Reposted by Evan TwoEyePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/06/2024But when it comes to rich people, that's basically their whole shtick. Trading trinkets for vast influence, back and forth. Never having to dip into their rainy day funds when pulling shit out from between their couch cushions is enough. 114416
Reposted by Evan TwoEyePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/06/2024The interesting thing is how once again, bikeshedding appears in bribes. Bribes are almost always pocket change. Small, often ridiculously inexpensive amounts for the services rendered. 212532
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m sure the tech guys who made Covid-related learning loss a priority will be all over this 526577
Reposted by Evan TwoEyerax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026imagining a genre called ‘math ska’ and pissing my self off 1061937227
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Fraud is so awesome in this country I can understand why everyone does it. You can make a billion dollars doing fraud and then a court will be like "Hang on there pal...pay a $100M fine but DON'T do it again" 393243383
Reposted by Evan TwoEye🪶deedles 🫘 @dyerfineart.com · 25/08/2026April 2025 The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this oversight to state and local authorities. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...cbsnews.comFDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources sayFood safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA. 252
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeolive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 25/08/2026For the three zoomers on this website, American went so insane after 9/11 that there was a significant uptick in discrimination and hate crimes against Sikhs because people couldn't tell the difference between Muslims and Sikhs. www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/...americanbar.orgMisconceptions and Misidentification of Sikhs Post-9/11Following 9/11, there was a surge in bias against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim—including Sikhs. More than 20 years later, understanding how anti-Sikh discrimination exists within this “mis... 99116
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeFreeCAD @freecad.org · 25/08/2026FreeCAD wizard h11r officially qualified for the #TooTallToby World Championship of 3D CAD Speedmodeling! Here is his run: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM05... More qualifiers happening this Friday. Any other FreeCAD speedmodelers want to try? www.tootalltoby.com/calendar #FreeCAD #CAD #Speedmodelingyoutube.comFreeCAD Speedmodeling Too Tall Toby Practice Model 26-08-07YouTube video by Hasan Iskandar 0142
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeRay Delahanty | CityNerd @nerd4cities.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Philly, coming your way September 28. Ticket pre-sale now open on Patreon and for paid newsletter subs 4261
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeinnes mck @innes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026again i am just not that interested in debating whether human rights should theoretically extend to robots and ai when we currently don't even extend them to all humans 3356161769
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeHannah MacLeod is looking for work @macleodholdfast.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I feel like we need a reminder sometimes, so there is no amount of extra hours you could've worked to keep from getting laid off. Seniority, company loyalty, importance to the project - none of it matters when you're a number on a spreadsheet. Anyone telling you different is selling something. 3707206
Reposted by Evan TwoEyePavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026For all human history, it was far more difficult to write a document than to read it. Until now. But generating a document doesn't make the work of *producing meaning* disappear. It's just been outsourced from the producers of the document to its consumers.productpicnic.beehiiv.comCognitive Pollution: Real knowledge only forms through doing the workmany humans appear to be on auto mode, not on manual mode 25619
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeMidnight Coffin @midnightcoffee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026How is it that we live in a cyberpunk dystopia, but we still haven't invented a better way to defrag a meat drive than therapy and meditation? I wanna run Disk Cleanup on my brain before it starts clicking 0121
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 09/08/2026this is why we cant have nice things pay your artists, pay your craftsmen 166156294167
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeAskme @askme99.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Providing school children with free meals is better than posting The Ten Commandments and then ignoring their hunger. 249104452600
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeceej @ceej.online · 07/08/2026Welcome to Local Landmark Wood-Fired Pizza. We do things a *little* differently around here 😏 (crust sucks) 24885109
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeNome @nome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026My experience is of every American COVID-19 mitigation effort being obviously insufficient, and ended far too soon. To see people now argue that they somehow were too much, going too far? Not anti-vax or MAGA people, but folks just out here on Bluesky? It staggers me. 371320286
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/07/2026People still complain about “lockdowns” but we had none in the US. We had stay-at-home orders, where although businesses were closed, you could still go outside whenever you wanted. Other countries had far stricter rules, and yet have been much more accepting of them as they saved many more lives. 261301239
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"AI is getting so smart we may not be able to control it much longer, you guys" is just marketing rhetoric for a bubble industry built entirely on hype. 0286
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJosh Drescher @joshdrescher.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I’ve been struggling to enjoy things for a long while now because nearly every hobby I love is in such dire straits that the professionals involved in each are struggling terribly. Comics, video games, board games, movies and TV, etc. - not a single one is safe for its rank and file creators. 810112
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeFreeCAD @freecad.org · 23/07/2026FreeCAD 1.1.2 is out. Bugfix release only, no new features, but 32% of the patches fix BIM and core issues, and 12% are security fixes. Recommended update for everyone! blog.freecad.org/2026/07/23/freecad-1-1-2-released/ Support the project: wiki.freecad.org/Donate #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSourceblog.freecad.orgFreeCAD 1.1.2 releasedWe are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.2. This release pulls important fixes from the current development branch without adding any new features. 32% of the backported patches fix is… 933558
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/07/2026"I don't want to use software which has slop in it. I do what I can to avoid it, and sadly even Vim now comes under scrutiny in that effort as both Vim and NeoVim are relying on LLMs to develop the software." - A Eulogy For Vim drewdevault.com/blog/Forking...drewdevault.comA eulogy for Vim 1515128
