In college I worked the graveyard shift in a coffee shop that shared basement space with a bar that had a cooler with this exact latch. Let’s just say that that coffee shop was my friends’ favorite after hours spot.
SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com · 2w ago
A reminder that no one is ever entitled to your time and attention. That is especially true on the internet. That is excruciatingly true of AI bros on the internet.
Exactly. Pretty concrete (ahem.) evidence that we need a hell of a lot more of them.
Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 3w agoIn other words they are doing their job
Vicious Sneering Odium is the name of my Faith No More themed Oasis cover band.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.Imagine describing something as vicious sneering odium and thinking that’s not the coolest shit you’ve ever heard in your life.
we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever
Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · last mo.BREAKING: England players are reportedly permitted to use Viagra to help manage World Cup altitude conditions in Mexico City.
this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · last mo.Water fountains disappeared from the Longleaf Trace in June as the board that governs it grew concerned about how homeless people were using its facilities. Runners and bikers who use the 44-mile trail fear the decision could have dire consequences in Mississippi's summer heat. buff.ly/pBXSvrI
Mount Lemmon is an easy climb. It’s just really long.
John Moe@johnmoe.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere I invite you to be a micro-heretic. To bring small shame on your people. Tell me about a highly praised thing in your hometown/area that all locals LOVE except YOU. I’m from the Seattle area. Taco Time is nothing special. Bland. Not horrible but not worth going out of your way. Now you go!
If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
There are two kinds of people: those who admit they pee in the shower, and filthy shameless liars.
Djinn & Tonic 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇲🇽 🇬🇱@djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 2mo agoAre you a conformist? A mere slave, who pees in the toilet that your overlords provide for you? Or do you exercise your God-given, constitutional right to pee in the floor drain in the stall?
What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN.
NYC's response to the Knicks' run is an explicit rejection of Trumpism. Civic engagement is at an all-time high. Fearmongering about public safety was crushed by the hundreds of spontaneous watch parties. Unimaginably diverse groups rallying behind a sense of collective identity.
"The Trump administration's goal is not to make the world think none of this is happening, or to make the world think what's happening is fine. It's to show that nobody can stop it."
The State Of Sportswashing | Defector
On Dec. 5, 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Donald Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, nominally for Trump’s “tireless efforts to bring people together in a spirit of peace.” I…
defector.com
A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.
I retired last year after nearly 30 years in Hotel & Hospitality IT. As of 2025, bots accounted for well over 90% of all requests for hotel room rates and availability.
Digital Brain@yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 2mo agoDid you know that bots are now responsible for over half of all internet traffic? With a staggering 1,000 automated requests for every human action, the online landscape is changing rapidly. What does this mean for our digital future? 🤖
Doctor asked me if I would be ok trying lithium and I am so Gen X, I just started humming it.
I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend.
geoffrey@parsnip.bsky.social · 2mo agothe real scandal here is that she let him out of the house in those shorts
I’m glad he was here with us, here at the end of all things [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...
End of a Colbert-a
nytimes.com
OK let's do this the other way. Introduce yourself with ten bands you wish you'd seen but never did: The Spiders From Mars Pretenders Stiff Little Fingers Buzzcocks The Jam Front 242 Ultravox Prince & The Revolution Pet Shop Boys Bauhaus
Doers suck.com count as niche? I don't care. The answer is suck.com.
suck.com
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · 3mo agoas we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps
Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Runaways Ramones Gang of Four Replacements Love & Rockets Laurie Anderson Talking Heads Ministry Jesus & Mary Chain Clan of Xymox Mostly in bars.
Tim Pierce@unchi.org · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Pink Floyd Yo La Tengo They Might Be Giants Indigo Girls Cordelia’s Dad Paul Simon Laurie Anderson Leo Kottke Aimee Mann Jonathan Coulton
I sold Mitch Kapor an inkjet once. think about THAT. thing was a piece of shit.
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 3mo agoWe have always been loyal servants of spreadsheets since the first ziggurat. It was they who gave us writing and trade. It was they who structured our commerce trade and war from the very beginning. And now we make more spreadsheets than anyone thought possible
Never heard someone preach on the one and the three before.
Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song. Mailer was to say the least _deeply_ problematic, but this is a masterpiece of American writing. Chinwa Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. And if you mention Infinite Jest, I will cut you off and never speak to you ever again.
John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo agoSay a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.
Washing one pair of pants while wearing another pair of pants, that’s better productivity gains than AI
i genuinely, truly hate them for what they’ve done and any plan for getting us out of this that requires millions of people to pretend they don’t hate the people who put us here is masturbatory make-believe