For EXTREMELY small servers like mine (a dozen users all of whom I've known for years), "verifying" user ages (to my OWN satisfaction) is trivial. But I have to assume any regs put in place won't be tailored for situations like mine, so I wonder what kind of "proof" I'd need to provide and to whom!

bluesky status page Some systems down We are investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos "We are experiencing further issues. We appreciate your continued patience"

fuck!! my reginos!!! my reginos are down!! god damn it, heather!! I said my reginos!!! you heard me!!!!

Portuguese comment from opagabrielo.bsky.social on a screenshot of my post of Trudeau & Katy Perry on a date saying "this is what teenagers in movies looked like during the iraq war"

a google translation of what they said: "The Fucked-Up Wreckage gets into so many wars that the people there refer to periods of time not as "the 2000s," but as "during the Iraq War." They also use "the Vietnam War" to refer to the 70s, or "the Gulf War" to refer to the 90s."

ok tea

Life is short and you really cannot afford to devote your time to cultivating petty grudges. It's best to let go and move on. that is why I'm asking you to forgive Jar Jar Binks. before it's too late

The doorway to a place called “the Bosworth” with a tagline “for those who know…”

Fuck... I don't think I know...

Unfortunately my brain is broken in the way where I immediately guessed where it was going. I just didn’t imagine what it’d feel like when we got there.

You can kiss a hundred boys in bars
Crash another plane to stop the feeling
You can say that you were born in the dark
Make a new excuse, another stupid reason

Good luck Bane,
Well good luck Bane
You’ll have to break the Bat just to stop the feeling

Shin Godzilla too. Great triple feature imo

Memes image of Aragorn and Theoden with undercuts and earrings saying "Chat, the beacon notification just hit. Gondor's asking for a carry" and "Say less."

Was feeling melancholy, but then I dug up Theoden with an undercut from my vault of memes

I thought I didn't want this, but if Coogler's attached then why the hell not

in honor of good friday, here's "Three Versions of Judas", the Jorge Luis Borges story that broke my fucking brain in half as a very serious little Catholic kid southerncrossreview.org/49/borges-ju...

An image of Jedi Master Ki Adi-Mundi in front of a stained glass window depicting the Last Supper of Jesus and his disciples. The caption says "Happy Maundy Thursday from Ki Adi-Mundi"

that's my secret cap. i'm always fool

this show was weirdly formative for my music tastes

specifically, an unofficial "smallville soundtrack" I torrented including lots of tracks that appeared in the show as well as some that I'm certain never did, but got thrown in the torrent for mysterious reasons

"we were given soulless advertising slop as kids too and we turned out fine!" ok, but, we didn't though. we didn't turn out fine at all. wait, do you think we turned out fine? oh god do you think you turned out fine? do you think you're doing fine? that is so fucked up. I'm so sorry. you poor thing.

happy 20th anniversary to the only good april fooks prank: the 2006 "Buddy FM" prank by the Providence based alt rock radio station WBRU

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBRU#Bu...

All right chat it’s April and today we’re in the dead lands breeding lilacs, I’m gonna be running a new kind of build mixing memory with desire, the strat is to stir as many dull roots as we can with just spring rain

me whan that Aprille with his shoures soote:

(Happy excited face)

me whan the droghte of march hath perced to the roote:

(Angry disgusted face)

God, what have you done?
You’re a modernist poet
And you ate all the plums
Oh William
I’m just having lunch
In the icebox you saved them
I’m sorry they’re gone
Down at the
Cold juicy plums
I’m gonna keep on snackin on the

by "built from the ground up to be a more toxic alternative to twitter" I'm referring to pre-musk twitter and the fact that Bluesky was an initiative within that organization to build a version of the product that was more aligned with blockchain libertarianism

and the user community just set about the business of performing a less toxic alternative to twitter, and doing a pretty okay job, and assuming (against all evidence and against the loud warnings of weirdo cranks like me) that the people making the site were aligned with them

I think the core problem with bluesky is that it was build from the ground up to be a more toxic alternative to twitter and then it launched during a period when people were looking for a less toxic alternative to twitter and people just saw it and said "hey an alternative to twitter!" and showed up

this website is like being in a time loop except instead of the whole world resetting, it's just people's opinions about the people who run this site. everyone goes to bed fully aware that jay graber is exactly like every other social media ceo, then wakes up in the morning having forgotten

setting aside the question of culpability and individual morality, the mere existence of a class of people with wealth more than ten thousand times the median is a total disaster. obviously!! this would be true even if some of the individuals in that class were, like, total sweetie pies

the answer will always be “Its bad to demonize billionaires. I’m cool and nice and have a good heart and my friends are like that too” which is entirely beside the point. Do not let them say that with no pushback. You should be decommissioned and returned to the journalism factory for refurbishment

If you’re a journalist interviewing a billionaire and you ask them something like “lots of people are mad at billionaires. Do you think that’s fair to billionaires?” then that’s journalistic malpractice. I think they should revoke your journalist badge and make you turn in your journalism gun

Actually, “Starfox” is the name of the game. The character’s name is “Starfox’s Monster.”

as someone who can never fully rid harry potter from my bones, my compromise position is to ignore all hp media and think "maybe I'll check it out after she's dead"

fuck jo rowling. don't watch that show. don't engage with it at all. don't give views/impressions to promotion for it

I'm gonna guess like 18