"The Data Lord has all the money, so now we just pay with blood instead. It’s even easier, if you think about it. No need to worry about 'savings' or 'inflation' or whatever it is your generation was so obsessed with. Now it’s all about platelet count." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

It’s Cute How Grandma Doesn’t Even Know How to Blood Tithe to the Data Lord

“You can’t pay for anything by card anymore. That stopped being a thing in the 2030s. The Data Lord doesn’t take AmEx. It’s half a pint now, or a full pint e...

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I keep seeing people say ‘but llms are useful in IT environments’ and my friends a tool that the actual fucking salespeople warned us about using because it doesn’t always work is not anything we want to deal with, either.

Greyhounds are very relatable because you can literally watch the moment they start overthinking things and get caught in a maze of fear and paralysis. At that point you no longer have a dog, you have an eighty pound bronze statue.

Maybe we should elect people as president only those who understand enough basic history and geopolitics that people are unable to convince them a war in the Middle East is a quick easy pop in and out business.

obama furiously gesticulating to the party "you can just LIE about being against the wealthy! you just gotta attack the rich and corporations and private equity at all, even if it's a lie!" and establishment dems squeezing their skull like it's gonna pop scanners style going "BUT I DON'T WANNA"

VIRGINIA O'BRIEN APPRECIATION STATION The legend goes that she developed her deadpan wide-eyed singing style while sufferin from real bad stage fright youtu.be/XVtqtbzS28k (there's a bonus wild Rags Ragland at the very top)

virginia o'brien sings salome in du barry was a lady (best quality, complete)

YouTube video by that jalopy

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I MISS KIWI AND I HOPE SHE'S GETTING ALL THE CHEESE SHE DESERVES NOW FROM SOMEONE ELSE.

Nome@nome.bsky.social · 2y ago

Anyway I love her.

Happy Anniversary. It's a day on the dock, not a day off! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgom...

Montgomery Riverfront brawl - Wikipedia

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Streets said you look like Evil Haley Joel Osment Please play with somebody safe

The people who say innocent people don‘t offer reasons why they didn’t do it instead of protesting their innocence, those are some really sheltered white people. Some of us know we should not expect to be believed on our bare word and act accordingly.

I’ve been screening our documentary with organizing communities in the South. So far, the organizers mention data centers first at every single event. From racial justice orgs to old school activists who don’t usually think about tech policy. This has legs.

One of my new charming behaviors is I will slowly and deliberately place my airpods in my ears when people refuse to honor my request to leave me alone.

I would take people who argue that children staying home during part of a wholly novel global pandemic was THE WORST CHILD ABUSE more seriously if those people had ever been as worried about remediating air quality in schools & public places, which would help with all airborne diseases.

My leader has been using Gemini to read his emails, create task lists, due dates, and assignments. Yesterday, he realized that we have a C Suite level presentation TODAY. The automation he was relying on had not even acknowledged the email(s) about it. I'll cry happy tears when it's gone away.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 21h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

being a manager is at least 60% telling people to do things they should do without being told.

There has to be an understanding that human rights and equality laws are about protecting people from particular kinds of systemically galvanised harm, or the human rights law itself becomes a weapon of the dominant groups.

it will never stop being bizarre to me that private companies can just do things in space and there's no global mechanism to prevent it. how did no one in the deepest paranoia of the cold war go "everything up there has to be a government entity with tightly controlled tracking & accountability"?!

(muffled voice from inside a coffin) it's called dressing for the job you want

Yeah well I grew up in a mushroom village, so I’m not really used to how you do things. We used big giant mushrooms as our houses. We used bioluminescent mushrooms as lamps. And we didn’t try to change the plan last second if the other person already made reservations I guess that’s normal here

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · yesterday

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Perez Hilton live-streamed himself engaging in self-harm and clips of it are now circulating on social media.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo ago

Maybe turn off video autoplay today: Settings > Content and media > Autoplay videos and GIFs Toggle off.

"The impact poses no danger to Earth..." The rest of the Solar System isn't a resource & a garbage dump for billionaires; how long before one of their bits of junk lands in a inhabited part of Earth; and read to the end for a mic-drop aside about tardigrades supposedly dropped on the Moon in 2019. 🧪

Scott Smith@changeist.bsky.social · 21h ago

But is it art? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

time to trot out the Clive James quote I alway use when a particularly wild photo of Kash Patel circulates: “he looks like a man who has simultaneously been told to say ‘Cheese’ and shot in the back with a poisoned arrow”

Boswell peer out at the shiny new day!!

Air to Ground Message: WAITING CATERING TO REMOVE OLD GROSS CARTS AND CLEANERS TO CLEAN UP ALL THE WATER Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA A: #a1aaa164757 F: #fe0cec03edf

The wizard makes chicken raviolis for lunch.

After 18 hours of stage 2 labor and a trip to the e-vet for oxytocin and monitoring, Loaf had 8 beautiful puppies yesterday. She is doing an excellent job as a first time mom and all babies have gained weight on their day-old weigh in.

Surely one of yall can help me and beef out and know a recipe for creamed onion casserole

so-called beef 🐈💨@beefy-knees.xyz · yesterday

I once had some kind of creamed onion casserole-ish thing I still dream about

More vegetables should be creamed

Do groundhogs slow down when they go into a tunnel? Pittsburghers want to know.

Renee@jg-pgh.bsky.social · yesterday

there’s been a tunnel under the 3’ wrought iron fence that divides my yard into “groundhog country” & “toby country” ever since i installed it, but now there’s a second tunnel right next to it b/c apparently Mme does not share tunnels? so we have Ft. Pitt & Liberty going on in the back yard now