Just gonna mention to any Newsom fans that if you think Platner getting the nomination is a good indication of Newsom's primary chances, you might want to remember that Platner essentially got the go-ahead from one of the whitest states in the country. It's like winning Idaho in the primaries.

I love it when I can make someone block me with but a single post that strikes right at the problem with their post.

Hey @ironspike.bsky.social , are you going to take this personal and accurate attack lying down?

Isaac Chotiner: So you say you don't prefer writing redheads, do you? Gail Simone: No. I try to find something great and relatable in every character. Isaac: But yet, all the redhead characters you write either are iconic, or you end up making them iconic with your writing Gail: I was in France!

There is a small chance this is sarcasm, but if it is, it is not even remotely making it clear that it is, so I will take this seriously and say this: Well sure, as long as you remove -every relevant detail on what makes data centers bad-, they absolutely do not sound bad at all, do they.

Wife: And what am I supposed to do now?!? I'll never find another man like him! His gentleness, the way he made me laugh, his tongue... Stormtrooper officer: Well, about that... there's something you might want to know about stormtroopers.

4: The solution to all the problems arising from these first three truths still is primarily to block everyone who is responsible for those three truths remaining truthful.

The aesthetics of genai images are the aesthetics of the people who make them, and the people who make them are tasteless Nazi chuds. The incel loser stink of these groyper sex pest freaks is permanently attached to the aesthetic It's impossible to not think "what Nazi asshole did this" on viewing

That’s annoying, but at least it’s innocuous compared to all the hypocritical bullshit of the skeptics of the 2000s. My God. That was a nightmare time.

Oh hey, this account is attacking me personally again.

Considering just how complicit so many of those "journalists" (and absolutely nobody who attended is a real journalist, so you all get the quote marks) have been in creating this situation to begin with, as well as being complicit in creating trauma for millions of others: Fuck you.

Knuckles knows. Be like Knuckles

You see a post stating that they will respect you less if you say you use gen AI in your art. You respond by saying you use genAI in your art, but in a "good" way. What's the verdict here, Cotton? Bold strategy or what?

"Treating NBA games as if they were scripted" is my new favourite bluesky video genre.

I disagree on this. I hate unnecessary honking of all types so much, and it annoys me extra that people are still doing this outside apartment buildings now, when we have a tool that can stop this from happening.

Reposting this because I liked it.

So in Norway, two football* players who play for two teams that are absolute arch rivals have now moved in together. 1: Obviously, good for them! 2: Why do I feel like this is a manga plot? *Football, not handegg

i'm not a hardcore anti-AI guy, but i cannot think of a single benefit of genAI that could possibly outweigh the harm it is doing to our social fabric, shared reality, and most basic abilities to parse information and learn.

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

Call8ng @terriblemapshq.bsky.social to alert them to XKCD honing in on your territory: xkcd.com/3236/

I know that this account has repeatedly stated that they just happen to have filled their brain to the brim with nothing but art; but I'm still in total awe at just how goddamn fucking good they are at this.

This part of the exchange: "Why are you here?" "I dunno man, probably because everyone else sucks at sneaking into emergency rooms." Absolutely exquisite in every way.

And now, a poem:

My board game convention weekend is over. It was a good weekend. I played many games. Hot board game tip: Fromage Very good but really, really long: Red Dust Rebellion Simple game that goes on for too long: Plunder Surprisingly deep two-player tile laying game: Timber Town

*Has trouble getting the caffeine to kick in* *Starts doomscrolling* Ahh, that woke me up. And drove up my blood pressure.

Today, at least ten thousand people pn Bluesky were among the lucky ten thousand* that got to learn about the wonderful thing that is tree law. Short version: It's one of the few areas of law where it's almost always a clear villain, and they 99.999% will PAY for their crimes. *XKCD reference

The problem nowadays is that CEOs don't want to work. They just want money for laying people off and blathering about AI, not for producing any positive or concrete improvement to the business. They expect hundreds of millions for thousands of job loses and it's weak sauce, snowflake behaviour.

It used to be that if you wanted a big pay-out, you had to actually make something successful. Now these layabouts expect participation trophies - and they refuse to face the music when they fuck up. If capitalism is incentivising them to fail like this, maybe it's fatally broken.

On this day, in 2021, @cwgabriel.bsky.social more or less predicted that Namco would eventually steal his gritty reboot Pacman idea, when they released Shadow Labyrinth last year. www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2021/0...

Finally somebody who will want to hear about my salty licorice milkshakes!

Hey, @secretbase.bsky.social , could you ask Alex what it would take to produce the most common Murrican Futtball score in the most uncommon way? As, all four touchdowns in a 20-17 game are made by the forbidden 6-1 score, and the other six points the winning team gets are made by three safeties.

Apropos of nothing, did you know that if Costco catches you actually shoplifting, the LP guy will still call you and tell you that you forgot to pay for that thing, and would you mind coming in and take care of that soon? Beats doing it the other way around *coughtargetcough*.

Capcom's new contender to Konami's "Dance Dance Revolution" is rather underwhelming. Also, remember when Capcom and Konami were duking it out as top third-party game makers for the NES?

Hello there, @iridiumstudios.bsky.social . So, a quick note. It appears as if it is literally impossible for me to get anything done here. The bush stops me from getting to the other side of those flute fragments, and thus I simply cannot continue.

Me watching the second Spiderverse movie.

A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.

His full statement: "I told my lawyers everything and they said 'Yeah, you're pretty much completely fucked on this thing.' So now I will devote all my emergy to try and fuck up the lives of the women I abused."

This thread. I have been doing this kind of work for a very long time and I know a lot about exactly this. If you want to do misconduct reporting with scared sources going up against very powerful people, and also keep your soul, it takes time. So much time. It’s very difficult. Brain meltingly so.

"I want children to die from measles" is a very peculiar form of "scientific reform". A "reform" that will also invariably hit poor people harder. And therefore also disproportionally hit POCs harder. But who cares about institutional racism in the name of "productive conversation"? Not Katie!

Turns out redditspaceviewes.bsky.social is posting and even pinning AI slop. Fuck that shit.

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

whenever a man is accused of and clearly was doing a wrong thing to one or more women, a startling of people exposed to the victim-blaming virus are exposed as having been affected, and start foaming at the mouth. they were standing among us the whole and we didn't know. they look just like people.

1) Board games 2) More board games 3) The fact that I'm off work next week so I can go to a small board game convention and play board games for four days straight 4) Not being mauled by bears while at my board game con where I play board games.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee

Let me reiterate: If you successfully convince women that you have the power to destroy them *before* you abuse them, you can do this stuff for decades without anyone willing to go on the record, even after reporters learn about it and dig. Without a victim willing to speak, reporters have no story.

Folks would be surprised to learn that often I hear accounts from witnesses *first*, and it’s the victim herself who isn’t willing to come forward because it’s a very, very painful process. That may persist for YEARS of leads. Again: Reporters have no story until we get consent to tell one.

I think a lot of y’all don’t understand that standards are different for assault reporting because it’s trauma reporting. Generally hold to “do no harm” — whether we’re talking state politics or world leader. This is the industry standard in most media orgs; it only works if we get consent.

A victim of rape or sexual assault is under no obligation to speak up about it at all or on what you deem an appropriate timeline. They have the right to be heard should they choose and they have the right to be silent if they decide that’s best for them. Some of your takes are fucking horrific.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses