joshuag

joshuag

@joshuag.com

Internet crank since '95

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I didn’t grow up dirt poor, but I will say that I regarded Cheesecake Factory as a restaurant where rich people ate. Same with Red Lobster. In general, my town was depressed economically. The “rich” folks drove new Accords. I didn’t see even a BMW in person until my late teens.

Is it bad that it’s on my bucket list to go to a Cheesecake Factory? I’ve never been in my life and I’m curious. Same with the Cracker Barrel. Their ubiquity seems inescapable, and yet, somehow I have.

Got the duo. So far, exceeding expectations. I wish the outside screen were the same texture as the inside. Too many apps not updated, so high jank factor. I’m living like an android user. The crease is both more noticeable than I expected *and* less annoying than I expected.

It is a very manageable thickness folded up (thinner than I expected), and is delightfully thin and expansive unfolded.

This is borderline psychopath behavior

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

this is fucking appalling. i already knew james dolan (who owns the knicks and madison square garden) was a douche but this is next-level. www.nytimes.com/athletic/771...

Man. I hated the Harden trade when we made it. I hated when we resigned him. This is going to be a long-ass season watching his bum ass set new turnover and missed fg records

Trump dying before the midterms would be the only thing that could save the republicans. Which means it will happen.

As an American, it breaks my heart to see this, but I can completely understand because I feel the same way. Our comportment on the world stage - and domestically - has been shameful.

Marcel Dirsus@marceldirsus.com

The US is still important and powerful, of course, but I no longer see it as this unique actor we're tethered to through history and culture and shared experience. It's just another big, oftentimes adversarial power we need to manage. America is becoming more normal, in a way. It's sad

Oh hey, looks like I called it.

joshuag@joshuag.com

Unless he enters the war on the side of Russia, which he will. And a feckless congress will allow him. This administration must be removed from power and its participants imprisoned.

I’d rather they cease being shitheads, but this is an acceptable consolation.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

“I’ve checked out.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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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.

Amy "Thunderjam" Chase@amythunderjam.bsky.social

We all know the "Viggo broke his toe" story but what's another movie fact you're personally compelled to bring up every time without prompting? For me, it's the fact that Robin Tunney is wearing a wig in The Craft because of having just shaved her head to save her job filming Empire Records.

The lesson from the Cleveland Browns is that rape pays. Don’t let you children watch that trash.

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Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: nom nom nom gimme dat seed corn i have to eat all the seed corn bsky.app/profile/twil...

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i sympathize with claude because this is an exact, pitch-perfect simulation of what it is like to text boomers

cee@cee.wtf

Trying to get jev to drive Claude code

Yeah, you lost your arm in a bear attack, but have you ever craved the spicy chicken sandwich that Wendy’s no longer makes?

It’s lame because there is no universe where this survives to production.

Alex Hern@hern.bsky.social

do think there's a danger of looking at extremely cool shit like a car driving upside down then doing a kickflip before landing, and convincing yourself it's actually lame because the guy funding it is a white supremacist

Oh my god. I just realized that it’s “Camper Van” Beethoven, and not Camper Van Beethoven where Van Beethoven is the surname. My whole life has been a lie.

Honestly bullshit that Garfunkel doesn’t get the run that Paul Simon does. Graceland et al were great, but would be nothing without the S&G catalog before it. My man crushed just as much as Simon did.

Honestly bullshit that Garfunkel doesn’t get the run that Paul Simon does. Graceland et al were great, but would be nothing without the S&G catalog before it. My man crushed just as much as Simon did.

The only evidence I will cite is just listen to how flat The Paul Simon Songbook is without the funkel.

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Jenna is furious when she sees Tracy has the same animatronic bird in his office that a local store refused to sell to her. Turns out the clerk had told him it wasn't for sale, which Tracy thought meant he could take it for free. Jack has Kenneth sneak the bird back to avoid a scene.

Anybody else having issues w/ github's CSP right now? I can't watch any of my actions atm

Get out of my baseball game, you bug-eyed white nationalist. I’m not downloading your gambling app.

Unless he enters the war on the side of Russia, which he will. And a feckless congress will allow him. This administration must be removed from power and its participants imprisoned.

davidrlurie@davidrlurie.com

This is almost certainly a Putin scheme to get Trump to further pressure Ukraine to stop its highly successful strikes on Russian refineries. But Trump has few cards to play on Putin's behalf. Having abandoned Ukraine, he has little leverage over Ukraine. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump is right for the wrong reasons about H1-B. I’ve worked at companies where it’s been used to find talented, but by no means sui generis, individuals and keep them chained to the organization as, effectively, indentured servants. H1-B has been abused, but Trump is just racist.

I gotta say, as far as it goes, I’m not crazy about the “load the bags for Murakami” strategy the guardians are employing here.

I don't like to post "I hate it" takes, but it was so disrespectful of my time that I need to. Blue Prince sucks, ya'll. There are people that are absolutely ride or die for this thing, but they also, apparently, have hundreds of hours of spare time to burn, waiting for an RNG to do its thing

This would, unironically, be great, but we need a higher trust and cohesion society to make unattended commerce work. We are, on average, a pack of selfish cowboys.

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social

We really need to get Japanese vending machines over here man. American vending machines suck so bad. I need like one of these on every street corner.