I was bummed about the recent surge of bot accounts and boomer AI slop posts here making bluesky feel like facebook. Then I realized…

this is a new opportunity to find and like people who are vocal against generative AI! And an opportunity to block slop pushers! Thank you all. Fuck gen AI.

pixel art sketch of a gloomy looking landscape wit big grey clouds above. on the hill in the middle sit two little white houses in a strip of light

random photo study wip cos i got nothin else

I live in an apartment.

Today, a boomer joked that since I don’t like my job, I must not want to work. I objected to their assertion, stating that i like working, yet i loathe having to ‘earn a living’.

An out of touch millennial chimed in with, “You don’t need to. Just get a mortgage and make passive income.”

Looks great!
I feel you on “correcting the correction of a correction” 😆
Glad you’re having fun with it! That stage causes me to pause a lot

I think they should make a Pokémon game where you play as a Slowpoke and all the insane shit in the canon is going on in the background but you are totally oblivious to it and it is only relevant to you insoafar as it impacts your mission objective, which is always “find a safe and quiet nap spot.”

I wish everyone contributed more to the social aspect of political awareness. Not just during election time.

So many want to ignore it to “keep the good feelings” or “not bring down the vibe”.

But the vibe will be gone if all of our rights are taken away. We all have to care.

I paid $126 from my last paycheck to the feds. They bombed children, bought warehouses to convert to concentration camps, fielded more masked armed thugs, and subsidized data centers.

I did not get healthcare coverage, cheaper utilities or groceries or gasoline. They did not represent me.

A crow whistles to itself on a bright winter day. It's scratching at the snow with its foot. It sees something blue and plastic sticking out of the snow and says "Hello what's this". It reaches to pick it up with its beak and yanks it out with a "shing!"

The thing is revealed to be a blue bic pen. The crow holds it triumphantly above its head. There is a magic light emanating from the pen which is creating a blue crosshatching effect on the sky.

The crow holds the glorious pen and the words "I AM ARTIST" frame the image.

The Artful Corvid #oldknees

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.

They won't only be for brown and Black people.

The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.

The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

Ending this operation is not enough.

We need justice and accountability. That starts with independent investigations into the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, economic restitution for businesses impacted, abolishing ICE, and the impeachment of Kristi Noem.

Hooray!!! Welcome to sweet potato appreciation club! We’re glad to have you 🫶

I just keep watching it disappear.

Our free press.
Our right to assembly.
Our freedom of speech.
Our right to due process.
Our right to free and fair elections.
Our protections from illegal search and seizure.
Our private data.
Our warrantless entry protections.

All of it disappearing.

Hey girl!

Just know that in my life of strife, your voice and words carry me through to the next moment in a way which is deeply appreciated. Life is scary and hard. Sometimes i cant see ahead and the burdens are too much. But you’ve helped me past those days into another. Thank you sincerely

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

The country i loved never existed. It was always a fantasy and hope in my mind. Each day under the boot and rifle of an authoritarian regime drives that dream further from my mind.

I hope the country we create from the ashes is better than the shadow either of us loved

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.

Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

He was not a true friend. Your hair looks lovely.

I suspect women are the key to navigating our way through this era intact. Media targeting men, and the nature of our fractured reality, make it very hard to pierce the male ego formed to protect their peace. Men can’t easily. Women can shatter it

Alternate: Login error 47 - this privileged public information is restricted. Please use your Kalshi account login, or self facing camera for whiteness check before accessing details of your federal terrorist

Out of touch rep struggles, fails to address murderous crime spree. “Justice mail-in rebate” bill dead on arrival

I am living this now. It is cascading into more of it. Each meeting starts with thanks, apologies, and the clear understanding that I DONT WANT TO DO THIS BUT NO ONE ELSE IS. Exhausting. Draining more energy than it maybe deserves. But again, no one else is stepping up. So i guess i get the target

Mr. Takei,

When you regain control of your account, please consider removing this post. You have stood for LGBTQ rights and representation for years, and I don’t believe you want to make trans people look worse, especially solely on a web article from one reddit post.

If you do, just link reddit

Make it viral.

AI suggested the wrong windshield wiper blade size, and the incorrect size suggested was nowhere else to be found. It is frightening that people wholeheartedly trust these and refuse to seek alternate answers

Like… movies? Or just living

I would fall for this