A study just came out showing the majority of Americans can’t afford a minimal quality of life/basic cost of living.

The majority.

The richest country in the world is failing to provide for most of its citizens while the billionaires get richer.

Remember this the next time they talk about making America healthy again.

People need universal health care and basic income. Access to clean air and water. An end to food deserts and inequality.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cost-of-living-income-quality-of-life/

Your future doctor is using ChatGPT to pass medical school, so you better start riding a bike and eating healthy now.

We. Are. LIVE!

https://apply.coop

There might only be a handful of co-ops and positions, but its up to all of you to help spread the word to co-ops/non-profits to list their job openings. We will do our part as well!

From all of us at @limeleaf@social.coop we thank you!

#applycoop #Coops #JobBoard #GetFediHired #Hiring

favorite bookmark: evolving wilds ^^ (i have quite a few different editions of it)

"I've heard people suggest that products that last slow economies. That isn't true. They change who gets to make money."

This right here is probably the real driver of disposability. If things last, rich parasites don't make excess profits from people continually replacing manufactured goods. Instead ordinary people keep the income from repairs in their circles. Can't allow working class people to thrive, or they won't be willing to be pawns any longer.

@futurebird

#ElonMusk #Capitalism #Billionaires

God is asleep, post #9front in random places.

https://www.lulu.com/shop/stanley-lieber/9front-clause-15-common-elements-of-maus-and-star-type/paperback/product-8462e7j.html

i missed santa fe, it's alive <3

A programming language that resembled magical circles.
docs: https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/README.html
All sigils: https://suberic.net/~dmm/projects/mystical/docs/operators.html
by @yomikoma

A rant on why I think we need realistic Solarpunk, plus some other things 1/2 ☀️

Felt compelled to make this. It will finally stop floating around in my head 🎉

Podcast over here if you're interested: https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts

#solarPunk #hopePunk #art #myArt #comics #sustainability

man weekend vibes dont hit the same when youre unemployed and the death cult of ahih continues its massacre in plain sight

still here, making it happen | https://nilfm.cc/endless_amorphic_oxidation.html

oops, I'm a few days late, but MS finally released a patch for the issue I reported last year - CVE-2025-26684
Defender for Linux can be tricked into executing arbitrary code as root. Writeup: https://astr.al/notes/2024-11-28_mdatp_privesc

some reboosts would be much appreciated <3

#microsoft

#freebsd #unix_surrealism #linux

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.

Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.

The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.

#climate #climatechange

is... is the opensearch specification just a big fat lie?

[MACHINE BEEPING INSISTENTLY]

i... i'm gonna build my own $THING with hookers and blackjack...

high standard, general purpose recording

nine9 style, know what i'm sayin? comin at ya!

still out here, i am open for #freelance work!

#webdev, #systemsProgramming, #UI, whatever!

my studio: https://lightcrystal.systems

code forge: https://forge.lightcrystal.systems/nilix

my personal space: https://nilfm.cc

lets connect! #fediHire

you want mommy to buy you a computer? here's some stuff you can do around the house to help out =w=

... https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/170163871

#unix_surrealism

happy 420

when your best friends girl is really jealous that youre a cute slut but doesnt know what a lesbian is

If you're question is "Well what am I supposed to do?!?!"

Great!!!!

That is an *awesome* place to start.

If you had to start from scratch all by yourself, start with "root cause analysis" and then work backwards to a solution.

Chances are, though, you don't. Chances are someone (and many someones) are already working on it.

So the pragmatic answer right now is sort out what problem you want to fight against, and then find groups working towards that, and then join those groups, and then find a place to pitch in or lend a shoulder.

I recommend starting local and working local. Often times you can work a little bit and it scales across multiple areas.

And if you're worried about "talking to people", don't worry, there's a metric shit ton you can do without interacting with a lot of people.

I literally went out and planted food trees for about thirty minutes last weekend. I didn't talk to many people at all. And that's going to feed people. And I'm going to do it again and again as I have time. Not talking to people. Just planting food forests.

I am absolutely certain that YOU can find something that you can do while hating being around other people that still undercuts all the bullshit of those folks that want to stick THEIR NOSE into all of OUR BUSINESS.

Fuck them.

Go out and do something within YOUR capabilities and YOUR comfort zones that sticks a thorn into THEIR sides and helps out you, your family, your friends, and your neighbors.

