Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 05/10/2026the fact that one show managed to give us garibaldi, g’kar, AND londo is just unreal. an embarrassment of riches 1333
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 05/10/2026how come of all the space operas of the 90s, only babylon 5 figured out how to make a character as good as michael garibaldi 4373
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/09/2026“We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us” - Marshall McLuhan 109537
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialShow Me Your Cats (please/thank you) @candysuperhero.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I’ve been reading August Clarke’s Felicity Complex and it is incredible. I’m not one for body horror, but the author writes such sublime queer feminist anti-capitalist rage and violence that I cannot put it down. 011
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 17/09/2026these are two fundamentally different args. the logic of liberals is that the united states’ use of force should be refocused. the logic of the left is that the united states’ role in world affairs should fundamentally shift away from military hegemony. there’s really no compromise position here 0745
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialjosh boo-erman 👻 @bosh.worstpossible.world · 17/09/2026under the current electoral system it’s not possible to create a government that would prevent the united states from killing people all over the world at will. you can make the harm reduction argument but it doesn’t engage noah’s central point here 314816
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialHappy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I would also argue if you’re more concerned with a bombastic streamer you dislike than those civilians, perhaps you shouldn’t be discussing other people’s values 324711
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialHappy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I don’t watch Hasan and generally find political streamers offputting, so if you want to frame outrage bait as a structural critique against the medium, I’d probably be sympathetic. But is he wrong? Post 9/11, the US has killed hundred of thousands of civilians. You can’t address that politely 1046038
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 16/09/2026New petition sponsored by Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga calls for a new criminal offence banning recording / publishing video of vulnerable people in public, including those who are homeless, experiencing mental health crises or impaired due to substance use www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... 1520769
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Get down to what they want: they want The Brand. They want to Roll A d20 and sometimes get a Natural 20. They want to experience the larger culture (but hot TOO much.) They don't read so they don't see the icky bits and they want to do one fight maybe. You can't compete with this, don't try. 212233
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialFoucault's Pudendum @kaitave.bsky.social · 12/09/2026D&D is the breezy improv game about running a coffee shop with a witch in the alps and her cat, and that's why we need a game that centers on tracking HP, spells per day, X/day abilities, special points of various sorts, and of any of those run critically low everybody has to stop and take a nap 6399127
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialJohn Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/09/2026okay last one for now, as the cat has finally moved off my arm so i can get up: In WW2, Canada alone produced more trucks than THE ENTIRE AXIS. Feel free to wave that fact at the next Wehraboo you see banging on about Hitler's "invincible mechanised army" or similar bollocks. 822635
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialBrett Codes @brettcodes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.brettcodes.comI'm done using AIWhy I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels. 783276943
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Bros. American Cheese isn't made of plastic. It's typically actual cheese emulsified with sodium citrate, and you know what? Europe started it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process...en.wikipedia.orgProcessed cheese - Wikipedia 2112310
bytownkayfabe.bsky.social @bytownkayfabe.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Aristotle uses the fate of King Priam to illustrate the principle that the quality of one's life should not be judged until after their death. Likewise we can now see that Dolly Parton was a world-historic villain for not running for president as an independent and sparing us of all of *this*. 020
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Folks, a piece of advice. Do not, under any circumstances, bring "rule zero will fix it" to a game designer. 410719
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialAshley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Chefs kiss 12555321679
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 27/08/2026this is so incredible I can’t stop laughing because he forgot to include Reagan 151990561248
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialMolly White @molly.wiki · 27/08/2026The TL;DR about how Wikipedia handles naming disputes like this: Wikipedia is not governed by Donald Trump and his dumb executive orders, and if no one actually adopts his names Wikipedia won't either. 245429
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialMolly White @molly.wiki · 27/08/2026if you're wondering how this is likely to shake out, the name "Gulf of America" isn't mentioned in the lead of this Wikipedia article at all, and out of the three sentences it earns later on, one is about how stupid people think it is 1478891
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialDerek Jarman’s “Stu” @stuartgipp.bsky.social · 27/08/2026reposting my Reacher fanart because there's a new season 433397471
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialBrendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I can't get over how irresponsible this NYT oped was. The Sumerians did not cancel sovereign debt. This is an undergraduate fail-level misreading of financial history. The whole piece is based on a mistake. 22685135
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialEd BooOOooOOmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Do people know this? There's such a pervasive obsession in this country with how great the stock market is doing; I wonder how many people would be shocked to learn that the US stock market is being badly outperformed by the rest of the world, and that's a new thing since January 2025. 11898247
