They should do a live action remake of Wacky Races. The Rock IS Grape Ape. Jack Black IS Dick Dastardly. Emily Blunt IS Penelope Pitstop.
Starring Pedro Pascal as Muttley
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Kevin Lawver
@kpl@social.lol
mastodon 4.7.3+glitchThe creator and grand marshall of The International Day of Awesomeness aka just some guy on the internet.
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Joined December 16, 2022
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@Binder@petrous.vislae.town The Mapplethorpe Line: it should be a plugin you can install that randomly posts gay porn as a private equity deterrent. It could also be called: Mapplethorpestadon.
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@maxleibman@beige.party Linux is a spectrum though: from embedded to full on desktop (it’s the year of the desktop, haven’t you heard?).
RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/116969568867505760
My country is run by vain fragile men. Let's review:
- The President is so vain, he can be bribed with gold trinkets large and small. The FIFA Medal of Peace. Qatar's "new" Air Force One.
- The Secretary of Defense has a makeup studio IN HIS OFFICE yet removed women and people of color from the promotion list, and worships at the knee of a pastor who doesn't think women should vote.
- Elon Musk is so racist and fragile he wants to create a "historically accurate" movie about a WORK OF FICTION.
- Steven Miller thinks leftists are unattractive yet has somehow never once looked in a mirror at his Young Uncle Fester looking face.
People voted for this. People worship Elon. They hold signs and go to rallies supporting these assholes. I try not to hate anyone, but I hate them. I hate them more than I've ever hated anyone or anything in my entire life. They are so transparently weak, so fragile and incapable of handling dissent or opinions other than the ones that reflect back their own that I just don't see how people accept them as anything other than wretched and disgusting.
Racists, homophobes, transphobes, sexists, xenophobes... they're all scared. They say they believe in competition, but look at what they do. Every chance they get to create a level playing field, they tilt it in their favor. They're weak and terrified someone will tell them to their face.
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I can’t imagine being the literal richest human being in existence and making my entire online persona that of a racist incel.
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@neatnik@social.lol the toughest talkers are usually the first to crumble when called on it. I’m all for “secular grace” when people try to make things right and/or learn from their mistakes, but running away while crying foul is lame.
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How much do I love my omg.lol account? It doesn't expire for TWELVE more years. I think I added more time during a big sale a couple of years, but, it's great. I'm not even SUPER involved in everything (not on Discord, for example) but everything I am involved in is great, and everyone I've met, up to and including @neatnik@social.lol, has been lovely.
If you want to join a lovely little corner of the internet, not sure you'll find a better one than https://omg.lol
I am not feeling the most productive right now because I shipped a BIG THING I WORKED BIG EFFORT ON, so I am amusing myself with @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com's very fine images. You may also want to amuse yourself with Ethan's very fine images: https://bukk.it/?C=M;O=D - don't be productive; be amused. #FuckProductivity #BeAmused #AltTextIsCool
I’ll eat the grilled meats and consume my weight in ranch dip, but I’m just not feeling it this year. There are no fireworks in my soul. No patriotic M80’s bursting with pride in my heart this year. It’s just… nope… not even a little sparkler.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116909282718772203
There’s this politeness in whiteness that we expect from people outside of it that has to die.
Dear fellow white people: we aren’t the decorum police.
The thing we criticize the most in the GOP: the need to control everyone but themselves, we also do in all of the rules we unevenly apply to others.
Let people live.
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Separate from "Should we ban Black users for not being sufficiently happy that their abuser can't hurt them anymore" is the discourse around "Should Dem politicians say nice things about their 'colleagues' when they pass?"
This is complicated, and tied in to the nature of racism in the US.
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@carl@chaos.social @Binder@petrous.vislae.town Ooh, then we could call it the Haring Bone.
Ummm, I think this place has radicalized me. I just went on an epic rant about "legacy social media" in a thread on the work Slack. Way to go, Fediverse, you magnificent bastards.
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@carl@chaos.social @Binder@petrous.vislae.town I do love Keith Haring. I didn't know about Mapplethorpe! I'll have to go do some reading!
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I already have a pikapods.com account, which means I could run a nextcloud instance for about $7/month (to start, no idea how much it would be if I actually imported everything) and replace GMail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc. So, umm, maybe I don't need a guide, I just need willpower.
