Whenever a new generation of AI image creation comes out, it feels like it's all impossibly convincing and it's all over for real artists, and then two weeks later you can spot it at a glance and it's the most pathetic trash imaginable.

The fatphobic Augustus Gloop vs. The body-positive Bruce Bogtrotter.

See, this is why I'm so incredulous that anyone wants the government run "like a business." What business do you even have a non-adversarial relationship with these days?

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 18h ago

So this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary

My four-year old sitting in the backseseat quietly singing "Yuck yuck yuck... the yuckio car..." over and over for half an hour.

This book rules, every time it seems like it's going to slow down it adds a new insane thing. Gotta admire any novel with the balls to introduce a supernatural element 2/3 of the way through.

Unwinder@unwinder.bsky.social · 3w ago

Started reading Matilda ro my four year old and Matilda is just absolutely ripping on Tolkien and CS Lewis for not putting enough humor in their children's books. And her teacher is like "she's so wise"

Saw my aging cat in the act of catching a mouse this morning and I was very impressed. I imagined mousing was difficult, because those little bastards can really scurry, but my guy was in control for the whole operation. Positioned himself perfectly to intercept and got his jaws on its tiny neck.

Retweeting because I actually said yabba dabba doo at quitting time to get some laughs at work today, and it went over very well. Never did it before today. Just felt right.

Kofta Nostra@elsangito.bsky.social · 5d ago

we need to bring back saying “yabba dabba doo” and sliding off a dinosaur tail right after being allowed to clock out of work

pleased to announce the Winner of Bluesky

people on here will post anything. "charlie brown had class consciousness." no he didn't. that isn't true.

Barbara Longley Author (no DMs) 📎@blongley.bsky.social · 5d ago

I saw some parents defending letting their kids play video games as much as they want by saying "in this house we believe in building hand-eye coordination"

It's pretty obvious to me that Linkedin's behavior in allowing users to report "slop" is that they think "slop" is specifically a word for AI spam and that most of the AI on there is fine. Occam's razor. No need to get conspiratorial.

(acting in American Psycho but I forgot my lines) wow... business card.... a perfect rectangle... white, with words on it... All the key information is on here Jared Leto: (also forgot his lines) Plus it has Dope Handfeel as well

I don't think I agree? The argument here is essentially "you're happy to tolerate these things that waste energy and water, therefore you ought to be fine with adding more things that waste energy and water." Adding more new wasteful things is not the same as keeping the existing ones.

karl rove knausgård@uhactually.bsky.social · last wk.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/o... This is a basic reading comprehension check: if you read this, he isn’t actually arguing that the environmental stuff is all BS, but that other similar harms are tolerated, and so it’s really a proxy fight for the role of AI in our lives, which should be taken head on

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Everyone on Bluesky secretly converting all our real money to X-money because we all secretly love it.

The Verge@theverge.com · last wk.

X Money is launching in the US starting today

I'm hearing that there's a weird raccoon. Stay safe out there.

[loudly dictating post into voice recognition software on the bus] Ice makes cold drinks hit different

It doen't seem like anything in particular is filling the void of superhero movies' total dominance of pop culture. Maybe it's actually not inevitable or normal for only one very specific kind of expensive movie to get made.

thinking about a world where Scott Adams never got into politics but went totally insane anyway. just posting fucked up takes about micromanagement all day. he's still glad his step son died but it's because of cubicles or unix or something

(KOTH spoilers I guess) I liked that Hank was immediately supportive and sensitive and read up on menopause instead of being juvenile and needing to learn a lesson. Shows growth. Some of the many lessons he's learned over the years stuck.

My father in law was telling a story about how he used to listen to a band called Lucy Van Pelt when he lived in Japan, and I thought that could never happen here because the character is too well known, and then I remembered that one of our main rappers here in the US is named after Snoopy.

Everybody's rightfully pointing out that Ebenezer Scrooge's backstory is explored a lot in the original novella, but hasn't considered the obvious stupid move here: Dividing the source material into a trilogy like The Hobbit.

Tried to find a Moby Dick gif to respond to something on Teams at work and nothing came up, and I thought "oh yeah, because it has the word dick in it, that's fair" so I tried searching "Sperm Whale."

Is Nolan's Odyssey a step toward finally getting a colossal Moby Dick adaptation that faithfully depicts sperm whales being peeled like an orange?

The sci-fi con episode of King of the Hill feels so weird for not really depicting any actual fandoms. I don't think I've seen a show stick to generics in a situation like this in a long time.

Yeah I love DSA, drinking some ales.

I'd be happy to forgive him if he used his wealth and influence to set everything right, or even if he went broke trying. Until then this is just "whoops."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

‘I got carried away’: Elon Musk expresses regret about Doge and wading into Trump’s orbit

Everyone acts like you need to do homework for these, they're like "you won't know why this lady has illusion powers" or "you won't understand why this guy has trauma," and the answers are never interesting enough to really be better than going in blind.

Kameo@kameoapp.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tom Hiddleston says MCU fans should watch ‘Loki' before watching 'Avengers: Doomsday' “I would always say, if you haven’t watched it, go and do so. And, if you have watched it before Doomsday, go and watch it again" (via @techradar)

Watched some of the new King of the Hill last night, very funny, I howled at the part where Hank is sitting with his miserable little foster dog, happily watching a baseball game where a groundout advances a runner to 2nd and dreamily says "See Caesar? That's called a productive out."

For someone, this was the first Liberty Mutual ad they ever saw. This is the whole brand for someone.

Coach Jerry (referee 🔵)@gopher33j.bsky.social · 2w ago

My life goal is to destroy the Liberty Bibberty puppet Vendetta