I can’t believe we’re back to medieval level conflicts like “local merchant princes attempt to bribe theologians and the Pope’s advisors so the Pope will issue a favorable proclaimation”

Parkscope Joe@parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 15h ago

This is insane.

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@sparklingdemon.bsky.social NaN is everything

Day 3,789 of @morecivilized.bsky.social taunting me by talking circles around but not reading the Moore short comics.

welcome to 2020s tech. we got - pervert glasses - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - wiretap - the button that does nothing - we outta ram - we outta hard drives - we outta graphics cards - ten trillion vibe coded apps that nobody uses - wiretap

Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW: The new Apple Watches double as AI-powered listening bugs for generating convo "recaps" or transcripts of any previous 15 seconds. But fear not, Apple says, this data isn't sent to Apple/gets encrypted, speakers aren't ID'd, and there's a chime for the 15-second thing. @lhn.bsky.social reports:

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Leon The Professional: Man in Auditorium

ALT: Leon The Professional: Man in Auditorium

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slowbeef@effinslowbeef.com · 2mo ago

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Tomorrow's my birthday, work has been slow for about 6 weeks, and I'm losing money I don't really have with a lot of doctor visits lately. I know the economy is rough all around, but if anybody has a couple bucks to toss my way, I'd be mighty grateful paypal.me/quinnwilson1...

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Sex workers are better people than the politicians who want to control them, Exhibit 14,915.

Playboy@playboy.com · last mo.

NEW: In January, Florida gubernatorial hopeful James Fishback called out OnlyFans star Sophie Rain in his proposed 50% "sin tax" on OF creators, saying the money would go to funding education. Well, he lost. And Rain? Well she's spent over $100,000 supporting teachers. Our interview:

Rascal, by Sterling North. You adopt a baby raccoon and raise it to young adulthood, only to realize that owning a raccoon is a terrible idea and the game ends when you release it into the woods.

SprintingOwlDesigns@sprintingowl.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Okay. You have unfortunately been hit with the curse that makes you adapt a work you liked as a kid into a ttrpg. What thing are you adapting?

The humble d20 is often overlooked as the pinnacle of resolution mechanics.

AbyssalBrews | Weekly Magic Items for D&D and PF2E@abyssalbrews.com · 2mo ago

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Anything without context is absurd. The movie industry used real animals and tortured or killed them. That's why nowadays movies show the "No Animals Were Harmed" disclaimer. Many food industries abused human rights, that's why nowadays we have disclaimers like "100% Fair Trade". See the pattern?

Ricky Haggett@rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sunday rant: The idea that we should have to publicly assert that we don't use AI to make games is absurd to me. Before that, wouldn't there need to be a step where AI is demonstrably any good for making games? Do we also have to assert that we aren't working with both arms tied behind our backs?

Idk lol "I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan and he died. I knew what I was doing was illegal. Unlike my previous interactions with insurers, I received an immediate response within an hour." is pretty fuckin legendary

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to federal charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO

Mangione was charged with two federal stalking counts and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison in the 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

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There you have it.

Rogue Ren@rogueren.net · 2mo ago

So it seems that #Twitch normal staff are also pissed at the gen AI crap, but big daddy Amazon makes the rules so they don't get a choice. GREAT! infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/...

More rebel teen Chibiusa

Yamino@yamino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

You ever start drawing something and think "fuck yeah my brain is so big today"

I have spent the last month working on this illustration. I am very proud of myself for, instead of rushing through it, taking my time and paying attention to the details. I am exhausted, this was a lot of work, but I'm very happy with it.

guess you guys shouldn't have worked so hard to put him in office and to continually downplay the insidiousness of his actions while patting yourselves on the backs for how fair and balanced you are huh

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Important statement from the New York Times

@hikaroo.bsky.social Are you gonna be at Retro Matsuri by any chance?

New York London Paris Munich Everybody's talking bout SNOKE'S TUNIC

That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Vance: People hang out those hideous signs in their yard that say, "in this house we believe blah blah blah blah blah. You know, love is love, science is science, whatever. No person is illegal." That sign is such a disgusting butchering of the Nicene Creed

Immortal life advice

Reposting because of the sony news

Today's youth don't know the verisimilitude of a doughy uncle on screen

Every year for Pride, I repost Hue. I made him to send love and comfort to those who feel Pride isn’t for them because they aren’t out. You matter, you are valid, and it’s ok if you aren’t ready yet. Coming out is not a requirement for being part of this community. Happy Pride 🌈

While we’re on the topic of trans characters in media. You know who I felt handled it pretty well? Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling.

@andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social I've been enjoying your YouTube series and have been interested in doing some deeper reading into a number of subjects. Do you have your references/citations for each episode listed somewhere?

today vermont legalized all of the cars from Richard Scarry's Busytown and i saw a porcupine drive by my house in a cantaloupe with wheels

legitimately a formative computing experience was figuring out how to escape from the windows 7 settings menu to an admin account in the 6th grade computer lab. it was a reproducible series of steps that my friends and i wrote down on notebook paper and shared with our classmates like a spell

jenny tightpants@jtp.bsky.social · 4mo ago

all online age verification does is teach kids to be a little bit more computer literate to circumvent it so who's to say if it's good or bad