I guess it's always like this, but it is nonetheless jarring to constantly see a chorus of dissolutes decrying our society's decadence.
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I guess it's always like this, but it is nonetheless jarring to constantly see a chorus of dissolutes decrying our society's decadence.
I think it's telling that wikipedia, of all places, is where I really found out about the Indonesia protests while almost every news post here is US-pol related
The main problem with Bluesky isn't really the politics it's that a lot of people are really aggro for basically no reason, plus the problem that it's too political, too milennial, and too "nerd-culture"y
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
These NatCons all act like Americans are some poor Magyars suffering under the Habsburg yoke and not the citizens of the most powerful and dynamic country in human history
If we could connect a turbine to Lincoln's grave we could power the whole US, but the Republicans hate renewable energy
1871, and they made sure to do it by proclaiming the German Empire in Versailles after humiliating Napoleon III. Imagine if the US declared independence in London after defeating George III.
Nationalism as we know it is not even 300 years old.
Also worth noting just how much the modern far-right channels Episode 8 Kylo, in that they're getting off hard on their own supply after gaining a lot of power, all while doing something that will destroy them long-term
I realise this ought to be a minor annoyance but also: the Kylo Ren "MORE" scene isn't actually meant to be badass at all, it's meant to show that Kylo Ren is puerile and easily fooled, even Hux makes fun of him directly afterwards
Excessive lethal force for the sake of optics
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
What's worse is that it feels like they're taking lessons from a certain Hague resident. Lethal force as the solution to the drug issue.
Axlotl Tank Thought
Arguably as big a break point as Luther's 95 Theses were
In the late Jurassic a coral-sponge reef stretched ~4k miles across the Tethys Sea, triple the Great Barrier Reef. One of the largest biological structures to have ever existed!
The thing is that if a white woman had four kids she'd be acclaimed as "heroine of the nation" while if a black woman did likewise she'd be called a "vampiric welfare queen"
This is incidentally why I put series like OOO and Boonboomger on my "recommended for newbies" list over fan favorites like Gaim and Timeranger. They're still good but the former two are more representative of the overall tone of tokusatsu.
Birth rates have been falling everywhere since we’ve gotten the statistical ability to measure birth rates, with the notable exception of the postwar baby boom. The question isn’t really why they’re falling but why the baby boom even existed!
these people need to log off. seriously. bluesky this, bluesky that, how about you look at some actual blue skies and get off the internet for ten minutes
Would this explain their shift towards the far-right post-reunification at least in part?
On this website there are a lot of people who refuse to hear that moderating on an 80/20 issue might be politically advantageous for winning elections. On the other website, you have to censor the name of this website to avoid the richest man in the world throttling your posts. It’s not a hard call
I think all the criticisms of the prevailing culture on Bluesky are basically correct tbh, I just don’t care that much because the alternative is ran by a insane billionaire who hates people like me shot through with literal Nazis. I’ll take the occasional annoying millennial with an MSW over that
the work of helping people in such corrosive places of the soul, it's good. people need help to get out of those ways of being. but the waters you swim and the air you breathe matter purity isn't a virtue like that, but you do need clean water and air sometimes
finally, I think the overall attitude on bluesky re: how elected Dems should behave - "give them not one fucking inch" - is a lot closer to what the actual Dem base wants than the Clintonian triangulation the centrists are pushing and most of them can't see that because they find leftists annoying
“being the main character” sucks in a distinctly personal way that is different from “I am marinating in nazi soup” and that’s where a lot of “bluesky is worse than twitter” comes from because bluesky is still a lot smaller it also feels like The Entire Website is coming down on your head
part of this is attitude - if you come on here going “hey bluesky you’re going to fucking hate this take, ha ha” - yeah, probably, you can’t exactly be surprised when you get yelled at but that’s not always the case, sometimes people just get yelled at because there are no right wingers here
some scattered thoughts on the bluesky environment vs twitter: “we should compromise on the ability of trans people to exist” will get you yelled at here every time and frankly you deserve it it is, however, a lot easier for other centrist ideas to turn you into the main character than on twitter
i don't think being on a site that gives anti-Black racism 20k likes is good for the soul
So that leaves Mexico City for Pato O'Ward and one more FP1 rookie session (Abu Dhabi?) #F1 #ItalianGP
Alex Dunne will take part in FP1 this weekend. He will be replacing Oscar this time! "Hi, everyone! It's Alex here. I'm super excited to be back for my second FP1 with McLaren in Monza this weekend. My first one in Austria was an extremely special day for me, but I think to do it again in Monza, +
Days since last podium appearance… Isack Hadjar - 2 days Red Bull’s 2nd seat - 500 DAYS 😳
The reason some see Bluesky as insular and twitter as not is that they are in the dominant majority on twitter and perceive less hostility. It's a safe space for them. Bluesky has far more diversity of thought, but that means everyone gets attacked by someone. Some people can't handle debate.
