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instead of commenting, what you do is subpost on your blog about how boneheaded the protocol design is and throw your hands up like "well shit still gotta deal with it"

2026-03-01 09:59:53 UTC

RFC is verry funny because it stands for "request for comments" and yet when most people talk about an RFC they refer to it with hallowed reverence because it's a standard and it would be silly to comment actually

2026-03-01 09:51:23 UTC

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wdym? sf has mosquitoes year round. chatgpt what ""landlords"" are

2026-02-28 03:50:26 UTC

https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/426f5a93da4ab55c43806a31f2c7457b1e3a1828feb65cc4b518365c68ecd62c.jpg

2026-02-17 08:46:36 UTC

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y'know if you think about it, northern china bbq iron pot tofu is kinda like a poutine

2026-02-12 06:51:05 UTC

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horrifying

2026-02-05 17:19:17 UTC

qr code found????
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2025-12-11 02:51:13 UTC

TIL that the word 貓 (māo, meaning cat) is sometimes used to mean networking modems (as a loanword from english MOdem). so that means 光貓 (guāng māo, literally "light cat") refers to fiber optical modems

2025-11-29 16:05:04 UTC

i did some research and i today i learned the following:
- tiles in china are bigger than tiles in japan (40mm+ vs 28mm)
- chinese people are surprised going to japan when they encounter small tiles
- tiles in sichuan are UNIQUELY big (50mm and growing???) due to omitting the winds and dragons and flowers, only using 108 rather than 144 tiles
this is why the market we went to today had 50mm 108-tile sichuan mahjong tilesets, but not 50mm 144-tile tilesets that had winds and dragons and flowers
#note17gt…9ngy

2025-11-22 15:53:46 UTC

played mahjong with my grandparents this week at a place with BIG TILES (standard poker cards for scale)
https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/464d34bf74ae8cb7d81b1ab91d8700a7055cc7fb0e87459f140e6faab5c25df2.jpg

2025-09-19 17:49:14 UTC

you're telling me a duck typed this language

2025-09-17 21:13:45 UTC

c++ templates are duck-typed haskell

2025-09-12 19:21:31 UTC

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there's a 14 hour video of nick fuentes going on a date with a nazi catboy and he still made his way into trump's inner circle

2025-09-12 19:19:31 UTC

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there's just something weird about the current era. internet celebrities are something entirely unique to this century and there's no good historical comparison of exactly where they occupy in the collective psyche because they're just such messy figures
people take celebrities and talk show hosts at least somewhat seriously. even if oprah had obama's ear she would still be considered a "serious figure." but like, it's hard to take anyone like tim pool or nick fuentes or charlie kirk seriously because their entire thing is that they are unserious! and that's what makes this current era weird because these people have had hour+ long conversations with the president of the united states

2025-09-12 19:12:00 UTC

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i still can't take this man seriously though. i know that this is going in a history textbook but really? this guy? he feels too unserious to go in a history textbook
he spent most of his career debating a bunch of stinky politics streamers with all sorts of disgusting scandals. he's so unserious he literally debated *vaush* on the fucking *timcast.* and now he's being treated as a serious figure even by centrist and liberal publications and there will be a line in the 2050 history textbook like "charlie kirk's assassination was an example of the political violence taking place in the 2020s"

2025-09-12 19:02:08 UTC

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to be fair, probably a good idea to stop it from spiraling before we get to the troubles. however, i do worry that some people are going to get bad ideas from this narrative

2025-09-12 18:59:20 UTC

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what we have now is nothing like the troubles as much as americans want to think it is
the troubles was paramilitaries on both sides fighting in the streets and blowing up buildings, and cops firing live ammunition into large crowds. on the other hand, what we have right now is lone gunmen shooting important figures and cops still putting up a show of doing the "less than lethal" thing. some of these headlines are acting like the second civil war starts tomorrow

2025-09-12 18:51:20 UTC

charlie kirk got shot and the entire media is acting like america is having the troubles

2025-08-29 22:03:18 UTC

https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/3f9b501bbb87f8f6d645a291e64645923794c6679ba586aeb44c1b716f134ea2.jpg

