lee 🎃

lee 🎃

@lee.ourand.me

Rider of two wheeled vehicles Slinger of pizzas Butcherer of 中文 RVA

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Putting rockets on a car and making it do a flip does not make it cool. It is still a car, and cars, by their very nature, are profoundly uncool. They are machines for stealing your soul. They are alienation machines.

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"We're tired of being called racist for being super fucking racist" is, in fact, an accurate representation of conservative thinking. They want all their ugly instincts & prejudices but they don't want any social disapprobation for them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance: "We were tired of being called racists for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier and poorer"

Took on my first little programming project in a while, building my wife a small website. Used Middleman (the Ruby static site generator)... holy moly what a pleasant experience. I originally reached for Hugo and just had a miserable time with version / theme incompatibility, getting I18n to work...

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Replying to @sky.skymarchini.net

"nothing can get worse" is one of those beliefs that is usually directly responsible for things getting worse

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yes. this exactly glonzo eats everything, it will eat what you care about too, you have to fight its acceptance because you cannot hope to control a rising tide of dumb mferism once it's there

hammerhead179.bsky.social@hammerhead179.bsky.social

Putting this down for later. I had an epiphany today. A reason to be extremely opposed to AI Data Center Glonzoism: When the Water Scarcity Crisis begins: People are going to blame AI instead of the true culprits (Cattle Ranchers.) "Why should I give up Beef when we can give up AI?"

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Amazing how many people over the last few years have moved from person I sometimes disagree with, to person I disagree with who is also unpleasant online, to genuinely bad person whose soul has warped beyond recognition. the politics of our times are like a solvent for decency.

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People are always telling me the tech guys need to take humanities classes like Peter Thiel didn’t study philosophy. Perrhaps the folks advocating this line of bullshit are maybe just sort of doing the same “the solution to the problem is that I should be paid” as everybody else. The issue is power!

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You could give Buddha $1M every single day from his birth (480BCE), continuing until today, and he'd still be less rich than Elon Musk.

X2Y@handle.invalid

SAM ALTMAN: “People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model … But it also takes a lot of energy to train a human. It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”

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Doing a deal to reopen a government that is using my tax dollars to fund an army that’s actively hunting my neighbors. Yeah I’d say I’m pretty done too.

Aaron Gray@asquaredgray.bsky.social

I don’t think I will ever give money to a Democrat again. We need a new left party.

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Replying to @jules.su

Call them: Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023 Fetterman (PA) No Point

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Mark Lemley@marklemley.bsky.social

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

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Usha Vance didn’t like her husband suggesting she needed to be fixed. She made him sleep on the couch but for some reason that didn’t work.

Gotta give it to Chip for being one of ~3 Republican politicians who correctly refer to the "Democratic Party" instead of the childish epithet "Democrat Party". I wish we could resurrect zombie Thomas Jefferson to listen to this dumb idiot and then dish out a litany of 18th century insults at him.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."

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[REPUBLICANS:] *the Democrat administration sicced the IRS on conservative nonprofits!* [INVESTIGATORS:] (*verify this did not happen*) … [REPUBLICANS:] *damn straight, we're siccing the IRS on Democrat nonprofits!*

Brad Heath@bradheath.bsky.social

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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"I don’t understand how being rich can make someone such a whore." So much of this going around. People who have secured the bag, with solid reputations in their fields, who you'd expect to know/do better, and yet. Simping for billionaires, or worse. officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

officialdavidcross.comMy Thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy FestivalI’ve been asked for my opinion on the Riyadh Comedy Festival and rather than answer the same question 23 times, I’ll just put this out here. Oh, and I should preface this with the fact that I was not ...