1776: lawyers and farmers 1792: lawyers and peasants 1848: lawyers and merchants 1917: lawyers and murder poets and a guy who called himself joey steel 1960s: lawyers and students it’s lawyers all the way down.
I am looking to chat with people who have been disparagingly featured in Zack “Asmongold” Hoyt’s content. I would like to see how this affected you, especially if you can provide ample receipts and clear timelines. Please signal boost this anywhere you’d like, as I’m not on Twitter anymore.
both these men are puppets of white supremacism and various silicon valley cults that draw their funding from the defense industry. if you focus on calling one of them a shitweasel over and over you will lose the plot completely if he disappears
The UK is low key weirder than the USA because the USA is simply dumb and weird whereas the UK is a strait-laced country that thinks the USA is dumb and weird, then proceeds to slavishly ape it.
>get frustrated about a game mechanic >search Google about it >find a reddit topic on it >of course I'm the OP
The extent to which conservative and “trad” Catholics have bought into a narrative of an “epidemic” of “trans shooters” who want to “target faithful Catholics” is both insane and scary. It really doesn’t take much raw material to weave a worldview based on terror, anxiety and hatred, does it?
The #F1 #ItalianGP at Autodromo Nazionale Monza starts in 5 days! https://lightsouts.com/formula-1/italian-grand-prix
They were never going to stop at what was "legal" or not. They didnt to begin with! All art/media is on the chopping block. You have to fight this NOW. keep calling, contact your reps. Make some noise!
Bringing two of my interests together in the Beatles and Formula 1. George Harrison's song, Faster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSN0...
Turning into the Turkmenbashy of modern pop?
Immortal clip from Blazing Saddles: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ...
A French investigating judge has ordered cinema icon Gerard Depardieu to stand trial over the alleged rape and sexual assault of actor Charlotte Arnould in 2018, AFP learned on Tuesday from sources close to the case ➡️ u.afp.com/Sdkg
Back to back double points finishes for Aston Martin. Let's see if they make it three in a row, which will be a challenge since Monza is the near polar opposite of the Hungaroring/Zandvoort. #F1 #ItalianGP
Would also be the second season in three years a Lewis Hamilton team does it right?
George Harrison 1966 the #Beatles
One of these things is not like the others
That would make Natalie an honorary (Warhammer) dwarf.
I remember when around that age I thought I was playing bartender mixing blue Pepsi and regular Pepsi
As someone who has been highly critical of The Walt Disney Company, the recent hate towards Disney has become borderline grifting. We are at a point where Disney announcing a brand new original animated movie is enough to get people rioting. To Animation Twitter, please go touch grass.
New: "Father James Martin: Pope Leo’s message for LGBTQ Catholics." My reflections on my meeting with the Holy Father yesterday. outreach.faith/2025/09/fath...
I was in the mall earlier today and I heard you know who over the PA system
Thinking about how what Labour are doing right now is the equivalent of driving the fastest F1 car on the grid then finishing in last place without mitigating factors like a crash or engine failure.
Mahaveer Raghunathan be like:
Mamdani seems to be the kind of person who builds bridges rather than walls. Really good statement.
see, that’s how you do it
It's funny I remembered where I put it at 10PM AFTER Labor Day is mostly over, but after having lost if for several years, I finally found the diverse fish graphic I made in 2018. It always bothering me that the school of fish was the same type. That erases the modern, diverse labor movement.
They did it. They found a way to make blockchain even worse.
