Come what may and hell to pay

33 year old Canadian queer, they/them

[emeraldcas]

don't listen to them babe just keep opening more tabs in your browser

[buttastic]

feeling like I am perhaps downwind from an argument my brother in law is having with his fiancée about wedding planning

[animentality]

[dramatic-dolphin]

please stop writing "viscous" when you mean "vicious", it produces the weirdest mental images ever

[dramatic-dolphin]

"a viscous murder" yeah i don't want to know what that could look like

[transmasc-wizard]

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[krakenartificer]

#and vice versa btw#i don’t know what a vicious fluid would be like#and i don’t want to find out

it looks like the Boston Molassacre of 1919

[vexheart]

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

[kosmogrl]

[glowingghosty]

[dama-lara]

[step-bunny]

“Circling”

Gerda Wegener, 1920

[vixvigil]

at least sisyphus only had one never-ending task. i have like 50 and all of them cost money

[sailorfggot-deactivated20260514]

Tumblr: oh you posted clavicle? I’m so sorry diva that’s against TOS and flagged as mature explicit content

Tumblr: here’s an ai porn ad

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[hxneyfarm]

Happy pride month specifically to folks on the asexual and aromantic spectrum who oftentimes feel isolated and left out of the conversation. You belong here as much as the rest of us and I hope that you are all loved in a way that is comforting to you.

[anxeious]

[kaity--did]

Absolutely love how emotionally aware my child is for a 4 and a half year old do not however love stubbing my toe on the island for the 100th time today and hearing "hey mama it's okay to cry! It's not okay to throw a fit though, and we hafta re-...we have to reconitize the difference"

[kaity--did]

When I immediately say "oh no thanks" to a food she offers me she says "oh mommy, chefs try new foods. Can you take one , two, bites for me and if you really don't like it then I won't ask forever again deal?"

like you know what fine sure I'll try your truly heinous concoction because I do in fact hafta respect the deals

[mildmayfoxe]

1) any stretching is better than no stretching

2) any vegetable is better than no vegetable

3) statistically you will never be the worst person at anything, there is always someone in the world who is worse at stuff than you are

[senatortedcruz]

Happy pride lgbts who’s ready for the same discourse we’ve been litigating for 10+ years to hit the internet?

[andmaybegayer]

Stories like this are funny, sure, but the correct lesson to take from the "our {junior developer, dog, LLM, senior developer, disgruntled accountant, rube goldberg machine} deleted our entire production database" is not that you shouldn't have had that {junior developer, dog, etc.} but that it should not have been possible for that to happen in the first place, your system architects were so incompetent they didn't set up access control.

Ideally you should use something like an Object Capability model, but even basic rules like "you require the Special Key that we only deploy on production systems to even access the production database" and "our git repository doesn't allow anyone to push anything that deletes history on main unless they have the CTO's ssh key" go a very long way towards preventing this from happening by accident.

If you are currently at a company where you could delete the production database without at least having to do something that involves typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" you should find out who you can yell at about it.

(if your daily work requires typing "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired", this is the same problem. If you're writing scripts that inject "I am forcing this run right now without oversight and if it breaks anything I will get turbo-fired" into an automated process, maybe just look for a new job)

[fforsythiaaa]

Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.

Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.