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJames Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 24/07/2026how fucking sad though, to be the richest man in the world and not know what a good tomato tastes like. Capitalism has always failed in its attempts to quantify and understand what makes our lives beautiful. 516112
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026you will save yourself a lot of trouble and grief on any text based social media site by simply remembering that a lot of people can't read. 584958803
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeRep. Greg Stanton @repgregstanton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My new report reveals FEMA staff were secretly diverted from their life-saving work to serve as the "operational backbone" of ICE. We're in the middle of hurricane and wildfire season. This decision leaves every American less safe when disaster strikes. 15431204
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 21/07/2026I am tired of reading something that is very fluent, then halfway through realising that I just read a paragraph that makes no damn sense because it wasn't written by a person. Extruded prose is a consent violation. I don't know why more people aren't viscerally disgusted by its publication. 1237434
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeczech hunter biden @conkrete.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I think if I was a ui/ux designer my big priority would be to make sure the ui does NOT shift unexpectedly just before a user interacts with it 4248247
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New Orleans published a document saying its police could put weapons on their drones, deleted it, now says it was a mistake. But it aligns exactly with when the drone manufacturer began musing about allowing police to weaponize their drones: www.404media.co/new-orleans-...404media.coNew Orleans Cops Published Policy Document Allowing Weaponized DronesCops and drone companies seem increasingly eager to put weapons on their drones. 14430150
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeRob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 18/07/2026based on the trailer alone I don't think Chris Nolan even played Mario Odyssey 544926767
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeIggyMaid @iggymaid.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I say no to all gen-ai in games, including if it's "just code" Coding IS an artform, it may not be as directly visible as artwork but it's no less deserving of respect for being responsible for the functionality of every game out there without solid coding all your fave games would be dogshit 8520167
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/07/2026This is like watching a preseason game, everyone limbering up and getting a few reps in for when It finally happens. I like what I see. Scouting report is positive. When the big game arrives, I think we’re gonna see greatness. Squad is ready. 181429208
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeEttin @ettin.itch.io · 12/07/2026RIP Lindsay Graham. He got that one explosive diarrhea parasite and pooped so hard he flew into the sky like Team Rocket. He broke escape velocity but bounced off a Starlink satellite like a ping pong ball and now he's headed for the Atlantic Ocean. It's what he would have wanted 34529135
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeIan Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 12/07/2026Every time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years" 10084462472
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeFreeCAD @freecad.org · 12/07/2026The most important FreeCAD feature to date has arrived: Banana For Scale. Install from the Addon Manager and add a banana or soda can to your model for instant scale reference in screenshots. blog.freecad.org/2026/07/12/new-addon-banana-for-scale/ #FreeCAD #CAD #OpenSource #Addon #BananaForScaleblog.freecad.orgNew Addon; Banana For Scale!Take a seat, mark the time and remember where you were for this announcement of our most important new feature to date. Indeed, whilst making excellent technical drawings on the TechDraw workbench,… 933045
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 12/07/2026The number of innocent lives lost around the world because of Lindsey Graham, one of the most bloodthirsty war hawks in Congress over the last few decades, is incalculable. 234326720
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 11/07/2026You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries. 74195134561
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Gerontocracy is bad. It produces bad governance by ancient and out of touch people. It’s hugely disruptive when they all start dropping at the same time. And it diverts what little energy these people have for doing their actual jobs to succession battles. 6507122
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208675339
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 08/07/2026ICE is still kidnapping and killing people. 5472176
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeRebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 07/07/2026nerds gummy clusters 171035
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I always laugh when idiots here claim America has some kind of special great warrior culture. Read history. We ain't unique when it comes to skill at arms. What we are best at is entertainment. Rap and rock will outlast the U.S. Army in human memory. 1183430343
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 05/07/2026it literally does not matter how articulate you are if someone is entrenched into reading you in bad faith. 1449095
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeEd Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Turns out “America 250” was a temperature forecast 14935169
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeSophie Rae Lichterman @whysophiewhy.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Once again reminding folks that fireworks are fucking stupid and unnecessary. Just don't do it. It negatively impact so many, animals especially, but also causes immeasurable harm in so many other ways. Also, they look the same every year, not even cool looking. Truman is genuinely sad. 720613
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479831791
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeAhhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 01/07/2026Crazy how this is the one of the coldest summers of the rest of our lives 311007171
Reposted by Evan TwoEyePookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine. 552741937
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Thinking about that post that's like "climate change is a series of phone videos getting closer and closer to your location until you're the one taking them," and how that applies to things like disability and financial hardship too 115745
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeJames Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The Ring cam footage has to be seen to be believed, the Tesla is basically a rocket into the house www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/u...nytimes.comTesla Driver Using Autopilot Crashes Into Home, Killing a Woman, Officials Say 35794246
Reposted by Evan TwoEyeLauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Immigrants do not have to contribute exceptionally to deserve safety Immigrants do not have to permanently grovel to their new country to justify their existence Immigrants are allowed to be just as mediocre, grumpy or homesick as anyone else 12969641556