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LGBTQ survey in US
New Gallup poll on identity: younger people are identifying as queer much more than older generations
2025-02-22 lgbt • queer • poll • us • uspol • demographics • gay
Project 2025 Tracker
Simple line item tracking of the agenda to destroy US government
2025-02-19 uspol • politics • trump • project2025 • via:kottke
Thai Boys Love shows
TV craze for LGBT entertainment from Asia
2025-02-18 tv • gay • lgbt • vietnam • thailand • television
Tearoom NSFW
Documentary about 1961 gay sex with film from a police entrapment operation
2025-02-18 movies • films • gay • lgbt • ohio • mansfield • tearoom • police • civilrights
NSFW: Keith Haring
Joyful, sexy gay art at the LGBT center in New York
2025-02-16 art • nsfw • erotica • keithharing • streetart • lgbt • gay • newyork
Nevada County water shortage
Second year in a row that PG&E incompetence means a bunch of people in California won't have enough water
2025-02-16 pge • corruption • nevadacounty • water • infrastructure
Wrong about GPUs
Cloud hosting provider Fly discovers their customers don't want to lease GPUs
2025-02-15 cloud • computing • gpu • ai • llm • flyio • fly • hosting
Gorton font
Marcin Wichary's loveletter to a workmanlike font
2025-02-14 fonts • design • engraving • singlestroke • gorton • typography
50501
Growing grassroots protest movement against Trump's destruction of our government. Next big protests are Monday Feb 17
2025-02-14 protest • 50501 • trump • musk • politics • uspol
Schwurbler
German slang for someone who talks nonsense
2025-02-13 german • language • slang • conspiracy • funny
Little Sisyphus
Remarkable physics platformer for NES, built with NESfab
2025-02-13 games • nes • nintendo • retro • platformer • physics • nesfab
DOGE team
Online tech press continues to do remarkable work figuring out who's actually running the US government
2025-02-13 doge • politics • trump • corruption • coup • journalism
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font
A well designed font for readability gets major update
2025-02-12 fonts • opendyslexic • accessibility • typography • blind • vision
minisearch
Javascript search engine for small document stores
2025-02-09 search • web • development • javascript
Heat pumps in US
Details on finding a good installer and why it's hard
2025-02-09 hvac • electrify • heatpump • home • heating • globalwarming • consumer
Kottke on #uspol
Thoughtful comments from an O.G. blogger about covering the current awful political situation in the US
2025-02-07 kottke • politics • uspol • outrage • linkblog • blogs • mentalhealth
Pearblossom Hwy., 11
David Hockney collage from 1986
2025-02-07 hockney • art • collage • polaroid • socal • california • desert
David Hockney's A Rake's Progress
Gay artist in the 60s does a parody of a famous 18th century moral work
2025-02-07 art • hockney • davidhockney • hogarth • moral • drawing
Special government employees
Insider explains the SGE role in the US government, a way for outsiders to come in as a short term consultant. Trump is abusing this position now to attack the bureaucracy.
2025-02-06 uspol • politics • musk • trump • sge • eeob • consultant • government
Alley Cat (video game)
1983 videogame that's a predecessor to Stray and Little Kitty Big City
2025-02-05 games • atari • cats • alleycat • stray
gcode2dplotterart
A Python framework for making plotter art. Also 3d printers.
2025-02-05 art • python • coding • axidraw • 3dprinter • plotterart
Risk at al-Hol
How Trump's destruction of foreign spending has immediately threatened global security with a specific example of an IS prison / home base
2025-02-04 trump • politics • uspol • syria • is • isis • terrorism
Musk's government sabotage
Major overview article from NYTimes about the chaos Musk is wrecking inside the federal government
2025-02-04 elonmusk • politics • trump • doge • chaos • eeob • treasury • usaid • uspol
USB 3 vs 2.4GHz
USB 3.0 ports emit interference at 2.4GHz, the frequency popular with wifi, controller dongles, etc
2025-02-03 tech • usb • radio • 8bitdo • interference • usb3 • wireless
Musk's lackeys
Some information on the people who have illegal access to US government systems right now
2025-02-02 musk • elonmusk • politics • doge • opm • gsa • usaid • uspol