Astro Chris

It’s never been more clear that racism is a scam perpetrated by wealthy elites to convince working people to blame someone other than the wealthy elite.

We Are now a baby animal account for the weekend

The only reason that 35 year olds are complaining about 18 year olds getting some candy is that the 35yos were hoping no one would be trick or treating and they could eat all the candy themselves.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Sure do love it when it's 80 degrees in October.

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If that had happened to me, I would have assumed I was being carjacked.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027.

[car dealership waiting room] Me: [chanting] knobs, knobs- Other car buyers: knobs, KNOBS Car salesman: [pounding desk] KNOBS, KNOBS, KNOBS!

Me: Ok, that's taken care of. My notebook: Hey, I'm going to zoom in over here, where you can see more of those things you're working on! Going to fix those too? Me: Damn it.

Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.

Me: "I've had so much trouble with unicode and python, that surely I can use a unicode symbol, right?" Matplotlib: "UserWarning: Glyph 11198 (\N{CIRCLED X}) missing from current font." Me: "Great. Glad to see this is all cleared up now. Wonderful job, everybody."

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

I drew the new weird cat

time to change this little game of ours Sonic. *takes off my moustache* thats right hedgehog. Im actually Sam Reich. Ive been here the whole time..

My absolute, rock-bottom standard for trans allies right now is that when they see a post from a trans person saying that they can't vote for some anti-trans Dem & they're sick about all this, you offer a shoulder to cry on instead of a lecture on electing Nazis. That's it. That's all you gotta do.

"I am for the dignity and safety and equal rights of trans people everywhere. Fuck you. The end." "I do not believe you care about this issue. You are lying. In fact you're a straight up weirdo for fixating on kids' genitals so much. That is odd behavior. Let kids run around with their friends."

A24 is potentially doing something really fucked up here, but also they have the opportunity to do something extremely fucking cool and make the movie Creative Commons people would still pay to see it in theaters. but you want to benefit from a community project? then contribute to it

Voters shouldn't have to play four-dimensional chess when it comes to what electoral candidates say or do. People running for office should say what they think and be clear about what they'll do, and have done, and explain inconsistencies. I realize I'm asking for a perfect world, here.

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

I just wish he'd die.

A reminder for all the people who are still using genAI images to express their opposition to right-wing crap. Please, find another way.

Looking forward to Lake Apple and Google Are Fucking Cowards in the next administration.

Finally tried the "turn off reposts," and it has made my timeline much better. I enjoy you, people I follow who repost themselves every two hours, just not as much as you enjoy you.

Apparently my new water heater has a serial port. Luckily someone had already written most of the code I'll need.

“Prince Magneto was right.” I’d buy this in a millisecond l.

Happy Birthday, Mary Shelley! Born on this day in 1797 🫀

a lot of folks on here need to read the first paragraph of this

the idea that playing the game Grand Theft Auto makes you trans is absurd. playing Magic the Gathering makes you trans.

Oh, so even the idiot billionaire can see that ai is shit at art? Huh. Imagine if people had thought of this before they spent so much money trying to force it into everything. If only there had been warnings?