A Microblog in Plain HTML

YouTubers that talk to Prime Ministers?

https://archive.is/https://thegrayzone.com/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-netanyahu-israel-assassination/

#politics

I never heard about this guy until he got shot in the neck. Last month, Charlie Kirk ("conservative youth leader") was killed while holding a booth at a college campus.

I don't expect a streamer to do much other than sprinkle in terrible opinions over whatever footage they appropriated, but apparently this guy chats with the prime minister of Israel so the American right wing continues to send tribute aid? remain an ally?

Apparently not even Charlie can approve of the bombings on Gaza, and Netanyahu had to say that Israel didn't assassinate him. (Some suspect that Charlie's neck wound is an exit wound; the bullet came from behind, from the turret disguised as a camera.)

Testing how opengraph blocks look on RSS.

#test

The Mortician and The Reaper

A recently graduated mortician starts working at a small town mortuary and has the attention of a flirty grim reaper.

archiveofourown.org

Thought about slash pages.

#surf

https://slashpages.net/

I noticed the IndieWeb community has >3 different overlapping pages like

/pay

/tip

/junk

/sale

/pricing

That are roughly about trading.

They didn't come up with /trade or /shop.

Between the two, /trade is more flexible than /shop because /trade can involve favors, not necessarily buying and selling items.

But it's not like I can tell them that as I'm not part of the "IndieWeb". More specifically, they look like decentralized self-hosted Facebook: posting real names, selfies, and their location.

I heard an article from VICE was taken down over a controversial subject matter. The author of the article Ana Valens announced on Twitter that it was not because of "journalistic complaints".

https://nitter.net/acvalensVT/status/1946992236853399758

#surf #invidious

According to the article, a combination of payment processors and feminist organizations have successfully pressured Valve into removing "harmful content" from Steam. "Harmful content" appears to extend beyond adults-only and H-games as the group also targets Detroit: Become Human and Grand Theft Auto.

This isn’t the first time Collective Shout has used misleading language to target a video game for censorship. In 2014, the organization called on Target to remove Grand Theft Auto 5 from store shelves, sharing a petition that claims the game “encourages players to commit sexual violence and kill women.” Collective Shout described GTA as if it was a misogynistic funhouse, stating the game lets players “enact their fantasies of committing extreme violence against women, including punching women to the point of unconsciousness, killing them with a bat, gun or machete, running them down with a car, and setting them on fire as they continue screaming.”

This reminds me of Anita Sarkeesian's coverage of Hitman where she misrepresented the game's objective as attacking the girls in the strip club. (Like any other game, the female NPCs aren't invulnerable.)

https://inv.nadeko.net/WuRSaLZidWI?t=143

Other than the falsehoods used to promote petitions, it looks like feminism is being used as a conduit for financial censorship (again?). Overall, I don't agree that it's a moral failure ("harmful content" that warrants censorship) to portray crime or create crime fiction especially when the games target young adult or mature audiences.

Changing upstream git repositories.

I moved over to:

https://git.32bit.cafe/likho

NotABug has a problem most of the time I try to access a repository.

Now, `microblog.py` is set up on 32bit.cafe's gitea instance. I also put up an open issue for augmenting the Atom/RSS branch which still isn't merged to master even though it's getting old by now.

https://git.32bit.cafe/likho/microblog.py/issues/1

Would be great if and when someone creates a pull request. Otherwise, I could take feedback on writing code and issues other people can understand. I also put up a bounty on ğchange.

https://www.gchange.fr/#/app/market/view/AZgHum1NJfaiX9OXiYbR/contribute-to-my-python-project

#monnaielibre

Word of the day: vranyo (враньё)

#surf

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C%D1%91

With a barebones translation, it means 'to lie' (nonsense).

I've been looking for a word that describes the phenomenon in that someone from a position of power asserts a lie to a subordinate who is forced to accept or repeat it, otherwise incurring a consequence.

The people involved could be the forum moderator and the forum users, the government and the public, cancel cult leader and the target, etc. The situation could be the enforcement of a systemic lie or coercing someone to concede to a contestable claim.

This could be close?

(Would have to read Russian literature.)

Some online explanations describe the word to mean 'a lie that other people go along with' which illustrates convenience rather than intimidation. However, compliance for the fear of consequence lies in the overlap between convenience and intimidation.

I posted a bounty on ğchange.