@fstateaudio - Deep In

https://faircamp.fstateaudio.com/fugue-state/

#unix_surrealism #music #technomage

External Attachment: technomage listens to fugue state audio

eeeeee i should put on some music and do chores before it gets super laaaaaaate

the more i do tonight the less i have to do tomorrow ><

its official: after 3 years in corpo im back to freelancing. got a gig lined up and put in my resignation at wex. its like i can freakin breathe for the first time in a year and a half

definitely a weird week but it aint over yet. lets get WEIRDER

slab is a cheeky counter and dice roller for gamers | https://nilfm.cc/slab.html

aleph - stateless multiple choice survey engine | https://nilfm.cc/aleph.html

im doing it. im making beautiful things to put into the world that is so determined to be ugly and cruel

the tariffs really are the perfect political opportunity to push forward some radical moves in local politics. legislation supporting new & existing local worker-coops and energy & food cooperatives wouldn't just be an abstract climate issue but an immediate and sane response to national economic policy.

I'm probably going to reach out to my local city council members to float this with them. We have some real lefties right there who might be willing to bite

i am looking for freelance work; im a philosopher by training and have been working as a developer in both freelance and fte capacities for about 6 years; comfy with go, dotnet, c, js, ts, semantic html and css from scratch, angular, react, web components, shell, python, crystal... but i can hit the ground running on anything

im in the US currently but looking to move to the EU

stuff i like building/working on

• little customizable web tools (https://slab.dungeon.moe, https://aleph.dungeon.moe (this one is lewd, youve been warned) https://felt.lightcrystal.systems, https://nilfm.cc/nirvash)
• awesome minimal websites (https://nilfm.cc, https://ecotherapynm.com, https://siroonian.com)
• one of a kind desktop apps (https://nilfm.cc/taro)

cv with contact info: https://nilfm.cc/cv

#fedihire

Sometimes I wish there was a way I could plug something directly into my head and folks could see and feel what I think about what’s possible.

I’m often annoyed with the present because of all distractions that weight us down and don’t give us space to dream. I feel our imaginations are neutered because we are so bogged down by having to survive systems that want to keep impoverished.

I can’t exactly tell you exactly where I learned to alchemize that rage into fuel to build stuff, but it’s become a source of motivation even as we watch old decrepit systems crumble.

I so strongly FEEL a better more human centric sustainable future is within our grasp, right now if we embrace that we need to let the old world go.

That thought sits in my brain constantly, which is why I’m so relentless about pushing forward.

We’re almost there.

yes to be clear my code forge has been memlocked by aggressive AI scrapers off and on for a couple months, finally pushing me to deploy anubis this weekend. fuck them

Solid, high-quality sneer from Adactio - the end is a particular highlight:

The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.

If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.

this is a weird live coding set

same shit different day... but not for long ^^

People in the streets is unequivocally good.

besties, the news today is awful! the anchors are saying existence is fleeting and nothing can escape change. the unpredictable universe abounds with incomprehensible mysteries, and we will not live to understand the echoing impact of our mortal deeds! besties my frail vessel struggles to contain the fraction of the universe that looks through my eyes, while the nature of the joy i do find proves ineffable. besties the newwwwws!!!

Remember kids, if you still feel intense bloodlust after having a snack and drinking water it means it's time to blast some funky music and clean the house till it goes away.

Follow for more #lifehacks and #protips

I made a wallpaper version. 2k resolution. Art by @prahou@merveilles.town

#unix_surrealism #9front #plan9 #glenda

walk up to the counter at the ups store and ask a question in my best casual girlvoice, i am wearing a short skirt and have zero blemishes or stubble/shadow today...

immediately misgendered by the person behind the counter

happy trans day of visibility i guess?

Students learning to code should not use LLMs because the stuff that the LLMs are good at is the stuff you should be practicing.

Learning a language takes practice. Shortcuts deprive you of that practice.

@chu @kkarhan

I want to springboard off of your post, as a random person living in the US, if that is okay. This is to the international community.

There are many people here in the United States who want to take action, they do care, but they are scared of the consequences. They see all the people around them going on about their business, the siren call of normalcy bias makes wanting to go about your normal life irresistible. There are also a lot of people, myself included, who live in predominantly red (as in fascist republican) areas that believe when they start pushing back it could lead to hardship and ruin.

