Ryan S.

Lost my specs but I have a conch. Figure things are gonna be just fine.

Solidarity forever.

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

This helps explain why every AI booster has the same energy as a guy who jerks off on public transit.

The Zeta Set is several firsts for Magic: the first SLD lootbox, the first use of public domain art, and… the first set that begs us to make it ourselves, but better. Have a party. Invite friends, plus Fiskar and Elmer. Let’s DIY this poser set already.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

We cannot have good things. A triad spinoff was pitched but shot down

Hey @1password.bsky.social, time to change course.

techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you”

We’re not in the habit of recognizing celebrity deaths here at 925. That said, Dolly Parton is a national treasure and some folks here joke that Dolly is our Locals patron saint. After all her song “9 to 5” is our anthem. Today we remember all the love and kindness Dolly brought the world.

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

Personally, if I were one of the Third Way ghouls who helped to hollow out labor, vilify the poor (especially when they’re black), and lay the ground work for furthering private profit over public good, I would shut the fuck up when a new era of young politicians attempted to revive my party.

Feels like the US has spent the last 5+ years on the verge of some kind of secular moral revival that keeps getting channeled into weirdo lifestyle puritanism

i am a professional editor. i come highly recommended. mind if i step inside your comments-on google doc for the NEOPETS RPG

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

every single day I stop myself from posting pictures of the shinzo abe gun

By now, asteroid 2026 Dreadstone has impacted the Indian Ocean, sparking a firestorm not seen on this planet since the K–Pg Extinction Event. Most people just want to be with their families. Here are three ways effective business leaders can leverage targeted KPIs to turn tragedy 😔 into triumph 💪

Getting real good at taking my Magic cards out, looking through them, and then putting them back without building anything.

Well, this is at least good news. Good on them.

Upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and made the Wilhelm scream when I realized they removed Launchpad from the OS.

Could fit a whole year of product in this bad boy.

Any Magic: The Gathering players out there still looking for a card catalog? Found this doubled sided hoss of a cabinet in VA.

not the step dad, but the dad who stepped up

Getting on my ‘this is exactly why print mags are great’ soapbox again I can’t even begin to work out how much awesome stuff I’ve discovered over the years because the magazine article on the thing I already loved was followed by one on something totally different I’d never have heard of otherwise

every AI advocate is like "look out specific industry, AI can now create a weird facsimile of what your specific industry makes, very poorly... looks like it's over for your industry"

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

PICARD: These “Borg” are a curious blend of organic and machine, a culture so sublimated to its own technology that the line between natural life and technological facsimile is porous and thin. RIKER: (nude in the holodeck) it’s insane they let us nut in the computer

Instead of building out green energy capacity or public transit, we’re gonna pay people to clean up the code wank from floors and walls of the vibe coding booths.

We need everyone back in the office because we want the serendipitous magic that only happens when you let humans get creative together and also we're replacing all of you with an AI machine that can only do things that it's seen done before

an actual gift of the internet age is how relatively easy it has become for non-wealthy people to maintain memory systems. both personal ones (photos, backups, searchable mail) and collective ones (wikis, archives, fan communities) the glee with which that is being destroyed right now floors me

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Age verification? I dialed into a BBS on a 2400 baud modem

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Saving money on printing ink and passing it along to the shareholders. Or something as equally as in service of entropy.

The lead singer of Bad Religion's name is "Brad Religion"

It’s done. Now what? Should I finally try to win the Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour?

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

Cracking packs.