2025-08-09 04:04:56 UTC

watching this talk about the history of OOP rn and im so fucking pissed
so C++, the granddaddy of modern OOP, was based on bjarne strousop's experience with simula, and simula was in turn based on hoare (quicksort boi)'s writings on records in the 60s. and hoare was like "so here's how you can define TAGGED UNIONS to model a type as having subtypes, and here's an idea for a language construct called INSPECT that is basically just haskell's case, or rust's match, that lets you typesafely look inside each of these tagged unions." obviously not in those words but the idea of tagged unions is from at least 1967!
simula had an inspect construct, based on hoare's papers, but then bjarne fucking strousop dropped tagged unions and inspect in favor of frickin virtual functions as the only form of polymorphism! it's so fucked like we could have had tagged unions in c++ and in java and the other c++likes, but bjarne dropped it and im so pissed! you have to go all the way to rust in the evolutionary tree to see them come back, and rust stole those from functional programming!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wo84LFzx5nI

2025-08-03 21:23:09 UTC

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i like the em dash 😭

2025-08-03 21:22:43 UTC

ngl pissed that the em dash is now an AI shibboleth

2025-08-02 00:04:31 UTC

soda can for scale
https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/3e4cc6cc38650c5f419a8ad4afca2b13b40fd8b91dd53ebf930a26fb932e66b4.jpg

2025-07-30 00:17:11 UTC

preemptively searching for a tenants' rights lawyer by joining facebook groups for sf landlords and seeing who they hate the most

2025-07-18 07:35:33 UTC

https://nbg1.your-objectstorage.com/woem-space/ae411c304387d2e7e5d48217933bdec61847352ca42554f7c06df8fb8aace12c.png

2025-06-10 19:21:52 UTC

>William Riggs, a professor of engineering and management at the University of San Francisco who studies autonomous vehicles, agreed with that theory and took it a step further. After examining photos of the vandalized Waymos in Los Angeles, Riggs said someone may have intentionally called them to a location and lined them up strategically to form a protective barrier against police.
>“This is creative use of technology as a defensive barricade,” Riggs said.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/waymo-ice-protests-20368366.php

2025-06-02 02:26:31 UTC

META-INF took my wife away

2025-05-09 09:49:13 UTC

anything you can say about firearms probably also applies to combat dolls tbh

2025-03-19 08:09:11 UTC

Here in Parkour Civilization, no one chooses to jump for the BLÅVINGAD. It’s better to be safe and do the one KIVIK jump for the KNORRIG rather than risk your entire life for just half a hunger bar more.
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2025-03-12 17:02:51 UTC

RSS (really shrimple shrympication)

2025-02-26 17:06:20 UTC

if i wrote fedi software i'd simply write it to be fast rather than slow

2025-02-24 19:23:10 UTC

just did a CAT scan. turns out im 3 cats in a trenchcoat

2025-02-18 03:12:22 UTC

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it was also weird going to a prestigious cs program and 3rd years just. didn't know how to use git or ssh.....

2025-02-03 17:19:24 UTC

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2025-01-31 20:31:54 UTC

i got a delivery packaged in a bag like this 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺
https://media.woem.space/media/8a40931d334600cacad589f05bbb99ac817103962ff564211dc9996a6c74342c.jpg

2025-01-30 20:21:36 UTC

can't talk about that thing, man. that would be really value-destroying of you if you talked about it

2025-01-30 18:55:31 UTC

https://media.woem.space/media/8bf6505cf5e08ecd0a3c49b65f9db168d17d48959a40dcf71d6b3fd519240e81.png

2025-01-29 19:36:33 UTC

modern website design
https://media.woem.space/media/d89db4d4b1491aaed82dbbcdf46e3e660201da728a57db985def00c8cbdff930.jpg

2025-01-27 18:53:02 UTC

Torment Nexus will revolutionize productivity, according to founders
Chinese Torment Nexus threatens to hand user data and national secrets to the CCP

2025-01-21 05:56:13 UTC

Hey, are you alright? That fall looked really bad.
... Trump? Border tsar? Musk doing a hitler salute? It's 2021, Trump isn't even in office anymore! C'mon, Bernie's AG is sentencing him today, let's watch CSPAN

2025-01-19 03:12:47 UTC

i found this on my laptop and completely forgot making this
https://media.woem.space/media/e91b57b4d29839ccaf0f65164effe150a2739f92d890e4f9a881064aaca942d1.jpg

2025-01-19 02:30:31 UTC

found the fedi aisle
https://media.woem.space/media/9ced897bd3d126cee0c2ccc9b481f5313951fbd6b8396c1bb2f93d5510e606bc.jpg