We are a heavily corporate controlled society that has been plied with bread and circuses for far too long. That's why it is important that we, including the international community, keep shouting from the rooftops that this is not normal.

There are answers to our fears here in the states. Efforts like mutual aid and grassroots networks of like-minded individuals. I see this happening. I'm personally working hard to get myself into a position where I can be more effective, and I try to encourage other people doing that. We don't have to attack the entire thing. We can pool our individual talents for the benefit of the wider resistance movement.

But, again, we're still learning what all this means and how to do it. Because it's not like in the movies we all grew up on, the ones that lied to us and told us we were all just embarrassed heroes, or main characters. It's very different when the production isn't being directed by Steven Spielberg.

All I ask is, please do not give up on us. You're disappointed, angered, frustrated, pissed off, etc, at the lack of the average American's response to this dive into a fascist state that America is turning in to. I get that. I share those feeling.

Just please don't give up on those of us who know this is bad but are having to learn resistance from the ground up.

Mastodon is my online echo chamber of people who give a crap about what happens to other people.

My long inaccessible FB account was my glimpse closer to reality of a world where people DGAF about other people. Endless posts about beach vacations, lunch, new purchases.

I had to leave FB because it got too much. I preferred to believe that more people were like me. But this is also an illusion.

I finally understand how concentration camps came to be and how life carried on despite it. My own sibling in the US has told me that things are "pretty normal" where he is.

I don't see how people around you getting arrested, your government literally building a concentration camp and flying people to foreign lands can be classified as "normal". But he just goes about his business.

All he cared about was paying less taxes and making money. He will soon discover the cost of 'normal' was having scientists keep track of diseases and prevent their outbreaks, educators toiling to maintain an educated workforce, air traffic controllers keeping planes from falling out of the sky.

All he ever saw were the dollars that things cost him, not the benefits, direct or indirect.

As things falls apart, he won't care until it affects him personally. It will be too late. As long as he can keep doing his work, running his business, selling his stuff... it's all "normal"

But he is a better reflection of "normal" than I am. The army of people who care here are outside the norms.

And it's the inertia of not caring that allows horrors to go on. The gatekeepers of media will make sure the population continues to care as little as possible. They will keep showing us beach photos and handbag purchases.

Distributed information sharing like Mastodon will be important in any kind of resistance efforts as the information will still be visible.

Then the next challenge is getting people who don't think any of this is important to care. You don't need everyone, but enough people. You need people who just want to get to work and do their thing to think that the lives of other people are worthy of caring about.

that numb rmx~~~

when you wake up from a nap and damn near have a panic attack :>

FREAKY FRESH OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

not all implementations are as enlightened as #honk

The village elders used to tell us stories of how the ancients responded to rising costs with something called prices. We should investigate this lost science.

Dear #Fediverse.
Or really, Dear #internet.
For the 30th year.
#OctaviaButler

oh by the way... my new ink is healed

My gpu can’t handle such graphics #theLudarium

type of girl whose brand new laptop dies in 2025 and so she just installs os/2 warp 4 on a thinkpad a30 and decides that's good enough

Would you look at that, it's tmp.0ut Volume 4! Happy Friday, hope you enjoy this latest issue!

https://tmpout.sh/4/

after i budget my taxes i should just quit and freelance.... with the fire under my ass maybe id actually make it work... stupid? probably; but the bouts of cognitive dissonance are getting pretty frequent

tired of touching computers, i wanna touch grass and girls

new world chaos 6: sephirot subspace distortion | https://nilfm.cc/mixes.html

black fire aflame | https://nilfm.cc/black_fire_aflame.html

uspol? electoralism

seeing a lot of election analysis today bemoaning that gen z is rife with accelerationists. not sure what to think of that except "what do you expect from the most illiterate, most abandoned cohort of the last seventy years"

I want more devs to internalize that simplicity is the ultimate expression of skill.

Making the complex easy to understand is the mark of true intellect.

NotImplementedException

I propose that I cease working for capitalist megacorp and spend my time tinkering with electronics, computers and associated ephemera.

And also that everyone is able to do this or any other thing that interests them without fear of being evicted or starving.

I don't think this is unreasonable.

yes hello i would like my livelihood without the capitalism please