#Columbus was not "Italian". Genoa joined Italy in 1861, over 400 years after the birth of Christopher Columbus.

#ColumbusDay has nothing at all to do with Columbus the man. It was established in 1892 after 11 Italian immigrants were rounded up and hung in #NewOrleans because of anti-immigrant hate. It was tied to "Columbus" to remind Americans that none of them would be here if not for the #Italians.

#Columbus was the #Epstein of his day, and his men were eager to share in his appetites.

#Columbus is arrested. While in jail when he writes "Book of Prophecies"---a well-cited justification for his rape of slaves and co-workers. He also correctly points out that you don't need bad math to accidentally find a continent. Deuteronomy 22 grants men divine permission to rape unwed girls.

#Columbus was arrested and sent back to #Spain in chains. He stayed in prison for six weeks, after which the greedy pricks at the top of the pecking order decided that more gold was more important than enforcing the laws they personally wrote and signed. #AnythingForMoney

#Columbus would have been perfectly at home in the Dixieland South. He grabbed up slaves, sold slaves, slept with slaves, beat slaves, murdered slaves, and stopped priests from baptizing slaves into their cult because of a Spanish law prohibiting enslavement of "a fellow Christian".

#Columbus and his peeps, blinded by greed, managed to get themselves stranded on the isle of #Jamaica for an entire year before they were rescued. Now, if you said to me, "We want to send you to Jamaica for a year", I'm totally on that plane. But that's only because they have plumbing now.

#Columbus and his brother weren't just a threat to themselves and their crew. Bart was a "cartographer" (read: "religious cultist") who drew maps based on the love of the "Jesus" character who appears in the back-half of their bible. He sold fake love maps to the Padrón Real---screwing other pilots.

#Columbus believed Earth had a "nipple". Now, I constantly and consistently support 99% of nipples. However, even though the Christian bible clearly states that the Garden of Eden was in Iraq, somehow it was also on said nipple. This asshat gets his own holiday because he was almost Italian.

#Columbus believed that scientists were wrong about the shape of the Earth. Based on his brother's flawed math, he thought it was "pear-shaped" and set off with only enough food to make it 36% of the way to Asia. But he can't be a moron, right? it had to be the divine hand of "God".

Hey east coast USA. It's 10:10 on 10/10.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK, #CLAUDE? We live in a world where you are actively penalized by #AIArt and #AIVideo sites if you dare to protect your personal security. Everyone wants to farm you and, apparently, a massive chunk of us are totally okay with that.

I get that Alibaba isn't offering #GenerativeAI out of the goodness of their heart. They need to make cash. Advertising agencies have cash. So I'm simply mentioning that #WanX added four new "Advertising" #AIVideo skills this week to help keep a free thing going.

#PopeLeo needs to take some time out to read his bible. The entire point of Christianity is to create an "us-versus-them" to justify murdering your neighbors. Deuteronomy 20. Deuteronomy 7. 1 Samuel 15. Numbers 31. "Destroy all that breathes". None of that fucking shit rings a bell for this guy?

#MAGA has owned @cnn.com for less than a week and already they've started with the petty hate machine. All women are evil. All boobs are the Devil's work. Please wear burqas. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

I now have three fucking browsers on my computer: - Firefox so Google stays calm - LibreWolf so Bluesky doesn't crash - Brave so Perchance will follow instructions I feel like this is only going to get worse.

How about this for the yard? #Halloween

In the Bertrand Russell essay collection Mortals and Others, Russell's essay "The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933) contains the attached quote. However, the Internet cultists are so eager to attack each other using a famous name that they never bother to read the entire thought.

This is literally because of people like me. I'm going to burn so many tokens that Anthropic might go out of business. #VibeCode #GameDev #AICode #GenerativeAI

Forbes@forbes.com · 3d ago

Anthropic paused free Claude Team and API credit offers for startups just days after launching the expanded program, triggering backlash from users.

In ancient #Greek, a "kophinos" was a basket used to "protect" fruits, grains, etc. English took that word and used it to create the "cofyn" (cooking implement to "protect" tarts from heat) and "coffin" (box that "protects" your dead body from worms, grave robbers, Satan, etc.). Also, "coffers".

As some of you may or may not know, I'm big into the #Metalcore genre of music. Today I found "Pain" by a band called Retrace the Lines. It is my opinion that this is a special kind of song that's hammering out a new djent. On #Spotify and highly recommended => open.spotify.com/track/2XkMB2...

Pain

Retrace The Lines · Pain · Song · 2026

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Once per week I stop by #SubmitHub (go be friends => @submithub.bsky.social ) to find out what new #songs are popular. Usually their "Top 100" has ~2 that I like. That's just how I am. Today was amazing: I liked 13 different songs. It was like sweeps week but for #music. www.submithub.com/popular

I clicked on the "Combining two film titles game" link in the "Trending" box, and this is literally the only post that came up. How fucking popular is Rockom Sockom NoBots that he appears to have single-handedly trended a movie title game?

Rockom Sockom NoBots@rockom.bsky.social · 4d ago

Let's make up our own variant: A music album and a movie. Apocalypse Now That's What I Call Music 27!

The #AIArt site #Dezgo recently added what I consider to be a puritan-bot that checks your prompt to make sure you're not encouraging #LGBTQ kissing. So instead of running one model per prompt, now they're running two. This is what I got when I handed them an empty hallway. #Censorship #Hysterical

If you attempted to make the movie "Clue" (1985) today using #GenerativeAI, you'd get exactly 1:53 of #AIVideo done before the Christians would declare you a "community safety" threat then ban your account. Why is that okay? #Censorship

Technically, "Lynching" is capitalized because it derives from Captain William Lynch (1742–1820), who ran a vigilante group in #Virginia. When he found a handful of rapists, he wouldn't bother proving guilt in court. Instead, innocent or not, he'd just beat them because it made him feel good.

So, even though I'm at the same computer I always am, used the same password I always use, got said password correct on the first attempt, and log in once per day---Google randomly decided most (not all) of the #GenerativeAI Web sites I use need my cell phone number. I need to make us a better way.

Oh good. Now my wall is so poorly designed I can't see my first post. Apparently, bullshit like this is why #Bluesky+ is so late.

Because the Trump Administration is turning the Department of #Education into the Department of Christianity, they know test scores are about to plummet. As a result, they have defunded NCES to leave you in murk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump administration guts data collection on US education as math and reading scores plummet

National Center for Education Statistics, which collects critical data to guide policy on learning, was decimated after Doge canceled crucial contracts

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Because #GenerativeAI is, by and large, under the thumb of Big Christian, you cannot use AI to recreate the opening credits of "Community" because it contains a doodle with breasts, and that could melt the face of an innocent mind like the Lost Gravel Box in Indiana Jones.