Joe Stanley
@joestanley.org
TIME magazine’s 2013 Joe of the Year. Product Management, Big Infra. He/Him. Loves include waffles, wordplay, and worker’s rights. RVA.
What if all the points in a basketball game were scored at once but we randomized the unveiling on the scoreboard
parker higgins@xor.blue · 2mo agothis is the thing that really bugs me about california's slow vote counting. reporters can't help but describe it in terms of momentum, when it's really scanning across a snapshot
in the Québécois version of King of the Hill (“Henri pis sa gang”), Boomhauer is named Papineau and sounds like this
This shot of an unknown woman in Sarajevo, ca. 1992 (listen to @bloodwork.show
Thomas O’Mahony@gotitatguineys.bsky.social · yesterdayThe theme for this week’s “listen to @bloodwork.show” is: EURO VIBES. Post your most powerful EURO VIBES “listen to @bloodwork.show”, and the best one will get a special prize.
"Germany is not poorer than the US. It has just chosen to cash out more of its productivity in the form of free time than the US has. The other Western European countries have made similar decisions." peoplespolicyproject.org/2026/08/04/w...
Western Europe Is Richer Than the US
Let's put an end to the stupid GDP discourse.
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in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
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Annesha Mitha's writing on labor is at once relatable and revelatory: "I remember getting up from my console after my first session with Citizen Sleeper. It was dawn; I hadn’t been able to sleep. At the time, I was at a job that I hated, and that hated me. Every day was a new humiliation."
My body is for rent
Visions of labor in the Citizen Sleeper games
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This face! One of two praying mantises my boy found and we got a lot of closeup looks at it. Watching its mouthparts move was otherworldly! (This was part of a thread of us finding cicada’s shedding exoskeletons, but the closeup on its mouth was just too good!)
You ever stare at your dog like I can't believe this is free. He could easily charge for this
I think the replacement of describing feelings with chemicals instead is a way of distancing yourself from the illogical (womanish) feelings by placing the blame on the imperfect machinery of your brain
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 2d agoseriously though you can just say you're chasing "pleasure" (dopamine is not synonymous with pleasure!!)
Genius to send the former mayor of nyc to convince midwesterners that data centers are great
Jessy Edwards@jessyedwards.bsky.social · 2d agoA video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
chat they made something in real life that i swear to god would be a shitpost i could have come up with almost a decade ago and i need people to mail me packs immediately as little gifts. do you know how badly i need 1993 Daphne on a trading card with her lil choker and flower skirt
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
Scientists of the Nautilus research ship capture a Big Fin Squid on camera, at 5454m (17’800 ft) depth. This was their live reaction: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
INSULINDIAN PHASMID - That must be incredibly hard. The arthropods are in silent and meaningless awe of you. Know that we are watching -- when you're tired, when the vision spins out of control. The insects will be looking on. Rooting for you.
Yes, stupid immoral assholes have done far too well for basically forever, but right now, it feels like being a stupid immoral asshole has become the ONLY way to do well. That is a problem.
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury
ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil
david shrigley -- this one is for Carl, who made it to 20
Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.
Herman Melville responding to 1-star goodreads reviews:
USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST@blockedforthispost.bsky.social · last wk.Now I'm confused, are you upset because there's too much dick or not enough?
