Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
@fearjunkie.bsky.social
Computer nerd, fiction aficionado, trying my best to fight the good fight. He/him, 30 years ancient. Writing account: @fearjunkiewrites.bsky.social
"Little Bunny Foo Foo, Hopping through the forest" Me: I like this little bunny foo foo "Scooping up the field mice, And bopping them on the head" Me: What the fuck
Sweet baby James, this. There's already a "Popular with Friends" feed if that's what I'm interested in, and I'm OnHere because I want a lot less HEY LOOKIT THIS in my social media.
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 7h agohow do I turn off the "liked by <mutals>" thing Bluesky just added. I don't fucking want that
Regular Reminder: The Guardian is in a commercial relationship with OpenAI.
Rob Beschizza@beschizza.com · 3h agoWell this turns out to be misleading! The LLM was used to rewrite human-written stories in commercial registers ("literary magazine", "published short story collection"). You'd have to read supplemental materials from a zip fle to know that was the methodology. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Mike Rogers wants us divided. But there is so much more that unites us than sets us apart. The power is ours. This land was made for you and me.
Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoSCHIFF: You told my staff you stood by your article in white nationalist website VDARE where you wrote, 'Muslim immigrants & their kids seem prone to terrorism' C: I wrote that article in support of Trump's travel ban S: Do you stand by it? C: I stand by that article S: That's all I need to know
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.
Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed
Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...
chicago.suntimes.com
How come nobody ever asks how the Drunken Master's family is doing? COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/drunken PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
My 2-point reform platform: 1. Naming your product after sci fi requires a 10-page essay with your TM application to prove that you understood the source material; 2. CEOs of >$1B market cap companies must spend one day per year in a dunk tank, where anyone in America can pay $1 to drop you.
Satan worshippers don't like it when you point out that they worship Satan (or Moloch, or the golden calf, etc)
Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 8h agoAs of last night, there are now *7* pastors, former pastors and seminarians who've become Democratic nominees running for Congress. Some have already won safe Dem seats, and several are in hotly contested races. In multiple cases, the GOP has attacked their faith. religionnews.com/2026/08/04/p...
I have this rule of thumb about political pundits: Would I have a more accurate or less accurate view of the world as it is today listening to this person vs. simply listening to Rage Against the Machine's self-titled debut? If the answer is "less," which it almost always is, feel free to disregard
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 5h agoRage Against the Machine - Wake Up
"Musk's first extraterrestrial landing will be a complete accident" is a fun thought, especially given how long the odds are:
olive consumer@machete.gay · 5h agoi'm under the impression that the spacex chunk hitting the moon is accidental which, if true, is a genuinely impressive failure in as in the context of how large space is, statistically, the moon arguably does not exist
Listen, strokes/folks etc, but "Batman Begins > Barry Lyndon" should trigger a wellness check
When he was Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mike Rogers (the Republican candidate for Senate in Michigan) publicly took the position that "you can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated." Colbert had some fun with that: crooksandliars.com/cltv/2013/10...
Colbert Savages NSA And Rep. Mike Rogers In 'See No Evil' Segment
Colbert Savages NSA and Rep. Mike Rogers in 'See No Evil' Segment
crooksandliars.com
ICYMI: ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI's criminal database in a single year. Most of the people swabbed have no criminal conviction. CBP records show 492 children under 14 sent to the FBI. 21 of them were five-year-olds. One was 4. By @dmehro.bsky.social
ICE Collected Nearly 1 Million People’s DNA Last Year—Including Young Children
Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
wired.com
I'm so glad we're finally getting Democrats ready to show some teeth.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6h agoEl-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"
El-Sayed: "Mike, I'm gonna say it right now, I know you're gonna say no because you're a coward: Five debates, alright? ... By the time we're done, you are not gonna have safe quarter from people holding you accountable to what you've done for them here in Michigan. We will send you back to Florida"
This is going to be a slow burn story that gets people more and more angry the more they hear about it. Some asshole billionaires are blowing holes in the Moon, a thing everyone loves.
Hosting a board game meetup. The cops swing by and shoot my dog
gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 6h agoi'm locked in on this film sorry to anyone else
You do not need AI to make content. I just found a TikTok account that is just a glass of milk in different locations listening to rock music. It has tens of thousands of followers.
El-Sayed, Lawrence and McKinney all won progressive campaigns in Michigan last night by talking about climate and clean energy like it was a kitchen-table issue — because skyrocketing energy bills and endless wildfire smoke matter to people.
here come the huge mad press releases. this one's from the American Principles Project, a Project 2025 advisory board member. this is the messaging when they lose: if you're against state sanctioned mass surveillance, you must be a child predator 🤷
Also seems to me you don’t spend $30m to defeat a candidate you think *can’t* win a general election.
Per their statement, AIPAC is committed to backing anyone who puts the interests of Israel above the interests of working people in the USA. Even if that means supporting Republicans. This is why AIPAC sucks. Because they think they can buy our government. Fuck AIPAC. We need to win in November.