Eric “undead metaphor” WVGG
@wvgg.co
dumb it down for me. no, way dumber check out my silly little app for Bluesky 🦋📲 @flutterby.blue
Again, let's remember that *Hot Topic* came into existence roughly 40 years ago. There was tons of disposable poorly made trash in the 80s, I know because I was homeless and then in the projects wearing the donated remains of it as it fell apart. What changed was things like diversity of content.
what we need is an opposition party that is full of gormless collaborators that acquiesce to everything. i have a great example if you need one
Covid exists in a superposition where it is simultaneously a hoax, an overblown flu, and a bioengineered super weapon, and you can only determine its position at any given moment by asking which version is the most politically convenient
This is the blueprint for any municipality that is considering a data center. (V. serious not joking) https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/philly-suburb-sure-build-that-data-center-but-first-meet-our-43-demands/
Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)...
arstechnica.com
This is the neatest summary of the “AI/datacenter-pessimist” take on the LLM bubble that I’ve read to date. (The title says “Apple” but it’s barely about them.) www.macrumors.com/2026/07/27/e...
Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...
Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.
The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.
climatecoloredgoggles.com
cracked up at that last Cena bit my homeland of the American Southwest has basically two media properties, Breaking Bad and Roadrunner cartoons. Never would have believed Wile E. Coyote would get his own flick and I couldn't be more excited 🌵 🏜️ /anvil-emoji
Termite Terrace Club@termiteterraceclub.bsky.social · 2w agoyoutu.be/kMsiD1Nky5I?... Final trailer for #CoyotevsACME has dropped. Tickets are on sale now as of 9am with more theater chains joining Regal. #LooneyTunes
"Unless you're over 60, you weren't promised flying cars. You were promised an oppressive cyberpunk dystopia."
Carrie Anne Moss spitting in a beer and forcing the audience to imagine drinking a beer that Carrie Anne Moss had spit in was a Moment for many of us
Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 3w agoMy fave Nolan bits/bobs in no order: •Opening sequence w/ plane in Dark Night Rises •Bowie as Tesla in The Prestige •Matt Damon in Interstellar •How much money he got a studio to put into a movie as insane as Tenet •Everything about Dunkirk Can’t wait to see The Odyssey in 70MM this weekend.
Starting to wonder if the “mid-life crisis” was just another dumb boomer thing. I’m of the age where all of my peers should be getting motorcycles and mistresses and divorces and I’m just not seeing it.
For the rest of the summer you have official license to go with the fries instead of the side salad.
Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 3w agoWe’re all going to get diarrhea I guess.
do folks who harp on others for virtue signaling realize that they are virtue signaling
find yourself a woman who’ll be the low-stakes Bonnie to your low-stakes Clyde
Richard Kadrey@richardkadrey.bsky.social · last mo.This sounds like the greatest afternoon ever. "These are the otters. They're heavily invested in crypto and mortal enemies of the giraffes who, as I'm sure you know, are dedicated Maoists."
idea for a high-concept sci-fi horror movie with a sweet Planet of the Apes style twist: astronauts are stranded in a hostile environment surrounded by indescribable monsters who pick them off one by one, but it turns out that it’s just Australia
omgisme@omgisme.bsky.social · last mo.The Wrap-around Spider, indigenous to Australia, this spider can flatten and wrap its body around tree limbs as camouflage .
It’s kind of nice to finally have a scandal that’s mostly just fucking funny and not really hurting anybody, unless you count the dead ducklings I guess well now everything sucks again.
amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.As NPS drains the Reflecting Pool for repairs, thunderstorms and strong rains work to replenish the water.
Stunned myself with the realization that RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) is a recapitulation of the Biblical Binding of Isaac where Abraham decides to kill God instead of his son
iphone miscorrected “body recomposition” into “body decomposition” and tbh it has a point
tell you what, you can build a 500 megawatt datacenter right on top of my freshly-dug grave, but everyone has to stop using the word “compute” as a noun
If your website/app/blog uses email link logins, we cannot be friends.
this anecdote made me realize that an easy litmus of whether you're a cat or dog person is how one responds to being licked (cat licks palm) “aw cute, your little sandpaper tongue” (dog licks palm) “fucking christ, this smell, now I have to wash my hands, christ”
I think this guy nailed it. and I feel a bit dumb and naive for thinking that social media in one form or another was kind of the final form of online life. At least I was right about it not being anything like “the metaverse”…
Dave Karpf@davekarpf.bsky.social · 3mo agoAlright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...
how we prioritizemaxx the xenomorphic consumer buy-in is the most impactist metric on the content's survivability horizon
hats off to all the silicon valley dumbfucks who voted for this just to see the EU wake up and realize that maybe depending on US cloud infrastructure is a strategic problem, take a bow you fucking clowns
