heard bluesky had some new AI thing, so i just came here to block it. ok see you in another 2 months or something maybe idk

weird how these people never think of being against capitalism and imperialism as transgression

wow, that’s a lot more than i realised!

seems like a recurring theme

i don’t think we talk enough about the audacity of america taking the word tomahawk from the people it colonised and using the name for missiles it uses when colonising elsewhere

hell, turn it into a ranking and gamify it. maybe they’ll start putting in some effort

most of it came from there originally and other places just followed along. it's like trickle down bigotry.

decades of american islamophobic propaganda have left a lot of people absolutely cooked

“Hi Jeff, it’s Tina. I’m writing to inform you that it’s time for your annual review…”

all your micropolar fluid are belong to us

as someone who edits these manuscripts for a living, i don’t even know where to begin with this

2 panel comic Panel 1 is titled “Client Feedback (2012) Red Guy sits at his desk typing on his laptop. There is a bubble on the right hand side of the panel showing his screen. A small text panel says “and the”. There is an arrow pointing to the bottom of the words with a correction box that reads: “Text is slightly misaligned. Please fix” Panel 2 is titled “Client feedback (2026) Red Guy is slouched on chair typing into his phone. His phone screen shows a panel of text that is complete gibberish. This time the correction reads “not alphabet but who give a fuck”

client feedback in the GenAI era

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

bluesky still doesn't even let us upload our own. it's the generic gif button or nothing

i mean, true. but that's just the thing. we still have computers, but we no longer care enough to do anything high effort, so we just stay on our phones instead.

if phantom menace had included a sleazy politician called marco rubio, we'd all have been like "yeah, that sounds like a typical star wars name"

the most thoroughly vindicated man in hollywood.

trade disputes and conspiracies ✔️

republic subverted over sex hangups ✔️

“sand people” killed, royalty indifferent ✔️

naive idiot casts vote for tyranny ✔️

villains with silly names like “dooku” ✔️

powerful clerical order screwing up ✔️

list goes on

we let ourselves get lazy, and that's why people use shit like chatgpt

i miss when internet people would make their own gifs, instead of just clicking a button and choosing a poorly made, badly encoded one that someone added to a library a decade ago

having sat on the floor next to a fridge at 3am eating ice cream on more than on occasion, they're not bad in a mh crisis

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

not exactly the safest travel destination rn

EVERYONE: but that event's in texas and it's dangerous for some people to travel there

ME: it's in america. hard pass.

But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”

and maybe gordon brown to say that housing prices aren't going to spiral out of control

just imagine making such a public confession that you don’t care about consent

still fascinated by the way this man looks like a lich from 1980s dnd artwork

somehow, the most mystifying thing here is the single quote marks in New York 'Times'

leg day workout, call that gluteusmaxxing

it always comes down to money and macho nonsense

in all seriousness, why the fuck is this guy still in any position of authority?