Kamen Rider Geats (2022)
Reverse of 47's admin. Instead of acting like a slim margin is a mandate Labour is acting like a mandate is an excuse to act like you're hemorrhaging votes
Lmao
NEW: Belgium has decided to recognize Palestine as well take multiple measures against Israel, including -The ban of all settler goods from being imported -Sanctions on Smotrich and Ben Gvir -Restrictions on imports from Israeli businesses -No consular services to Israelis in the oPt
"a mailman accidentally invented the modern avocado in 1926" is a wild ass bit of history
Another thing I've noticed is that people seem to be reverting to the 9Gag/4Chan mindset of "hate everything that's popular", especially with the Disney hatred going on. There's so many valid reasons to hate Disney as a company, but blindly hating every new project they have is kinda dumb.
End of an era
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9...
To sum up what I’ve been trying to say: - there’s a lot of hype around language models - you can actually download them and look at how they work - if you do this you can actually observe what they are doing without taking anyone’s word for it, and it’s not what the boosters OR haters claim
OpenAI has trained ChatGPT (and their open source GPT-oss models) to be, as far as I can tell, affirming, supportive, and friend-like - which I consider to be *colossally* unethical, particularly in combination with the other marketing they've done around it it's actively deceptive to the user
attention-based transformer models were not developed with the goal of "we want to make an AI therapist" or "we want to make an AI girlfriend" or "we want to figure out how to supplant white-collar professionals" all of those things are attempts to find a market application for an algorithm
what you are seeing, with AI being forced into all corners of life by marketing, is an effort to generate revenue and investment interest around a specific set of discoveries in computer science that do not inherently suggest particular applications or purposes
What I enjoy about this is you don’t get too many of these that feature two insane people
Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
And that Ferrari team wasn't the works team, but Haas! #F1
Just had a funny realization: In spite of Lando Norris' ill-timed engine failure, every Mercedes engine team scored points at the #DutchGP, while only 1 of the 3 Ferrari engine teams scored points. #F1
and yes, some games do use internal compression sometimes you'll crack open a ROM or an ISO and find graphics and text data, and it'll be in a clear, non-obfuscated standard format! but games can and do compress shit to save space, especially in the cartridge years, and decompression is non-trivial
the 80s and 90s were such an amazing era for little kids watching movies that they absolutely should not have been watching
The average American quite literally believes procedure and trials are unnecessary because the cops have a magic CSI machine that is basically God’s divine tool of judgement.
the thing I think people don’t want to deal with is that it’s not Bluesky v Twitter, it’s Bluesky v Substack
My hot take is that George Harrison is a better guitarist than him. George was also the better songwriter but that goes without asking.
Austin Powers killed the franchise, though they didn't know it at the time.
The Moon Arcana Social Links in the modern Persona games are explicitly designed to be unlikable on first impression. If fans had their way they wouldn't exist.
Lots of folks have a really hard time dealing with characters that you're meant to dislike initially, so like if a developer is actually willing to change story based on feedback, those types of characters will just never exist
I remember seeing her on TV once. I wonder if she's ever tried to do the "remote hand" thingy and mimic Thing from The Addams Family.
In my estimation, a lot of the people who have problems with Bluesky are so used to platforms just serving up the content buffet that they're unwilling to do the work to have a good experience here. That work is the social part of social media.
Started playing modded FF3PR now that I got my FF1PR mod out the door
High level of compartmentalization I'd assume?
It's funny that as Britain secularized the clergy began leaning left relative to the median voter; you'd expect the opposite to happen if your other frame of reference was, say, the US
I think that's an insult to little sisters who may actually have gaming skills
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
Once again purple
British ppl like to pretend they are better than us abt racism but when immigration and Roma ppl come into discussion masks are flying off
I do think it's rather rich for Europeans to go "look at those dumb, racist Americans" then immediately spout ziganophobic tripe afterwards
Make no mistake, everything that’s happening in the United States is being significantly enabled by the right wing oligarch capture of media. Every other country needs to do everything possible to keep that from happening where they are. Including protecting the CBC from Poilievre here in Canada.
all you need to know to understand America’s weird blend of libertarian authoritarianism is that the most important instruction of the Gadsden flag motto isn’t “don’t tread” but “on ~ME~”
16th century hot take: Charles V is like if the Triple Entente was embodied in an individual human. His existence was basically a foreign policy initiative to contain Valois France. And it (mostly) worked!
What a low, despicable person Starmer has shown himself to be, and for nothing.