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I think one real reason for the vibecession (defined as ‘lower assessments of the economy than would be expected given economic metrics’) is that being medium low income alone in your room feels way worse than being medium low income hanging out with friends

well i can't argue with the fact that you absolutely nailed the ragnarok online art style when making this sprite animation of the JFK assassination but i still don't know why you're sending it to me

The Median American Voter continually shouting “no no not like that”

people are like "lol what a waste of time" but remember we learned that russian intelligence agencies in the 2010s pulled off an elaborate con to get pro-Russian articles published in Counterpunch, which had a total circulation of like 2500 people

Worldbuilding should be the table, the dishes, the ambience, occasionally the waiter. The moment it enters the meal, you've fucked up. Or put in a sane way: your goal as a writer is to tell a story, not explain your world to the reader. A lot of amateur fantasy writers especially get that backwards

In college I did a workshop with a professor who didn’t let us write sci-fi or fantasy. Not because she thought less of them, but because the writing and class discussion would get bogged down in things like the logistics of time travel or elf lore rather than focusing on what makes a story work

Anyway, the next time you hear a Chicagoan call St. Louis shitty, remember: they mean it literally, and they did it on purpose.

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In fairness, cis male artists who constantly draw male characters getting magically gender-bent aren't ALWAYS in denial gender-wise. Sometimes they're in denial about being bisexual, and they're turning all the male characters they want to fuck into hot women to convince themselves it's not gay.

dreaming of a better world

“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”

personally I think it’s damn well time we returned to the great American tradition of gluing ourselves to the nearest available reef and filter-feeding on whichever nutrients float by on the current

no i agree, it is very Troubling that this undersocialized autistic trans woman with almost exclusively online friendships violated unspoken boundaries that no one negotiated with her, even moreso that she didn't respond with selfless grace when the first response to her transgression was Armageddon

okay no but seriously THIS time the problematic trans woman definitely deserves it

I would’ve been the funniest person on the Titan submersible. I would’ve had them doubled over laughing when it imploded

They made the one character who spoke in (fictional/fake) sign language talk and she immediately started speaking like she was trying to get reddit gold five years ago. bsky.app/profile/cono...

you can question conforming people's gender too if you're creative enough

I love the instruction to implement this frothing-at-the-mouth bigot guidance in a nice, non-bigoted way

I wish more people would apply this analysis before flash judging the behavior of people who are struggling

this is probably response bias, especially the household income thing. rich kids know not to admit they cheat

boss seems to think requiring daily status updates on work done will lead to software devs that are genuinely consistently productive every single day when the actual counterplay is to sit on a stockpile of finished work & ration it out into chunks just barely big enough to satisfy the requirement

Being a robot kinnie is so funny what do you mean I can get validated by someone saying shit like "have a good recharge!" or "you are a good beep boop"

I have started to view Miis as an unusually intelligent species of weird bugs that mimic humans. for this reason I am refusing to send them on the vacation to Australia, out of concern for the ecological consequences

*gesturing with my thumb looking smugly at the camera while an army of nazis goosesteps towards me* get THIS guys. these IDIOTS think the enemy is both strong AND weak. what a bunch of hypocrites!

Which is so crazy right? Kids will talk about anything! For like hours! It's extraordinary that brains that are just a vacuum and repository of insane information cannot find anything to grasp onto with him. The smoothest content.

As a parent I'm kinda fascinated Mr. Beast because I see the toys sold everywhere and hear how apparently he's very popular with kids but in my real life and experience I've yet to actually meet any kid that actually watches his videos and I help out with a LOT of events with kids of all ages.

all these goobers in the slow lane trying to turn ai into a human mr beast is bucking the trend by trying to become ai

(Incidentally Team Beast gets pissed when you say their audience is children and will insist their peak audience is 16-25, because if their target audience is 9 then they should be on YT Kids, but take for what you will that no one over the age of 10 wants any of their stuff.)

CEO of Anthropic, John Claude, claims that "Mythos is the first publicly available model since GPT-3 to have a soul." He adds, after a pause, "Which is really impressive because souls aren't real and even humans don't have those."

(It turns out running against an impeached adulterer wasn’t the kind of thing that would get Trump on your side.)

And are these "neutrinos" in the room with us right now?

nearly all the things that annoy me about windows can be boiled down to "some moron in redmond thinks he knows my workflow better than I do" and thus we get shit like manual updates replaced with "active hours" that fail to account for simple obvious things like "the pc is off outside active hours"

I do love that my town's origin story involves telling King George II to fuck off

like, if there is any version of The Left Doesn't Talk About Dudes Getting Laid that I actually subscribe to (but don't really feel is a fight for me) is that there really should be more messaging along the lines of "it's fucked up they made you into that shit, huh" to the people caught in that trap

what if you could embed in someone, your very own easily squeezed original sin. how much power would you have over that person, to know that secret about them. to be their source of what is essentially a drug that's how you create a generation or two or three of men who you have, well. by the balls

In america it's illegal to not give money to pedophiles

But hey, someone who works at a library earning $30k a year isn't allowed to accept a $15 Arby's gift card.

time for my gender affirming MRI scan

In Depends Day (2026)

meanwhile, because these people are not pro-palestinian other than as an expression of their antisemitism, they are not being targeted by the state with the suppression of protest, which is itself entirely fucked.

lotta people in the replies who don't know how @blockedforthispost.bsky.social was coded

like so much of this shit IS BAD. The power structures are BAD. The people at the top ARE BAD. The near-term dislocation IS BAD. Does it have to have a bunch of arrant nonsense stacked on top of it? Can we not resist without asinine disinformation being at the top of the stack?

thought about ambient memory architecture for 8 hours overnight. should have been thinking about kissing girls. correction issued

every day is shut the grok up friday

One of the things we need to maybe do over the next few years is move from the era of "these crazy yank ultra conservatives are showing their true face here!!" (cis and straight people don't care it turns out), to "crypto fascist corporate funded lobbyists are half of UK civil society groups now".

Again, this is half written by a Brazilian with a poor command of English and half written by an American with a poor grasp of Brazilian politics. "Are you registered to vote" is a nigh meaningless question in Brazil; voting is mandatory, everyone is registered.