skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Did you ever come across anything like this? Asking somebody whose workplace is speedrunning AI adoption 000
Reposted by skippy mcgeeKill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 16/09/2026Rationalism rocks. Love any philosophy that tells me: 1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm 2) There is an infinite quantity of future people 3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do 171657261
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 16/09/2026⚠ Emergency Alerts 𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗗 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧 UPDATE: A NERD ALERT ISSUED FOR A GLASSES-WEARING POINDEXTER HAS BEEN CANCELED. POINDEXTER IS CAPABLE OF SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH AND AGILITY AND HAS INJURED SEVERAL WOULD-BE NOOGIE ISSUERS. DO NOT APPROACH. 030
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 13/09/2026hey whoa I have work tomorrow you can’t be forcing me to relive it on my free time like this 020
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Help! what print periodicals can you suggest to someone in your life who has disturbingly requested print subscriptions to both the economist and the Atlantic for their birthday??? 000
Reposted by skippy mcgeemichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Barber CEO: You Risk Falling Behind If You Don't Get A Haircut "Right Now" Industry Experts Foresee Future In Which Everyone Receives Multiple Haircuts Every Day Today Your Hair, Tomorrow The World: Barbers Say They Are On Track To Build A Pair Of Scissors So Big, It Could End Life As We Know It 142235646
Reposted by skippy mcgeeonion person @junlper.beer · 11/09/2026it’s wild that the heritage foundation wrote in text that the assault on trans woman particularly in sports is their first step in their efforts to completely abolish all Title IX protections and liberals still don’t believe it’s about more than trans women in sports 7375792173
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“Honestly gutting too now that I think about it” 131
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I talked to Mitch McConnell on the phone for 20 minutes this morning. He said he recently had meet and greets with Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, not sure why 000
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Do you think the Padres ever had a player named Johnny Orphan 260
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 20/08/2026With AMC at least that unfortunately makes you far more likely to hit the cloudflare rate limiting than using the app 120
Reposted by skippy mcgeeDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/08/2026Hey, what if we raised power sector greenhouse gas emissions by 20% during a time of global heat waves?bloomberg.comData Center Gas Plants to Boost US Power Emissions by 20%Data center developers are turning to bespoke natural-gas power plants, a development that promises to dramatically increase carbon emissions and make it harder for US technology companies to meet the... 417155
Reposted by skippy mcgeeRichard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Also FYI, the majority of Colorado River water used for farms is actually for cattle feed (alfalfa and hay). The minority of the agricultural water use is for food people eat directly, like wheat or produce. science.nasa.gov/missions/lan... 922468
Reposted by skippy mcgeeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built 4216591063
Reposted by skippy mcgeeLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026I can’t believe that liberals would rather be against the super mid position of defunding police rather than learn the definition of defund. But here we are. With schools defunded. Social safety nets defunded. Food safety defunded. Regulatory agencies defunded. In part because you never listened. 8443109
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 08/08/2026What kind of spider is this? Asking for the next time I hear a faint whassup coming from the spider corner 000
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Yeah but they would also then be aligned with reality instead of the author’s internal psychosis and why would you wanna disrupt that :/ 010
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Handily denuding it of all icing and fill within milliseconds 010
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 08/08/2026LOL I thought my neighbor just made a really weird mod to their Tesla 000
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 02/08/20264 with an asterisk. Don’t go making any big changes till you read that fine print 040
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 30/07/2026ok but what about those of us with gills? when will you think about us?? 000
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 23/07/2026But from the vat I’ll ladle out his organs soon Little boy blue’s old man now lives on the moon "When you comin' home, Dad?" "I don't know when, but I’ll almost digital then And you’ll live on in an injectable steri-pen“ 100
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 23/07/2026And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew He'd say, "I'm gonna be like you, Dad You know I'm gonna be like you" 120
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I got right to work keeping old age away He never learned to walk, he’s strapped down in the med bay 110
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 23/07/2026My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in an unusual way 130
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The thing in my teeth (present at the crucifixion) 000
Reposted by skippy mcgeeKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/06/2026I will obviously do a proper thread later of the big new UN report into AI environmental impacts but here is the link if anyone wants to have a look unu.edu/inweh/collec...unu.eduThe Environmental Cost of Artificial Intelligence: Carbon, Water, and Land FootprintsAI’s rapid growth drives huge energy, water, and land use, raising environmental and equity challenges across its global infrastructure. 5246145
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Others have claimed that this is unrealistic, and that the best way forward is for the middle class to receive 20% rebates on home poop shields 000
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 30/04/2026There remains no end in sight to the terror of the orbital poop fountains which have buried the land in millions of tons of poop. The opponents of the OPFs remain torn on the best strategy, with some saying the machines should be destroyed and replaced with new machines to clean up the poop. 100
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 16/03/2026boxd.it/bdsJwHboxd.itA ★★ review of One Battle After Another (2025)I know that One Battle After Another is only “inspired by” Vineland, not a direct adaptation, and it is transposed from the novel’s setting of 1984 to our present day, so I didn’t expect it to be comp... 001
skippy mcgee @consumer2049.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I’ve been reading headlines all day and I’m reading cat posts as metaphors help 000
Reposted by skippy mcgeeMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 05/03/2026If you've ever wondered how a Kentucky judge could threaten to bankrupt Oakland for the crime of bankrupting a coal company, have we got the long read for you: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/oaklandreviewofbooks.orgUnpaid DebtsIn the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as... 211634
Reposted by skippy mcgeeNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21% 318135962929
