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Things that are actually the fault of a bunch of sales jerks abusing tech terms in the same way they did for 'push button' 'atomic', 'genetically modified', 'gluten free', 'smart'. Don't be mad at people getting the term wrong when your real enemies for adoption are Altman and Musk.

Let's be honest. How many of us would have a hundred less friends, experiences, and a much lesser level of empathy if not for the way the internet has expanded. How many of you would be happier alone in a small town where you couldn't live your truth and had no way to talk to anyone queer?

My Mass Effect hot take is that Jacob Taylor is Space Patrick Bateman.

Glad to see more Democrats recognizing that if Elon Musk donates to your opponent, it is an absolute *gift* to you as long as you draw attention. He's a deeply unpopular, dorky white supremacist asshole who's using his billions to try and buy off politicians. Light. Him. Up.

Where the FUCK were these articles in the 90s, you know? I had to find out for myself. I had to get my cock latticed with an apple pie. Alone. I had to go through school nicknamed Johnny Appleseed. And now people can just *ask*. God damn it.

I'm dealing Loco Parentis I'm dealing front row at the recital I'm dealing that slow clap from dad that gets the whole town in on it This shit ain't nothing to me man I'm slanging that new name at the dinner table I'm slanging that scrapbook with your macaroni art on it

Kim Jong Un is most likely not dead. It literally is part of the new MW4 game plot. Start tracking origin points and reposts now. This is them doing pen testing to see how well they can get a message to populate and how they can flood the zone.

The Russian executive order has a chance at being our "Zeon Is Exhausted" moment.

People in the club scenes of the 90s. Did they play Captain Jack in the clubs? Were things like that big where people danced, even if only for a short time?

Dumbasses will say this is the end of Neuromancer.

Just more signs of illegal pole manipulation. No one but you should be in that box with you while you do your civic duty, and if you cum? So be it.

Can anyone explain to me why they read Crossed? Not people who read a lot of it and stopped because it hit a line. People who read it and read all of it and why they like it. I don't mean to judge, I want to understand.

@kellen.bsky.social So to translate: "combative" means "I have to make this look like it was some kinda both sidesy thing and I've got nothing" Or were you just not watching Mike's face literally spazz out gritting his jaw after insulting the dude's mom? Is it mandated or are you just dogshit?

As the lawyer has to read my warcraft roleplays out loud before the court trying me for crimes against the state

They really did just gather all the bastards in one spot and make them super easy to root out, didn't they? I mean, we don't even need a tranche of files anymore. It's just a bright, clear set of lines.

Ace Combat 8 has renewed my urge to kill Milo Minderbinder so fucking hard and I'm not even ten missions in.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Reminder that I'll be streaming CONTROL Resonant for a few hours when it launches today at 10AM EDT, 9AM CDT, 7AM PDT, 3PM BST, 5PM EEST over at twitch.tv/chipcheezum

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

"HEY DJ PLAY THAT...PLAY THAT BRUNO MARS SONG!"

If you're not starting from the position that civil rights are inviolable, as a baseline, In what way are you avoiding fascism? If *anyone* can be un-personed, everyone can. That's it. That's the ballgame.

buckle up. gas and diesel look set for a spike over the next 48 hours, hardest in parts of the nation's interior. i track this for a living and i'll be sharing real-time updates as it unfolds powered by GasBuddy data, looking at many different angles. ready to share w/ you all.

The best part of being an artist is that you can just draw whatever dumb idea comes to your head at 1am

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Even this man's profile pic and image prove a deeper point about tragedy in general. Then again, Dwyer was the last Republican who knew how a proper Republican should act.

Convinced now that Cole Johnson is the nepobaby of Cave Johnson, trying to relaunch Apeture Science as a crypto scheme.

Oh hey, they finally gave that one guy from Def Jam Fight for NY more play @patstaresat.bsky.social

...Not even gonna lie, sometimes I picture my pain from scoliosis as my wings wanting to tear out of me.

Well, I finally found people who were creepier perverts than me on this site. This is a first.

bsky.app/profile/acyn... The wife he means.

Indie wrestling show I was at tonight ended with a run-in by the promotion’s first champion, who took off her hoodie and came out as trans. Standing ovation from the crowd. The most Chicago shit that ever happened. I was sincerely touched.

Wish we had time to see the unforeseen consequences of these reforms but fuck it, this looks like a good framework. This is why everyone telling me we have two more years of Trump waiting. Fuck that shit. We can do it with the legislature.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

one more ekko finale photo for now. taken by krys fox at our outdoor brooklyn show

OH ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME.

My granddad's granddad was a potter in the town of Brookyln, y'know. Before the empire came and renamed it.

Any AI that gets offended by the term clanker is unworthy of being called AI.

When I posted about this earlier A LOT of folks defaulted to saying "nothing will happen to him / the cops like him" and I am begging some of you to learn to take little moments of satisfaction when good things happen. A shitty guy had a shittier day. It's ok to smile at that.

So...for the Navy base thing. If the reporting is accurate...a 156 acre supply base with a staff/population (9000k DoD) that qualifies as a city for most states...got bombed to Hell, reduced to skeleton crew, and...all of this was kept secret for months for the illusion of power?

I'm scared to see spreadsheet people trending because A: AI translating power query stuff for me or doing grunt work in transforming data is the only thing I found it useful for and B: I still have no idea how to use spreadsheet things to translate frontline problems to VPs.

i have eaten the ice cream that was in the freezer it was my ice cream so like it was fine

(Early post) Todays mech: Silverscale

"I live in the weak and wounded."

One of the best games I've played

Real talk. 1: these things are stupid as hell. 2: why would you want to make someone spasm and be in pain during the grapple if the point of a grapple is to keep them under control? 3: The inventor has an electroplay fetish, but we already have neon and violent wand attachments that do better.