Mele ma‘i

Traditional Hawaiian songs, humorous descriptions of genitals

2025-07-11 hawaii • sex • hawaiʻi • song • culture • history

Puddles Pity Party Show

Weird music shtick was turned into something more like a TV show

2025-07-11 music • puddles • clowns • tv

ICE resistance

Nursing staff comes to the aid of a man being attacked by an unidentified armed assailant claiming to be a federal agent

2025-07-11 uspol • ice • civilrights • bravery • fascism

ICE discontent

Not all ICE agents are happy about being Trump's brownshirts

2025-07-11 uspol • politics • fascism • trump • ice • dhs • military

Bypass Paywalls Clean

Useful browser extension keeps getting knocked offline: Twitter and this Russian hosting seem to be the best point of contact now

2025-07-11 chrome • extension • ads • paywall • firefox

Mamdani Headlines

Site parodying the NYTimes desperate efforts to smear the Democrat nominee for New York mayor.

2025-07-09 funny • parody • nytimes • nyt • newyork • mamdani • politics • uspol

DHS Christian Nationalism

Recruiting ad posted by the federal government juxtaposes militarism, Christianity, and nationalism

2025-07-09 uspol • politics • christian • religion • america • dhs • ice

ICE violence in SF

Federal thugs assault protestors

2025-07-09 uspol • politics • fascism • ice • sanfrancisco • sf

LA invasion

A frightening intimidation operation from Trump / ICE people in a Los Angeles park

2025-07-08 uspol • politics • fascism • la • losangeles • ice • immigration

Guadalupe escape

Account from a high school classmate of mine about evacuating the flooding in Texas

2025-07-08 flooding • history • sjs • davidbeebe • guadalupe • kerrville

nVidia GPU virtualization

Folks crack nVidia's limiting of virtualizing consumer GPUs

2025-07-07 gpu • nvidia • virtualization • proxmox • ai • hacking • vgpu

Bot Traffic

Cloudflare's stats on bot activity on the Internet

2025-07-07 internet • metrics • bots • crawlers

OCaml at Jane Street

Article about the investment company's use of an unusual programming language

2025-07-06 ocaml • finance • fintech • programming • culture • janestreet

Anila Quayyum Agha

Amazing sculptural art

2025-07-04 art • muslim • sculpture • pakistan

Black ASL

Introduction to a dialect of sign language

2025-07-04 language • culture • deaf • asl • basl • black

AI gender

Sharp observation about how the simple servant AIs are female and the fancy powerful agents are male

2025-07-02 agents • ai • gender

China open source

An update on the industry

2025-06-30 china • tech • opensource • software • github

Hail Mary trailer

Movie of another Andy Weir sci-fi novel, should be good fun

2025-06-30 movies • scifi • andyweir

Budapest Pride

Parade and protest goes on despite government suppression

2025-06-28 pride • lgbt • politics • fascism • orban • hungary

Hetero Awesome... hijacked

Remarkable moment where Daniel Hamrick gets on stage at an anti-LGBT rally and performs a transgender song

2025-06-27 music • lgbt • pride • transgender • trans • idaho • DanielHamrick • protest

Private Trackers

A spreadsheet of bittorrent trackers for sharing communities

2025-06-27 torrent • scene • piracy • filesharing • bittorrent

Queers Read This

Essential 1990 LGBT activist writing

2025-06-25 queernation • qrt • queer • gay • lgbt • newyork • 1990

Apple Wallet ad

Insidious thing of vendors stuffing ads in mobile notifications, a channel you otherwise want. Sad to see Apple Corp do this itself.

2025-06-25 ads • apple • ios • marketing • f1 • notifications • spam

US border elevations

clever map visualization

2025-06-25 maps • us • borders • elevation • visualization

Aphex Twin nostalgia

Not sure if this is funny or devastating. An analysis of the role of 90s electronica in the modern aesthetic alienation. "An alternative timeline where meaning felt like it meant something".