#monnaielibre

I'm looking for people who know French (ideally a native) to transcribe and translate a video lecture on economics by Stéphane Laborde.

https://www.gchange.fr/#/app/market/view/AZUugZHOlbpvhqQLdP3L/french-english-translation-of-a-video-conference

Visit the video I'm talking about directly:

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=WRq2197FlMw

The first 10 minutes has already been checked over. I'm flexible, so portions of the video can be worked on as opposed to the entirety.

Side note: It looks like #invidious instances are disappearing.

It was a very political season, and I'm going to get it out of the way entirely.

#politics

I read

https://archive.ph/https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/migrant-hotel-king-on-course-to-become-first-immigration-industry-billionaire-385191/

which describes a billionaire made so because of immigration in the United Kingdom.

Taxpayers are paying between £127 and £148 a day to house them, which is a total of £8 million per day.

Basically, when immigrants come, they get housed at this guy's real estate. Also I had no idea that £44,000/yr boarding schools existed. That must be some top-tier education.

"He said that."

"She said that."

I took a longer than anticipated hiatus from the web.

November 5th was US Election Day, and the most painful part was the reaction to the results.

#politics

Flashback before Election Day, I had caught news about Donald Trump saying he isn't going to touch abortion and that he supports IVF. This caused outrage among Christians (a huge chunk of the right-wing). (Christians don't like IVF because it involves "murder" by their definition. If 5 eggs get fertilized but 4 get discarded, it's quadruple-abortion to them.)

https://archive.is/https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/09/pence-slams-rnc-platform-abortion-00167169

About the month right before Election Day, there appeared to be panic from feminists because Kamala Harris brought up abortion. It went as far as a red cloak cosplay campaign, but I assumed it was astroturf.

(Side note: the Democrats were in power during COVID-19 and favored draconian vaccine requirements when investors needed exit liquidity for Pfizer stock.)

Like any Election Day, when the results come in, the losing side expresses extreme disappointment or anger. There was no schadenfreude to be had. Rather, I thought it was painful to read the influx reddit posts from misinformed people.

"He wasn't going to touch abortion," is what I could explain in 5 threads before I lose patience.

After reading enough posts behind the glass wall (I don't post), I realized they were Kamala voters, and they think this way because they believe what Kamala Harris says and won't believe what their political antagonist says. So on that day, I reinforced why I don't join political discussions.

I found hay in a needle-stack (warning: it's 4chan).

https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/482594707/

Thread titled "MAYOR OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO ROBERT RUE IS MAKING MILLIONS OFF HAITIAN GIBS" by Anonymous details situation in Springfield, Ohio.

Mayor Rob Rue is evicting residents of Springfield, Ohio and then bringing Haitian illegal migrants to the tune of A THIRD of the cities population to rent out his properties to Haitians using Housing Vouchers which are paid for by the federal government.

He then raises the rent to 3, 4 or 5 thousand a month and the Government Gibs go straight to his bank account!

I don't see the topic discussed anywhere else, but it's an interesting possibility. The business record links appear valid. The relationship between the government and real estate investors through housing vouchers seems plausible.

#politics

An irreligious, new grim reaper has the soul of a Christian pursued by demons. Where does the soul go?

The Mortician and The Reaper is currently at Chapter 7.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53712241/chapters/148447813

Read from the start at:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/53712241

My current project, crossing over A Date with Death and The Mortuary Assistant, has gotten to the above point. However, neither of the two games, especially the former, go into detail about the afterlife or Underworld. A Date with Death has an upcoming DLC; however, it's coming out later than I thought it would. So to get the #fanfic done, I'll have to come up with something on my own that may or may not clash with future details in A Date With Death.

From the details of A Date With Death, there are multiple gods, pre-determined deaths which grim reapers enforce, and exceptional souls in otherwise ordinary people. I don't think I'll clash with the first point and will be able to emphasize the third.

I added RSS feeds to the microblog. The list of feeds can be found here, but I am still testing the feature.

https://likho.neocities.org/microblog/feeds

Currently, I generate the title with the first words of the post. So far, I've found starting posts with tags to be especially pointless on feeds for tags.

#programming

#finance #politics

Throughout today, the price for Nvidia stock fell by 5-7%. Reddit appears to blame it on Donald Trump's comments on Taiwan. The same subreddit mentioned Nancy Pelosi buying 10,000 shares of Nvidia at the end of June.

https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/NVDA_Stock/comments/1e5dnp6/it_looks_like_we_are_going_down/

https://archive.is/https://www.techspot.com/news/103856-donald-trump-taiwan-pay-us-defense-took-america.html

https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/NVDA_Stock/comments/1due35b/nancy_pelosi_bought_10000_shares/

I got the idea that establishment politicians don't like Trump because he causes stock market crashes. This means just from today the value of Pelosi's holdings declined by $80,000. On the other hand, other places say the drop is because of Biden restricting trade with China.

#politics

I read about Donald Trump almost getting killed during a rally on Saturday. The agency that was supposed to protect him didn't secure the roof from which the assassin shot because, according to the director, the roof was too sloped.

That building in particular has a sloped roof, at its highest point. And so, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof. And so, the decision was made to secure the building, from inside.

I looked at photos, and the roof was nearly flat like a <15 degree angle. (The buildings were of American Glass Research.)

#programming

I was trying to update my microblog generator for semantic html elements by testing it with Firefox's Reader Mode. After spending more hours than I should editing `template.tpl`, `settings.toml` or `timeline.css`, I decided to test with my `content.txt` instead of the repo's `demo.txt`

I found out Firefox's Reader Mode's algo considers the quantity of content. It literally didn't work for this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Sample Page for Reader Mode</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>
    <h1>Welcome to Minimal Working Example</h1>
</header>
<main>
    <article>
        <h2>Introduction</h2>
        <p>This is a sample article for testing Firefox Reader Mode.</p>
    </article>
</main>
<footer>
    <p>&copy; 2024 literal who</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>

#surf #finance zines about gamestop?

I came across a link to "The SuperStonk Library of DD, Art Books, and Periodicals", and the deal with "meme stocks" is much higher effort than I expected (typeset PDFs with cover art) and definitely higher effort than 2 minute long articles from corpo-media.

https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/kosyg

The $GME sub uses acronyms often ("DFV", "RC", "MOASS"); many of which, I had to guess what they meant. I've found "The Diamond Handbook" explains most of them.

Note, investment-related Reddit subs especially with a defined antagonist (Citron, "the hedgies") are intentionally vague about their exit plan. Thus many posts express "I'm never selling" or strong confidence about major changes in the future.

#surf #finance

Sometime around May, GameStop ($GME) shares rose from $10 to around $60, I assume because of another short squeeze. After the first short squeeze that bankrupted Melvin Capital, hedge funds apparently started naked short-selling GameStop again.

I've been reading the "$GME investors" sub at

https://redlib.perennialte.ch/r/GME/new

and finally came aross a 10 minute video explaining why they invest in GME for reasons beyond memes.

https://nitter.poast.org/Cancelcloco/status/1790524969623175629#m

(GameStop is the only retailer that consistently stocks Steam Wallet cards/codes. So it'd be great if they don't get shorted to death.)

#programming

I had an idea to write a script that verifies a user's `settings.toml` file. At some point, I even went ahead to make the script update outdated configuration files. However, an early buggy version nuked my own file while I was testing it.

By now, I think I have everything in order. I'm thinking about merging the branch `cfg-update` this month.

#programming

I added a new command line option to the microblog generator. `--new-posts=(int)` causes the script to only update pages relevant to the last n posts.

If `--new-posts=3` and the posts tag 'programming', 'invidious' then the list of updated files will look like

• tags/programming/index.html
• tags/invidious/index.html
• index.html

Still hunting for bugs.

#invidious #politics leonel moreno

I watched

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=wcQvVW4vv8M

which is about a TikToker named Leonel Moreno. TikTok banned him for advising how to commit crime (illegal entry). However, he is more notorious for publicising squatter's rights laws and adverse possession.

The video archived clips from TikTok, and at the end, the vlogger (Poetik Flakko) asks for opinions whether deportation suits Leonel. But I ended up thinking more about "the script".

You're supposed to figure out how to get some papers, how to get a working permit, work really hard, make enough to go to college, get a better job...

The script is a game most people lose when they realize it is a game. Leonel Moreno doesn't accurately live off taxpayer money because the money that funds government programs doesn't necessarily come from taxes. Government money is borrowed into existence from a central bank. The US dollar has no "supply cap" and can be issued arbitrarily.

What Leonel Moreno is not doing is trading his finite time for money (work) nor is he supplying liquidity to the stock or crypto markets. He is correct in saying to his rage-baited audience that they are exploited and work like slaves.

If you don't find a way to make money while you sleep, you will work until you die.

If he isn't stupid and doesn't get deported, he learns a lesson about keeping quiet and enjoying his not-so-universal basic income and mortgage-free house.