me: *plots a diabolical Christmas dinner* him: Please tell me you're not plotting a diabolical Christmas dinner. me:
Brent
@brentreichenberger.bsky.social
vaguely occult // @tristanreveur elsewhere
“How are you coping with and navigating these interesting, uncertain times?”
In general this is a good question to be asking in the coming months and years when you see dramatic news. Some of it’s gonna be real but yeah
nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 2y agothis sucks but is it reported anywhere reputable
don’t worry guys executive orders aren’t REALLY legal. but DO worry guys because the law isn’t REALLY real in any real sense. but DONT worry because they’re kind of too incompetent if you remember but also DO worry because maybe this time it’s different. but DONT worry bec
Remember to do things that bring you joy. This is very important!
americans: omg these times are so unprecedented!!! historians: lmaoooooo
Kill the "temporarily embarrassed [billionaire]" in your heart
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of an endless stream of stupid fucking bullshit.
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control. Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.
[waking up from a nightmare] okay, this is actually worse
[calling up from rock bottom] what the fuck it just keeps going
happy joanna newsoms birthday to all the sweet little honeys
*At a party* STRANGER: Are you that guy who brags about weird shit? ME: No I’m the guy who takes the longest baths in the city.
need a name for that feeling that strikes in the early evening when you're just oh fuck. oh christ why aren't i trying to become a successful streamer. why haven't i made a movie. why haven't i had a novel published. i dont think its anxiety or comparison stress its a new thing i made up
If you're a millennial who watched the Twin Towers fall on a TV that was rolled into your classroom. If you blogged on LiveJournal or Xanga about how terrible your life was as teenager only to yearn for those days as you near 40. If you grew up queer and lonely. Read this book.
This is a perfect sentence: "All we’ve gotten in the past decade is example after example of how little these people know about anything other than making apps that destroy something you previously loved, by hollowing it out into a subscription service that no longer works and everyone hates."
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · 2y agoI wrote this on eternal life and ceaseless cringe. And how I've no interest in living forever if it's in a world ruled by the weird, brittle freaks we call tech CEOs. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Sometimes you use a pen that turns out to write way better than you thought it would and oh man that’s the good stuff
[Mexico City, Mexico] Following the attempted murder of a trans woman. Cops just let the alleged perp go. So actionists from the Mexican sex workers union stormed the judicial building. Via Ghost of Durruti
This puts it well & it’s a point I keep making about why using AI to write is so flattening. Writing is the process of working out & refining what you think. If I write an article, I’m not just generating 1000 plausible words. I’m trying to articulate ideas with precision, & challenging myself.
Jon Lewis@jonlewis.bsky.social · 2y agoAI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period. I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
Honor his memory by doing something strange, unraveling a riddle within yourself, and working on your favorite projects.