2025-01-16 00:42:20 UTC

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ok fair

2025-01-16 00:39:16 UTC

reveal yourself
https://media.woem.space/media/f8285b4ccf80086b5f69f8e297fe46d0df7a5eda5feeaaedc34ad64c667165d8.png

2025-01-13 03:52:47 UTC

here's how al gore can still win:

2025-01-11 22:11:03 UTC

i have a new composition
https://media.woem.space/media/bf843dfe5cfd7fff03a28a564b5865ec01dc10ea53dc646c8472968f7a1c7834.png

2025-01-09 21:40:55 UTC

[during a decades-long string of historically anomalous weather events] what does climate change have to do with any of these weather events

2025-01-03 04:38:56 UTC

they need to make a dune anime. all the "people talking to themselves and others in their heads" and "people commenting on how other people are fighting in their heads" and "why the fuck is he doing X weird thing" is hard to adapt to live action, but very familiar territory for anime viewers

2025-01-02 22:35:34 UTC

every tech idea is just "hmm. what if we did this existing thing. but with computer. mmm. this will turn out better, yes."
and then it proceeds to collapse in 2 years because it does everything the existing thing did but faster, and the existing thing had its own problems that the computer thing didn't really address besides "we put it on the computer"

2025-01-01 08:27:23 UTC

they're so cute and tiny 🥺
https://media.woem.space/media/ac42e700282adb1cd21a806d8bbb9a631d39c8eb513075dd46934091ea991df5.jpg

2024-12-30 16:45:06 UTC

hi fedi i just woke up did a guy just spend 6 hours straight arguing

2024-12-27 22:57:24 UTC

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the conservatives used to work around it by being like "you too can work hard and be rich!" but now it's increasingly clear that that isn't how things work, even to a lot of maga types, so now they deflect by shitting on The Minorities

2024-12-27 22:55:54 UTC

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the thing that voters hate to hear is "player skill issue" even if it's true. whether it's liberals or conservatives saying it or hearing it, voters hate being berated. voters want their validation uwu they want to be told they're sooo heckin valid, it's those baddies over there that did this to youuu, im going to fix all your problems you cute little flor- okay so yeah basically uspol 101 coddle your voters

2024-12-27 22:53:41 UTC

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see, the silicon valley strand of nerd fascism will never be popular because it's too fucking nerdy. it only works for techbros and techhoes who think they're better than everyone else because they have a stem degree and are paid a bunch of money.
whereas fascism is inherently exclusionary, you can pick which groups you want to exclude. maga fascism excludes nonwhite people and there's a lot of white people who like that. nerd fascism excludes anyone who isn't a silicon valley or nyc techbro and now you are left with not that many people tbh

2024-12-27 22:46:27 UTC

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i need to go make a political compass but it's left/right and jock/nerd

2024-12-27 22:45:23 UTC

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this is such a fucking immigrant ass thing to say tho. literal revenge of the nerds r/atheism stemlord shit. it's really funny that the upper echelons of american government is succumbing to a jock vs nerd fight

2024-12-27 22:44:10 UTC

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> "Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long. A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers" -vivek ramaswamy
> "Somebody got stuffed in a locker" -some CNN panelist
> "you can't just say americans are mediocre!" -the reat of the far right movement

2024-12-27 22:41:57 UTC

https://www.yahoo.com/news/somebody-got-stuffed-locker-maga-163835383.html
popcorn! popcorn! popcorn!

2024-12-05 21:59:07 UTC

> CVS Health just removed all the pictures from their leadership page: https://www.cvshealth.com/about/leadership.html
>
> For posterity, how it looked on November 25, 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20241125095752/https://www.cvshealth.com/about/leadership.html
>
> Meanwhile, UnitedHealth Group's leadership page has just been taken down entirely: https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/uhg/our-leaders.html
>
> For posterity, how it looked on December 2, 2024: https://web.archive.org/web/20241202204046/https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/uhg/our-leaders.html
-- from a reddit comment under an article about blue cross walking back a change to their reimbursement policy https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1h7kb2l/comment/m0lsen8/

