zota
@zota.bsky.social
Technology therapist, gonzo designer, grey-hat historian. Los Angeles.
Shout out to the 13% who have been so wrecked by 2026 that they're just staring into the middle distance with Mad World playing in their heads.
Polling USA@usapolling.bsky.social · last wk.Among Democrats - "How would you feel if you woke up and saw Donald Trump was removed to safeguard the constitution, with a group of military leaders removing him and assuming control?" Positive: 56% Negative: 28% Neutral: 13% Center For Strategic Politics / Sept 8, 2026
It’s very simple. A reality TV host became dictator because he turned down a role for Sharknado 4 and that’s why the king of outer space, who cheats at Diablo, got to kill Africa. Now the economy is controlled by a sex cult that has something to do with Harry Potter fanfic because of robots.
I know it may seem cruel, but it is time: the normies have to be told about Aella, before it’s too late for democracy. I wish I was making a joke.
The only way political journalism can fund itself is by hiring pro-wrestling commentators to explain the lore behind a dying lunatic's fever dreams in a way that pisses off everybody.
Dan Mitchell@danmitchell.bsky.social · 3w agoHere's a big reason this stuff happens. This is the writer's bio. He's an "audience associate" who works in "editorial audience development." He's a marketer. It's this weird thing where they pretend to be journalists, but also do nothing to hide the fact that they're in the marketing business.
This is still the best OSINT work I think I've ever done: the time I determined Osama bin Laden quite plausibly could have been eating Pizza Hut while watching hentai in his hideout in Pakistan.
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3y agoIt has recently come to my attention that Osama bin Laden could have easily ordered Pizza Hut from his compound in Abbottabad - and that they sell seekh-kebab stuffed crust.
Two hundred years ago today, William Morgan was detained at this location, the former site of Danold’s Tavern in Batavia, NY, on a trumped-up theft charge. Freemasons were in the process of kidnapping Morgan as punishment for threatening to publish Masonic secrets. This scheme horribly backfired.
But, because the attention to detail in the model train world is so high, the effects of the writer/yard worker relationship trickle down to the small scale, and even the train hobbyists reflect the rules on their own models.
I should’ve stuck with butthole, as rectum evidently isn’t physiologicallly correct. But, as someone else reminds me: Rectum? Hell, killed ‘em dead.
If there’s an issue that’s loudly supported by Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Will Stancil, and opposed by 80% of all voters, regardless of party, the choice is clear. Kill Glonzo
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 4w agoAlright, because this has 60 gazillion likes and keeps getting quoted at me: The decibel meter has a reading of 60 db. That's the same level as a window air conditioner. I'm not sure what's going on with the sound in the video but it sure doesn't SOUND like 60 dbs.
The services that leaked scans of most American driver's licenses to criminal gangs who are now selling them all online? Those are the same services doing "age verification" identity checks.
Kasey Kagawa@punkey.org · 4w agowell this is less than ideal
just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
Negativland’s infamous U2 parody sparked a landmark fight over fair use & artistic freedom. Hear the group whose work helped shape that conversation, live at the Internet Archive! 📅 Wed, Sept 16, 6 PM 📍 IN-PERSON @ Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/negativlan...
So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.
Like, a lot of us right now have a prior assumption that "AI is driving water shortages." And no, it absolutely tf is not. It's agriculture. It's always been agriculture. Most of us have spent our whole lives not seeing it. We need to stop that ag water blindness before it screws us all over.
One of the useful skills I learned from "how to be a ninja" trade paperbacks from the 1980s — foot down lightly toe-first then slowly slide it to the side to sweep away caltrops, cats, etc before putting weight on it
Buddhism in the wild (photo by Jerry Feldman, Target Honolulu)
would love to see where the line for "nacent" is drawn. i know im never going to meet their standards for robot christian purity and that redemption is unavailable, i just want to know when i was damned. was it the ebooks style markov bot i made from my own tweets bsky.app/profile/lily...
I ordered "No Stick Pans" off of Amazon, but they sent me "Gnostic Pans" that just tell me the food I'm trying to make is a false reality constructed by the hated Demiurge.