Abstract Nonsense

any pronouns

[mybeanalgebra]

who are you

someone who likes maths and board games

[hazard-symbols-that-fuck-hard]

No words needed. Found at a train station in Germany.

[samreich]

next season: "the bachelor" featuring every grant

[inaturalist-unofficial]

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

[the-little-armored-one]

[cappuccinco]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign

[flareonfloof]

reblog this to pet the user you reblogged from please

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[fyrmayj]

Omfg I already reblogged once but then I kept reading the page and I'm cracking up. There are some real gems in addition to their very logical explanations...

'The catalog includes a Python learning environment, a text editor, a snake game, an IRC client with an honest disclaimer instead of an age gate, and an 8-line script called peepee that displays the word "peepee" in large letters and does nothing else.'

[theweirdwideweb]

[iamthecheesesandwitch]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous spider

[dogpuppy]

[chickenmim]

Dude... allow me to add to your trove.

I have a folder of these on my phone... I'm not sure what that says about me!

[quoth-de-crow]

@ominous-signs

[ominous-signs]

Official ominous sign(s)

[swordbymyside]

[julia1x5-deactivated20250903]

I refuse to let this be lost in the tags

[supreme-leader-stoat]

[bisexual-engineer-girl]

certified NJ post

[cupidcosmos]

Spot the difference (HARD)

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

Buran Orbiter

[clothed-gun]

Okay and the left one?

[identifying-planes-in-posts]

dogy

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[trickstarbrave]

[thalescircles]

This is such a delightful opening paragraph for a paper.

(From “Surfaces with Klein bottle topology occur in fusion reactor fields” by C. B. Smiet. Shared with me by my father-in-law, who is a physicist.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[jackironsides]

No, seriously, go read it.

The Cudgel

A law that the largest companies in the world already comply with, and that hundreds of small projects cannot comply with, is not a child safety law. It is a compliance moat. It raises the regulatory cost of providing an operating system just enough that only well-resourced corporations can afford to do it.

And:

the law is not about protecting children. It is about building compliance infrastructure.

Also:

The dropdown menu that asks your age is not there to protect you. It is there because a legislature required it. The correct response is to lie. Everyone knows this. The legislature knows this. The platforms know this. The child now knows this.

[orchidbreezefc]

[...] this law was never meant to be enforced against everyone it covers. It was meant to be enforced selectively. The large platform companies already comply. The small ones can't. The Attorney General has sole enforcement discretion. A law that gives a single office the power to selectively impose $7,500-per-child fines against any operating system distributor in the state — while ensuring that only the largest corporations can avoid liability — is not a child safety measure. It is a tool for selective prosecution. The children are the justification. The discretion is the product. We are trying to make the selective part difficult. If the AG wants to enforce AB 1043, we would like to be first in line. We are a clear violation. We are documented. We are findable. We are daring them. If the law is worth enforcing, enforce it against us. If it is not worth enforcing against us, ask why it exists.

this is so badass.

[nyancrimew]

[samreich]

choose your fighter

[mclennonyaoi]

i hate australian people they need a dumb fucking nickname for every single word. can’t even get in a car accident without some australian asshole coming up to you and saying “oh gotcha self in a carblammy there aintcha mate” kill yourself and go to hell

[mclennonyaoi]

fuck off are you serious?

[mclennonyaoi]

oh my god

[mclennonyaoi]

how do you have 2 silly words for a car crash

[relevant-wikipedia-articles]