semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

got one

Sentiment check: r/wallstreetbets is absolutely libbing out, indistinguishable from Bsky.

Welcome to the resistance (checks notes) (squints harder) (squints really hard) chairman of the federal reserve powell

“We can’t be a country with a paramilitary secret police because then we would be a nation with a paramilitary secret police” is something my brain genuinely says to me. I need my brain to change as fast as my world and that’s not easy.

This is a cartoon about housing.

🤯

(I am apparently the only person alive who deliberately plays chunithm on speed=2.0)

what happens if denji eats the Fear Itself Devil

LMFAO

I'm told these images give some types of sweaty rhythm gamers aneurisms

I'm always saying this, I've watched the space evolve over the past decade and it's been the result of deliberate choices, some of which were not easy or popular at the time. You can foster diversity and inclusion in your spaces. It works.

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

Those of you who believe in mortal sin ought to recognize this for what it is.

hot damn, a friend informs me that his doctor apparently prescribed him a 3-day course of azithromycin (500mg/day) to take... *if* he got diarrhea when traveling, with no further diagnostics. just, "here's antibiotics, take 'em if you feel shitty". and people wonder why AZM resistance is on the rise

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

didn't matter how quickly or easily one can make a bunch of slop it all falls apart if you need to print it onto paper and buy a spot in a physical space and convince people to actually buy it

One funny thing Elon Musk figured out about the media is if, instead of providing comment to reporters, you email back an automated reply saying "go fuck yourself," the reporters will just invent their own plausible-sounding defense of your conduct to balance their stories instead of punishing you

happy new yuri

Why do none of these fuckers call their companies Gandalf or Samwise

IN MICE (and human tissue samples, but not yet in clinical trials) but still very cool and promising research bsky.app/profile/sail...

watching A Mangaka's Weirdly Wonderful Workplace and I keep expecting this character to turn out to secretly be an alien, her design just screams Taraku Uon for some reason

enbies only

Real announcement ends up being understandable but insanely out of left field. Well played, PR person

I assume someone has posted this before but it's my morning intrusive thought

In practice arguing for gender as a construct while not fully pushing sex as changeable has led to cis people, conservative and liberal, seeing sex as set in stone truth and gender as either fake gay shit to hate or fake gay shit to be polite about that doesn't actually change one's preconceptions

throwback to this song youtu.be/x7-iffawHg8

trans rights are human rights bsky.app/profile/jess...

凪さんサンタ。ラリマーをください #瑠璃の宝石

really wanna know if I'm the first person to stay a night at the Imperial in a Lycoris uniform

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

protip: open discord (on desktop) and type @time, there's a 1-in-4 chance something cool will happen

the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy

imagine being one of MicroStrategy's actual enterprise-software clients

does anybody know who's working on the CR subs for Alma Wants to Be a Family? this week's episode had an insert song and they actually wrote english lyrics for it (rather than just treating it like prose), I'm so damn excited to see that showing up in professional localization work lately

Turns out it didn't have legs

dude on the train was watching LLM-satanic-panic youtube videos, no headphones, volume up, with his phone case on backwards

An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

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

the hell is that doing there

update: discord on iOS plays webm files in-app now

@romchip.bsky.social hey, is there any reason your site returns a weird cross between a Teepublic page and an ad for Indonesian/Thai online gambling when the request's User-Agent field contains "Discordbot"? It means people linking to you on Discord get very strange embeds.

"Disney, Apple, and Nintendo all have periods when they are on the back foot, business-wise, and out of desperation produce incredible examples of human ingenuity. When their businesses are successful they switch back to Complacence Mode and maximize profits while doing skeevy business politics."

re:creators is toxic yuri (relationship with a blast radius); I will not be elaborating

TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that? We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to