2025-06-24 music • funny • aphextwin • afx • nostalgia • poignant

Narciso Barranco beating

Masked thugs claiming to be ICE agents beat up an older man

2025-06-23 uspol • fascism • violence • politics • ice • civilrights

Roblox ICE protests

Kids playing out protests in virtual world

2025-06-21 games • protest • uspol • politics • roblox • ice

LLM porting

Notes on a process that works for porting C code to Rust

2025-06-19 porting • llm • programming • engineering • ai • rust

City of my walks and joys

1850s draft edits from Walt Whitman of one of my favorite of his poems

2025-06-19 whitman • poetry • cityoforgies • drafts • writing

Electric Sheep

Long-running collaborative computer art project, using CPU time on multiple machines. Been around 25 years now?

2025-06-18 art • fractals • crowdsourcing • generative

Boy Crazy

New summer bop, sexy video

2025-06-18 kesha • music • video • oldermen • gay

Sideclick

A small universal remote that clips on to the side of a standard streaming device remote. Augment your Roku or Google TV

2025-06-16 remote • tv • av • hardware

QUIC in 2025

Examination of the new web application protocol on the Internet. Interesting comments on ossification. Also note QUIC is much less popular from China

2025-06-16 quic • internet • protocol • tcpip • web • networking

Pentagon pizzas

Theory that just before military conflicts, there's an uptick in orders of pizza near the Pentagon

2025-06-16 uspol • politics • pentagon • pizza • opensource • intelligence

AI delusions

Heartbreaking stories of vulnerable people falling prey to delusions inspired by LLM chatbots

2025-06-13 ai • llm • loneliness • mentalhealth • delusion • chatbot • chatgpt

Gymnopédie vs Take Five

Shouldn't work but yet it does

2025-06-13 music • mashup • takefive • satie • brubeck • piano

Charley Shivley

Appreciation of a gay liberation pioneer, also a Whitman scholar

2025-06-13 obituary • gay • lgbt • history • fagrag • whitman

Fag Rag

A 1970s gay liberation publication

2025-06-13 gay • lgbt • history • gaylib • shively

Wikipedia vs AI

Experiment on the site is not popular

2025-06-12 ai • wikipedia • culture • summary

P5 single line fonts

Processing code for stroke fonts

2025-06-11 fonts • plotter • plotterart • hershey • processing

es.vaccines.gov

Official (corrupted) US government vaccine website has a bunch of very gay content. Some sort of protest?

2025-06-11 via:waxy • politics • vaccines • cdc • funny • gay • lgbt • pride

US gay marriage map

Visualization of when each state legalized gay marriage (and some never did)

2025-06-10 gay • lgbt • civilrights • marriage • america • uspol • map

Plotter calibration

Artist's DIY method for making sure pens line up in his plotter

2025-06-10 plotterart • plotter • art • calibration • axidraw

tini

Minimalist init for containers

2025-06-09 unix • init • docker • lxc • proxmox

Kumiko patterns

Gallery of designs and finished works of the Japanese wood craft

2025-06-09 art • japan • kumiko • woodworking

Kumiko Designer

Online tool for designing intricate Japanese woodworking patterns

2025-06-09 art • woodworking • japan • kumiko • tool • webapp

63 Chinese Cuisines

Fun tour of regional foods in China. It's a bit ropey (and by a Westerner) but still informative and interesting

2025-06-09 food • china • cuisine • culture • tourism

Relooted

New platformer game with a fun premise: steal back cultural artifacts stolen by imperialists

2025-06-09 repatriation • games • platformer • blackpanther

Dyeing patterns

Collection of Japanese illustrations of patterns for dyeing fabrics

2025-06-09 via:hackernews • art • japan • dyeing • pattern • plotter

Visiting Edmund

Lovely personal memory of Edmund White's generosity to a young author

2025-06-08 gay • lgbt • edmundwhite • writing • chelsea • newyork • books

Twitter exfil

Documenting one of the methods to get tweet data without an API key

2025-06-08 twitter • archive • backup • socialmedia • hacking

Thomas Crooks

Details on the man who almost murdered Donald Trump. There's been a conspiracy theory about how we've heard nothing about him: NYT's reporting gets to details

