Reposted by VerdantOzarkGuan Yang @guan.dk · 15/10/2026EVERYCLASSICALTEXTPASSEDTHROUGHALATEIMPERIALSCRIBEWHOWROTELIKETHISWHICHHASLEDTODISAGREEMENTSABOUTWORDBOUNDARIESANDMEANINGSINMANYTEXTSFOREXAMPLEBOOK2LINE798OFTHEAENEIDCANSCANINTWODIFFERENTWAYSLEADINGTODIFFERENTINTERPRETATIONS 1222027
Reposted by VerdantOzarkGoldkin @goldkin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026For those outside of tech: just saying the word "union" in internal correspondence is career ending at several places. This lampoons it all so effectively, right down to Ayn Rand on the bookshelf. 051
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 12/10/2026The first section is the recording process, the second section is playback 120
Reposted by VerdantOzarkFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 12/10/2026Publishing “Cryptographic Right Answers” for developers is a tradition by now. Colin Percival started in 2009, Thomas Ptacek followed up in 2015, and then Latacora carried on in 2018 and 2024. I put together a list updated for the renewed urgency of migrating to post-quantum algorithms.words.filippo.io(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right AnswersIn the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline. 212049
Reposted by VerdantOzarkLesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 10/10/2026The fact that my ballot appears to have been conveniently lost or delayed by US customs despite every effort to be early and discreet is tied to why I try to avoid going to America anymore at all even as a citizen and why I don’t have services like Global Entry which could be weaponised against me. 89814
Reposted by VerdantOzarkMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541421008
Reposted by VerdantOzarkPerry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"For America to right itself, we need changes on the scale of Reconstruction and the New Deal. And I worry that’s not going to happen if Democrats and the broader anti-Trump left are taking their cues about what’s necessary and politically possible from the Times." newrepublic.com/article/2160...newrepublic.comThe Left Must Fight The New York Times’ Monopoly TooThe paper’s editorial vision is out of step with the robust liberalism needed today. 421697449
Reposted by VerdantOzarkBruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026# BANNED AND RESTRICTED ANNOUNCEMENT / 09/30/2026 One-card spread: The Ten of Swords is *banned* The Nine of cups is *banned* Another season of pro tarot league is almost upon us. While most formats are thriving, in the fast and degenerate world of one-card we're seeing concerning metagame data, 191100363
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"We know how to write reliable software: follow the Space Shuttle process. Cost goes up by 4 orders of magnitude (10000x) and you lose essentially all ability to make changes, but it works." 001
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If you're an oil company with a working refinery that hasn't been bombed 020
Reposted by VerdantOzarkDarael Draconis @darael.dracon.is · 24/09/2026Discord has, since its launch, promoted itself as being primarily for video-game players. For them to abruptly start using "gaming" in a sense that includes gambling, having built their brand identity around a demographic that doesn't use it that way, /is/ nefarious. That the sense in question is 111
Reposted by VerdantOzarkNDP @ndp.ca · 25/09/2026BREAKING: Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted for supporting NDP MP Jenny Kwan’s bill to close a loophole in Canada’s arms sales regime that allows weapons to be shipped via the US to Israel, a country that is still committing genocide against the Palestinian people. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caLiberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC NewsCharlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me... 6198100
Reposted by VerdantOzarktrvl.bsky.social @trvl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026They pulled this exact shit with gays, feminists, immigrants, black people, and trans people. How many times do people need to read anti-minority agitprop finally get that these articles are intended to psyop you into electing right wing pedophiles who are 100x worse and more annoying. 26710
Reposted by VerdantOzarkanna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026this is getting a lot of attention all of the sudden so i want to additionally point out: this is all a jesse singal op bsky.app/profile/did:... 443195
Reposted by VerdantOzarkanna, journalist, get woke or DEI trying @fakerobotgamer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026what do you know the most predicable thing happened when a bunch of you decided lolcow farming was ok when you do it 11728187
Reposted by VerdantOzark🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota. 125123815269
Reposted by VerdantOzarkRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 23/09/2026A special hell awaits grifters for whom "intersectionality" means "if I can count more oppressions than you, I am entitled to be an asshole to you and you have to pay me/submit to me" 39910
Reposted by VerdantOzarkAdam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The shortlived Qin dynasty produced a wealth of richly coloured art, something the successor Han dynasty was never quite able to match, thanks to poor Han-dye coordination. 1613937
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The fact that this is a feature Google Maps had and phased out maybe should give them pause 010
Reposted by VerdantOzarktweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453183751
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Funding a Roth essentially mandates that you receive large gifts with little nominal income, the math is absurd 011
Reposted by VerdantOzark👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Absolutely lost my shit at this co-op mode for Hearts of Iron, which you play as the Army, Navy, Emperor, and Government. All have their own win conditions aside the Government, which lost the game automatically in 1925. docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comTrue Imperial Japan ExperienceTrue Imperial Japan Experience A Hearts of Iron 4 Game This is a counteroperative roleplaying game. The resolution system is a game of multiplayer Hearts of Iron 4 and a number of discord chats. Requi... 361153302
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The problem is that the top line inflation number is pegged to an expenses mix that is no longer true 010
