Call 911 — I just witnessed a murder.😀

The Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama is the president of the UN security council this month, and when Russia tried to argue multiple times, Ukraine speaking in the UN was “against the rules”, Edi Rama replied:

“I must say, coming from you, all this about breaking the rules — it is quite an impressive shot. But there is a solution for this: You stop the war, and president Zelenskyy will not take the floor.”

From 6:30 and onwards:
https://youtu.be/MCzwOJzHjjE?si=P7w0q3Nx4DHHWaeu

being a programmer is very liberating because i can turn any computer problem into a much weirder computer problem

I’m still waiting for Scott Bakula to leap in and fix this mess I created.

“There is absolutely nothing wrong with a parent deciding a certain book is not right for her child. There is a colossal problem with a parent deciding that, therefore, no child should be allowed to read that book.” - Jodi Picoult

Senator Susan Collins is threatening to wear a bikini to work. Why? Because Chuck Schumer has done something that threatens the very fabric of the republic: relaxing the Senate’s dress code. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/john-fetterman-attacked-republicans-senate-dress-code-1234827861/

This chatbot could’ve been a form

I want to address something I've been thinking about recently. As far as Religion, Afterlife, ect, I'm solidly in the "I don't know" camp, and I'm fine with that. I think any Religion, Religious Institution, or Religious Leader who has used spiritual beliefs to oppress, control, manipulate, or financially gain from other people should be both questioned and mocked, and I have no problem doing it, or with other people doing it.

The issue I run into on Mastodon is Aggressive Atheism. I have no issue with atheism at all, but I do have a problem if it's used to attack other people for their personal spiritual beliefs. If someone is making a comment about something they believe personally, and they aren't hurting anyone with it, jumping into the comments to say "PROVE GOD IS REAL" is just as annoying and pointless as a couple Religious people knocking on your door, and telling you, you must accept their Lord. This is simply a matter of respecting other people.

I recently made a physical object that defies all intuition. It’s a square of acrylic, smooth on both sides, totally transparent. A tiny window.

But it has the magic property that if you shine a flashlight on it, it forms an image of a cat.

Hiding Images in Plain Sight: The Physics Of Magic Windows

https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering

#Science

I just uninstalled Facebook.

I’ve been getting in arguments with my brother and aunt.

They’re anti-vaxxers. Meanwhile, my uncle (brother-in-law to the anti-vax aunt) died last year from COVID. If the vaccine had been available then, he’d still be alive.

I’m so sick of reading the comments of these ignorant people. I’m sickened by the fact that these ignorant people are my kin. I don’t understand why these ridiculous conspiracy theories about the pandemic and the vaccines exist. Why do so many people seem to care so little about the suffering of others?

How can my aunt in good conscience share a post about Jesus and loving your neighbor, and then an hour later try to defend a nurse who refuses to get vaccinated so that she can protect her patients? How are those things compatible? Doesn’t loving your neighbor require you to try and protect them from a deadly virus?

I’m sick of having these arguments, and sick of trying to keep my head from exploding by reading this nonsense. So, I uninstalled the app and I’m probably not coming back until the world makes a little more sense again.

Maybe by then, I will have decided that seeing my siblings’ vacation photos aren’t worth being on that predatory network anyway. We’ll see.

When I spend like four days trying fix a bug, and finally find the cause of the bug, and the fix is a single line of code changed, and less than twenty bytes, I don’t know if I should be relieved or upset.

#LearningIsAwesome #Fantasy #ScienceFiction

There’s lots of anime that are music based. Maybe a character was a former idol (Kageki Shojo), or a group of friends are starting a band (K-On), or it’s more directly involved in the music industry (Nana).

What I want to see is a group of girls forming a kawaii metal group. Kawaii metal is already a kind of subversion of expectations. Having a series about this group of cute girls who have never even listened to metal now having to dress in mostly black and rock out. They have to learn how to get over being uncomfortable with something so unfamiliar to them.

It would definitely be amusing.

#Anime #KawaiiMetal #BabyMetal

#ConversionTherapy #StarTrek #LowerDecks