Thank you so much!! You're amazing and I appreciate you.

Also, I love that you got this one in the random draw. It's one of my favorites from the set.

> This is a 1930s moment, & Bluesky is choosing to host vile hatred. It is going down the same path as Twitter/X.

3/3

> *All* of these accounts are spreading bigotry, hatred & dangerous lies about vulnerable groups.
>
> It is NOT enough to just "block and forget", here's why: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1...

2/3

Quoted from social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11... :

> Bluesky has just started officially hosting and verifying dozens of accounts from Trump's regime including the Whitehouse, Homeland Security / ICE, the Department of War etc (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog...).

1/3

If you're among those ditching or considering ditching this site, you might be interested to know that I can be found on Mastodon at masto.hackers.town/@Rob_T_Firefly as well as on some other online junk via robvincent.net/contact/soci... .

Has this site stopped being up its own ass about human rights yet?

Details of what's going on summed up in a good thread on Mastodon: social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/1... (click "show more" on the post once it loads.)

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"Gee Davey, did you get those glasses from... God?"

Maybe they feel the jiggling around will catch the light better and draw people's attention. "Look at me! I have overpriced sparklies!"

I've got around another year and a few months to go after you, and I'm going to celebrate that particular chunk of carefree youth by treating myself to a new pair of compression socks.

If you see this, post a bridge.

Hackers Teenage hackers fight for their lives after they’re framed for stealing millions of dollars.

Taking a very accommodating @gilahava.bsky.social to a screening of #Hackers in Brooklyn this evening. #NYC area folks, ping me if you'd like to go with!

www.bam.org/film/2025/cl...

#HackersMovie

so many of the small indignities of daily life come from us being denied the ability to tell a rich man in a tech company to fuck off. minesweeper has microtransactions. paid services have ads. the opt out says maybe later. the drive thru is a broken chatbot. your car is an ipad. fuck off! fuck off!

Capitalism colonizes the brain and limits the scope of imagination into a ledger.

Did they just ask the jankiest AI they could boot up to throw something together in a vaguely Drew Struzan style?

Fascists hate non-white people, Jews, Roma, the LGBTQ community, democracy, socialists, dissenters, liberals, those with disabilities, political opponents, etc., etc., etc.

Antifa hates fascists.

It's really that simple.

Photo of the display window at a botánica. Incongruously sitting among various statues of Jesus, Mary, and various saints is what appears to be a toy saxophone.

Hail to Saint Saxophone.

A "Scumbag Steve" advice animal meme showing a jerky-looking guy with a blank expression, wearing a scraggly beard, a furry coat, and a sideways baseball cap. The top text reads: "Check out my new post calling out those who allow modern fascists and neonazis to thrive online." The bottom text reads: "It's on my Substack."

#AdviceAnimal #ScumbagSteve #Substack

tubes

Reminder that this is murder, and nothing but. It is not legal, and I really hope that everyone involved in these operations, from planning through to execution, end up being prosecuted for these murders.

Someone said the Star Wars and Marvel fans would never cancel their Disney subscriptions.

Imagine real oligarchs and nazis staying in power because folks they're oppressing won't stop buying stories about imaginary oppressed people defeating imaginary oligarchs and nazis from their own oppressors.

[citation needed]

There was a Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers tape which enjoyed a long residence in my dad's car.

I still listen to that album now and then!

Not for funny reasons, though. Acrimonious divorce proceedings can easily take that long, especially in situations where abuse and mental illness are factors.

ah, well

Success!

The "Off The Hook Overtime" experiment on Google captioning censorship is now complete.

Off The Hook Overtime 2025-09-17 YouTube video by Channel2600

Hey, we're live over here now!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsOF...

This is the last "Overtime" for a few weeks due to scheduling issues, but it will return soon.

Hey, we're live on @offthehookradio.bsky.social!

I assume one would have needed three mortgages and a lottery win to buy the necessary drives and gear to archive such things to any significant extent back then. Imagine the massive collection of blurry 1990s MPEG files!