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.social✨John Carpenter’s BOObies✨ @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026It’s not about the money. Homelessness is the stick used to make the working poor continue to labour *just enough* to keep themselves housed and out of harm’s warm. 15210
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#BOTD Born on this day...9th Aug 1914. Tove Jansson, Finnish author, novelist, painter and illustrator, creator of the Moomin book series #WomensArt 6610134
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 03/08/2026Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move awaythebeaverton.comCanadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move awayOTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res... 45070481682
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialSuperNynny @supernynny.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Me tiedetään, että leikkauksia ei ole pakko tehdä ja että niihin kuolee ihmisiä. Talouden ideologinen "sopeuttaminen" on siis käytönnössä ihan vain ihmisten uhraamista Mammonan alttarille ja jotenkin näitä vaativien ja toteuttavien annetaan kulkea vapaana. 0175
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialJ. Marttila @balthusknot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Finns often talk about the concept "sisu" which means you talk like you are tough but you are an abject coward, who will betray a friend a the drop of a hat See the Finnish political establishment's Schengen comments over Ceuta and Melilla 0258
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialJ. Marttila @balthusknot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026"Everyone has unresolved trauma about the COVID pandemic" is definitively something that annoys me 131
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialEttin @ettin.itch.io · 29/07/2026Announcing my new, timely, and original D&D setting, Piss Mausoleum. It's D&D as you've never seen it before: grim and gritty and dark. You can say fuck in this one. Morty from Rick and Morty is there 1423161
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialChris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026This makes me so mad because everything in the Framework Laptop 13 Pro is a huge game changer. They made a Linux laptop with MacBook Pro quality and insane battery life and then got kicked in the nads by RAM companies. Look what they took from us. 151105166
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 28/07/2026As you know, my main concern, which is shared with Vice President Hitler… 422723
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Capitalism polling at 43% in the conservative party lmao 510613
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 28/07/2026I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak decapitation attacks & bombs schools?anthropic.comOur position on open-weights modelsAnthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models 1017923
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Billionaires being unafraid to say things like this publicly is a major indicator of how bad things have gotten 10172871797
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026the US has never had bog standard social democrats and it shows 3612
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialFreyja Valentine, Girl IRL Cat URL @freyjavalentine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Mamdani is a bog-standard Social Democrat and everyone on either side of the political spectrum from him loses their minds over that fact 3759
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026This is the exact same kind of statement that Turkish or Indian diaspora groups make when people criticize Erdoğan or the BJP, it's just pure nationalism dressed up with social justice language. Which, y'know, is fine, it's what I expect, but nobody has to pretend it's anything different. 636271
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Twice a year, Hawai'i experiences a strange moment where the sun appears to be exactly overhead & anything that is completely vertical casts no shadow. Let's learn about Lāhainā Noon, subsolar points & 'Kau ka lā i ka lolo', meaning "the sun rests on the brains." 11186342311
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialDavid Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 16/07/2026Sorry about all that smoke and consequences, America. 21535234
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.social🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I’m running for office, I don’t have anything in my background that could come up except for being accused of rape and also a Nazi tattoo. I’m also a working class guy, I mean I own the business but I still have to work there. I used to be backwater contractor do you think those might be a problem? 23103482
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialKen Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026American was just sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for moving "Antifa" zines; yet there were zero questions about NSPM-7 at the Homeland Secretary's hearing on capitol hill today. You do not hate Congress enough. 6906177
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialNora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Seconds after I hit publish on this, my thesis that there will be people who have access to national platforms, who will try and obscure what Seth Hatfield's manifesto said. Stephanie Carvin just claimed that it's anti police (it isn't). Take a read... noraloreto.substack.com/p/shooting-t...noraloreto.substack.comShooting the Pornhub CEOSeth Hatfield's manifesto reveals a deeply confused man who remixed communist theory with far-right rhetoric to create an ideological dog's breakfast 916472
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialNico @nico-encounter.bsky.social · 13/06/2026People should internalize that this doesn't /actually/ mean someone like Elon Musk actually controls real resources equivalent to several percent of US GDP. It means that wealth on paper has become totally disconnected from real resources. 071
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.sociale.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 13/06/2026it's so wild to see so much wild-eyed hand-wringing about Elon Musk when we could have simply let Tesla go bankrupt at any of like 15 separate moments of crisis and never had to deal with three quarters of this bullshit 13924119
Reposted by @bytownkayfabe.bsky.socialThe Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/... 28589633759
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transgender valley authority @Grey_... 4h Kenny: The new guys don't know what the game was like. Bring back the sacrifices.
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