baba yaga bear

baba yaga bear

@thatdobson.bsky.social

I write and do other things but I’m mostly here to have the weird fun convos about technology and people They // Them // Theirs

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Thin Ice opening with that Limp BIZKIT sample feels like I’m 16 getting my hands on the Exquisite Taste mixtape and I’m about to make trunk cassettes a three week hyperfixation. Actually, rapsky (is that a thing?) any good H-Town tapes I need to check out?

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A tough thing in explaining to people why having children is enjoyable is that all the bad stuff is very easy to explain (lost sleep, lost time, more sickness, less sex, etc. etc.) whereas most of the really good stuff whispers.

Bahahahahahahaha THATS WHAT BROKE THE SKIN?!?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump is BIG MAD about Obama saying the White House now looks like Saddam opened a Cheesecake Factory: "He's not a smart guy. He's not smart at all ... for you to say it's a Cheesecake Factory, that just shows why you were a lousy president"

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yeah the "testosterone makes you angry and violent" idea hurts trans men but another big reason to push back on it is we are taught that so that we excuse cis mens actions (even subconsciously) bc we think it's just a result of their hormones and they can't control it

Elitists don’t understand that people can love Cheesecake Factory without believing it’s the crème de la crème because elitists have deluded themselves to believe everything they consume is “THE BEST.” They think we take whatever slop we’re handed because they do.

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social

"The party left me. I used to be a Democrat, but know that Obama has made fun of Trump for making the White House look like a dictator designed an over-the-top chain restaurant I favor starving African children and bringing measles back"

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There was a fucking hole in our planet’s *atmosphere* Like a legit, no joke, “this will unravel our entire ecosystem” hole in the world, and then we fixed it by working together across national and political lines As a species we decided, “we will survive” Let’s do that some more

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

I misread this as “Blow him off,” and got really excited to read MbS’s catty reads of Kushner about how he just cannot with Jared

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is being conservative the new “punk rock”? of course not you fuckin dip shit

Not to be a conservative or anything, but I’ll say this as a veteran of a pissing war with a one eyed communist cat… It builds character. Can’t change what God made for ya. Gotta be greater than the smell.

there are only two genetic modifications we should to make to cats and dogs. one is to make them live longer, healthier lives, and the other is to stop cat piss from smelling like That

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Again I say, the scam economy is consuming the political will to fight authoritarianism.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Every attempt at eugenics renders the same terrible results, like, have you met pugs? But we all know what these two specific sociopaths are aiming for as proof of concept, right?

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

Ya know, I never really thought about it until this thread, but the financialization of the internet, and the internet becoming all things, is probably a contributing factor to the reduction of violent crimes. Like why smash and grab, or do an armed robbery when there’s $3M an agent can grab ya?

SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social

this is temporary and it will end. it's fine. we just need to not bungle it for the next year or three.

Like, if we’re looking materially here, why is anyone gonna risk their flesh for cash when you can make the avatars do it? That’s gonna be a big shift in personal philosophies that everyone should probably model moving forward, from threat assessment to hiring labor tbh.

Funko Pops are proving they need to be dragged before The Hague

Funko POP! News@funkonews.bsky.social

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Why do I imagine them debating wether they should engage in strikes the way two frat dudes argue about calling their dealer for a reup at 3AM “I’m just saying man a little bump and we’ll be GREAT” “But I have midterms in the morning” “Naw man that’ll be GREAT for midterms”

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

The Trump administration came “very close” to approving a new military strike against Iran on at least one recent occasion, citing several sources familiar with the discussions.-JPost

Tommy PeeTell is my new Drag King name

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.

It feels like there was a moment around COVID where a certain corner of the web’s “Talk shit and add nothing” culture became the totality of the internet. It’s like we made this our container for our rage in a time of powerlessness and a lot got hooked on that feeling.

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God I really need to watch the new Fielder or nothing will make sense for a while here, huh?

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

you do not "have to hand it to" the guy but he was right about the eggs. but not totally correct because that's why you drop the stupid fork and just use a damn whisk. sorry if this is more incoherent than my usual vagueposts but it's an important message for those who need to hear it

Just a whole generation who made it to being geriatric toddlers. Never once in their lives did they have a worse day than a dropped ice cream cone.

Politico@politico.com

“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?” Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.

This is the delivery of a woman who has 86’d her opposition at 3AM more times than you can possibly understand. AOC x Andy is the way.

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social

AOC in Detroit: "What is at stake is what it means to be an American."

FUN FACT: We have London Dry Gin because England tried to make this like they tried to taxidermy that tiger the one time, and had to load it full of sugar to make it drinkable. That caused too many deaths, they banned Gin in London, learned how to actually distill, and that’s why it’s Dry Gin.

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social

It’s Jenever Time somewhere

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Replying to @merovingians.bsky.social

the most confused maga guy in the world pulling the lever for abdul el-sayed bc he heard DSA was trying to kill democrats

To Add, it really does feel downstream of America’s ability (maybe cinema adjacent) to turn anything into an entertainment commodity.

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I think it’s awesome that some birds dropped out of residency in the last month.

Andrej Spiridonov@andrejpaleo.bsky.social

Whaaat? Flightless bird ("Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis... from southeastern China") in the Jurassic? Dude you literally just learned to fly and you are immediately dropping this superpower. Reminds me the story of limb loss in early tetrapods www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio

Honestly a bonkers take if you have even a drop of awareness of what Africa has been fighting back against in the past decade. Like, Benin just shrugged off a Russian backed coup less than a year ago.

m@keptsimple.bsky.social

proof that racism makes you hopelessly stupid

Sorry, I meant to say I don’t think all of Europe TODAY would win that conflict. In 1939 wiped off the map by Nigeria alone by noon just so they can brag about it to everyone else.

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I know that some people defend frats as a free association/anti-censorship/civil liberties kinda thing, and lemme tell ya: that's bullshit. you can nuke every frat from orbit and it will have zero impact on campus life, zero chilling effect on other clubs, and only piss off a handful of true morons

Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social

We’ve seen schools do this before. If this one-year party suspension doesn’t turn into a permanent ban, then it’s just a message to fraternities that they have true impunity. That even the worst, most violent behavior will result in a temporary slap on the wrist.

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Replying to @cdanby.bsky.social

Within an organization, you want to normalize hiring and promoting LGBT people. You don't want that to depend on individual "moral resolve" because trust me, there are a lot of cowards. You want it to be routine, built into the bureaucracy.