hardest part getting a tattoo is not the needle in your skin it’s the loud music plus 4 tattoo machines buzzing at slightly different frequencies plus overlapping conversations all in a square box room with framed flash lining the walls that sound bounces off. absolute nightmare of overstimulation.

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

see the trick is to keep the maldon salt flakes in a jar on the counter and then walk by it multiple times a day and give it a little shake so the big flakes come to the top then pick around to find the biggest one and eat it

oh nice thanks, i hate it

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 4mo ago

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

packing shredded cheese in my lip like chewing tobacco, is this anything???

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

Cabel Sasser@cabel.panic.com · 4mo ago

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Happy Dune Day. May thy 9th chip and shatter

not sure if everyone knows this but the 9pm bowl of fruit loops actually comes with a free refill if you ask for it

my most oldhead opinion is that baseball is too fast now

i’m at a breaking point with the pervasive use of generative AI in product / design / engineering teams. but i also can’t *not* play the game, because my livelihood is wrapped up in it. i hate it here and welcome any asteroid or similar catastrophic event.

thinking about tintype photography as my next hobby obsession that i go deep in for like 2-3 years and throw too much money at it before ultimately becoming bored and begging someone on facebook marketplace to relieve me of the hardware

sometimes playing chess on chess dot com makes me want to snap my fucking phone in half and chuck it into an ocean

one good thing about being antiwar is you will never be wrong. one bad thing about being antiwar is no one who matters will ever listen to you

i may have long ago left the church and religion indefinitely, but i will always make sure you know that the american christian numetal band name is P.O.D. not POD

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

X2Y@x2y.tech · 6mo ago

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

I wrote about Justice Neil Gorsuch Pikachu-facing throughout oral argument in Wolford v. Lopez today bc the Court told states that modern gun laws must have "historical analogues" and, as it turns out, a lot of historical laws are racist ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/wolfo...

The Supreme Court’s “History and Tradition” Test Just Ran Into America’s History and Tradition of Anti-Black Racism

Requiring "historical analogues" for modern gun laws eventually turns up some history that makes even the conservative justices uncomfortable.

ballsandstrikes.org

is anyone surprised that the church in minneapolis with an ICE agent pastor is a southern baptist church?

(carly rae jepsen voice)

Blue sky nice ghost@rajandelman.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Using a bidet....this is crazy

i just watched this video and the fact that they believe this to be exculpatory is genuinely insane

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

ah. they all got the memo xcancel.com/JDVance/stat...

"Using their vehicles as weapons" She literally tried waving them through:

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Noem: "People need to stop using their vehicles as weapons ... it's clear that it's being coordinated. People are being trained"

We are in the "federal agents shooting and killing civilians in broad daylight on camera and the president lying about what happened" stage.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 8mo ago

Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "

My parents are divorced so we have two January 6ths

first as tragedy then as farce. then as farce again. then farce one more time. a little more farce after that. then some farce. and then another farce and more farce after

2026 could/should be the year of blogs. might ditch social and fire up an rss feed or send out an email newsletter to the pals.

The refusal to consider DC Statehood is largely a reluctance to give DC two Senators, which itself is a tacit admission that the United States Senate is an anti-democratic institution.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Statehood for D.C. is an ethical obligation at this point, required to protect the rights of our residents to govern ourselves against such out-of-state troops being sent to patrol our city.

i did not buy a leica i did buy an old yashica tlr though, which is nowhere near as cool but it’s what i have

ty carlson@tywayne.com · 10mo ago

somebody give me a thumbs up/down on an impulse leica purchase. worth it?

hey chat can i remove these kitchen knife wound sutures on my own or do i really need to go back to the doc to have them snip ‘em?