slapula

slapula

@slapula.bsky.social

Dad Platform Engineer Pragmatic leftist (everyone hates me) Misanthrope Language learner (🇺🇦/🇵🇱/🇧🇾) Dumpling enthusiast Wisconsin Born and Raised Honorary Chicagoan

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Replying to @faineg.com

I sometimes post well-tested, irresistible Tankie Bait (TB), like the below image, as a public service to the tankie-blocking community. This has been another successful run of the Tankie Trap system. All tankies will be humanely released into the shrubs, where we don’t have to hear them anymore.

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Sending this out to whoever needs to see it: It's okay if you read slowly, there's no great victory in being able to read quickly, everyone kind of has their own reading speed, and that's perfectly fine. I'm just really happy you're reading. I hope it gives you joy at any pace. Thank you!

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GOP Rep Thomas Massie: “Don’t fall for the fake Fox/GOP outrage. Two weeks ago the House passed a bill that greenlighted the transfer of Spanish territory to Morocco. Every Republican except me voted for it, but now THEY are acting shocked at the invasion.”

I regret buying into the hype around Mina the Hollower. It is too much of a souls-like for its own good. There's a good game somewhere in all this but it struggles to shine through.

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I cannot overstate how profoundly influential Space Ghost Coast to Coast was on my being. When I was a sullen teenager, it was Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and The X-Files that gave me a window into a weird world into which a weird kid like me would someday fit.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

there's also something so weird about this idea that what appeals to, say, someone in Baltimore won't appeal to say, someone in Detroit. like, every state has a few major cities, and those cities have more in common *with each other* than they do with their neighboring rural areas

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ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social

OpenAI is shutting down Sora and dropping video features from ChatGPT. Disney was previously said to be investing $1B, licensing 200+ characters across Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars & more for use in ChatGPT and Sora.

I'm pretty sure I'm the only one that didn't love Project Hail Mary (the book). The movie is a really good adaptation though and worth watching. I just... can't get over the fact that it's just a warmed over The Martian.

Exactly. If you have Imposter Syndrome, look that this guy and see how out of depth he is. This is what an actual imposter looks like.

Mike Rothschild@rothschildmd.bsky.social

Hegseth is in so far over his head he can't see daylight. This is a mediocre guy whose claim to fame was accidentally hitting someone with an axe on TV, and now he has to sell a war to an exhausted country that nobody can justify. He's scared, angry, and lashing out because he can't hide.

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"Americans prefer a car-dependent lifestyle." I can't tell you how much I hate this glib sentiment. The only way to determine someone's true, enduring preference is to give them full familiarity with their options. Americans have no familiarity with their options! They've only seen sprawl!

For the record, I have more contempt for these "Americans" than I have for Trump himself. They are indeed the worst of us and are a disgrace to the principles that this nation was founded on.

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The day after we put the final touches on issues #88-91 of “Swamp Thing”, news broke about the passing of Tatjana Wood, the original colorist on the series. Tomorrow, March 2nd, would have been Tatjana’s 100th birthday. Let’s raise a glass to one of comics’ originals.

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Fact Check: An immigrant doesn’t stand between you and a good job. A billionaire does. Pass it the hell on.

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its really exhausting the number of accounts who's bios say they're like 20, have a 🏳️‍⚧️ or 🏳️‍🌈 in bio or name, and then also have "Commie" in the bio and show up to say some wild tankie or worse antisemitic shit in your comments