florence+the momjeans

@soynielos.bsky.social

mostly a place to exorcise my intrusive thoughts he/him

SOOO much stuff is better! Board games! Access to books! Bicycles! Bicycle helmets! Air and water quality! Car safety (with some notable exceptions)! Workout clothes! Light bulbs! Dishwashers! Headphones! HVAC! Shit sucks to be sure, but there are a million solid wins.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

For no reason I'm remembering the bit in Going Postal where Reacher Gilt, faced with declining sales because of the re-opened Post Office, makes outlandish claims for what the Clacks will soon be able to do, knowing he can't actually do it. Cause that doesn't matter. For no reason.

The thing about JKR and telling folks not to buy Harry Potter shit is it isn't because we think it can take away her fortune and platform. She's so rich she would still be rich if she never sold another book It is because it is literally the smallest possible hurdle to clear to value trans lives

lindsey graham won't see your jokes and memes because he got diarrhea and is in hell now, but someone writing an op-ed titled "the left's problem with manners" might. So make them really funny.

oh there's a bioweapon transforming people into monsters? nah go ahead and launch the escape shuttle i'm going to leave a series of audiologs around the colony

Is it too much to ask for just one panel in a Batman comic where he’s crouched on a rooftop in the rain, pondering the city, with a thought bubble that reads, “I gotta get my dick sucked.”