reactions to their very presence receive exactly that.
www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...
Bluesky is just a rare place where people who should receive hostile reactions to their very presence receive exactly that.
www.reddit.com/r/BlueskySoc...
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"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
Here's me. "Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity"
Hyperwealthy pedophilic genocidal dickweeds versus the rest of humanity - The Shot
It really is the 1% versus the rest of us. The stakes couldn't be higher. And the enemy could not be more depraved. Still, we'll win.
theshot.net.au
December 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"Oligarchal wealth is not created, it is extracted from the rest of us. Extracted from our wages, our time, our collective resources. Extracted from our happiness, our hairlines, stresses and spines."
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I think about this a lot in terms of union stuff (chatted with @vickyacab.bsky.social about it recently) companies would rather light any amount of resources on fire than have anyone else be able to have a single morsel of autonomy and control over their capital
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
If you have 8 million to just *give away*, you can afford to pay more tax.
November 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I think about this a lot in terms of union stuff (chatted with @vickyacab.bsky.social about it recently) companies would rather light any amount of resources on fire than have anyone else be able to have a single morsel of autonomy and control over their capital
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I'm writing a piece on extremism and the military and I have never run into so many people wanting to be off the record before. This plus thr fact that so many of us have been pushed to the margins is bad bad bad.
Every single journalist with expertise in extremism I know has been fired or their publication has folded.
Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.
Not a coincidence, of course. Grateful for their work, but unfortunately for almost all of us, this work will now have to be the side hustle.
November 4, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I'm writing a piece on extremism and the military and I have never run into so many people wanting to be off the record before. This plus thr fact that so many of us have been pushed to the margins is bad bad bad.
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Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner
November 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Centrism is the belief that society achieved perfection around the same time as you became a homeowner
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We know the reality is that societies are complex things, with wide variations over time and distance, and between classes and types. But still this "okay, but we have to choose: good or bad?"
It is no wonder that we end up with one-note cultures in planetary scifi; we apply this method there too.
It is no wonder that we end up with one-note cultures in planetary scifi; we apply this method there too.
November 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
We know the reality is that societies are complex things, with wide variations over time and distance, and between classes and types. But still this "okay, but we have to choose: good or bad?"
It is no wonder that we end up with one-note cultures in planetary scifi; we apply this method there too.
It is no wonder that we end up with one-note cultures in planetary scifi; we apply this method there too.
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This is so crucial, honestly.
And people will absolutely support the PoC who is the closest to their convenience out of this inability to grasp complexity but also because a lot of this support is, as Talia said, purely performative for other westerners.
And people will absolutely support the PoC who is the closest to their convenience out of this inability to grasp complexity but also because a lot of this support is, as Talia said, purely performative for other westerners.
People want identity shortcuts for "who is worth listening to" and "which ideas are correct" and I implore you all to abandon that impulse, because that's not the world we live in.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
Listen to the marginalized because our voices are erased, but also... think. Judge by word and deed.
November 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is so crucial, honestly.
And people will absolutely support the PoC who is the closest to their convenience out of this inability to grasp complexity but also because a lot of this support is, as Talia said, purely performative for other westerners.
And people will absolutely support the PoC who is the closest to their convenience out of this inability to grasp complexity but also because a lot of this support is, as Talia said, purely performative for other westerners.
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Moreover, if you're not trans, if you're not homeless, if you're not a farm worker, and you're already all in on Newsom, you might stop and ask yourself why you're so comfortable supporting a candidate who is so willing to throw the most vulnerable under the bus.
If that’s the case, then the Democrats at all levels have said trans people, farm workers, and the homeless have no place in their party. Why should we support someone who doesn’t represent us?
November 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Moreover, if you're not trans, if you're not homeless, if you're not a farm worker, and you're already all in on Newsom, you might stop and ask yourself why you're so comfortable supporting a candidate who is so willing to throw the most vulnerable under the bus.
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Read this thread from Talia. Especially if you used to be evangelical. Stop with the black and white thinking and learn to see nuance
The way Westerners discuss conservatism and oppressed people in non-Western cultures is so utterly, irreparably broken.
I did not say "white", by the way. I'd have said "white" if I meant "white".
I did not say "white", by the way. I'd have said "white" if I meant "white".
November 3, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Read this thread from Talia. Especially if you used to be evangelical. Stop with the black and white thinking and learn to see nuance
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everyone should get snap, and snap benefits should be larger and there should be no restrictions on what food/drink you can buy with it
November 3, 2025 at 2:16 AM
everyone should get snap, and snap benefits should be larger and there should be no restrictions on what food/drink you can buy with it
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ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment
US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say
U.S. citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents about children gathering at bus stop, lawyers say
Lawyers for Carlos Jimenez said he was in fear after an agent threatened him with chemical spray, then pointed a gun at him.
www.latimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 AM
ICE shooting a food bank worker in the back is a little on the nose for the current moment
This nails so much about the reactions to Silksong both in and out of the industry and why the game industry under unfettered capitalism only produces great things a couple times a decade
highly highly recommend
highly highly recommend
let's be honest about Silksong
YouTube video by lil bill
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This nails so much about the reactions to Silksong both in and out of the industry and why the game industry under unfettered capitalism only produces great things a couple times a decade
highly highly recommend
highly highly recommend
100%
Okay but if your medical intake form asks for my assigned sex at birth but gives me no option to indicate that I'm trans, I'm just gonna say I'm AFAB. Fuck that noise.
October 17, 2025 at 5:28 PM
100%
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i'm always saying this
I still think the Wall Street Journal should pay every trans person in America roughly $10k each for that "trans bullet casings" story they concocted
October 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
i'm always saying this
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So many folks throwing “radical anarchists” under the bus as talking points to show they’re the good guys, while they love the projects we do to support communities.
October 17, 2025 at 1:47 AM
So many folks throwing “radical anarchists” under the bus as talking points to show they’re the good guys, while they love the projects we do to support communities.
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this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters
October 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
this one doin numbers on mastodon but bsky doesn't let me have enough characters
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We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.
And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.
And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
We believe that in the wealthiest city in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world, working people deserve a dignified life.
And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.
And to the billionaires who think this movement is an existential threat to their corruption of our democracy: you're right.
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People are coming to my posts from yesterday like “the genocide is over, Microsoft isn’t working with Israel anymore, what’s wrong with you, will anything they do be enough for you hopeless radical extremists” when literally none of the above is true. Y’all’s brains are cooked
October 16, 2025 at 7:21 PM
People are coming to my posts from yesterday like “the genocide is over, Microsoft isn’t working with Israel anymore, what’s wrong with you, will anything they do be enough for you hopeless radical extremists” when literally none of the above is true. Y’all’s brains are cooked