Stripping abortion rights away nationally, imposing their beliefs on every American--that is their true goal. And the GOP won’t stop until it's achieved.

The fact is, the Republican Party has been hijacked by a White Christian nationalist movement that wants to impose its own “morality” on the entire country, not merely red states: https://bit.ly/3WmTdlX

#voyager and #tng will always be my favorites, but #ds9 spoke to me in ways I needed, when I needed it.

Ben Sisko’s Non-Linear, Non-Binary Arc in Deep Space Nine’s “Emissary” Saved All My Lives https://www.tor.com/2023/02/28/ben-siskos-non-linear-non-binary-arc-in-deep-space-nines-emissary-saved-all-my-lives/

This #Caturday here is Peabody (Peebs), a holstein cat with a boca grande and a meow to match.

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats

My obligatory #Caturday #lolcat

#Cats

Metrowerks Code Warrior development system for #MacOS and #Solaris

#VintageComputing #RetroComputing #mac

Recognize 8 Signs of Terrorism CD from multiple federal and state government agencies and The CELL.

#infosec #VintageComputing #security

https://www.tor.com/2023/03/02/20-newly-discovered-terry-pratchett-stories-will-be-published-this-year/

Is anyone still even using #lastpass at this point??

LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/lastpass-hackers-infected-employees-home-computer-and-stole-corporate-vault/

Whoever wrote #pandas and #numpy have a special place in hell for their function naming conventions. Sure, why not use undiscoverable and completely unself-documenting function names? Why not write them like it's still 1978 and make sure you conserve that 16kb of RAM?

It's so clearly written by mathematicians and not software engineers it makes my head spin. Every modern language has moved on to verbose naming conventions sometime around 1994 but Python? Nope. You're still stuck writing like you're K&R on a goddamn PDP-11 in Bell Labs.

To all the new #ml / #ai students/programmers, no this is not normal, and no, no sane programmer in 30 years has written any software that looks like Pandas or NumPy's conventions (outside of microcontrollers).

Ezri, my dog daughter, apparently thinks I control the weather and blames me for the winter snow storm. She's so excited this morning and I open the door and she stops dead in her tracks, looks at the snow, looks at me, her eye narrows, and I see the gears moving behind her eye as she's wondering how she will get fed after I wake up dead.

#DogsOfMastodon #dogs

There should be no doubt that fascism is on the rise in the US, and that Florida is its epicenter:

"[DeSantis backed] legislation proposes sweeping changes to Florida’s libel and defamation law. It presumes information from anonymous sources to be false and removes protections that allow journalists to shield the identity of sources if they are sued. It limits the definition of who would qualify as a public figure. . . In another section of the bill, claiming that a person discriminated against someone based on their race, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity would be considered defamatory on its face."

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/politics/os-ne-defamation-bill-filed-20230221-dnwg62x5afenpdqpuj5d773hnu-story.html

#Boulder High School is on lockdown after unconfirmed reports of a person with a gun. The shelter-in-place is issued for Goss Grove between Broadway to the west, Folsom Street to the east, and Canyon Blvd to the North, and University Ave and Taft Dr to the south.

Students advised to stay away from school. Students already present at school have been bussed to Macky Auditorium at #CUBoulder

The police are sweeping the school room by room.

There are reports of similar threats to other #Colorado schools in Canon City, Aspen, and Brighton. It is unclear whether these are all connected.

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL) introduced a bill (cosponsored by Boebert & Santos) making the AR-15 the “National Gun of America.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a bill to award killer Kyle Rittenhouse with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) says Ukraine is not our friend and Russia is not our enemy.

The GOP is far, far too extreme to govern.

The return to the office could be the real reason for the slump in productivity. Here’s the data to prove it | Fortune

https://fortune.com/2023/02/16/return-office-real-reason-slump-productivity-data-careers-gleb-tsipursky/

#wfh #quietquit

I'm done with hearing how "hard it will be" to prosecute Trump because he's a former POTUS. Hard why? Because suddenly the rule of law stops working in his presence?

That's horse shit!

They only thing standing between us and prosecuting Trump (and every single Republican co-conspirator) is us - and our news media's insistence that "both sides do it".

The choice isn't between political parties! It's between democracy and authoritarianism.

That is not a hard decision.

https://howtolivebullshit-free.com/2023/02/18/prosecuting-trump-is-not-hard/

A few pics from the Picard season 3 premiere…

Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.
Transgender rights are human rights.

When watching "King of the Hill," I noticed the streaming was glitchy, but only on that channel. Checking Fox News, it was just a continuous stream of $h!t sounds.

This is more undeniable evidence that the right is being "shadow banned" and censored.

#politics

George Santos (R-NY) and MTG (R-GA) have introduced an anti-LGBTQ+ bill (H.R. 863) that "prohibits a publishing house from knowingly furnishing sexually explicit material to a school" and defunds any school who use books/materials deemed "sexually explicit."

Cory Mills (R-FL) said it will "end the sexualization of children in schools," b/c this is a HUGE problem.

Ted Cruz (R-TX), arguably the most gender-aware person in the Senate, offers support and his definitional prowess.

Schools are distributing pornography by including any discussion of LGBTQ+ people. when this discussion occurs in the presence of children who haven't decided to be gay yet, it is called the "sexualization of children."

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) shared a fake news article that claimed the left wants to be "teaching pornography" to children in schools. When his deceit was discovered he revealed it was never about evidence, saying, "It could easily have been real."

#politics