John Garrison

Any name can be a nonbinary name if you’re nonbinary and it’s your name

Hey everyone, due to Vladimir Putin, I am moving instances. I'm still getting set up, but shortly this account will be gone and I'll be at @garrison@garrison.place

Please follow me there!

ETA: It looks like Russia is not requiring identity verification until I'd have to renew my registration of the .su domain, so this account will probably remain up until early December when my current registration expires.

Apparently Russia is going to make holders of .su domains verify their identities with the Russian government as of September this year.

Uh...

So, be on the lookout for my new instance.

(cc: @Squeedoodle@garrison.su)

finally found my missing earbud after like an entire week

i no longer identify as non-binary. i'm a cis man. just fyi.

there is so much AI slop on youtube now that i don't trust anything

Apparently Niger has recently banned a number of LGBTQ-related things, which isn't super surprising, but the law also specifically bans "asexual" practices. I shudder to think what they mean by that.

anyway, good morning

just saw an ad for an AI service that turns 2-D images into printable 3-D models. i wonder how terrible that works.

Apparently there's a Jesus movie coming out called "Zero AD" which is the worst title I've ever heard of.

Friday Friday gotta get down on Friday

What is the butt if not the shoulders of the legs

I'm in a position I haven't been in in years, which is that I have accrued so much vacation that I need to use some of it.

I wonder what I should do.

"no body shaming" includes thin people

Waldo’s mother: Hello I’d like to report a missing person

Headed to Austin to meet a potential sub on the 30th!

discount sashimi is a raw deal

Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate

"I didn't expect it to blow up like that," he said

reddit is such a cesspool

galoob morning

Ghost Riders in the Sky with Diamonds

An owl-themed social media platform where we call the posts "hoots"

hot girl simmer

Zenmaster Flash

gerrymanderlorian

y'all buscuitheads

Happy Sherlock Holmes Day to those who celebrate.

https://apnews.com/article/sherlock-holmes-day-arthur-conan-doyle-a588a0e80e44350dfd9324ade418c8e6

They love giraffes🦒

If you're white you benefit from white privilege, even if you are disadvantaged in other ways. Your privilege in one area doesn't simply disappear because you are disadvantaged in another area.

It's complex. We need to think about it a lot more than we do. "Check your privilege" is not just a platitude, it's a demand to self-reflect, and it's for everyone.

ABBA

The 100-yard em dash

Goof morning

Between age verification requirements and generative AI, I feel like the internet I used to like is rotting away.

Bad news, I went back to World of Warcraft

Finnegans Wank

This is a really fascinating lock design and I'm not sure it actually could be defeated nondestructively. The one potential attack mentioned in the video is impressioning, which I don't think can work because it's the *inner core* pressing against the pins, not the key blank. Marks will be left, but you won't be able to see them.

https://youtu.be/-qUu8kIliy8

The Indivisible Hulk

"He has been named CEO of the UK."

I think the reason I'm uncomfortable identifying as non-binary without qualification is that virtually all the non-binary people I see are fem or androgynous, and I think that I'd just be seen as a cis man.

What's the plural of "mouse" as in the computer tool?