the ideal user to these people is like, some guy called Based Legend Ralph whose real name is joseph totino-burkewitz. he has 60 million followers, at least 2/3rds of which are bots. he posts ai videos that feature racist caricatures of immigrants getting beaten up by muscular cops.

max graves@maximumgraves.bsky.social · 2d ago

i'm so tired of trying to use an app or a website like a normal person and then the ceo will be like "i don't see enough racists on my app and that means it's a total failure. i need everyone who uses my app to get super fucking racist right now, or i'm going to kill myself in front of you"

you might wonder "max, why are you posting so much on bluesky when you're supposedly too busy to work on the comic right now" and the answer is that i'm posting this from my phone because i don't have any wifi and my desk isn't set up. but also because i use my time poorly

i'm so tired of trying to use an app or a website like a normal person and then the ceo will be like "i don't see enough racists on my app and that means it's a total failure. i need everyone who uses my app to get super fucking racist right now, or i'm going to kill myself in front of you"

does anyone think anything about bluesky? i feel like normal people don't even know what it is. are they talking about bluesky on newsmax or something, or is this guy just termsearching "bluesky" on twitter, or what

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

the thing about shanley is that when a guy online has kind of over-the-top but entertaining hot takes, people can kind of laugh along and be like "he's so crazy, but sometimes he's weirdly insightful" but when a woman does it people are just like "wow! what a dumb bitch"

everybody laughed at shanley but she was right about this actually. if all of us had listened we could've been spared (for example) the existence of a barstool sports podcast called "call her daddy"

hi, unfortunately i will unexpectedly have to take the week off whn. i moved from my temporary living space into an apartment, and it has made me busier than i thought. next week's update will be an extra-long one, and i will also be back to drawing/posting commissions. thanks for your patience.

when i was like 19 my friends and i used to make fun of people with septum piercings. we called septum piercings "pronoun circles". but we were also transgender people who had facial piercings, we were just really convinced we were doing it in a cooler way

max graves@maximumgraves.bsky.social · 2w ago

for some reason i keep thinking about getting a septum piercing which is probably the devil talking

growing up i had a vocal tic where i compulsively repeated part of what i had just said, but quieter. i never noticed when i was doing it, but people pointed it out to me sometimes. then sometime in my late teens the tic went away forever. don't really know what that was about

I like that one Misfits song about the Kennedy assassination but then Danzig starts singing about having sex with Jackie Kennedy, which to my knowledge he never actually did, and in any event it hardly seems like the time or the place.

i thought of another funny detail about this guy i knew but i probably shouldn't post all of my funny stories about people i've known because i might want to use them in my actual writing later.

max graves@maximumgraves.bsky.social · 4d ago

in my early 20s i knew this gay guy who was not only a virgin but also didn't jack off. he had an encyclopedic knowledge of pitchfork album scores, like you could say an album and he'd know it was a 7.4 right off the dome. i can only assume it was extreme sexual repression that enabled this power

in my early 20s i knew this gay guy who was not only a virgin but also didn't jack off. he had an encyclopedic knowledge of pitchfork album scores, like you could say an album and he'd know it was a 7.4 right off the dome. i can only assume it was extreme sexual repression that enabled this power

i hear so much music now that is obviously emo rap but they're usually not calling it that because that's not a cool thing to be doing. or it sounds like sleigh bells but no one who listens to it has heard of sleigh bells for some reason

actually i have another hot music take and it's that lil peep was good. save that shit is an awesome song. rip

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

amanda palmer is a profoundly evil human being but she made some good music

lil miss big boy@lighter.bsky.social · 5d ago

Post your hottest music take. Mine is New Order is better than Joy Division.

your regular, untargeted reminder that you can and should check a bio for pronouns when referring to somebody online. we normalized these things for a reason let's remember to use them.

2019 Defunctland video: "In 1989, the Walt Disney corporation was feeling the heat from the Six Flags Dick Smasher and wanted a one of their own" (20 mins) 2025 Defunctland video: (single very serious plaintive piano note) "Since the dawn of time... Man... Has always tried to eat a snack" (3 hours)

for a long time i didn't think i could be experiencing chronic pain or fatigue bc i assumed that i would have noticed somehow if i was in more pain than a usual person. but not really bc i had nothing to compare it to. i did notice being more tired than most people but figured that was my fault

i had a bunch of friends like this around 7 years ago but i would regard it as a personal failing on my part if i still had this sort of a person in my life

Piper Paige@pipermintz.bsky.social · last wk.

bwehh

i know pushups is the correct answer but i would simply eat 2 hot dogs a day and accept the consequences

The Deceitful Grin of Civility@andrewfleer.com · last wk.

Would you rather, for the rest of your life: 1) Get $50 for every hot dog you eat (meat and bun) 2) Get $2 for every pushup you do

rewatched poughkeepsie tapes for the first time since high school and it sucks on ice. way worse than i remember.

"davis" (from SPAY 3)

live now

max graves@maximumgraves.bsky.social · last wk.

going to hop on for an impromptu twitch stream to work on the comic/probably some commissions bc (unlike the last month) i am no longer working out of a basement and my connection doesn't suck balls. that will be at 10am cst today at twitch.tv/maximumgraves

i gotta get a new twitch profile picture, i don't look like that anymore. haven't had hair that long in like 2 years

going to hop on for an impromptu twitch stream to work on the comic/probably some commissions bc (unlike the last month) i am no longer working out of a basement and my connection doesn't suck balls. that will be at 10am cst today at twitch.tv/maximumgraves

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not watching something called “she’s the he”. Love and light

Rarity found dead in Miami

Nicholas Kole@nicholaskole.bsky.social · 2w ago

WELL!!! it looks like the horse is out of the stable! I hooficially had the privelege of collaborating with the team at Hasbro to help bring the next chapter of My Little Pony to life 😊

for some reason i keep thinking about getting a septum piercing which is probably the devil talking

i've never liked ti west's movies but how did he even end up directing this? surely he's above a christmas carol prequel starring johnny depp. like is he being blackmailed or something or is his taste somehow actually that bad.

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2w ago

First poster for ‘EBENEZER’, a new film based on ‘A Christmas Carol’ starring Johnny Depp. “Before he was Scrooge, he was Ebenezer”

weirdly heartbroken that the goofy edgelord who makes the "welcome to the game" series was forced to tone down his fake Evil Dark Web websites for the third installment bc of tightening steam content guidelines.