Ryan Cox
@coxitron.com
Photographer ~ Aspiring Adventurer I shoot photo and video and make pottery Denver, CO www.coxitron.com @artsandcox.com - Our pottery account on Bluesky
If you enjoy playing video games in the US you should be paying attention to this and contacting your reps if you're into that sort of thing or like personal rights or whatever.
Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.
Denver just Denvered: 2:30p yesterday in Denver: 102° 4:30a this morning: 52° 50° swing in 14 hours! #COwx
My primary gripe at this point is why someone is allowed to create multiple list bots by their own admission that auto-add me to the lists despite having already blocked the list creator. Some AI dork I blocked has me on three different lists they created…. Like how is that not ripe for abuse?
it led to some really surreal, deeply sad hijinks where like matt walsh was like “watch this, xitter chuds: i’m gonna fool the bluesky libs by pretending to be a lesbian communist, that’ll show ‘em,” and everyone on here was like “yeah, you’re just matt walsh *block*”
I want so badly to type the last line of this cuz it’s a bar, but I don’t want to ruin the joke
Caught a BOGO sale and finally got some good clay carving tools. Also went dual tipped which is cheaper than two single tip tools so overall super deal
The only reason BlueSky is a thing is that it gave people fleeing Nazi Twitter a plug-and-play place to reconnect with the people and formerly good parts of Twitter they enjoyed without turning every conversation into an edge lord fight club of bigotry.
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
This is just what the sun looks like now
Here is a version in Fahrenheit my American compatriots:
If you can’t translate your sauce into a soup I will absolutely never want to eat it by the spoonful and its honestly insulting you think I might otherwise
Recipe: A tartar sauce you’ll want to eat by the spoonful
How to not sound like a conspiracy theorist to normies when accurately informing them that every level of media from local to national is owned by corporations and that fact absolutely steers their output and never in a way that actually informs you of anything good for you?
Quick someone tell chatgpt yes you should jump off a bridge with your friends
Hopecore
1.1% of the country is muslim 1% of the country is trans both have double the poverty rate of the average american apparently these 1% can take over the entire country but the 1% that holds ~37% of the total wealth aren't doing anything worth looking into
Jake Lang unveils a banner at Cedar Point Shores Waterpark in Ohio reading “Stop Muslim Takeover of Democrat Party!!” and calling for the deportation of American-born U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed
On top of the healthcare side we all got to witness a better world when commuting to work stopped for a few days and ever since then driving anywhere is absolutely terrifying and full of raging lunacy
What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.
seeing a journalist downplay the very real and harmful effects of covid on here is breaking my brain for a few different reasons but my solution for that is giving a big Fuck You to anyone who claims we did too much and were too cautious
Scientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Adding the "Seems like AI slop" reporting option on LinkedIn is not only brilliant, it's probably also an act of desperate self-defence against the volume of slop on this platform. It's legit, this is a screencap I just took. #NoAI