I could have opened Bluesky this morning, said "oh shit," never looked at Bluesky all day, opened it just now, thought "phew," and have been IMMEASURABLY more psychologically and emotionally healthy than I currently am. There's a lesson there, and it is my solemn vow not to learn it.

I don't know how else to say this but: Thank you Pakistan

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

"We want to speak to members of the military. 🫵🏽 You swore an oath to protect the constitution. Right now the threats to our constitution are coming from right here at home. You must refuse illegal orders. 🇺🇲 Don't give up the ship."

gonna go find my high school civics teacher and beat the shit out of him

Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.

personally, I feel like if the president of the united states is threatening to KILL AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION, the right thing for the rest of the government to do would be to invoke the 25th amendment and put him in a straitjacket

Last night I dreamed I was an astronaut returning home from space enjoying the overview effect and saw my country, and all the countries of the world engulfed in bright light and then a black unending smoke that truly erased all boarders forever. Can we please be better than this?

I think disassociating has been the national past time since Sandy Hook tbh. That was the first time (working a fully normie job) that I noticed a truly horrific thing had happened and we were just supposed to work through it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9MZ... I feel like I have not seen enough of this millennial flash era internet nostalgia going around given current events. WE LIKE DA MOON.

Public stockades and buckets of batteries.

I know it's been said many times over the last 10 years, but at this point the fallout from things ending this way will be worth it regardless of what that fallout is: Some secret service agent needs to become a hero.

yeah man i'll circle back to you on that agenda item from yesterday's all hands in just a sec. our pedophile king just threatened to destroy a whole civilization

It's gonna be fucking hilarious when Artemis pulls around the dark side of the moon and we realize it got tagged by an interstellar graffiti crew sometime in the last few years and it says "Lol capitalism apes"

Incredible

god damn wow

British slang is often whimsical and silly to my dumb American ears, but I just heard somebody say "Back before the ol' pandi" to refer to the pandemic and I don't know how to react to that

🙄 Once you see it, you can't unsee it

falling through a time hole where I’m sent back to 2011 and gain immense popularity on Twitter by plagiarizing all the classics, a feat that gains me nothing materially and drives me to psychosis in five years

Calling it now that in the next 6 months trump will announce he's going to violate the madrid protocol and drill in the Antarctic. It won't actually happen because it's nearly impossible, but he'll say it to manipulate markets and they'll believe him because he doesn't believe in treaties

Everybody who ordered it, the pilot who pulled the trigger, everybody in between who knew this was happening must face a fucking firing squad.

I think a really solid entry to the American Century of Humiliation would be if we find out Lorne Michaels has been a CIA asset since the 70's and SNL is essentially a powerful psyop and brutal torture/reeducation program for young comics. Maybe that's what Tina was trying to tell us with 30 Rock

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

In the last 2 months we've gone from management telling us "Everybody use claude as much as you can for everything" to "Claude's new plan costs a lot please try to learn to prompt efficiently" and the addicts are getting pissy. We are all such dumb easily manipulated primates.

I am trying to remember that the Apollo program was also a loose cover for spending a huge chunk of the GDP on evil ballistic missile tech during another time when humanity's death drive was showing prominently, and yet science was done. But it's hard.

I'm sorry but I should be the absolute target demographic for getting misty-eyed about the Artemis launch...but instead I just feel fucking angry and ashamed when I look at videos of it.

In the entire time I've been employed in corporate america as an adult, I have yet to see any indication that upper management layoffs have any ability to identify talent or productivity at any level. It's always taking a shotgun to an org chart.

ANGINE DE POITRINE VS. CLOWNCORE

Crimson Desert is the biggest "A camel is a horse built by committee" monstrosity of a $200mil+ project I've ever seen. This game does backflips to try to ruin itself and barely powers through it. It's absolutely baffling

We live in hell but at least Duke lost. Fuck Duke.

I have a lot of complaints about crimson desert, but it does fully encourage you to pickpocket gold bars from rich people and then distribute your wealth to normal people in town to improve the entire society and I can't disagree with that

Crimson Desert has completely recalibrated my concept of just how expansive a AAA game can get while still have unpolished janky controls and like zero quality of life features. It's somehow keeping my interest despite a MOUNTAIN of flaws

3d printing is definitely one of the few things about "the future" that's pretty cool, but I was really hoping we would have narrowed in on materials + consumer sized printers that could have helped us start experimenting with musical instruments custom sized to an individuals body type.

Fuck you Bob Costas. I hope you get pink eye again and your fucking eye falls out for being a stupid gullible moron

Well RIP google fiber

WHO THE FUCK IS PEPE SILVIA? ARE THEY TRYING TO TARGET PENNSYLVANIA?

WE MUST PISS ON ALL THE SPARK PLUGS IT IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP THE MACHINES

Imagine how quickly all the pushover democrats are going to fold on more drilling in alaska and more domestic production because of gas prices because their consultants tell them that's the only way to get reelected

Also we are months or days away from them putting AI image recognition on guns that makes the decision to pull the trigger if a protestor "is about to get violent" while humans point the gun and they'll consider that a perfect liability shield

AI bros are scared skynet is going to happen because they're stupid and don't realize that Wargames is the infinitely more likely scenario given that, you know, the dipshits at the pentagon are literally begging to hook up the undercooked WOPR to fire control already.

It's going to seamlessly transition from 50 first dates into weekend at bernies as they go from showing him the AI, to showing us AI of him more and more

Again in things you could not waterboard out of me:

*pop*

yea

Listening to the Colberts, Careels, Amy Pohelers etc talk about how they got their start in chicago in the 80s paying $100 a month for rent and answering phones 2 days a week and being able to make a living fucking infuriates me. This is why art sucks now is because no artist can live cheaply

Things you say when YOUR physics career stalled and failed and you had to start doing bad science communication on youtube instead. Just pathetic