2024-11-27 19:41:34 UTC

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my take from all of it after reading their wikipedia articles is:
- koresh and weaver were awful people and everything they stood for was awful
- even then, the feds should NOT have responded with as much wanton aggression and violence and impunity as they did
- elements of the right want to think that the feds are biased against them, but there were armed standoffs with groups on the left as well (MOVE, wounded knee, etc)

2024-11-27 19:25:08 UTC

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i remember reading about ruby ridge and waco some weeks ago and realizing "oh, so that's where that entire libertarian/sovereign citizen/prepper/fed hating/etc. ball of america comes from"

2024-11-27 09:30:25 UTC

a woemad is a woemoid in the cat-go-woemy of woemofunctors

2024-11-27 07:02:07 UTC

close computer content algebra addressed air support store system

2024-11-11 06:58:37 UTC

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i mean seriously? are you fucking serious? are you seriously even rendering individual fucking glyphs like this? bruh
https://media.woem.space/media/a3aab343e5b0c88bdc128fbb46c28c0465dfbfe731c0a1abe9bb8de9c3fe4897.png

2024-11-11 06:57:19 UTC

amazon engineers will literally server-side render the entire fucking page down to x and y positions of individual chars instead of just letting me HAVE A FUCKING EPUB OF THE FUCKING FILE I BOUGHT WITH MY HARD-EARNED CASH
https://media.woem.space/media/9de80fd6145d3dd44fc2a68262c8daae16d4cce70867abe461037bf63064e40d.png

2024-11-08 00:08:27 UTC

are we seriously having "buy a gun" discourse
look. even as a certified gun nut, there are a ton of reasons why it would be a bad idea for you to get into guns right now. yes, even if you are a minority worried about Current Events.
- ABSOLUTELY DO NOT if you do not have a safe way to store them, especially if you have mental health issues and no way to stop yourself from harming yourself with them.
- furthermore, do not buy a gun if you're gonna keep it in a drawer and never practice with it regularly. you may harm yourself, your loved ones, and bystanders if you are a bad shot.
- yes, practice means money. guns are really fucking expensive and they're a high-investment medium-to-low-return thing if im gonna be honest. glocks are $500, 9mm ammo is 20-30c per round, you'll probably fire off at least 100 rounds every time you practice, you'll probably practice at least once a month, and then there's $100-200 of supplies you need to additionally buy like PPE and speedloaders and gun cleaning kits, and liberal states tax the shit out of guns and ammo because they can't ban guns so they'll just be classist about them, and -- okay you get the point. it REALLY adds up.
- pepper spray is much cheaper, much more accessible, much less legal risk, much easier to carry, much less self-harm risk, etc. there are great reasons to conceal carry in america even if you have pepper spray, but pepper spray can cover almost every self-defense scenario short of "you are being rushed by a bunch of people" and others like that
- also, don't buy a gun or ammo right now, don't panic buy this shit, prices are through the fucking roof due to election. wait a few months if you are seriously going to do this. go borrow a friend's guns if you want to start practicing.
- to get a gun, you have to go to a gun store full of the most awful people you've ever met. you definitely know who they voted for
if, despite all of this, you still think it is a good idea for you to get into guns, then please do. no matter your stance on whether or not the 2nd amendment should be abolished, the fact of the matter is that guns are here to stay for a while, and it is better that the conservatives are not the only ones armed.
if you only have the resources for one firearm, i would recommend a 9mm pistol. if you have never shot a gun ever before, i would also recommend a full-size pistol like a glock 17, even if you intend to conceal carry or if you are a weak, limp-wristed queer like me. counterintuitively, larger pistols are easier to shoot than smaller ones due to Physics. i would further recommend getting handgun instruction, if not from a certified instructor, at least from a friend who knows what they're doing.
on the topic of friends, i would highly, highly, highly recommend getting into guns with the support of like-minded friends. you probably know what the american gun community is like. you probably don't want anything to do with these bastards.
if you don't currently have non-shitty friends who are into guns, i would recommend joining a local group. and yes, lefty gun groups exist. for example, if you're lucky enough to have an active socialist rifle association chapter in your area, they are probably a nice group to get into guns with. contrary to the rumors, they are not a militia or unironic larpers, it's basically just a gun club but everyone there is making gay leftist jokes instead of transphobic and racist ones. hell, if you don't or can't own a gun, they'll still let you in and hang out with them and let you shoot their guns! they're very chill like that
look, we are most definitely in a pickle, and whether or not you decide you want to arm yourself after reading all of this, please know that there's a way out of almost every bad situation, and there are many ways of mitigating risk. you have already survived every bad situation that you've encountered, this is merely another bad situation to add to your count. calm down, and take things one step at a time.

