OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG

OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG

@ilovesoup223.bsky.social

Located in DC; burdened with opinions.

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OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG reposted

GOP does nothing but gin up culture wars. Meanwhile: — GOP slashed SNAP benefits to 5+ million Americans, forcing them to turn to food banks. — Trump's tariffs and war spurred inflation, making it more expensive to eat at The Cheesecake Factory. Prices are now ~13% higher than when he took office.

If you’re using AI to mock up a physical product you want me to buy (especially food) rather than showing me a fucking photo of the product, I’ll assume the actual product is garbage every single time. I’m buying a real item, show it to me.

Ian Malcolm@ianmalcolm.bsky.social

Particularly fond of the ol’ Tiger Prawns…

One time I was in an Airbnb with 4 other friends and we had to not just strip the beds but wash and dry every bedding set we used. Checkout was 11am and the washer/dryer was so small it could only handle one set at a time. We had to get up at 7 and we still almost got charged for late checkout.

Caroline Haskins@carolinehaskins.bsky.social

Airbnb is banning its hosts from making guests do things like “stripping the bed, taking trash offsite, or washing and putting away dishes.” The hosts....are not taking it well: www.wired.com/story/airbnb...

Jesus Christ. Do you also worry about real estate agents who are uncomfortable selling to black people? Bosses who feel uncomfortable hiring women? Your friends are bigots.

Florid Man@humintel.bsky.social

That's great. What about the women that would be uncomfortable sharing a restroom with a trans woman? Because that's still most of the -extremely progressive- women I know. (I don't know any MAGA women)

I’m sorry folks but if you don’t like something you are allowed to just not like it. Doesn’t have to mean the thing you don’t like is an affront to society and secretly The Worst Thing Ever. It’s giving “what if I don’t like beans”

Every single accusation…

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.

OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG reposted

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

The original is abhorrent, but she’s not been on the left for many years now. Also it’s funny how liberals will cherry pick the racist ramblings of a leftist-turned-fascist, but will ignore other successful and reasonable “scumbag left” vets like Stavros or Hasan

Jane Coaston@janecoaston.bsky.social

I'm not saying every "dirtbag leftist" was and is an amoral garbage bag, but I'm not not saying that.

Get rid of it!!

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG reposted

hakeem jeffries should be in front of a microphone blasting the regime for unleashing its security forces on a member of congress under his leadership.

Mr. Dependable@mrdependable.bsky.social

The leader of House Democrats really should be front and center on this

Will literally does this on a weekly basis. He embodies every problem he describes on here. Criticism and new information send him into a spiral, he are confidently wrong on subjects he knows nothing about (he decides what he wants to believe), he encourages more pile ons than he receives.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

The key change in the modern info ecosystem, from the consumer/audience point of view, is how readily it expects you to decide WHAT YOU WANT TO BELIEVE AND FEEL, and then find information sources that will deliver that to you exactly.

No no I get it now. I need this $15000 bird. Starting a gofundme

Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social

Imagine if I had told you, even just five days ago, that Kelly Clarkson would be publicly battling a store in Brooklyn over a mechanical bird named Molly. You wouldn’t have believed me.

Will says “don’t pile on people” and “don’t cherry pick posts or save old bad posts” and then will encourage all of that stuff as soon as his precious ego is bruised. It’s not a “derangement” - a favorite MAGA meme - it’s strongly disliking a confidently wrong asshole with a massive following

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

I mean wtf is going on here

Why do elite universities continue to accept individuals bent on their destruction? Or worse, all of our mutual destruction?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Vance: "Some of America's most elite universities bring in foreigners to undercut wages of American residents. There are 9 universities in particular we believe merit an investigation. Those are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburg, UC Davis, Cal Tech, Arizona State, and MIT."

I have to imagine 99% of Xbox’s fortune this year comes from Sony fucking up constantly rather than “successful reinvention”. A true “do nothing, win” situation

Mat Piscatella@matpiscatella.bsky.social

“We’re making the right decisions to reinvest in the business, after an all-time low, we’ve started to return to growth, more than 2 to 3 times what we were" People realize this is a nothing statement that says nothing, right? Right?

Beck Bennett was PERFECT as launchpad

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

A new ‘Darkwing Duck’ series has been greenlit for Disney+. Mark Hamill will voice the titular character, with Seth Rogen voicing Launchpad McQuack, Lizzy Caplan as Gosalyn Mallard, and Lilimar as Duckie.

The pseudo-intellectual blind insistence that nothing of value can be ascertained through our daily lives or experience is just as dangerous as the anti-intellectual yokels who insist “commen sense” is all you need to understand the world. Stancils and Rogens, smug, often wrong, allergic to nuance.

adonis (and cait)@cait.bsky.social

source????

As Newsome is not on the ballot, it’s fair to assume the whole site can come together and say FUCK THIS GUY

Frances Larina@franceslarina.bsky.social

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

Welcome to Maine! Your choices for leadership are corrupt coward, murderer/rapist, and dad. It’s anyone’s guess who wins

ProPublica@propublica.org

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

Just finished “The Outer Worlds.” It was ok. Inconsistent art style, surface level characters, short for a game comparable to the Fallout series or even Skyrim, mid humor, ugly environments. But lots of decisions to make and ethical puzzles to suss out, fun gameplay loop, and an anti corporate bent

No, that’s not the question. The question is why are you so militantly insistent that it does think. My guess? Chatbots are famously compliment machines. It follows that the easiest to trigger person online has been charmed by Claude or GPT and now thinks they’re people. Many such cases.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

The question is: can AIs think? Do they have intelligence? You might say "This is a silly question" but it's a question that people have often asked, in the context of trying to differentiate us from animals, and then from machines. Given recent developments, seems reasonable to ask it again.

The blockbuster model needs to die in the games industry first many reasons, but towards the top is it’ll shut these assholes up. Smaller budgets and reasonable expectations mean you don’t need chud money to stay afloat

TheGamer@thegamerweb.bsky.social

Double Fine's decision to cast Erika Ishii has sparked harassment and abuse online, prompting the studio to shut down replies.

OctoBERNESE MOUNTAIN DOG reposted

See here how The Stance has entered his body and his mind. The Stance infests him. The metamorphosis is complete

ceej@ceej.online

His body yearns for The Stance even as his mind rejects it. I am confident we will see it soon.