2025-06-08 uspol • politics • trump • murder • assassination • mentalhealth

DOGE AI munching

Analysis of the error-filled software the Republicans used to attack the Veterans Administration

2025-06-07 uspol • politics • ai • doge • llm • healthcare • va

DOGE contract prompt

Example of elaborate prompt engineering, applying LLMs in an entirely inappropriate way to disrupt the US government

2025-06-06 uspol • doge • ai • llm • promptengineering • prompts

Psycho Killer

Excellent new music video for the classic Talking Heads song

2025-06-06 music • talkingheads • video

Edmund White on SilverDaddies

The author had a profile on a gay hookup site and by all accounts was quite successful meeting men with it. His profile includes a nude photo of himself, but it requires a paying login to see.

2025-06-06 gay • lgbt • edmundwhite • silverdaddies • hookup • sex • pride • nude

Yiyun Li on Edmund White

Sweet rememberance from a friend and fellow author

2025-06-06 lgbt • gay • edmundwhite • yiyunli • memoir • tribute

Geoengineering works

Details on how India's pollution and irrigation makes for lower temperatures. It's unintentional, but it is applied geoengineering for global warming

2025-06-05 india • globalwarming • climatechange • geoengineering • pollution • health

Edmund White remembered

More writers talking about what he meant to them

2025-06-05 gay • lgbt • books • edmundwhite

Michael Carroll

A profile on Edmund White's husband: an important part of White's life, but he kept that part of himself private

2025-06-05 lgbt • gay • edmundwhite • books • obituary

Edmund White's gay life

A nice appreciation of what makes his writing so special

2025-06-05 lgbt • gay • edmundwhite • obituary • culture • books

Edmund White - Butt

A fun interview from 2006

2025-06-05 gay • lgbt • edmundwhite • buttmagazine • butt

The Stuff 4K UHD

Classic 80s horror film is getting a high quality digital remaster

2025-06-05 movies • thestuff • cultfilms • schlock • horror • 80s

Dupont Circle shutdown

National Park Service is shutting down Washington DC's big gay park in the middle of the gay neighborhood as a way to disrupt Gay Pride

2025-06-03 lgbt • politics • dc • washingtondc • gayrights • protest • gay • dupontcircle

Complexity podcast

Santa Fe Institute has a podcast. Season 3 is Melanie Mitchell on AI, should be good material

2025-06-02 podcast • ai • computing • complexity • complexsystems • sfi • santafe

Karakeep

A web page saver system using AI to help search pages you've squirreled away

2025-06-01 bookmarks • ai • llm • linkblog • search • pinboard

Andor cinematography

Nice technical description of filmmaking

2025-06-01 andor • tv • starwars • cinematography • movies

BowieNet

David Bowie started an ISP in 1998 and ran it for several years

2025-05-31 history • internet • davidbowie • bowie • isp • via:metafilter

Queer Nevada City

Nice National Geographic feature on where I live and its LGBT history and community

2025-05-31 nevadacity • lgbt • history • gay • grassvalley

Color blindness simulator

Takes an image and shows what it looks like with varying vision. This one has academic citations for the simulation filters

2025-05-31 colorblind • colorblindness • images • accessibility • web • color

Hokusai CO₂

Scroll down: CO2 growth chart styled after Hokusai's "Great Wave" painting

2025-05-31 co2 • climatechange • visualization • hokusai • greatwave • art

Metamour

A term to describe your lover's lover.

