And it's that or ads or a combination for Bluesky's future. The venture capital is going to dry up and they'll have to have a way to have an income or they'll cease to exist.

But at the moment, the developers are drinking the sweet VC teet. We're not their customers. Not yet. Maybe never.

The subscription model has to be the single greatest sin committed against the working class.

Like imagine if Bluesky was a single-purchase program. You went to a market place, you paid $70, and bam you had infinite access to Bluesky so long as enough people were buying the core product or paying for premiums to cover the server costs.

That's when the company cares about you.

This is the difference between tech bros today and software developers of yore. The old developers had to care about the users because to be a user was to be a customer. People purchased software packages. Between ads, venture capital, and whales, the users are the last thing anyone cares about.

I hope the next iteration of Star Trek has the courage to include all types of Vulcans: the comically robotic and aloof, those trying out to be in Mean Girls, the ones with gravitas who only appear in super widescreen, and the ones with deep emotional complexity.

10yo: I'm recording. Can you not talk to me while I'm recording?

And this was explicitly because some asshole was retweating, in support of, an account that liked to make posts like, "You can't even tell the truth about [oppressed indigenous group] anymore without people getting mad at you on the internet!" Huh. I wonder why?

Don't get me wrong: there are lots of shitty people in the world and lots of shitty governments, but you cannot extrapolate how shitty those entities/people are to entire ethnic groups.

If I see an account that makes posts with content like "the truth about [group of people]" as opposed to "the truth about [government/state]" that's an instant block from me.

Do not pretend your racism is anything but.

Holy shit that rules

New and final At the Gates album with Tomas Lindberg, The Ghosts of a Future Dead, is out this week. Bittersweet, but what I've heard of the album fucking rules.

This is the second time today Lithuania has come up.

My wife is making little sandwiches where the filling is a chicken nugget and the "bread" is pickled jalapenos. You could probably spear the whole thing and serve it as a little appetizer.

No one needs a life savings anymore.

Going to be another scorcher in Bangkok. Never thought I'd miss the rain.

Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%

10yo: A calf is just half a cow, right?

Like Bruce Dickinson is 67 and no one is saying he should hang it up, but Mick Jagger was that age in 2010 which is like 20 years after the joke was first made.

I was thinking yesterday how it was a running joke for a long time that the Rolling Stones were still touring despite their age but looking at the touring rock groups it seems they're the rule rather than the exception assuming most of the band is still alive and they don't loathe each other.

We've all fallen into a wiki hole and ended up somewhere unexpected but have you ever wanted to learn something but didn't know how to phrase the question but reasoned a broader but related topic might have a link that got you closer and so jumped into the hole? Did you get your link eventually?

I just saw two sparrows fucking in the road.

I have similar thoughts when I see people with Che Guevara shirts or tattoos. Makes me wonder how much people do it for style points but have no idea what the message is.

Photo: the Protomech horde finishes off the downed aerospace fighter

Photo: an overhead view of the battlefield. The center of the table is a three tiered hill with a downed Visigoth on it.

Photo: my Inner Sphere mechs advance from open desert to a small supply town.

Photo: a horde of Protomechs (orcs and gorgons) close in on the Visigoth

Photo: the Protomechs close the distance to the Visigoth while a Spartan and Rakshasa move on their flank

Simple game of Alpha Strike with the 10yo as the holiday comes to an end. Destroying the objective opposite your force (5 armor, 0 TMM) was worth 1 VP. End of turn 6, whoever had the most PV within 6" would score the winning VP unless the Visigoth (10 armor, 0 TMM) took 10 damage first.

Pro tip: don't decarb your weed in an air fryer.

Skeeter doesn't even rank

The scale in this movie is just all over the place.

Following on our dinosaur themed watch list, tonight is The Land Before Time.

Kid is outraged that they stabbed Yoshi.

What a terrifically strange film. They absolutely do not make movies like this anymore.