*whispering* this is the performance of public virtue and should be feted

people saying The Odyssey looks inaccurate to the period are being really insensitive. you do know Homer was blind, right?

how’s this one sitting? 😭😭

@lbellomo.bsky.social hey girl heyyy

@richardkadrey.bsky.social could we connect over DM or email? I completed my Kickstarter reward survey 3 months late and I’d like to speak to your manager (jk) but more importantly there’s something you inspired I’d love to share.

I have been listening to the audiobook over the past few weeks and loving it so much.

people are endlessly fascinated by the idea of a ghost in the machine, and calling LLM "artificial intelligence" invites the notion that there is a mind there, rather than a magic 8-ball of plagiarism

Makes one wonder whether Frank Herbert was trying to make this point with Duncan Idaho or just mashing up Scottish/Irish names…

Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it

Klout even more so... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klout

One of those free coupon books for all the local businesses provided by the chamber of commerce or maybe a punch card for a bar crawl…

The L train I’m on is exclusively saying that the next stop is Bedford Ave. If that isn’t a specific type of hell, I don’t know what is.

every time society tells me to get in the robot it’s just the mri machine and it sucks but it always makes more pictures of angels

Funniest thing I’ve heard about today is normies seeing the Twitter app change to a black X icon and deleting it because they assume they got malware

Me living by the sword: Swords rule
Me dying by the sword: Ugheueghhh

I meet a lot of people who think this about just like friend groups and social situations, frequently accuse others of cliquish behavior or whatever and you're like "no we're not in a clique you just suck!"

screenshot of AP article headline that reads: Biden’s dog Commander has bitten Secret Service officers 10 times in four months, records show

innocent!

Awesome! This is giving me SHOUTcast vibes in the best way.

My self-hosted streaming channel is at 20 simultaneous viewers right now, and our servers are doing great. Could you do me a favor and hit up https://live.retrostrange.com right now, share this, and watch for a few minutes? Let's stress test!

We are ad-free, tracker-free, surveillance-free.

It’s crazy that Gardasil is an HPV vaccine and not an LOTR sword

have been mostly off this app dealing with other bullshit as the latest reckoning took shape, but critical support to everyone fighting to make it a viable platform for those harassed, demeaned and marginalized on all the others. refusing to let the issue go is the best and only strategy

When the twitter mutual doesn't follow you back here

reconnecting with my twitter mutuals

First day on BlueSky?
Here's what you do. You walk right up to the biggest pervert in the yard and you affirm them. You affirm the shit out of them. People leave you alone if you exude needy intimacy.

There's not enough drama on here, they should give everyone a myspace style top 8 to stir up some shit