2024-11-03 22:48:10 UTC

waaa there's something really cute about technical drawingssss it's so cute i love itt
https://media.woem.space/media/0e3c2b5dc8fb19f688ab700f408d2a874fe1654ea954eac4dcf7c30de23cfdfd.png

2024-10-31 00:53:13 UTC

no mom you don't understand, this toiletry bag is TACTICAL
https://media.woem.space/media/e988f64ebffbaefcdd2fe5c72d188b97a3e25edb7c042cd6d79c87e55d2b5969.png

2024-10-29 16:48:49 UTC

>request for comments
>look inside
>actually an unchangeable standard that nobody will take you seriously if you comment changes

2024-10-27 21:29:47 UTC

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remove the takedown and pivot pins to field strip your combat doll for cleaning

2024-10-27 21:28:16 UTC

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Combat Doll Owners of America

2024-10-27 21:28:07 UTC

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National Combat Doll Association

2024-10-27 21:27:52 UTC

you can replace every instance of {firearm, gun, rifle, pistol, ...} with "combat doll" and it immediately becomes a good dollpost

2024-10-27 21:01:21 UTC

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now that is a question that is actually answerable by control theory

2024-10-22 08:12:58 UTC

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"no no no you see this thing, it's a combat doll" girl you are somehow personifying this object into a non-person object, how are you doing this

2024-10-22 08:09:37 UTC

firearms autist who cannot stop making jokes about combat dolls at the shooting range

2024-10-17 23:07:29 UTC

funny how if it's on a social media site (twitter, fb, fedi, insta, tiktok, even tumblr and medium to some extent!) it feels ephemeral and inaccessible, yet if it's on a Static WebLog by some furry trans person it feels way more permanent

2024-10-04 08:25:20 UTC

you're a crane operator? that's crazy. do you commute or will swapping left and right arguments change your output?

2024-09-30 19:42:31 UTC

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ok but like 🥺🥺🥺 if anyone has recs for stories like this

2024-09-30 19:38:41 UTC

the "cocky brat bites off way more than they can chew" type beat,,,

2024-09-28 01:14:32 UTC

you've heard of fortran now get ready for
https://media.woem.space/media/e42bec44c144bf1bb673227dff65bd24896dc21da7cf4dfd40365f2adb7a04fa.jpg

2024-09-27 04:44:58 UTC

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"yes, yes, you're saving the world and need this item to hurt this kind of enemy. ok but like. thingy,,,,"

2024-09-27 04:33:55 UTC

video game fetch quest giver npcs be like: "god. i am obsessed with the thingy. i want the thingy. i spend my days and nights dreaming about the thingy. please give me the thingy. i am very normal and neurotypical about the thingy"

2024-09-23 17:45:41 UTC

massachusetts is often confused with weightsachussetts, but they are actually very different things

2024-09-23 00:57:02 UTC

bus drivers should be able to do hit and runs in the bus lane

2024-09-05 04:01:15 UTC

"man it sure would be funny to log on after weeks of radio silence to leave a mraao-"
https://media.woem.space/media/c5cad0c44d4abe6896f0a60f9d5bab825beffb8b7d9bbdebc460dffab225b76c.gif

2023-11-07 23:33:32 UTC

my body is a machine that turns
:spinnier_cat:

2023-08-27 08:01:36 UTC

"you're nearsighted? oh wow, have you gotten the surgery yet?"
"idk, are you really nearsighted? you don't act nearsighted to me"
"okay so you say you 'feel' like everything is blurry. what does that mean? ive sometimes gotten dust in my eyes but i don't see how you can just 'feel' nearsighted"
"ugh... why are you ruining your beautiful face with those glasses? you look fine without them"
"ugh... why are you ruining your eyes with those contacts? you're ruining your eyes by putting them there"
"ugh... i can't believe anyone would mutilate their beautiful, natural, working eyes by burning them with lasers just because they 'feel' nearsighted. medicine and liberalism has gone too far"
"you're just wearing glasses because it's trendy to wear them! this has consequences on your eyes!"
"can't you just like, not see things blurry? it's probably just that you're not focusing your eyes correctly"