"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."

I just remembered how Republicans and Fox News kept telling everyone that waterboarding wasn't torture.

These people are evil. Always have been.

how are you supposed to explain that the Deptartment of Education is posting nods to alt-right pedophilic gender-swapping fanfic without sounding like an insane person

We must defeat fascism by any means necessary.

Even if it means voting.

Seriously, switch to Bluesky. I keep getting reminded of how this site is basically 4chan.

New York graffiti.

The defining trait of consumers as a group is being unorganized and (though they'll never admit it) controlled by advertising.

Corporations and the politically organized can manipulate/regulate a market, but consumers can only order off the menu they're handed.

Pro-tip: Put "before:2024" in your youtube search to avoid the AI slop.

I wonder if intelligent octopi evolved if they'd be like, "It's cool how you humans can hold a pencil behind your ear."

Okay, new business idea. You know how sometimes people leave spare change in their car's cupholder? The first step is to raise $12 to invest in a hammer...

My startup bakery is able to make cakes for $20 that people will pay $10 for. But after a billion dollar investment, I was able to make them for $15. After another $1b funding round, my team can make em for $12.50.

I'm proud to announce that we can now make $10 cakes for $11.25.

“You Can’t Say Anything These Days” Says Man Who Says Whatever He Wants All The Time

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I'm thinking of a random number between 1 and 18,446,744,073,709,551,616. Take a guess.

Getting angry that 1 GB is sometimes used to mean 1,000,000,000 bytes, what are you doing this evening?

Trump voters in 2026:

"I voted to be racist, not poor!"

Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q3, 2026! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #Python
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I'm proud to become a sponsor of Kovid Goyal, who has been maintaining the Calibre ereader project for many years now. If you have a couple bucks extra each month, consider become his sponsor too.

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I want to create Stack Overwrong. It's like Stack Overflow, except it's seeded with questions that have AI-generated wrong answers, and then waits for nerds to post corrections.

Hey if you've got a desktop computer that's always online, I have a project to help create transcriptions for PyCon talks at pyvideo.org that could use help. DM me for details.