The scariest thing is probably going through my password manager and figuring out EVERYWHERE I've used Login With Google and migrating those to a password.
#lazyweb #degoogle #selfhosting #askfedi
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange It's just Big Stupid from top to bottom and it's not just bad for everyone, it's infuriating that WE KEEP LOSING TO IT. I know voter suppression and dirty tricks and Citizens United, but look at them! They're evil fucking idiots!
Finally watching Spider-Noir. It’s gorgeous in black and white. I’m on episode three and it’s pretty silly, but it’s so pretty, I’ll probably finish it.
I boosted this a minute ago, but this is why the fediverse is the best. This is the nerdiest, funniest, and most informative rant/thread/comedic essay you will ever read about solar power. It’s the best!
I said "dagnabbit" in Slack just now in an answer to a very serious question and then used a gif of Yosemite Sam, LIKE A GODDAMN PROFESSIONAL. Dear God, it is SO very Friday at almost 5 o'clock.
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@neatnik@social.lol I have a flat archived version of an old startup’s site. It’s just an HTML archive hosted on Netlify, and I get them all the time. I laugh and laugh. “Oh, there’s a vulnerability in authentication? Please, tell me more!”
Hello, network nerds, my ISP doesn’t provide a DHCP server in their modem and I have a fair number of devices that need static IPs. My needs are modest for my home network. I already have WiFi taken care of, I just need a thing that can sit between the modem and wifi to do DHCP and some static IPs and DNS and some security maybe.
What should I get that’s not stupid expensive?
#askfedi
I'm thinking about how to have a single static site that's an archive of EVERYTHING (34k old tweets, 3k+ mastodon posts, 7k public Flickr photos, 2.5k blog posts) that doesn't take forever to compile and thought of git submodules.
And then I stopped thinking about it.
Hell, I want to be the reason any authority figures gives up and starts wearing crocs all the time.
I blogged because it's almost halfway through 2026 and I figured it was time to check in on my intentions for the year: https://lawver.net/2026/05/how-is-2026-going-anyway/
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange if you were closer to Savannah I would say check out Ray’s Butcher Shop on Montgomery. I haven’t been in a few years but whenever I make an old recipe, they can usually sort me out with whatever I need.
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@rob@social.prosumer.dev @neatnik@social.lol Obi Wan Kenobi voice, "IRC, now there's a name I've not heard in many many years."
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@Fragglemuppet@fandom.ink Ooh, Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh and its sequel, The Drowned City. They're both beautifully written.
My wife and I are watching Bodies on Netflix, and someone says “as I live and wheeze,” and I am 100% stealing it.
Also, we’re only on episode four. I like it so far. Very mystery. Much wondering. Wow. :confused_dog:
What’s in the overlap in the Venn diagram of Radical Acceptance and Malicious Compliance?
In other news, I am writing a love story about OAuth: "When a client and server love each other very much, they ask a user for a grant, and then the client asks the server to exchange a code for a token... and y'all, that's LOVE."
Today's artist is... INXS, maybe Australia's greatest musical export: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/kpl/20260529
Kevin's Crucial Track June 5, 2026: "Deadly Valentine" by Charlotte Gainsbourg
Today is the last day of France Week and I picked an artist I don't know very well, Charlotte Gainsbourg (well, other than this song, which has been on a _bunch_ of playlists because it's awesome). #CrucialTracks
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https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/kpl/20260605
So much webinar spam, so few delete buttons.
I don't know why I thought of it, but I remembered that this was a thing today and got a little nostalgic: https://barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com
My favorite comment to leave when I approve a PR is "SHIP IT". When I'm tired, I spoonerize it and it sometimes becomes "SHIT IP" which is not what I mean at all.
No new artist today, so you get more Air! This song is practically a lullaby, in the best way: https://www.crucialtracks.org/profile/kpl/20260528
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@danirabbit@mastodon.online something something spreads its tentacles across the land looking for victims.
The email is written. Is the email sent? LOL, no.
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@Bfordham@infosec.exchange I think the rules are more obvious and easy to spot in the South, honestly. They’re well-documented and everyone knows them. The euphemisms haven’t changed … ever?
I think there’s an insidiousness in the more modern amorphous gatekeeping. It’s hard to point to. Maybe that’s just me not being as familiar with it.
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@neatnik@social.lol Loooooove requiring alt text for cross-posting! That’s using UI for good!