Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Okay, but he's leaving the door open to a Nash, Stills, Nash, and Young reunion 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026title: "I Asked AI to Tie my Shoes for Me and Even Though I Keep Falling on My Face, I Continue to Ask AI—And So Should You" text: transcript of me trying to get an LLM to write about my experience, but instead I start believing I'm a god as I'm fed a mix of compliments and lorem ipsum 021
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026My phone has started showing me a picture of a trophy when I clear all notifications, like I need to be congratulated for swiping away email notifications, and I've never been more convinced that the people who make my phone think I'm a dumb baby 020
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/08/2026Read it here if you haven't yet. Today is the very best day of all days to read it for the first time. short-stories.co/@raybradbury...short-stories.coThere Will Come Soft Rains by Ray BradburyThe voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and… 27984460
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Inviting my enemies over for a big dinner of unwashed raspberries and bagged salads topped with found cilantro 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 30/05/2026No child is old enough to see James Spader, in any movie 110
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 28/05/2026You know bluesky is alive and kicking because fake screenshots from twitter by Keaton Patti are still being passed around as if they're real (in this case it's actually a screenshot of a slop article that used a fake screenshot from Keaton as its only source without actually verifying anything) 023
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Most vampires are obsessed with whatever civilization happened to be ascendant when they were teenagers 1468
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Big news: toddler has been saying "duck" as "cuck" pretty consistently for the last month. Can't convince her otherwise. Maybe she knows something about these ducks that I don't 031
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026post-crypto and post-AI, the new thing is monkey typewriters. Venture capital pours money into companies that promise to type up all of Shakespeare. "There will be a market for monkey-Shakespeare," they promise. NYTimes values the industry at a gajillion dollars. The price of keyboards skyrockets 050
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026why don't these speakers have full RGB LED? They should be loud in volume AND sight 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Television shows shouldn't have characters address important topics. That's unrealistic. My friends and I never talk about current events or politics. We only talk about our current emotional arcs, what happened a little bit ago, or give each other explanations of what is happening right now 031
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 22/03/2026haha I saw this too, read it, and his quote about it is just so self-congratulatory without actually being connected to anything 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026There's not an iota of forgetfulness in you 050
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026If we convinced him that daylight savings time is somehow "woke," he'd cancel it within a week 010
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordAdam Dorsey @adamdorsey.com · 11/02/2026A.I. needs to watch its back, I'm coming for its job. Borrow tons of money with no chance of ever making it back? Kid shit. Lie that I'm good at stuff that I'll never be good at? Doing it now. Always be 5 years away from meeting my potential? Buddy, that's my life story. 05115
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 05/02/2026hint: you gotta shine the lasers in the right place, in the right way 110
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026btw Zella has started inventing signs, since she still only has fewer than 10 words, and one of them is "baby." So she'll point to a baby or another little toddler and go "wah wah wah" while making the crying motion, and it really looks like she's mocking them in exactly this way 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Texted "stop" to opt-out of some marketing text and they texted back "STOP" to me. I guess we've opted out of each other. It was mutual 240
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Pretty sure the Olympics are next year? I remember I was just absolutely shocked to learn that they're next year when I read an article about it, about a year ago-- wait. oh no. Oh no no 010
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordStellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 23/01/2026Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot. 199188296082
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 16/01/2026If they gutted USAID and public broadcasting without a second thought, the least, the absolute least, we can do is abolish ICE. 130
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 14/01/2026introducing a bill that requires that the ICE goons have to print low resolution pictures of their faces on their face masks 030
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordErika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 12/12/2025It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass. 181103072685
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."futurism.comAI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With ChildrenFoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers. 601069399
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 13/11/2025This is so awkward I thought I was following Orpheus out of the underworld but it turns out it was just some other guy wearing similar pants 130
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 11/11/2025"No, you see, they killed James Bond. MY name is Bondjames Bond." 021
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 08/11/2025It's crazy that Cleopatra lived closer to the extinction of the dinosaurs than she did to the building of the pyramids. 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 05/11/2025The dissonance between "I should wear a mask" and "I will allow my socks to directly touch a transit seat" is astonishing. 130
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 17/10/2025It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/thefarside.comNew Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.comGet an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®. 3853771632
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Buying babyproofing products is a great experience because you constantly have to wonder "should I trust this company that doesn't bother to spellcheck their ad copy and badly photoshops the pictures of their products with the life of my child?" (the answer is always yes: I have no choice) 120
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I have no idea who this man is, other than his name, and I also don't follow this sub, but I have learned everything about him and his horrible treatment of his dog through constant reddit headlines 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Was reading a short story written in the 70s (printed in Harlan Ellison's posthumous "Last Dangerous Visions") and saw this fun little prediction 040
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 26/09/2025the "you have to tell me if you're a cop" people made their own license plates 030
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025me, 3 rows away, loudly and repeatedly, to no one: "Is this a plane, or a tray? An ice cube tray? Get it? Because that one guy over there? Looks kinda like that guy? A tray!" *presses attendant call button until someone acknowledges my joke* 010
Curtis Retherford @actuallycurtis.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I love that you're doing "we don't need (blank), we have (blank) at home" to yourself 010
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordSam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 05/09/2025This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy". 21472302163
Reposted by Curtis RetherfordPjörk 🐷 @nicoleconlan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025The actual race against China is renewables and we are losing badly 0204
![One of Britain’s most senior police officers has launched an angry tirade against Extinction Rebellion protesters going “all floppy” when they get arrested.
Sir Stephen House, the deputy commissioner of the Metropolitan police, said the tactic of going limp was a “flipping nuisance” as it required extra officers to drag protesters away.
House told a London assembly police and crime committee hearing: “We have asked them to stop being floppy. And that might seem like a silly thing to say, but when we arrest them and pick them up, they go all floppy, which is why you see four or five officers carrying them away. It’s a complete waste of officers’ time, and a complete pain in the neck.”
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House also expressed annoyance at how the tactic made the police look heavy-handed. He said: “The problem with them going floppy and four offices carrying them away [is that it] looks to the general public like police are overreacting here. We’re not making them go floppy. They’re just sort of being a nuisance.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7uvcqt45oqlutlrtgx7bpodq/bafkreie7yqxb4cj2t4gxftiqsno5wgk2kczb5vbtj7wh2b2u5sjtqtdrku)
