ugh work dresscode is so evil. i want to wear my lacy dress today

ok i got the kuro frontend to agree with drifblim, i'm not giving up ><

she plan9port on my linux till i mount her over 9p

@BalooUriza I'm not talking about only republicans, but also democrats, unaligned centrists, and the politically disengaged masses. political leaning is irrelevant to the whims of the neoliberal core, the only thing that matters to them is control and profit - they get to manufacture the narrative and define reality to suit their desires.
remember in early 2022 when biden announced "its time to go back to work" as if hospitals weren't still saturated with COVID-related deaths? when the CDC abruptly changed their reporting methods and fabricated consent for mask mandates to be dropped almost everywhere?
I'm sure you remember most of this but it bears repeating again: all of this was done with intent. 2020's initial lockdowns exposed the US economy as a flimsy house of cards and pushed it to the verge of collapse. neoliberal elites begged for a bailout and received it under the guise of "relief" and "stimulus" packages, 0% interest rates, and the fed outright directly buying corporate debt under the quantitative easing program.
they took advantage of what was essentially unlimited "free" money to pump the stock market and completely detach it from the reality of the "working class" economy. by the end of 2021 the stock market went from a virtual crash to all-time highs and billionaire elites gained trillions in net worth.
all of this wealth extraction happened while us commoners were more concerned with trying to cope with the fallout of record inflation, unemployment, supply chain failures, >1 million COVID cases and hundreds of deaths daily. despite the bleakness of reality for the vast majority of americans, the neoliberal core wasn't satisfied with record profits and endless corporate liquidity, they wanted to "reopen the economy" and to abandon all the expensive safety guidelines. it took very little effort for them to coerce the government into declaring the pandemic officially over and to roll back what limited mediocre protections had been created.
we're still dealing with the fallout of this shit 4 years later, reality has finally been completely subverted as far as the current government and media is concerned. thankfully yes, more and more people are finally realising it's all bogus, but it shouldn't have had to get to this point before that happened

Oberon-core aesthetic

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=om5sWO9_-g4

#frogmetal #thestudio

the bad news- i have overtime this week because someone quit
the good news- i have overtime this week because someone quit

🌊 Smoky water and collapsing seaforts. Combining storm surges with neutral density filters and experimenting to create something a little different! I shot these long-exposure photos of the abandoned Karosta sea forts in Latvia.

I love how they turned out (even better that I, somehow, managed to not drop my camera into the sea!)

📌 Karosta Sea Forts & Coastal Defence Battery, Latvia

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Bell Labs Aeronautics

#unix_surrealism #comic #9front #plan9 #ai #space #glenda

at risk of stating the obvious | https://nilfm.cc/i_just_want_to_exist.html

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/fascismnew-federal-rule-would-require

No spoiler hiding for this one, my loves. I need EVERYONE to see this. Boost this fucker to the MOON. Screenshot it, include my name, and spread it EVERYWHERE.

Sorry for the grim news. But I think this is important, and I want each of you in your respective countries to think about whether you'd be willing to contact your representative to tell them to pressure Canada to open the doors to trans refugees.

That's it. No changes in your countries are needed - just people willing to stand up and say "Never Again". This is the bad one. This is the Nuremberg Race Laws being enacted. This will basically strip all ability from any federally-funded entity - ANY - that allows that trans people exist.

This one, my friends, I'm sorry, but it's the choice to genocide the trans population of the US. A nice quiet one. Where we all just fade into obscurity, and are never seen again. They want to cause us so much despair that we will take care of the final solution part for them.

Please. If you give a damn about humanity, and people's rights to live as who they are...basic human dignity. Health care. Not being force-detransitioned in prisons that we've been put into because we were designated terrorists by the Nazi regime of Trump.

Just contact your rep, whoever that is, wherever that is, and start that conversation for me, okay? Just ask them to start asking questions. Of Canada. We have a chance to save literally hundreds of thousands of innocent US trans folk.

I can handle the work on this end, in Canada. I have people I can mobilise, work with. But international pressure would be an ENORMOUS help.

If you want to translate my post into your language, please do. If you DM me the text, I will re-post it myself, and take the arrows for spreading the call.

I - we - need your help.

#trans #antifascist #USTransGenocide

ugh in addition to my stupid waste of time interview this morning the 2 most promising leads i had for contract work over the summer just backed out on me this past week after stringing me along. extremely frustrating.

finally finished fiddling with memory layout for the uxn side of kuro and starting routines for reading the 9pfs and drawing the UI :>

breakcore till midnight at open decks was great. everyone loved it and people were dancing hard

but i do need work that pays a living wage - https://lightcrystal.systems/consulting

I guess fundamentally my objection to vibe coding and LLM contributions in general is that, at least to me, the process of figuring shit out is the point.

I think cutting out that journey is bad engineering, because design docs are rarely correct on the first try.

🏳️‍🌈we come in all shapes and sizes
🍓🐉🍋💙🍇

HAPPY PRIDE!!!

i've been working on a whole little collection to go with this art, so keep an eye out!

#furry #furryart #pride #LGBTQIA #pridemonth #dragon #dragons #fruit

drawing yuri is very therapeautic

#SMT5Posting

I made a zine, it's called Fractions Are Everything, it invites the reader into looking at fractions a little differently.

The typesetting is done entirely in #Uxn.

https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/pocket_fractions

type of person who rolls up blasting in my memory by tiesto

utp

#unix_surrealism #art #computers

at my recent performance in kingston the showrunner did a livestream with a fun touchdesigner patch for some visuals. i start around 20 min in, but you should listen to federicos set and also our duo piece at the end 🌱

https://greenkill.substack.com/p/live-with-green-killfederico-balducci

#theStudio

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116630681087209164

Every time people tell you you’re overreacting to creeping government surveillance and you have to give them the “I told you so” glare.

The FBI wants to buy access to automated license plate readers (ALPRs) nationwide, which would likely allow the agency to track the movements of vehicles—and by extension people—across the country without a warrant.

https://www.404media.co/the-fbi-wants-to-buy-nationwide-access-to-license-plate-readers/

pokemon to SMT pipeline

girl who doesn't truly wake up till she has listened to breakcore over a cigarette

btw i created a repo for the CLI dollctl client dollcmd: https://forge.lightcrystal.systems/nilix/dollcmd

it's not much but it allows you to check status, create and stream datasets, or start/stop services from the command line currently! now that i went ahead and published this i'll probably implement a bunch of other stuff on my next days off ^^

ugh my funds are depleted. getting paid next thu/fri and im about to get overdrafted from some pending bills.

i could really use some help to keep things together for a few days

https://lightcrystal.systems/support #mutualAid

Poster design for an upcoming Milieu Therapy show put together by @uhhuhthem in which I'll play a Ritual Dust set (it's been a while!)