I have spent 90 minutes beating my head against VSCode, only to realize that I installed an Installation Helper, and not the Thing the Goddamned Installation Helper Actually Installs Microsoft is rapidly approaching IBM levels of "an alien from an 80s sci-fi comedy wrote this code" absurdity.

One does not have to hand it to George Conway. "I contributed to the bullshit impeachment that degraded the potency of the procedure" is not the smug declaration of political strategy he wants it to be. Give none of these snakes an inch - they will take a mile and make it fascist.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Coveting your neighbor’s shit, good enough for tRump. #Pinks #ProudBlue #StrongerTogether #Resist #FucktRump #Venezuela #Cuba #Greenland

Ah, back in my office chair, staring at the blinking cursor of doom. What a way to start the year. At least nothing wild or crazy happened the last few days, right? haha

ALRIGHT NOBODY PANIC THE QUESARITO IS BACK AT TACO BELLA

Have y'all seen anything about the "Tech Force" that was announced a few days ago? fedscoop.com/trump-tech-f... The Trump Administration looking for short-term workers to rework just-gutted government organs into automated hellscapes.

Ten thousand fucking percent. Like, I get it. I get that you're despairing. Shit is rough. But skeeting "we're so fucked" ten times a day accomplishes nothing, alleviates nothing, and contributes to learned helplessness. In all seriousness, if you feel that welling up? Log off. You need a break.

The FBI's "shitty forgery" guy has got to be an intern. First the meme-bullets from Kirk's going-away party, then the weird texts between the shooter and his lover/roommate, then the ICE sniper's bullets, and now this.

The next few Final Fantasy games are going to be *spectacularly* unplayable. Or delayed for half a decade. Wow.

At the risk of alerting my FBI handler (Hi, Frank!) defeat is no longer enough. We cannot simply win in the marketplace of ideas or whatever neoliberal bullshit the Democrats say. They must lose in a way so profound as to make their return impossible. We tried the "gentle" way and it didn't work.

that milquetoast motherfucker I KNEW IT

It's time to get the fuck out man

“thank you, I guess, to Krysten Sinema” did really make me laugh it’s what she deserves

Reminder that if anyone is setting you up online to do some crime, THAT PERSON IS A COP. ALWAYS. WITHOUT FAIL.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Oh, wait, so me hoarding my old PC equipment is actually a good thing? Take that, therapy!

The games industry brings in 300 billion dollars a year. The guy who made DOOM gets his projects canceled, the guy who made Katamari Damacy is broke, everyone in your feed is begging for a job and there are 50 new games coming out on Steam every day all going towards buying Gabe Newell's next yacht

This oddly gives me hope that these people will, in the Darwinian sense, remove themselves from the equation sooner rather than later. Of course, that interim period will be considerably more dangerous, so... glass half-full/empty and all that.

They're working on their post-Trump power bloc now. Gotta act now before the shitsack completely disintegrates. Capture what power you can, lock in your bot army and Russian donors, make friends with a few "legit" journalists who can shield you in exchange for "insider info".

Okay so yall need to listen. There's a thing called 'media training' that LITERALLY IS NECESSARY TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF MANY ORGANIZATIONS. THIS INCLUDES SEVERAL PROTEST GROUPS. Its a DEEPLY IMPORTANT SKILL. Because the media LIKES TO DO SHIT. If you aren't authorized, LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS.

Don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but if these people lived truer to their kinks they'd be less toxic and destructive to everyone around them. If they put the same energy into sexual fulfillment they did into stripping rights away and killing brown people, they'd be happier!

He's the skull of a 13th-century Dominican friar with a chip on his shoulder. He's an overworked presbyterate official just trying to make it to the weekend. Together, they fight crime.

Data centers don't pay their power bills, you do. Your electricity bill goes up, it gets hotter where you are, and there's not enough water anymore so if you pay for water, that goes up too. And the rich get richer, passing the costs on to you. #MakeBillionairesAfraidAgain #CorporationsAreNotPeople

Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.

Trying not to spread rage-bait, so I'm just going to fact-find. Anyone use, or got family who uses, a chat app called Wizz? Like, is this a real thing?

also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist

washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch

Writing Project has now officially breeched the Muppet barrier. Imagine a LARP where your PC was a puppet, and not *your physical body*. My brain works sometimes, and when it does it makes amazing things!

Whoa … this is really strange. Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone. 🎁 link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

My ten cents is that newspapers should stop calling it a drug boat if there was never any evidence presented of it being a drug boat.

He is decaying in real time.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

bsky gonna bsky i guess 🙄 they suspended @hyenablood.bsky.social right before Bandcamp Friday landed. go snag the new cobalt bloom album, it's an incredible release 7 years in the making! cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/album/liminal and repost this!! it's up to us to spread the word while steve's down!

If you may feel a sensation of vertigo, congratulations! You can perceive the yawning, technofascist void beneath American civilization that is LLMs! Running out of time, the admin brute-forced a bunch of tower pings and found someone they could blame.

If the station wagon in question has good gas mileage? Fuck yeah, sign me up. I already got the cats.

Writing Project has taken another sudden turn, and I am re-writing this world for a third time... but it's better than before? I feel like I should give it a rest and focus on other worlds... let this newest iteration marinate a bit.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

My brain did that thing where I read this in her voice... but retroactively. It was "un-voiced" until I got to the final word and then *click*.

I've said it before: the person who wants to use genAI to create things has no interest in the act of creation - only in having the created thing, and in being seen as a creator.

The numbers in here are hilarious. Do you use AI on the job? Execs: 87% Managers: 57% Workers: 27% Planned investment by 2030: $5T "Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B Current annual revenue: $50B

Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities. Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers. Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees. Support local independent coffee shops:

Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again

Backlash surrounding Metroid Prime 4’s chatty supporting cast has inadvertently bled into one gamer’s relationship. paletteswap.site/dif...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

In writing news, the nanofiction one-off I wrote about a gender-bent, militant Christ has suddenly caromed right back into my forebrain and has upset the balance of my STALKER/Roadside Picnic homeworld. Sometimes, my brain is fun and I appreciate what it does.

Holy Shit, read this short scifi story.

I have never needed to get in contact with Salvatore Gannaci more than I do today.