BBSs in high school, online on the Internet in 1991 at the OCF in Berkeley. The internet was great.
nsqe@nsqe.bsky.social · 2d agoCan confirm. Was online in 1990. Fuck no people didn't hate it, it was god damn magic
i especially love all the dopes saying “when the internet first went mainstream everyone hated it too” like it happened in the pioneer days so no one can dispute it, like mf’ers we were THERE
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
Sometimes I remember the slogan for the first X-Men movie and laugh
Time to continue Song of Achilles, the very good book that makes me very stressed and anxious
Echo@echoties.bsky.social · last wk.The further and further I get into Song of Achilles, the more stressed I get, knowing what's coming
And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
Newsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?
California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort.
calmatters.org
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
The further and further I get into Song of Achilles, the more stressed I get, knowing what's coming
I COME BEARING GOOD NEWS: YOUR HOGS MAY BE TIED. FRIDAY. 7PM. @ellliot.bsky.social TEACHES THE HOGS. @devilmaskstud.io IS THE PLACE. 🐽
HimBound LA@himboundla.bsky.social · 3mo agoProgramming change for tomorrow's Himbound: the lesson will be on arm and leg binders, not hogties. Your hogs will have to wait for another day. Apologies to your hogs. 😌
Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement
Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · last wk.Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
I'm reading Song of Achilles for the first time, and Madeline Miller's prose is gorgeous.
Wanting to die for Miss Piggy is the correct choice. This is one of the best comic book moments of all time.
Charles Pulliam-Moore@charlespulliam.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Emma Frost x Miss Piggy comic has hit the internet and it's so, so, so much more magnificent than I ever could have hoped for
i for one am excited for paramount skydance to strip WB of everything worthwhile and then spin it off saddled with crippling debt
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: Paramount has reached a settlement with California and other states suing to block its acquisition of Warner Bros, per Bloomberg. The settlement comes after California AG Rob Bonta caved and stopped trying to block the merger. The final four holdout states have now conceded as well.
Now I've been banging my head against The Last Judge for a week. I'm at a bottleneck so I can't even step back and do other things right now 🙃
Echo@echoties.bsky.social · 4w agoWow Sinners Road really said let's suck absolutely all the joy out of playing Silksong, huh?
this is probably the worst language i've seen a democrat use. saying "transgender ideology" is straight out of the right wing playbook. this is looking more and more like Labour, so I don't want to hear any more shit about how even the transphobic democrats broadly support our rights.
Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com · 3w agoHoly shit. Marcy Kaptur becomes the latest Dem to release an anti-trans ad, and its worse than all the rest combined. "I voted WITH Republicans to keep transgender ideology out of schools, and let me be clear, boys should NOT play in girls sports." This is getting out of control.
ah working class is when you are a contractor pulling six figures from a business that earns seven, professional is when you pull $40K doing office work
rose@breadnrosie.bsky.social · 3w agoi like that their methodology would classify someone making $150k as working class if they don't have a college degree, but someone making 50k who has a college degree isn't.
They’re trying to hide the shocking truth: he’s stop motion now
Joe Sonka 😐@joesonka.lpm.org · 3w ago“Reporters were barred from recording video” whaaaaaat
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never a clearer sign that the financial success of that video game has emboldened her in her bigotry, and that supporting it directly supports her attacks on a minority group she is uniquely single-mindedly obsessed with
Rachel Dempsey@racheldempsey.bsky.social · 3w agoI fucking hate this patronizing bigoted bitch.
Anyway, we are NOT throwing our trans siblings under the bus for ANY reason. NO. You can kick rocks.
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
Somehow it is not the first of April
Mollz (ballz)@dopestatistics.bsky.social · 3w agoNO NO NO NO NO NOOOOOO
