Fuckin’ brutal. Love it.

Might be a little late to the party, but some independent filmmakers did a documentary on life in Donbass since the Maidan coup (“8 Years Before”, TankieTube link courtesy of @TankieTanuki@hexbear.net):
https://tankie.tube/w/11tj9DFjVqbdfBMzqVSUU1

Ah! Well. Nevertheless,

Average US Democratic Party Senate candidate be like

This is why you need to keep your burner account around, so you have a history of occasional posts on niche hobby or gaming subs. “Social media? You mean like where I posted a spreadsheet of food buffs for No Man’s Sky?”

How could one not be clamoring to take in such incredible sights as *checks notes* the largest ball of twine in Minnesota?

Does Linux Mint leave your root filesystem more fresh or brisk? I briefly used Fedora, and it forced me to get all my water from a well, actually.

Yes

A specter is haunting Gracie Mansion

“JosephSmithGPT, can you please verify the translation of this section of the gold tablets?”

…

“Hey, WTF, this isn’t the same text.”

Mexico

MFW when Robert Cop 3

Well, I was working on my Dark Urge Honor Mode run in BG3, but I just fucking died thanks to Lae’zel aggroing a Githyanki patrol after failing a persuasion roll. Next time I’m going through the damned goblin camp path.

Edit: Welp, back on the damn horse I guess

Love to watch the entire internet shit itself because someone deprecated is-even.js on npm

You know shit’s bleak when Typescript – a Microsoft product – is the primary alternative, and it still compiles (“transpiles”) to fucking JavaScript

Humor so dry that you’re accidentally snorting dead skin flakes

I refuse to acknowledge it exists for lovecraftian reasons (Java).

The JVM is a pathway to abilities that many would consider… Unnatural. And quite honestly, the language has gotten less terrible over the past several years. The problem is that a good chunk of the software out there in the corpo world is still stuck on Java 8 and can’t migrate to 17/21/etc. without modifications and a fuckton of testing, and companies will drag their feet to avoid that amount of time and effort. But yeah, starting around Java 21 or so, they’re basically backporting random Kotlin features into the main language. But if you’re maintaining legacy JEE apps for something like WebLogic? Good fuckin’ luck. And good fuckin’ luck explaining Spring Boot to boomers.

…I’d still rather be working with Kotlin, though. (Currently trapped in Java 8 hell, and hopefully getting my team’s main codebase up to Java 17 spec in a couple of weeks because a vendor is demanding it.)

When someone you know gets really into German runes (or really any kind of runes at all) get them out of your life.