Bad Tim Management

Ghost Ant

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

The American Bittern will stick his/her neck straight up to mimic a cattail reed, sometimes swaying in the wind to add to the reed vibe.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Halloween

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

computer apocalypse scenario everyone thinks is real: an app that pretends it's talking to you decides (?) to leave the computer (??) and destroys earth (?????) actual computer apocalypse scenario: it's PHP again

Escape from New York, the glider scene. It's '81, a year before Tron revolutionised CG and Carpenter has 1/3 of Tron's budget...so how did he pull off an absurdly sophisticated wireframe simulation?! It's actually a cardboard city painted matte black, lined with reflective tape and lit with UV.

now with sfx

The invincible airplane

Zelda: The Island ​o Catchin Flees - Scottish Translation (Complete) (GB) Added

Not sure if the person I’m pranking has arachnophobia or anachrophobia, so I got a spider from the wrong time period to cover my bases either way.

Max Attractions Max, ND

i think of myself as a hobbit of the computer, unbothered by the doings and goings on of push notifications or whatever weird animation is trying to get me engage with a new feature that doesn't matter

some of these people get so locked into a labyrinth of Rationalist thought experiments that they are no longer really capable of interacting with reality

Ah hello! Was it you who rang the Bell of Awakening?

Been playing The Witcher 2 #galoodle #comic #TheWitcher2 #Witcher2 #Witcher #Geralt #GeraltofRivia #VernonRoche

wwhen i was in japan earlier this year at a train station there was a little security robot roomba type thing that was stuck between the wall and a pole or whatever and it was repeating something in japanese and then would say in an american voice "SECURITY ROBOT... UNHAPPY"

i know i’m old but as a kid growing up in the ‘90s, we usually got somewhere between 12 and 28 surprises inside a typical box of caylus vs. foltyn

I've switched tactics from calling "llms are sentient beings" nitwits stupid to agreeing with them and saying "yeah!! Furbies too!!!" and they get so much madder lmao

This is all disgusting. I've had people accuse me of using AI when I do shit like use an em-dash. I struggle to avoid yelling but HUNDREDS OF ARTICLES AND AT LEAST TWO BOOKS I WROTE have been scraped by OpenAI. I'm part of why your chatbots write the way they do. They're copying me.

waking up to find myself transformed into a bug and immediately utilizing my proboscis to get a drink of water without having to sit up in bed

Casually, to my date: "Y'know, Paul could have prevented the Challenger disaster."

Someone should lose their job for this

Dang, went out of town for a week and forgot to Greature-proof my apartment… @kcg.bsky.social

Here is famed horse “little man” Please be kind to the little man

the best part of the internet is about ten years ago we got really up in arms about truth in media and so on and so forth and we have nicely corralled that impulse into "constantly sharing screenshots of random social media accounts that adopt the tone of news sources with no context or verification

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

i got so many people calling this tweet fakeposting back when i made it but since this is bluesky and things have less reach on here im just going to post the photo

there are ghosts everywhere

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

when your country decides to livestream an execution

This is not the scene from Double Down I'd flag as graphic media, but you do you @moderation.bsky.app.

Extremely important information about the ravens living at the tower of London.

Sucks to be running out of rare earth elements if only we had known they were so rare

these are my only feelings about generative "AI." i do not care how much it "works," ever. i'll be over here scraping charcoal and ochre on the cave wall until they kill me

It came to me in a dream. #comics