Now I want the Star Trek/Alina Gingertail crossover...

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

American conservative politician Clare Boothe Luce converted to Catholicism in 1946. In a 1953 meeting with Pope Pius XII, she was fiercely lecturing the pontiff on the Church's moral duty to fight communism when the Pope finally interrupted her. "You know, Mrs. Ambassador, I am a Catholic too."

"He'd be uniquely evil if not for everyone else around him" is a great description for everyone in that administration.

There must be some sort of mistake...I thought the censorship was only going to go after nasty pornographers and people I don't like on the internet????

New video! We're looking at how YouTube linquistically disarms us all in the false name of safety. Social media policies are explicitly designed to protect the worst actors while punishing only those who speak up against them. YouTube is the online predator's best friend. youtu.be/40uR9nV4C9A

If I have to fucking see another comment about "but what about in science? It's useful in the sciences--" WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT KIND OF AI. We're talking about plagerism in the arts!! We're talking about the environmental tolls!! SHUT THE FUCK UP!! Fucking pedantic dickheads....

Nvidia’s CEO can spout whatever technonsense he likes about regurgitative AI, I’m not going to dignify it by reading a fucking word. The conversation stops at the fact AI is toxic waste. Ethically, morally, financially, environmentally. You cannot rhetorically clear that checkpoint.

I always appreciate that period each day when the markets are open, and we're no longer at war.

Goddamn dadaist govt

Oh no, we lost the Chuck Norris jokes guy.

“but what if they use it for good” well the particular pathologies that lead to acquiring that kind of money in the first place make that vanishingly unlikely, and the longer you have it the worse you get but the damage someone who uses it for bad ends can do vastly outstrips the good

Were trans people the only members of the military who can understand concepts like "constricted seaways are easier to make dangerous than to make safe" and "you can't just try and kill literally everything from the sky"?

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

Truly a perfect news alert

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I hope Keir Starmer wakes up covered in caterpillars and there are so many caterpillars, he’s telling his wife he doesn’t even know where the caterpillars came from but she’s SO angry at him for the caterpillars and when he tries to eat breakfast caterpillars pour out of his stupid cornflakes box.

these people should all hang

Your periodic reminder that the so called "Pahlavi dynasty of Iranian emperors" started in 1925 with the granddad of the current exile

Dan Simmons died and I want to say that being a piece of shit racist overshadowed his amazing work but I can't because Hyperion was overrated anyway

Zealot player composing a scathing letter about HiveScum to the Emperor's Holy Subreddit.

It is actually impossible to hate the rich enough

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

it's neoliberalism when i throw the boomerang, it's fascism when i lose all my teeth

Watch out or you'll ruin the makeup! (Part 11)

Climate change was my number one issue for a long time, but it has been decisively overtaken by "the billionaire problem". I don't think we can make progress on climate or much of anything else good until we decisively neuter them.

I chose my words carefully when I called the executives behind microtransactions child predators. Carefully and incredibly correctly.

But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

This seems unnecessarily harsh on innocent mustelids.

There is no such thing as ethical AI and there can in fact be no such thing under a capitalist socio-economic system.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

No level of violence against conservatives can ever be unjustified.

How utterly unsurprising.

Poodle Moth and Hawk Moth

Water is The One True Liquid, but there are three other liquid types: Tea, Soup, and Juice. Tea is water that's changed by the introduction of a thing which is then removed Soup is water that has a thing in it Juice is water that comes from a thing (Thanks to @marble.bsky.social for the diagram)

Maduro's government is bad for Venezuela, but I know who I'm backing in this conflict.

I mean, the imperials do usually have english accents in Star Wars...

"X, The Everything App" has effectively replaced "The Aristocrats!" as a punchline.

The AI industry funding scheme is like a big circlejerk that seems designed for an inevitable federal fraud trial of massive proportions.

here’s an under-discussed danger of LLMs: training you to show your moist ass in public it happens when you spend too much time chatting with bots, and lose the ability to persuade actual humans — who, ofc, don’t have a system prompt to tonguebathe your puckered asshole every time you fart

Cis and desist

And yes, I am going to be denigrating and insulting in my descriptions of any developers relying on AI to have their creativity for them. It’s inherent plagiarism, environmentally destructive, and it’s being used to REPLACE GAME DEVS. To use it is to be a traitor to your own profession. Fuck you.

Five animals I've encountered in the wild (all within city limits): Kestrel - Falco tinnunculus (they nest on top of the building where I live) Red Fox - Vulpes vulpes Wild Boar - Sus scrofa European Pond Turtle - Emys orbicularis European Hamster - Cricetus cricetus.

Somebody needs to show this to Jonathan Ferguson (Keeper of Firearms & Artillery at the Royal Armouries Museum in the UK which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons throughout history) and record the reaction. Hey, @watchexp.bsky.social ? :P

Good lord, how small IS his penis?