Like Disney Iran is going to intentionally oversell Fast Passes and oil will hit $200 a barrel since the Strait is even more backlogged than before.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

my god, it's real

I fully believe that reading books you are too young for and not fully understanding it is a critical part of childhood. The adult world is weird and confusing and books are a good place for kids to discover that.

ex-Lethality Jane@lethalityjane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The thing about this sort of argument is how far are you willing to go to make sure kids don't access books. When I was 14 my mom said she didn't want me reading Silence of the Lambs so I rode my bike to the library and read it at there because teens love nothing more than saying "fuck you, mom".

Obviously wrong to say he's a WASP, but the fact that they could even make this error shows 2 trends: 1. The decline of Christian sectarianism in America 2. WASP losing its original context and coming to just mean "New England blue bloods."

Anne Thériault@annetheriault.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is one of the funniest corrections I’ve ever read

The stupid thing about social media arguments about social media is that everyone who has them is a 40 year old arguing about which site frequented by 7% of the population is more relevant, meanwhile everyone under 25 is on something called Blooble inventing new words to scare us with

rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job

Lenin and Trotsky would have spent 23 hours a day posting threads about Theory, getting into arguments over the most minor points, and issuing truly unhinged death threats. They would also constantly alternate between being mutuals and blocking each other.

"Average American takes 2 aspirin a day" factoid actually a statistical error. Aspirins Donald, who lives in a half-built ballroom and takes 10,000 aspirin a day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Thou losest labor. As easy mayst thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress as make me bleed. Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield To Charlie Brown

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is a true prophecy, as true as yours ever were. When the souls rise up in glory, yours shall not be shunned nor sundered, but shall be the prize of the gods’ gardens. Even your darkness shall be treasured then, and all your pain made holy, Charlie Brown.

Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li@sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10mo ago

poster's bushido logically implies the existence of historical european posting arts

where are you going? -to get owned by Joyce Carol Oates where have you been? -getting owned by Joyce Carol Oates

All else aside the fact that after 4 years of Youngkin the Democrats absolutely destroyed the Republicans should impact your assessment of how successful Youngkin has been.

Hill Woward@convolutedname.bsky.social · 10mo ago

GM, Nate Cohn at his best sports pundit last night, already making up reasons why this one doesn't count

The basic problem is that Biden winning would have required a vigorous campaign and he clearly couldn't do that.

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I do kinda think the notion that Biden was drawing dead in the counterfactual where the party doesn’t knife him has been agreed to by acclaim more than it has been argued

My slogan "No Kings Except Kong" is going over very poorly. I'm sorry, I didn't realize New Yorkers were still traumatized by his 1933 rampage.

Bsky's automod is permanently set to "Ned Flanders." You say "That's stupid" in a reply and you can practically hear the automod going "Okily dokily posterino I'm just gonna put a rude label here because you used the S-word."

My favorite is the Matthew McConaughey ad where he's at a restaurant but the restaurant doesn't use AI so they don't know not to sit him outside while its poring rain and they just bring him random dishes rather than take his order. Yes AI ad, that's problem I run into frequently.

hayden johnson@haydenjohnsonn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

every AI ad is like “hey gemini, what would i have for lunch?” and then the phone is like “sandwich” and the guy is like “wow”

The basic lesson is that if the site administration should use bland corporatespeak instead of trying to be Posters. People would still be mad about Singal (justifiably IMO) but there would be a lot less discourse if it communicated as a corporate statement instead of Posting Thru It.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Are people mad at the Bluesky ceo for a real reason or an internet madness reason?

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

nora "the tea kobold" rude (they/them ze/hir)@nora.zone · 11mo ago

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Even ignoring that slave power was aggressively domineering and expansionist this logic makes no sense. Basically any attempt to secede from another country would never win by this logic, you can disprove it by pointing out that America won the Revolution despite not wanting to govern Britain.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 11mo ago

so this is what counts as an intellectual for the modern right, huh

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

Who can forget Spinoza's famous declaration "Facts don't care about your feelings."

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 11mo ago

By using reason to understand his emotions, the 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind,” Arthur C. Brooks writes. His techniques reveal how to prevent emotional hijack: https://theatln.tc/hfT0S2m2

I love that there's replies who seem to think Father Intintola is a real person and are getting mad at him and the Church.

Dennis B. Hooper@dennisbhooper.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: Father Intintola has endorsed Andrew Cuomo

I'm not sure what the operators of the Ain Jalut Skate Park were expecting.

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I watched the Elijah vs. Ba'al's prophets video and from a purely technical perspective its interesting to see that AI still really struggles to maintain consistency between shots.

NPR@npr.org · 12mo ago

"The AI Bible is a way to really bring these stories to life in a way that people have never seen before. Think of if we were like, the Marvel Universe of faith," said one of the site's creators.

Except for Cubs fans, pretty great year for the Cubbies

Communism is Soviet power plus all-day breakfast across the whole country.

Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into Shrimp-man. Eating the shrimp will not turn me into

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last yr.

The FDA warns public not to eat, sell or serve certain Great Value raw frozen shrimp sold at Walmart due to possible contamination a radioactive isotope