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Portland, OR formerly @calamityjive on the birdsite ain't afraid of no ghost

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Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 16h ago

*Everywhere* used to smell of cigarette smoke. Restaurants are the obvious example that everyone thinks of, but people used to smoke in banks, on buses, airplanes, post offices, movie theaters, and even public schools. Also, it used to be considered normal to drive home completely-ass drunk.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h 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
Damien Crawford@developerdamien.bsky.social · 15h ago

Posting like this took 10 minutes and you both couldn't use your phone to do so, and we only had landline phones unless you were rich enough for a basic brick cellphone that had no reception and you couldn't take or receive calls on the landline when you were online

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 19h 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
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 3d ago

I agree strongly with this -- in that difficult moment, the possibility of collective effort was conceivable. Not everybody felt it, but many did. I think the political class did not like this one bit.

Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4d ago

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Sisyphus, but for reducing tail latency@bluespacecanary.bsky.social · 5d ago

humans aren't naturally particularly good or bad. the great labor of each of our lives is to *make* ourselves good, and help the people around us do the same so that someday together we can build a better world. Being awful to random people online constantly just drags you & the world the other way

@gigercat.bsky.social · 6d ago

contrary to what much of this site believes, your actions (in addition to, and more than your intent) matter and will modify who you are. treating people online like shit will eventually make you a worse person IRL. in order to be good you have to practice at being good.

Tom Francis@pentadact.com · 5d ago

"We call these boomer shooters." "Right, cos of all the booming." 'Oh, no that's not why." "Then why?" (Deep breath) "So in the aftermath of the second world war..."

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 7d ago

you shouldn't be mad about destroying books. you should be mad about who is allowed to have access to the scans, and why the public isn't able to benefit from this at nominal fee to be paid directly to the author, rather than the knowledge being rented from a middleman.

Caræsten 🇵🇸@cara.city · last wk.

this is revealing a gap in how people approach these projects. writing verilog for fpga cores was an exercise in preservation because it meant understanding how the hardware was supposed to work; now you can use AI to get something that "works" w/o understanding the why

John Linneman@dark1x.bsky.social · last wk.

If anything, seeing what's happening in this scene now sorta cements, in my mind, that my focus on original hardware and classic games is the best for my own enjoyment. The FGPA, emulation and decomp scene is becoming such a mess.

Aluino #ProtectJho@aluino.selfhosted.social · 7mo ago

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there. I need you to listen to these people. STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

CNN@cnn.com · 7mo ago

The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new United Nations report. https://cnn.it/4qxGTNX