Rapidly approaching “FIRE BAD TREE PRETTY” levels of exhaustion so prob time to log off for a minute 🔥😒/🌳😍

my internet bill steadily increased a little bit at a time over the last two years until it was 50% higher than the original rate for the exact same service and in order to do anything about that, i have to argue with a robot for an hour to get a $20 discount. i love living this way.

Prue Leith voice: I’m afraid you have a soggy bottom. #sqrlpix

I’m trying so hard not to get my hopes up but

“And another thing, don’t put in the satire mocking me that I’m upset”

54 year old man

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

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“.. bookings are well below expectations in almost every host city.” www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

It really is hard to be more blatant than what is openly happening. Those of us who long warned about this plan/goals aren’t surprised but, still, damn.

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

people are sending me important memes

*slowly spits out sunflower seed shells*

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Also just a quick point. I understand why people do it. I get morbid humor as a coping mechanism. But the reflexive jokes & memes every time a conservative is arrested for sex crimes, especially when the victim is a child, make me want to scream.

This is Bear, Australia's most famous koala detection dog. After a decade of service, he's retiring. He's located hundreds of injured or displaced koalas after forest fires. We're told his retirement will be filled with rest, cuddles, and maybe a little mischief. 15/10

Got a little visitor in the mint and clover patch today.

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

NYT: "no one has ever thought of teaching ranching at university" Every ag school: um, would you like to meet our cows NYT: "No, not like that. More romantic. More dilletante. Ugh, we're not /farmers/."

Weird

optomistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will have flying cars pessimistic 20th century sci fi writers: the future will be the torment nexus 2026: don't type the word "you" into the search bar or the machine will try to roleplay with you

lol of course this isn’t a real cattle ranch but a super elite feeder junior college for Ivy League schools that takes 26 students a year

Please note the Bluesky microphone flag.

Historian here this is literally about gutting the Reconstruction amendments especially the consequential 14th amendment piece by piece.

I could not be happier this is failing so spectacularly.

Real question: the fuck do you guys think the word meant before

I don't want to be tricked yet again into reading something that I think will be about Weird Al. So the second one, please.

well, shit. I didn't know that. :(

"Globally, 84% of people with disabilities lack a personal preparedness plan for disasters, according to the UN, which makes them a very vulnerable group, esp. in .. South Sudan. In a post-conflict place, [focus is] on political transitions … and people with disabilities are the most forgotten.”

This guy wants everyone to see his excellent neck-beard

"He had been in hospice care at his home in Ogunquit, Maine, in recent months, being treated for congestive heart failure." What a legacy. What a loss. RIP 🫡 www.nbcboston.com/news/local/f...

when you make an obvious joke and then your mentions are full of earnest corrections, that's the bluesky way

on my death bed, surrounded by my loved ones after I end a very long and fulfilling life, I will ask one of my relatives to come closer so I can whisper something to them, with my ailing breath, and to them I will say "clowning isn’t just honk-honk"

1) This seems highly unlikely & demonstrably false 2) Even if it's true I can't be arsed to give a fuck because PUBLIC TRANSIT SHOULD BE FREE www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/t...

To anyone following the reporting around the Islamic Center attack perpetrators who is perplexed by young Latino men espousing blatant neo-Nazism, check out this excellent write up @transform6789.bsky.social put together back in 2023. spencersunshine.com/2023/07/12/n...

Remember like a decade ago when the most insufferable person you knew was constantly bragging they'd never seen an episode of Game of Thrones like this was an amazing accomplishment instead of just not having an HBO subscription anyways I've never seen an episode of Euphoria pls congratulate me

ACHTUNG!

one of the most politically formative books I’ve ever read is Barry Werth’s “31 Days,” which is about the month after Nixon’s resignation and the slow, grinding process of everyone bullying Ford into pardoning him even though he didn’t want to. he knew it would fuck us all over, and he was right

"Object permanence" is the ability to understand that even if you can't see something, it still exists. Most toddlers acquire a thorough sense of object permanence by the age of two. But when it comes to technopolitics, object permanence eludes even full-grown lawmakers. 1/

oh my god there’s video and it’s beautiful

I wrote the Washington Post piece cited in the tweet ! www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-p...

My kingdom for a tech ecosystem that will stop smothering me with apps and devices that constantly try to engage me in conversation against my will

(incredibly gross thing I've discovered having pneumonia) . . . . . . . the human body is capable of producing SO, SO MUCH MORE phlegm than I ever imagined. I mean jfc where is all this even coming from?!? . . . . . (that's what she said) (sorry)

This is Calarts. Arguably the best animation school in the US, its alumni include industry legends. The graduating class is booing school president Ravi Ranjan, he's been gutting creative programs and pushing Ai initiatives, corporatizing the school. His secretary is treating graduates like babies.

Braving the rain to get away from the kids. We’ve all been there. #sqrlpix

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I want to acknowledge that REALLY BAD SHIT is happening, but I'm also sick w/pneumonia & do not have the emotional bandwidth to talk current events So instead I'm bingeing XFiles & thinking of where MAGAs will try to flee when It Happens & when this is all over www.history.com/articles/the...