2025-05-30 queer • relationship • language • polyamory

Polari in DQB2

Article about the gay slang that shows up in the English localization of the game Dragon Quest Builders 2

2025-05-30 games • dqb2 • polari • slang • gay • lgbt • dragonquest

Musk's drug habit

New reporting on his personal problems: heavy ketamine use, other recreational drugs, all sorts of baby daddy problems

2025-05-30 elonmusk • politics • drama • drugs

prompts.chat

A collection of prompts to LLMs to change their output

2025-05-29 llm • ai • chatgpt • awesome • github • prompts • promptengineering

Walt Whitman's Boys

A consideration on Whitman's queerness and its meaning in modern times

2025-05-29 gay • lgbt • whitman • poetry • history • america

London Backstreet

Appreciation of a now-closed fetish bar

2025-05-28 gay • lgbt • fetish • leather • london • nsfw • culture

The Who Cares Era

On American mediocrity and AI

2025-05-28 america • ai • effort • culture

Switch 2 comic

Funny comic about the angels and devils on our shoulder. (Note: two panels)

2025-05-26 funny • gaming • comic • gay • lgbt • switch

VTracer

A free image vectorizer that works quite well

2025-05-26 art • vetorize • svg • images • plotter • plotterart

Husbands Out to Wives

Online support group for non-traditional relationships

2025-05-25 marriage • lgbt • gay • community • support

Claude 4 prompt

Simon Willison breaks down the details of an LLM chatbot's system prompt

2025-05-25 ai • llm • prompt • programming • claude

Tying your shoes

You probably tie your shoes wrong, with a granny knot. Use a square knot.

2025-05-24 shoes • knots • ted • tying • funny

Senate Twink's story

Interview with the guy who filmed himself having sex with another man in a Senate hearing room and shared it

2025-05-23 uspol • politics • gay • lgbt • begaydocrime • sex • senate • therapy

Fakespot shutdown

Mozilla is killing fakespot, a useful tool for finding fake reviews of Amazon products

2025-05-23 fakespot • review • mozilla • shutdown • shopping • internet

New Stereolab

First album in 15 years from the shiny electronic pop group

2025-05-23 music • stereolab • electronica

Trump's cryptocorruption

Detailed reporting on all the various ways Trump is selling access to power and enriching himself and his family by billions of dollars. And helping the cryptocurrency grifters.

2025-05-22 corruption • politics • trump • gop • crypto • cryptocurrency • a16z • fraud

Jang maker

Details of a Korean artisan who makes fermented condiments: soy sauce, gochujang, doenjang

2025-05-22 via:hackernews • food • fermentation • korea • jang • jinjang • gochujang

Plotter jokes

Joshua Schachter on his mini-fame with videos of computer plotters being forced to do annoying things

2025-05-22 funny • art • plotterart • plotter • joshu • tednext

AI and energy usage

Deep new reporting on how much electricity AI datacenters are using, how they generate the power, and what impacts that power usage may have

2025-05-20 ai • power • energy • climatechange • llm • datacenter

Whitman's self promotion

America's famous 19th century poet was a hustler

2025-05-19 whitman • poetry • history • audaciousness • publishing • advertising • literature

WSL open source

Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. Article includes a nice project history.

2025-05-19 linux • windows • wsl • wsl2 • vm • hypervisor • opensource

Partagaz / Krennic

Slash fanfic for two Andor villains

2025-05-19 fanfic • starwars • andor • lgbt • gay • romance • ao3

Country music 2025

Cultural criticism on how country has a resurgence in the US but on two axes

2025-05-18 music • beyonce • culture • country • racism

Project Esther

Details of Heritage Foundation's propaganda campaign to discredit anyone voicing any support for Palestinian human rights

2025-05-18 israel • politics • uspol • propaganda • heritagefoundation • trump • palestine • america

Mystical

A programming language based on magical-looking sigils and signs

2025-05-18 via:metafilter • programming • alchemy • art

Defector: civil servants

Interviews with people fired by the Trump administration, very personal and direct

2025-05-16 politics • uspol • trump • interview • civilservice

The First Homosexuals

Museum exhibition about the construction of homosexuality as an identity 1869-1939

2025-05-16 gay • history • lgbt • museum • chicago

Whitman, Alabama

Interpretive program evaluating Whitman in the modern context

2025-05-16 poetry • poems • whitman • english

Calamus Project

Presentation of Walt Whitman's classic gay poems, with readings and commentary

2025-05-16 poetry • writing • english • whitman • gay • lgbt