Reposted by VerdantOzarkDoctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026It’s hard to explain if you weren’t there. You had to beg pharmacists for condoms. Choosing pleasure in the face of death felt risky and revolutionary, because it was. I’ve been to orgies that felt like psychic mutual aid. Maybe they were. 111916
Reposted by VerdantOzarkRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 13/09/2026I can now understand why that white lady asked Malcolm X what she could do to help, and brother Malcolm said "nothing". He admitted later that that was too harsh, but the oppressed cannot let themselves stay in a position where they have to rely on the good will of the privileged. 2256
Reposted by VerdantOzarkRemain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 13/09/2026As I've said before, the compromise was "transmedicalism" - the test was to alter your body sufficiently to pass (or at least show you're Making An Effort). But that's not tenable any more because the transphobes have shifted it to chromosomes - to the idea that "sex" just cannot be changed. 1165
Reposted by VerdantOzarkKim LaCapria 🧿🌶🤘 @kimlacapria.bsky.social · 14/09/2026i say this all the time but for real i'm certain this is 80% of voters. people i speak to randomly here and there don't know anything about what's going on, it is not in the news, and that all scares me more than most other stuff. people do not know this isn't normal and the news won't say 0122
Reposted by VerdantOzarkStephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Israel supporters now trying to get *Médecins Sans Frontières* banned in the UK as a 'terrorist organization.' There is no limit once you commit to national supremacy and genocide. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...telegraph.co.uk 23380188
Reposted by VerdantOzarkflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026A helpful key here for understanding what wingnuttery is and how it works, here. I 100% guarantee you this did not happen and that the boys she’s talking about - she later clarified they were “Pakistani” - do not exist. And yet, I can also assure you Eve is *absolutely convinced* she saw this. 1943248267
Reposted by VerdantOzarkSen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 08/09/2026DC Minis #29 - "Further Humiliation" In which I once again display a cosmic level of cluelessness. dresdencodak.com/2026/09/07/d... 1258295
Reposted by VerdantOzarkGregory A. Hargreaves 🎃 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Had a student confused about how the feds could have suppressed the first KKK. They seemed to think, quite honestly, that racist terrorism is legally protected political activity/a free speech issue. I had to explain that, no, organized crime/terrorism is in fact against the law. 321507263
Reposted by VerdantOzarkPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Realizing the extent to which this is true wildly changed my opinions about how to deal with Trumpism, since they're never going to be satisfied unless they're actively dominating everyone else. You can't give them some concessions and go back to the status quo: they're reactionary revolutionaries. 5151681312
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 07/09/2026hijack DNS NS records at registrar set up Cloudflare for victim domain, clone existing DNS records into CF and set up a monitor to see DNS changes at the original provider happen Cloudflare issues new TLS certs install a Cloudflare Worker that exfils passwords 000
Reposted by VerdantOzarkBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/09/2026No fucking shit buddy. This is what we were trying to tell you. 966135422210
Reposted by VerdantOzarkNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026One of the global hallmarks of the anti-trans movement is that it's pushing people to reject levels of gender integration that were completely uncontroversial as recently as a few years ago. 152810631
Reposted by VerdantOzarkMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined. 34895864675
Reposted by VerdantOzarkBK? @whitesox.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My “We Operate Under U.S. Law” ad is raising a lot of questions already answered by the ad. 73388522
Reposted by VerdantOzarkLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 20/08/2026If I had a nickel for every time a white cis male professional colleague became severely fixated upon me and dedicated his life to tearing me down because of my professional success relative to his... I'd have five nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened five times, right? 101748
Reposted by VerdantOzarkA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 31/08/2026I knew so many kids whose parents withheld food but they couldn’t get free lunch at school because of their parents’ incomes. 013810
Reposted by VerdantOzarkA Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 31/08/2026This is one of the biggest reasons I’m opposed to means testing for things like free school meals. I grew up in a community with a lot of kids from wildly wealthy families who were abused & neglected by their parents. Kids of wealthy parents need to be protected, too 4651161
Reposted by VerdantOzarkKarl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 31/08/2026For reasons passing understanding, "POTUS should not have the authority to alter official government data sources on a whim by EO" is entirely absent from the conversation It's small potatoes comparatively but I do not think Trump should get to just, rename stuff for no reason 3347
Reposted by VerdantOzarkFine. I’ll update with a word count when I start writing again. @legalminimum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026(Yeah, hate me for the name. Fine.) You use this playbook when you’re dealing with a tinpot dictatorship. It involves making no decisions that put your people at risk of being picked up by the government for stupid shit. We didn’t previously need to worry about this in the USA but again, 2026. 17210
VerdantOzark @verdantozark.bsky.social · 30/08/2026It's got an official_name:en-US tag now and that's how it's going to stay I guess 120
Reposted by VerdantOzarkRanged Touch @rangedtouch.bsky.social · 29/08/2026this is so important it needed its own clip actually 71041405
Reposted by VerdantOzarkheadfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 29/08/2026this has been true for 25 years. and it is now extremely not true and you would have no idea unless you’re paying attention to technology news lol 476128
