This is my fun account. I'm here to get silly and take a road trip through strange times.
Here to talk about weird games and books with weird people on a weird website π
Pfp alt text: an angry red car. Credits to user roland81 on openclipart.com
Random thought on my silly car account. Was listening to Christmas songs for ~snowy solstice vibes and Sufjan Stevens' cover of Amazing Grace came on and there was a verse that just kind of hit me in my desperate need to savor the weekend and escape my work life
It was comforting but also sad. As I count down the hours before i go to a job that's fine but I don't really enjoy and am not paid especially well for the idea of a break that just keeps going sounded blissful. No counting down the hours.
Anyway didn't think I'd be saying anything so dumb by the end of this as "literal heaven sounds nicer than capitalism" but here we are. So I'll leave you with a happy solstice, an appreciation for pretty hymns, and an earnest plea to organize your workplaces <3
Random thought on my silly car account. Was listening to Christmas songs for ~snowy solstice vibes and Sufjan Stevens' cover of Amazing Grace came on and there was a verse that just kind of hit me in my desperate need to savor the weekend and escape my work life
It was the whole "we'll sing your praise 10,000 years and have no less time than when we first begun" verse. I think of my weekends in terms of the amount of time I have left before work. So this idea of like "wow we've been singing and shit for awhile now and guess what we get to do it forever"
on βWonderful Christmastime,β Sir Paul McCartney set out to make a timeless christmas classic and also to figure out what every button on his synthesizer did, and he absolutely succeeded at one of those things
My latest labeler is finally working!
What it shows for each politician
- 3 labels for the top corp donators
- 3 labels for the top industries that donate to them
Subscribe to this labeler to be more aware of the interests our politicians represent π
bsky.app/profile/us-g...
There are very few far right accounts on BlueSky.
So if you block the likes of Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Laurence Fox, GB News etc. as soon as they show up, they'll find it very hard to gain traction.
(They're counting on the network effect of YOUR outrage. Don't give them the satisfaction.)
After a near strike by Philly area transit workers, PA Gov. Shapiro has secured an additional $153 million from federal highway funds for public transportation.
These funds avoid a nearly 30% fare hike.
Instead a 7.5% fare increase for SEPTA riders will go into effect on Dec. 1.
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"Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers"
π¨ACTION NEEDED: H.R. 9495 includes a poison pill provision that is a serious threat to nonprofits. This bill would remove due process and hand over considerable power to future administrations.
Join us in urging Congress to vote NO on H.R. 9495!
πbit.ly/STOP9495
I appreciate all of you who use the Alt-text description for the images you post. As a blind dude I feel so much more included here.
For those of you who forget:
Did you know thereβs a reminder in Settings/Accessibility to toggle on & then it wonβt let you post image without Alt-text.
Thanks ππ
Dear people of America: *this* is the kind of stuff you shouldnβt say in response to the MΔori people and the US. You have Native and Indigenous people here, working *relentlessly* with our own practices and medicines that never go viral or get uplifted bc this culture refuses to give us the chance.
From the Gee I May Regret This Department, we'll be celebrating #BlueSkyMonday on Monday Dec 2, by giving book recommendations (personal & general) & all of them will be 10% off! If we end up getting a TON of recommendation requests we'll catch up over the week. Woo!
If a 22 year old tells you the earth is flat, it's not clear to me that "actually it's round and here's the evidence" is a better strategy than "lmao you fucking loser."
(I am not a paid advertiser or a bot. I just really fucking like dropout. It is a comedic salve for the weary soul)
(Open to being paid since I'm saying stuff like this anyway though π€·)
A short summary of my first day on bluesky.
Half of the discover feed, breathing down my neck menacingly:
"Do you... Do you have a LIBRARY CARD YET?!!?!?"
(i love it don't stop)
Coming over to #bsky because I feel like its a thoughtful approach to social media with openness to... well... openness and decentralization.
Gave #Mastodon a shot for awhile but felt it lacked user mass/momentum. VC/crypto funding here still makes me a bit nervous tho. Anyone in the same boat?
Realizing that having this as my second post might be a bit of shouting into the void but will drop a couple hashtags to reach some fellow void-dwellers.
#socialmedia#opensource#bluesky#THEGREATMIGRATION
Playing Mad Max on Steam Deck is great, but feels uncomfortably close to practice for whatever world we live in 10+ years from now π¬
#gaming#climatechange#steamdeck#is10yearsoptimistic#madmax