my god, it's full of stars...

black woman. “I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.” -Federico García Lorca.

[rjzimmerman]

[fagdinner]

shoutout to my homies who are deeply bizarre and have something wrong with them

[transpigeon]

job search

[manoelt-finisterrae]

vapor de luz

© Manoel T, 2025

[savagechickens]

Cat Zen Tip 12.

And more change.

[moveslikekeithrichards]

memes cats would make

[ID: a simple chart showing two captioned illustrations. the first is a drawing of a smiling person labeled "The Person." underneath are bullet points which say: "nice to me," "calls me good boy names like Dumb Sausage and Stop," "put dinner," and "holding me because i never be bad." the second is a frowning person with an angry vacuum cleaner labeled "The Person (evil alter ego???) and the bullet points read: "LOUD," "maybe possessed by Bad devil or evil etc," and "chases me except if i hide behind the ladder thats been in the living room for 6 months it can't find me."]

[bogleech]

Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs probably don't work anymore; UPDATED with response from WB

Due to the way WB manufactured their DVDs, virtually all discs pressed between 2006-8 are unplayable now.

I don't even have a DVD collection and this is stressing me the fuck out. The personal collections, library collections, sheer amount of archived media that was apparently always going to "rot" decades sooner than expected, the amount of industrial waste it represents and the amount of collective money spent by people who though they would own these films for life is giving me existential horror.

[zooophagous]

Meta goes to arbitrator to prevent whistleblower from promoting tell-all book

An emergency arbitrator ruled that former Meta staffer Sarah Wynn-Williams is prohibited from promoting memoir of her tenure at the social m

Hey did you know there's a tell all book about the behind the scenes of Meta and the author is forbidden from promoting it?

The good news is however that it's already published and can't be stifled and whoever didn't sign the NDA can promote it as much as they want.

[kidmograph]

Catching the V I B E

[i-am-a-fish]

I'm glad that people are still having fun on tumblr even after we found out about the frightening ghoul that reblogs posts but doesn't say anything

[the-frightening-ghoul]

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[catboybiologist]

https://www.sfgate.com/california-parks/article/judge-says-park-service-reinstate-fired-employees-20220040.php

Public outcry works. Protest works.

Keep raising hell!

[treetreader]

[reasonsforhope]

More from the article below. Thanks for posting, op! Some excellent news. Keep resisting.

"A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the National Park Service and five other federal agencies to immediately reinstate probationary employees who were fired en masse last month, ruling that the Office of Personnel Management had no legal authority to mandate their terminations.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup, in a scathing rebuke of the Donald Trump administration’s actions, declared the mass firings a violation of federal law and accused officials of using procedural loopholes to sidestep legal protections. In addition to 1,000 employees who were terminated from the park service, his order affects employees at the departments of Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Defense, Energy, the Interior and the Treasury, who were abruptly dismissed in February.

“It is a sad, sad day when our government would fire some good employee and say it was based on performance when they know good and well that’s a lie,” Alsup said from the bench. “That should not have been done in our country. It was a sham in order to avoid statutory requirements.”

The judge made clear that while federal agencies can conduct layoffs, they must follow legally defined “reduction-in-force” procedures. He accused the Office of Personnel Management of orchestrating an unlawful workaround by directing departments to fire workers without due process.

As part of his ruling, Alsup barred the office from issuing any further guidance on employee terminations and ordered federal agencies to report back on their compliance with the reinstatement order. He also authorized depositions and further hearings to determine whether existing administrative appeal channels remain viable — or if they have been dismantled.

For park service employees, the ruling represents a hard-won victory, albeit a tenuous one."

-via SFGate, March 13, 2025

[politijohn]

It’s not lost on me that Bernie Sanders is the only mainstream politician touring the country rn listening to Americans’ concerns, giving them hope that a better world is still possible. Not campaigning for President, not an election year, just inspiring swing town voters to use their power to incite change in their communities.

Bernie is 83yo, doing the work that every single Democrat could be doing simply in their own district. He’s packing overflow rooms by the thousands in suburban and rural towns, not “democratic strongholds”. It is possible to get through the next four years but the status quo Dems aren’t going to make that happen.

Imagine what a true progressive party could do for the US. Leftist policy is popular and wins elections. Bernie and others have told us this for decades. If you tuned out his message before, I have to wonder what side you’re truly on. Because his shtick has not wavered with everyday Americans.

Not me, us.

[ranthaven]

When I was in college in the 80s, I lived in Vermont. Bernie was the mayor of Burlington then. I had the opportunity to vote for him on his first run for Congress. Life happened and I didn’t get another chance until 2016 when I registered as a Democrat for the very first time in order to vote for Bernie in the primary. I have never agreed with every single thing he’s said or done (Shrub’s Iraq adventure was one notable thing), but I have always supported him.

Too few politicians of any stripe are willing to get out and have real, public conversations with their constituents. If your rep comes home on the regular and holds town halls or other events to listen to you, go and talk to them. Never let an opportunity pass you by. Real democracy is an ongoing conversation. Real leaders never ignore a constituent or a hard question. Public service should be a satisfying thing to do, but that doesn’t mean it has to be easy.

[waningstarlight]

I find posts like these so frustrating and disingenuous. No, Bernie is not the only mainstream Democratic politician holding gatherings and meeting with people. I live in bright red Kentucky and the Democratic party here is having its second year of statewide rural town halls where they go to rural areas and meet with and discuss the issues that are affecting the local people.

There have been nonstop town halls by Democratic politicians since the beginning of this administration, but since they are being held by lesser known politicians, both the media and regular people act as if the Dens are ignoring their constituents. There's literally a whole slew of town halls being planned in Republican areas, but let's ignore those to pretend like Bernie is the only one meeting with people. (https://democrats.org/news/democrats-to-hold-peoples-town-halls-in-competitive-gop-held-districts-as-republicans-are-hiding-from-their-voters-constituents/)

Bernie will not save you. Bernie will not save America. If you are truly concerned with the direction of our government get involved in your local government, get involved with your local progressive or Democratic organizations, and most importantly VOTE.

[yokowan]

the number of spacecraft failures recently has been absolutely insane and it all comes down to tech bros barging into the industry going "it's not that hard wtf is nasa so bad" and then completely skipping out on any testing

[yokowan]

Recently, a privately funded asteroid mission failed immediately after launch. Here are some choice excerpts from the company's blog post about it:

they cost that much because they do integration testing

.....by skipping integration testing

"skipping integration testing was the right move actually"

come fucking on.

AND YOU FUCKING LAUNCHED ANYWAYS

it failed immediately you dipshits

or you could. i don't know. do integration testing?

source

[weerd1]

Hey, Fuckchop: If you did it for 10% but you have to do it 10 times? You fucking failed AND didn’t save any goddamn money.

[shadesofmauve]

Even if you had the money to throw away, why would you launch with known problems? What are you possibly learning from this? Were they just hoping those wouldn't matter? "Yeah, whoops, blew up an expensive payload because we figured it was worth rolling the dice on problems we already knew about instead of waiting for a new launch window!"

Launching-as-part-of-iterative-design only makes sense for a kid's model rocket you don't have other testing methods for. Or for things that don't explode.

[misscromwellsmonocle]

We'll make it through (2023) by Richie Carter

[towlerknows]

A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company | CNN Business

Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) polic

I wasn't aware of this one, so I'm trying to spread the word.

[politicalprof]

After today, I'd assume that every historical US ally that did not have a nuclear weapons program in deference to the US security umbrella will start or restart their nuclear weapons programs. They have no other reasonable alternative.

[wildestdreamsgardens]