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In 1986, contracting HIV meant you were going to die, usually slowly, painfully, and alone. Now it's a chronic illness like hypertension. In 1986, gay and lesbian couples couldn't have their relationships legally recognized and had to adopt elaborate legal workarounds.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 23h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

Second Company of the Krieg 5th Assault Battalion marches on... Watchmaster Arek advances at the head of 9th Platoon, 1st Squad. Their position at the head of the platoon is in recognition of their survival of two previous engagements, and they are determined not to live through a third.

Ten Krieg Guardsmen with grey greatcoats, green armour and lasguns, and red piping on the coats.A Watchmaster with bolt pistol and chainsword. Rank marked by white cuff stripe A trooper stands ready with a lasgun, bayonet fixed.Another advances with a lasgun and comm link.

The EHRC guidance slipped its way into law by default overnight. Do not self-police and do not let toilet weirdos and changing room weirdos dictate how you go about your life.

Bild

Ugh. Youtube has gone from random videos in languages I have never watched to massive amount of AI thumbnails for types of content I never watched. I had the system trained decently on what I was interested in but it broke with that last app update.

I'm not sure why we're posting about ai but I don't use AI in my writing, in my cover art, etc. I've had every feature that could automatically modify text in Word turned off for decades, and AI is just more of the same. Every edit lovingly done by hand.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.