Reposted by The BricktosserMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 23hstatler and waldorf but it’s al-sayed and ossoff heckling republicans 784887656
Reposted by The BricktosserDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16hNo doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative. 362725710
Reposted by The BricktosserAllison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 09/10/2026Something Ossoff did that more Dems need to do: Call bigotry bigotry. Not "values." Not "culture wars." The animating principle of the GOP is bigotry and we should say so loud and clear. 05518
Reposted by The Bricktosserd.w. 1878 (just like pagliacci did) 🚫👑 @freeke.org · 06/10/2026Newspaper website, standing menacingly over a prone body on the floor. 021
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Last I heard he was selling prepper supplies. 030
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Theoretically I had more memory but that didn't matter in a practical way. It was smaller for my dorm room at least. 000
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026My second computer, upgraded from the Atari 800. In hindsight, not sure why I bothered. 100
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 03/10/2026It's a radio controlled chassis and the controller. 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026@500songspodcast.bsky.social latest bonus episode is on the Bee Gees prior to their 70s era, and it boggles my mind that they had several Top 20 US singles and I maaaaaaaybe recognize one of them, maybe. A run of successful songs that sound nothing like their more famous work. And didn't stick. 361
Reposted by The BricktosserKarrie Kaiser Lee @karrielee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Philosophy prof: "What if Writing Isn't Central to Thinking?" Writing prof (me): that's the wrong question. Writing is central to LEARNING, and offloading the writing process to LLMs is demonstrably hurting the learning process. 042
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Biss looks and sounds moderate. It's all vibes! 131
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I hadn't heard of this song until *this morning* Yesterday I saw a vague reference to monoculture being dead (very true) and how not everybody hears the same stuff, so I assume that was about this. This isn't the 1980s when Top 40 music was inescapable. (The quoted post is sarcasm btw) 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Assuming he runs and assuming he can also make it to the IL primaries, I will relish when IL rejects him soundly. We hate him here. 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I see Todd Rundgren has pulled the classic move of past-prime artists of deriding (sexiestly!) modern music. Instead of hearing what he thinks now I'd rather just remember about how he produced an album I love, and how he developed a popular Mac OS screensaver in the 90s. 020
Reposted by The BricktosserMatthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026the low price point for what Andrew gives you is frankly absurd, trust me this is money well spent 15612
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I enjoy a great deal of David Byrne's post Heads work, but Tina is missed. She was the Talking Heads' secret weapon. The dorky funk came from her. 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If it were fully formed and within your abilities, it'd be akin to tracing or transcribing. What you actually have is the impression of the final thing. You need to add the details. You need to execute the actions of word choice or brush strokes. Once you have technique it'd be trivial. 110
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026People think they have a perfect idea in their head partially because they never achieve it. But that's illusory; it's not actually fully formed or it would be much easier to execute. The dynamic tension that occurs trying to fill those gestalt gaps leads to new ideas. 130
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Between the 800 and friends with TI 99/4As, I did a fair amount of BASIC dinking around. The friends with the Apple II upgraded to a Mac and I got fair amount of time with that, plus college used them them extensively. 010
Reposted by The BricktosserThe Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026First I used was a terminal on some kind of mainframe at the community college. After that, experienced Apple IIs and TRS 80s in various settings (some of them undoubtedly retail displays or school and at least one at friends' house) but the first one I owned was an Atari 800. 121
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026First I used was a terminal on some kind of mainframe at the community college. After that, experienced Apple IIs and TRS 80s in various settings (some of them undoubtedly retail displays or school and at least one at friends' house) but the first one I owned was an Atari 800. 121
Reposted by The Bricktosserjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026i think it is why the party’s messaging has turned to the most low effort culture war slop imaginable. what else do they have to try to persuade voters to give them another majority? 511971107
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I approve of this well-actually one-upsmanship. 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm kidding of course. I don't get invited to parties. 140
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Just to Wilder it up, if somebody calls Shakespeare "old English" (no "e") I rattle off a couple of lines of the Canterbury Tales prologue say "that's *Middle* English, Shakespeare is Modern English." And then I sit in the corner of the party because nobody wants to talk to me. 160
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I was a Newsweek reader. Until I grew better critical reading skills I thought George Will was a voice of reason, not a voice of Providing Rationalizations for Ronald Reagan. 110
Reposted by The BricktosserPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 20/11/2024i think the biggest ideological divide in america is between people who think everybody deserves dignity, and people who think dignity is a zero-sum game 850576
Reposted by The BricktosserGail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I will also add that I think it takes tremendous bravery to be trans, and that living your best life is a net positive for the world, and the best comics are about being the best you you can be. So of course I would love trans people, like I love my favorite superheroes. 555458
Reposted by The BricktosserAllison Hantschel @allisonhantschel.com · 18/09/2026Part of what Mamdani is doing is explaining to people how government works. We've had 50 years of the GOP making sure it doesn't do anything but hurt and troll, while they yell that it's useless. Mamdani is like "no, it's for fixing shit and making decisions" andstatic.klipy.comSurprised Pikachu Face - Mind Blown MemeAlt: Surprised Pikachu Face - Mind Blown Meme 121106200
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And I may well just be conditioned to mask/cope with some of those aspects of autism and adhd. Biggest "for" for me is the visceral sensitivity I had as a kid to being bullied. My reaction to it seemed innate and uncontrollable. People could say things to me and I would feel it in my body. 110
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026May well be! Microblogging site so hard to get into everything I think or feel about it, but I do have a few classic aspects yet lack a lot of common ones. I saw a cluster diagram with gifted/autistic/adhd traits and I have a ton of gifted a couple of the other two. Nothing is black and white. 110
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How did Bush have a mandate when he won by a razor's edge? Or do you mean just post 9/11? 110
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The jury's out on if I'm on the spectrum (I don't *think* so, my autistic offspring and my autistic friend think so) but I definitely have some Wilder in me, currently mostly contained. 110
Reposted by The BricktosserC. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I loved eating Chik-Fil-A. Can't remember the last time I ate there. I used to go to Hobby Lobby weekly. Haven't walked into one in over a decade. I enjoyed Harry Potter, past tense. My life is not wanting of joy without these things the way it would be without all my LGBTQIA+ friends. Choose love. 33969192
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026She has no idea how easy it is to not watch. I have no interest. I have already read and seen the story and frankly it's not worth going a theirs round even if she wasn't a heinous bigot. 130
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 13/09/2026How have I not seen this?! I guess I didn't see all of the later seasons! 000
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I have a specific and somewhat controlled way I interact with this site* and when A Certain Poster starts popping up despite that, I know your statement to be true. *Unless I'm so bored I go to Discover. 000
Reposted by The Bricktossermidnight jon, increasingly buff but Tired™ 💛🤍💜🖤 @midnightjon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026that and also "stancil and a lot of people who follow him regardless of pro/anti need to log off a lot more often" 031
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As an IL-09 resident the whole primary was infuriating, as people from around the country formed their opinions on the most superficial things, and then doubled down finding the thinnest pretenses to justify those opinions. 011
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Nothing anyone can say can stop me, because I can't stop me. I've tried. It's deeply wired. 010
The Bricktosser @bricktosser.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Came to quote this! I haven't seen this movie since theaters (I think I saw it at a drive in!) and I remember very little about it except this and the fact that it follows the Deep Cover formula pretty much exactly. 110
