Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 13hThere's a reason I moved back here after I was in the Bay Area for a decade.... 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 13hHe wouldn't be the first: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overvie...en.wikipedia.orgOverview effect - Wikipedia 050
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026static.klipy.comKristen Bell Crying LaughingAlt: Kristen Bell, a woman in a white jacket and pink blouse, laughs hysterically until she breaks into sobs. 110
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There is definitely something to it, I really like being able to use my car maybe once a week and still be able to basically do everything I need to. So easy to pop out and grab a bite to eat or little thing I need without it being a whole ordeal. 110
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Shazam!? The man deserves better than that. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026They've outright stated that they want people to have to take out a subscription for intelligence, it's pretty clear the optimal result for them is that people become dependent on it (which, I would hazard a guess, is the only way the current spend becomes economically viable). 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have been saying this for like the last 25 years :/ 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Scheduling a 7 am dentist appointment may have been a bit ambitious. Ooof. 120
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If things get really bad, then you get something like what happened with Greece after the GFC: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_g...en.wikipedia.orgGreek government-debt crisis - Wikipedia 000
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Typically bonds have been a very safe investment (hence why you are generally told to shift retirement funds from stocks to bonds as you get older, because it's essentially guaranteed, but lower-yield return), because the US is very stable as opposed to bonds for more distressed economies. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026So, obviously, if you think there's less of a chance someone will actually pay you back, the more of a return you're going to expect to get if you give them money now. Interest rates going up for US bonds means people are less sure about how stable an investment that is. 121
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It's a little more complicated than that but in this case, it's basically how the US government pays for things by "borrowing" money -- you buy a bond so they get money now, and then they pay you back later with interest. The higher the interest rate, the more expensive it is for them to borrow. 120
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A bond is basically a promise -- I sell you 1000 dollar bond with the agreement that in 5 years (or whatever), I will pay you back 1100 dollars or whatever. This is how deficits are funded at the government level or corporations can issue bonds in the same way to fund capital improvements etc. 140
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026That guy is definitely tearing down the community center for his new corporate headquarters. 150
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That doesn't even get into the other bizarre part of this where the Secret Service came after a games company because they were making a game that involved hacking: www.sjgames.com/SS/sjgames.comSJ Games vs. the Secret Service 000
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Count the Rice and Noise Some Makes were all-timers, so much so I assumed Count the Rice was the season finale because I didn't think there was any way to top it (there wasn't). 020
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I'm sorry, if you put BSG that high after the implosion of its last two seasons and just completely leave off The Expanse, which had a *much* higher level of quality (and with six short seasons about as many episodes as BSG had good ones in five, 20+ ep ones), that's just insulting.static.klipy.comCamina Drummer: Don't Treat Me Like A ChildAlt: Camina Drummer, pirate queen of the Belt, looking dismissively at the camera and saying "don't treat me like a child." 000
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellRugby Respecter @whatmcgives.bsky.social · 25/09/2026S-tier meme just dropped 013737
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yeah -- my kitchen isn't tiny (smaller than in an actual house sure), but the way it's organized is just bad. I would really like to renovate it, but uh...money, and also it's about eighth on the list of things that need to be fixed. 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I feel like the kitchen is always where small apartments really get screwed. Even moving into my condo the kitchen does not feel particularly well designed. One of the things about my dad's place and my brother's place that makes me most jealous is their spacious kitchens. 110
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a real Ian Malcolm moment. What in the fresh hell? 010
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellChris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026In recent years, the media has quietly begun to change the way in which it writes about Bobby Kotick, the former CEO of Activision Blizzard. PMG investigates how Kotick used the threat of defamation to reshape his legacy in the games business, one article at a time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwp...youtube.comInside Bobby Kotick's Campaign Against the PressYouTube video by People Make Games 221993923
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026As someone from Illinois...yeah, no. Drag those fuckers out kicking and screaming. If she thinks her constituency wants to forgive and forget, she's *really* not reading the room. 020
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Sure, that's not incompetence *or* bullying though. Without Ashe, the alien never gets inside. 120
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Well, no one was bullied. Ashe opened the door because his whole job was to bring back the parasite. 121
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I agree, but MSFT is an *outsized* player. They and Sony have a huge swath of the industry under their umbrella. I don't think its out of line for people who love gaming as a hobby to be upset when MSFT is both killing studios right and left and also driving the price of hardware up with AI stuff. 000
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It feels very much like the whole private equity cycle of buying a profitable, but not WILDLY profitable business, draining the lifeblood out of it, and then scrapping it for parts. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026...see this when Sharma is saying she thinks Xbox should have a billion users, which is just *wild* -- games don't work like that, and they also have the movie problem. For every GTA that sells a zillion copies you have a hundred games that do okay (or poorly). They knew that going in. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It isn't just that it's games, It's that Microsoft bought up so much of the industry that shutting down all these studios is an existential threat to gaming period. Their complaint seems to be that they aren't profitable *enough* when games were never going to make a 50% return. You can... 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026...that coin is that supporting these studios is basically pocket change for the company, and after blowing 100B on buying every studio they could get their hands on they're now just writing it all off 5 years later, for an industry which was already teetering on the brink of collapse. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm not sure "the 3% margin of Xbox is a tiny sliver of MSFT's massive profits" is really going to change people's minds that it's shitty that MSFT basically bought up the entire games industry and is now systematically running it into the ground. I know what you're saying, but the other side of... 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Got mine yesterday, surprisingly do not feel like ass today (which was my previous 24 hours post-vax experience). 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Though I have to ask, where did you go? Because the quality can certainly vary widely. 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026static.klipy.comNot Cool Liz LemonAlt: Liz Lemon from 30 Rock, a brunette woman with glasses, looking straight at the camera and saying "not cool." 100
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I am relatively privileged, live in a state with specific trans protections, and it's still not great. I haven't really had a *good* night's sleep in...a very long time. 020
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026That is very hard to believe at times when I have certain other folks to compare myself to. :) Above average, maybe. Incredibly lucky, also. Compared to some folks I have lived a charmed life. 030
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026static.klipy.comUmm Umm OkAlt: A blonde toddler looking around as if *extremely* uncomfortable in the back of a car. 120
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Don't get me wrong, I don't regret my time there and my colleagues did some great work (including on DirectFile) but it just seemed like it would be better for everyone if the government just had its own engineers, like UIUC did when I was there! 010
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026For the federal government, half the time they end up paying as much or more because they're paying for contractors which require overhead to be paid on top of whatever salaries are involved! I never understood this when I was in civic tech. Just get people who are invested in your success directly! 140
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Is that at all worthwhile to tell me this thing is backed by a real person with a track record if that real person is just a troll who spams everything all the time? I'm not sure I understand the utility of a verification with no way to link that to a reputation. Or is this purely an anti-bot thing? 100
Reposted by Chastity BlackwellEvan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is a powerful story from a trans Texan (who's also quite a talented independent journalist). I've been arguing that trans people have the right to be upset with Talarico, and I think we do. This is the case for vote for him anyway, eloquently made, and by someone with the standing to make it. 16675252
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 06/09/2026This, I think, is going to be the place where the rubber meets the road. Are there going to be enough people willing to pay the "real" price to sustain the wild levels of investment. At the very least, it will hopefully put an end to demands from on high to use LLMs for literally everything. 130
Chastity Blackwell @blackisis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Of course, the real answer is going to be this guy for making ominous threats. 010
