It is both Bluesky's greatest strength and greatest vulnerability that we do not have YouTubers mining our skeets for Content

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 10h ago

hire exactly two attractive people to read good skeets out loud on video for 6 hours a day imo

Mario Kart Rube Goldberg race [📹 Joseph's Machines] Original post

also what happens to union voice actors who literally fought to not have their performances used for training data?

Mike Futter | Project Red @ PAX Rising!@futterish.fsquared.biz · 11h ago

What happens if a creator streams your game and is opted in? Does Twitch think it has the right to feed a developer's game into its AI slop factory? This has deeper ramifications than it seems on the surface.

the thing about bluesky is dying discourse is that I can't really do anything about it I mean yeah this place is mostly the same people talking to each other, that's true, it's still fun if it shuts down at some point that sucks, I hope it doesn't, that's all I got

personally I'm happy for it to stay a niche social media network that nobody cares about, having an audience here hasn't really changed my life at all and that's a good thing if it goes away at some point I'll probably just fade away, I'm not going back to twitter and threads doesn't interest me

Today you learned there's a place in Australia called the Cocklebiddy Roadhouse.

ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterday

Earthquake shakes remote Cocklebiddy Roadhouse on Nullarbor Plain

When we say that the death of VICE left a gap in the media ecosystem, this isn't what we're asking for

rax ‘levon honkers’ king@raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h ago

: i spent three hours reorganizing my sock drawer by sock type, material, pattern, and color

New rule: no more comments or headlines about trans women in the WNBA until there actually is one

Don’t play in the business of scale, play in the business of quality. Much more fun (and profitable) to be Mercedes than Ford. So sorry, we’ve accidentally created a research lab where you meet your piano teacher and your girlfriend. This is actually a good thing.

Double deck VCR in need of a good home. If you are an artist who would do fun weird art with a double deck VCR it is yours along with two VHSs that are great analog horror fodder. Just pay shipping from NJ.

I think all you guys are on social media for extremely unhealthy reasons if you’re going to be this worried about a bunch of numbers. Math can’t hurt you, it’s not even real.

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 17h ago

So I guess either Bluesky becomes a nonprofit or we all start sharing our Threads handles on here…?

Hey guys have u seen this

I get why writers touching on McCarthyism will glibly write "obviously __ is Capitalist," but McCarthy rarely mentioned Capitalism in his speeches or purges. He pitted Communism against Christian democracy and that's a REALLY important ingredient in understanding the rise of Christian Nationalism.

Leaving aside the rest "corporate executives treated the books of anti-racism gurus as revelatory" is so funny, never before have corporate executives jumped en masse on books by gurus, back in the Freakonomics and Tipping Point era they treated such things with a keen critical eye

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · yesterday

finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant

god bless threads, the platform where nasa has to be like "fyi they are not turning off the gravity today"

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission@cpsc.gov · 16h ago

Important info from NASA today.

I heard old, lutheran, white church ladies talking about hanging fascists from street lamps this winter, idk what these crypto bros and genocide supporters thought their money was gonna buy them here. The @dfl.org really needs to be listening. We’ll take care of us regardless though.

I hope AOC finds love BUT “hot single president” would incite some of the most insane content ever produced by human beings

Peggy Flanagan takes the MN Dem Senate Primary, but folks just LOOK at the vote disparity. Angie Craig is down over 100k votes and yet she received nearly as many votes as the top 3 GOP candidates!! After Operation Metro Surge, Minnesotans are fucking furious and know we've got skin in the game.

I think all the annoying behaviors we ascribe to Bluesky definitely exist and have existed everywhere else on the internet, but also I think it’s good to have higher standards. I do expect more from you than, like, a twitter user.

very fun to think about how many founding fathers this would make insane with rage

Jomboy Media (Unofficial)@jomboymedia-mirror.bsky.social · yesterday

Pope Hat Night at the White Sox game

If I’m being honest, anyone who treats “Woke 2” as anything but a jokey online way to say “the factions on the left (and yes, I’ll allow you in the tent, liberals*) are starting to bounce back from the past revanchist decade” needs to not just touch grass but also touch back down to planet earth.

The failure of Biden and Garland to seriously lay down the hammer after J6 on both the insurrectionists, and more importantly, the politicians who enabled them will go down as a failure on par with the failure of reconstruction. A historic fumble I will go to my grave thinking this.

rich traditions@helldude.bsky.social · yesterday

if woke 3.0 or whatever sweeps in one advantage it would have over the reactionaries is, the list of people needing to be hauled out of their homes and put on trial is like, comparatively tiny. few billionaires, trumps family and cabinet, etc. -- dont have to declare war on whole states like they do

In this Indiana diner, everyone has three questions: How's the tenderloin? Is the quarry hiring? And do you think I can afford Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax?

"Raw-dogging" a book: tearing out and eating each page as you finish it.

See also: Subscribing to indie publications (esp the Nazi-free ones!) Getting books + coffee from your locally owned shops, reviewing books and music that are not on major labels / publishers, going out to see Indie films when they first open, etc., etc.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

Every once in a blue moon I listen to one of those really good limited run iHeart podcasts and the thing that most consistently keeps it once in a blue moon is the ads for all the truly terrible podcasts iHeart wants me to be listening to instead.

Big Tech Publishing is proud to announce a new edition of Don't Build The Torment Nexus with a very special forward from the Torment Nexus

buy my book@nmamatas.bsky.social · 2d ago

Wanna vom?

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Vast and Trunkless Leg of Stone, Standing in the Desert from classic poem Ozymandias.

this is a dead kennedys album cover

OSINTRadar@osintradar.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump was guarded by an Avenger air defense system while playing golf.

Mayor M proving all my theories that the people want more explainer videos (no for real)

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3d ago

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.