The American business world is starting to feel like the Highlander. "From the dawn of time Corporations came…moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret mergers, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last."

I'm gonna need a fresh "Han Shot First" t-shirt, stat!

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

"We remain committed to reversing harmful policies enacted by Levine and ensuring that biological reality guides our approach to public health." Since when have *names* been encoded in someone's DNA? Names are a cultural invention Transness is actual biological reality

a billionaire who sees undermining political sovereignty as an alternative to paying a relatively minor fine is a problem that will have to be dealt with eventually

A Palantir billionaire just called for public hangings. “It's time to bring back masculine leadership to protect our most vulnerable,” writes Joe Lonsdale. This is where Silicon Valley authoritarianism is heading: www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

Had a big banner advertising 40% off Nitro for @discord.com on their app so I clicked through. It read full-price ($100/year) despite saying "40% Discount" at the top. Turns out it's just 40% off the FIRST MONTH, which doesn't apply when buying a whole year, which makes this super scummy

Ken Sim was there in person to witness this. That's right. The Mayor who just forced through an austerity budget couldn't resist a junket to D.C. to be part of today's Spectacle. Oct. 17, 2026, ABC Eviction Day, can't come soon enough! www.votecope.ca/donate #vanpoli

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

I love Paul Verhoeven but I hate that we live in one of his movies.

Thinking about how starkly LLMs expose the contradictory narratives of capitalism. Specifically, "success = hard work = genius" and "technology will give us all a life of leisure."

At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.

"It's 5 to 10 years away" is techspeak for "I have no idea if or when this will happen but I can't say that or the money will disappear."

(Leading him to the Sphinx) Yeah, it’s like a trivia night

The obvious hard turn into garbage games and abusive monetization will be difficult for outsiders to see because no games journalist will have the courage to give them a bad review lest they get [checks notes] murdered and cut into pieces.

The nitpicking is really something. "How can you have an opinion on a government engaging in the indiscriminate slaughter of children if you don't even know the physical geography of the area where it's happening? Checkmate, woke youth." What a disgusting ghoul.

If these kids just knew the history, they'd be fine with an ongoing genocide. They'd know it's okay for Israel to slaughter tens of thousands of children and starve hundreds of thousands more. Because history.

Why is alt text so hard to use and why is it such a big ask that you use it? Kindness is the only currency that isn't imaginary, why don't you spend some.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Knives Out: Integrity in the face of greed. Glass Onion: Bravery in the face of cowardice. Wake Up Dead Man: Grace in the face of Wrath.

Way too many folx are still proudly sharing their Substacks, so I am reminding folx that they remain a Nazi bar, and there are some decent newsletter alternatives like Ghost, Beehiiv, Buttondown, etc, so please finally exit the fucking Nazi bar that remains Substack as you can do much much better! 👀

If you want people to spend more, pay them more.

Energy transitions can happen faster than we think: In 2000 almost 90% of Denmark's electricity was from fossil fuels. In 2024 less than 10% of Danish electricity was from fossil fuels.

Netflix just wants you to torrent their shows, it'll save them so much bandwidth, and provide you with a better experience

don't really think drugs, as a concept, will ever be able to recover from the reputational hit they're about to take

oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes

Being a microscopic cog in a catastrophic plan doesn't sound too bad. Low stress. Get to hang out with other cogs.

I have low vision and I rely on alt text and image descriptions to provide context about images on platforms like BlueSky. If you don’t know how to write #AltText yet, I have several guides on my website that can show you how— take the #AltTextChallenge! veroniiiica.com/how-to-write... (1/10)

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

ask your doctor if lying down in the forest to be consumed by the earth is right for you

In sociology, a recurring methodological problem encountered by those trying to study the very rich is that their domains of existence are so far removed from the experiences of ordinary people that the researchers, before they even start, have to fundamentally reshape their social ontologies

Hahaha, right?! Or what about mandatory disclosures for the discrepancy between the salaries of the CEO and their lowest paid worker? That would be so funny, right?! Let’s do it as a funny joke!!!

Today in multiplayer games with team voice: Me saying "You sound like an influencer paid by the NRA to play games online and convince kids that guns are super cool."

Marc Maron cut CK off years ago because he asked him directly if he had done it and CK lied to his face. Why can't others have that basic level of integrity?

Why is every journalist a suck-up now. Bring back weasel-faced little bastards who hate everyone

To be explicit, we executed a German U-Boat commander who said he had to sink lifesaving gear / “inadvertently” kill survivors because it might give away his position, thereby potentially resulting in the loss of his submarine. We executed multiple members of that crew.

Please do media outlets (particularly the ones that are doing AI-critical stuff) a solid and link to their work, this isn't X, folks www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

The Fascist States of America

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Drawing on paper. Christopher Walken. #art

There has literally never been a universal basic income trial program that didn't deliver real and measurable results above and beyond any other form of social welfare, and every time another concludes with the same findings the powers that be go "interesting! Anyway," and pretend it wouldn't work.

Nationalize PornHub: In one simple move the government can save the domestic sex worker industry, improve worker conditions and combat human trafficking

Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.

When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".

It’s amazing, really. The Prime Minister is looking for big bold ideas to nation build and he came up with paying for an outdated technology to supply an energy source (bitumen) the world does not want.

happy thanksgiving from therizinosaurus, the forbidden turkey 🦃 therizinosaurus was a pot-bellied, 5-tonne herbivore from late cretaceous mongolia, best-known for the scythe-like claws on its hands (art by @kaek.bsky.social)

"Epic CEO angry that customers want to be informed and will refuse to purchase products they feel were made unethically so wants to take that choice away". There, fixed it for you.