dhuartson: Don't let anyone talk you out of spending $15 on a new hobby. That $50 will be the best $400 you ever spent.

This is not wrong.

it's true, everyone posting on Bluesky in English is being paid by the CIA. hoping my check shows up soon as I was promised!

I got Rocky a small dome so the earth atmosphere doesn’t hurt him

don't we all, soybean

AR/VR glasses that is designed to physically plug into a Mac for power/processing, none of this "standalone" nonsense with a locked down OS and uncomfortably large/heavy headset. My god what I would give for that...

like to add ® and ’ any time I submit online forms because I know that some developer is going to see it and wonder if they have a bug

Nice! I've been wanting a telescope for a while, my uncle also has a Celestron and it seems to be pretty solid (though none of the electronics), so will keep them in mind. Thanks!

Whoa! What telescope do you have?

Putting the "ALL" in allosexual, maybe some of them can't get off without police brutality?

I'm a big fan of the So Delicious cashew nut milk ice creams. I hate coconut unfortunately so that does limit the options a bit.

Ooof, these people are the worst. Well-deserved block.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz

From what I've heard, John Ternus sounds like an excellent pick--an engineer and product guy. Looking forward to what's to come!

I'm assuming Apple's product roadmap is pretty well set several years out so it'll be some time before we see any real differences, but...I am hopeful this will be good.

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

Don't let the payphone out of its prison!

https://www.theonion.info/

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com #ArtificialIntelligence systems increasingly shape and permeate our mentality and social environments. Like every great historical transformation, this too calls not only for technical competence, but also for a humanistic formation capable of making visible the logic behind economics, embedded biases and forms of power that shape our perception of reality. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 91K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 209K Views

Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex X.com When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth. 1:31 PM • 4/17/26 • 696K Views

Pope Leo on AI:

“Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses.”

This short thread is worth reading:

friends don't let friends have friends

Capybara?

Cheese caches are critically important for any apocalypse-prep scenario.

Wait wait I havent told you about the best part! Disney just fired 1000 of their employees, mostly artists, and replaced them with AI that copies their art. What a time to be alive, fellas!

Bwahaha!

timeline cleanse :3

gnomescaping

This video of a Ukrainian Yak-52 crew taking down drones with a shotgun is incredible, but the music is deeply, and profoundly inappropriate. There was really only one option. So I've fixed it.

Donald Trump post "The U.S.A. is the “HOTTEST” Country in the World right now. Just a short time ago, under Sleepy Joe Biden, IT WAS DEAD, LAUGHED AT ALL OVER THE WORLD!!! But not anymore - Nobody’s laughing!!! President DJT"

Trump slowly evolving into dril

That’s stupid thing to say. I was clearly mad from the start of this thread. I didn’t suddenly get mad when your dumb ass showed up.

Exactly one year ago today:

Bluesky has activated the Emergency Pervert Filter, which makes the site basically unusable for known perverts. This filter was activated hours ago. Anyone struggling to use the site should notify their local police. Thank you!