I should have brought my 3DS to the Femtanyl show like everyone else here 😔

why is Microsoft in space at all?

I cannot believe this but I miss Jira. I've gone two weeks without thinking in epics and stories.

imagine seeing this between the jackson trilogies and previous ventures!

@finnhoya.bsky.social have you heard of this LOTR adaptation? ^

I did more volunteer training today

in a way that problem repeats the Sokal affair at scale

in lieu or better yet in anticipation of a thread about books I've read recently, here is a post:
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

I countered my feelings of helplessness by attending volunteer orientation for Atlanta's Policing Alternatives and Diversion Initiative.

Important Cocteau Twins apocrypha.

my other fave is “you would have said this about the Industrial Revolution” yeah dude, I hope I would have vociferously objected to the mass death and immiseration from irresponsible forced use of barely-understood new technology by craven monopolists incapable of valuing human life in that era, too

Beehiiv and Ghost seem to be the popular alternatives

Asking to spare some cash in a society that deems you unworthy of life itself if you don't have one of those increasingly scarce & ableist living-wage jobs is not a scam. It's a solution to a scam.

They should be bullied? Guess what. They're being bullied. That's why they're asking for cash.

Our capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip

Furries have already achieved the dream of every shit silicon valley technology and in a more ethical and less cringe way

The metaverse: VRChat
NFTs: adoptable fursonas
Typing words into a text box and having art appear: commissions

a Financial Times screenshot containing the headline "Use more Al and video hearings to fix English courts system, report says" and the subhead "UK government is grappling with unprecedented backlog of 80,000 criminal cases" and the hashtag "UK crime" at the top (next to an "Add to myFT" button)

screenshot of post from @awesomonster with the text "you know what, sure, peggle make phone calls who gives a shit anymore" followed by an embedded screenshot of some peggle game asking for permissions with an Android OS dialogue box that says "Allow Peggle Blast to make and manage phone calls? [DENY] [ALLOW]"*

sure what could go wrong

putting your phone away before joining daily standup

happy to see Station Eleven is getting the appreciation it deserves

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someone pointed out yesterday this is likely due to the emails getting printed and then scanned in again later (however much time that means)

I legit clicked the article expecting music and got disappointed

I'm glad that I'd already stopped reading his stuff long ago (grew out of it), but last year definitely buried my appreciation of his work and all inclination to engage with any adaptations.

one of the supreme ironies of the current moment is that people who would still, to this day, chide you for not “denouncing Hamas” when talking about Gaza are now illegal, hostile combatants against the regime, just like Hamas. no one ever said the imperial boomerang didn’t have a sense of humor

Lord of the rings: Merry looks into the glowing palantir orb… and screams

“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”

the "problem" of "illegal" immigration disappears the second you stop thinking like a racist freak

seeing what the yanks are planning to do in Gaza you can understand exactly how the american and british empires directly inspired hitler and his plans in the east
you exterminate the natives, drive them into smaller reservations to slowly die off then you build roads and condos for the master race

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.