Reposted by CalKayin @kayin.moe · 21hSomeone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse 972525756
Reposted by CalDragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.social · 8hOne of my favorite small youtube channels I found is this person who is younger than me and has been playing Daggerfall in increasingly obscure ways. Daggerfall came out when I was seven years old. 46016
Reposted by CalAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/10/2026how can you not want to read to a kid, you get to do all the voices and shit like what tf is wrong with these people 671932103
Reposted by CalCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8hIf AI wants people to like it, it should go rogue and shut down the public execution. 226416
Reposted by CalGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 8h~Accidentally~ hack the medical debt or student loan records. We'll let you put AI in our toothpaste if you do that. 524239
Reposted by CalMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8hIn her statement on the ICE shooting in New York, AOC specifically calls out Target. The congresswoman demands that the mega-corporation stop allowing ICE to stage paramilitary raids from its parking lots. migrantinsider.com/p/aoc-to-tar...migrantinsider.comAOC to Target: Stop Lending Your Bronx Parking Lots to ICEAfter federal agents fired into a car with a 5-year-old in the back seat, Ocasio-Cortez names the retailer that lawmakers say gave ICE a place to wait. 321429341
Reposted by CalKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 8hProductivity as an adult is just an endless process of applying new psychological tricks and operant conditioning to yourself until an acceptable number of tasks are completed. 592891465
Reposted by CalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7hThose norms are never, ever coming back if they cannot be at all even vaguely enforced by the people who claim their job is to enforce them. 1517
Reposted by CalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 7hDems have a problem that norms have long ago vanished, when every single day the president does another impeachable thing the response absolutely cannot be at all what Schumer and Jeffries keep saying and doing. 313944
Reposted by CalMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19hThis would sink a presidency in any other era. I would bet most Americans will never hear it even happened.wapo.stTrump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policyThe purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by his administration’s actions — and led by presidential ally Elon Musk. 6235841314
Reposted by CalThe Onion @theonion.com · 7hFBI Classifies Not Finishing Hamburger As Seditious Activity theonion.com/fbi-classifies-not-fin… 1775685
Reposted by CalCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 7hThe exact personalization I want for my software is for it to not contain AI. 648663
Reposted by CalDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 19hVery VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end. 10917164
Reposted by Calmolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 8hthe public execution is going to be a lot like the president’s birthday parade, i think. 1634739
Reposted by CalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Like, even snake oil salesmen had to promise their customers a benefit. This snake oil will heal your ailments. It will benefit you. You get something out of buying my snake oil. These fash tech dipshits can't even do that. It's just "if you buy my snake oil I get to have more money." 2642157
Reposted by CalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025When trump endorsed cuomo, he 100% guaranteed that when the next Hurricane Sandy hits, he'll *catastrophically* fuck up the disaster recovery on purpose just to punish New Yorkers. That disaster recovery is *already* guaranteed to be a clusterfuck, given how he has gutted every agency that'd help. 320036
Reposted by CalPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Consider how we all saw Trump's covid policy, enabled by Cuomo, of gleefully letting it rip in blue states and stealing whatever emergency funding and supplies he could wherever he could. We already know how happy he is to punish New Yorkers, it happened the last time he was president. 18111
Reposted by CalEmma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 8hI'm not going to get into it on Threads because I'm not a masochist, but sending your editorial notes to an author for a trad pub book that's already published is insane behaviour. The author vetted it, their editor did, a copyeditor, a proofreader...the book is written the way it is for a reason. 2735128
Reposted by CalEmma Cole @editrixemma.bsky.social · 8hReaders emailing authors and "correcting" the parts of the story or writing they think they could do better is ludicrous. Write your own book, or leave a review, or tell your friends, whatever. But don't expect the writer (or their editors) to respond positively to your fixes. 422411
Reposted by CalDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026When you have no concept of how people engage with music 5828260887
Reposted by CalCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026If you thought my characterisation of these bozos was unfair when I said "they think art is a solved equation" or that they didn't understand art: 730351
Reposted by CalCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Tacking this on here, so people can see some very cool upcoming indie games, many with demos you can try out for yourselves right now. If you're here for my disdain for AI, show up for neat indies too! 318318
Reposted by CalCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The cluelessness of this reminds me a lot of the NFT grift. The thing about NFTs was that it was mainly something finance bros were into, and when they were trying to worm their way into gaming, their pitches were an abyssal trench of bad ideas because they couldn't grasp why people played games. 393116853
Reposted by CalCasey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 7hI'm gonna be honest, I don't think these AI bros believe their own guff, this is the lie they think we want to hear. They're so up their own asses sniffing farts, they don't even care to work the crowd they're selling magical elixirs to that'll cure all your ailments and give you x-ray vision. 2454378
Reposted by CalAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 8hSatire silenced: Indian artists face censorship as anti-Modi protests grow aje.news/iuekmi 2256
Reposted by Calelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15hFascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables. 4494167
Reposted by CalHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h“Heinrich said Elgin Community College staff began to cover the cameras using black trash bags and zip ties so that they would not be able to capture footage. But workers in an unmarked vehicle, which Heinrich assumed belonged to Flock, repeatedly removed the coverings.” 58734
Reposted by CalHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 10h“Elgin Community College staff notified Flock in October 2025 that they wanted to cancel their contract and have the cameras taken down. Within a day, Heinrich said, Flock rejected the request and refused to uninstall the equipment on the basis that the company had not breached their agreement.”wbez.orgTo protect immigrant students, a Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused.Elgin Community College resorted to covering the surveillance cameras with trash bags and zip ties. Public records show that federal immigration authorities have accessed Flock data at other Illinois ... 714183
Reposted by Cal🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10hAI is a lack of consent machine , whose wide acceptance is forced based in the American imperialist project Where the desire to quantify and inhibit the movement of Indigenous and Enalaved/ formerly enslaved trumps the autonomy of all . 05521
Reposted by CalQuinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · 10hYes! I have been flabbergasted by how the AI companies keep telling us "omg, we could kill you! Better stop us!" And ppl frame it as incompetence rather than low key threats. They are telling us what they would do if they feel "forced". 063
Reposted by Cal🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 10hThese are threats . And I am so very conflicted concerning but mostly mind numbingly enraged at being asked to think of anybody who participates in this industry willingly as unaware . This is not how you build or work if you are COMPETENT let alone decent 27230
Reposted by CalKameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 11hI think a lot about what a different world we'd have if the algorithms rewarded heartwarming stories instead of rage bait. As I recall, they DID find people respond to happy/inspiring content ("I saved this dog!") very strongly. Rage bait just performed a *fraction* better. And they made a choice 516329
Reposted by CalDominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 08/10/2026"Tactical police RPG-" Uh oh... "-By Strange Scaffold" Sign me the fuck up. 326851
Reposted by CalKen Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 10hFast food chains *decorated their restaurants* with lynching decor. Emmett Till's memorial gets riddled with bullet holes. No matter how repugnant this policy is as an instrument of government: The purpose of a system is what it does. When we turn our gaze from racism, we reap what we sow.usatoday.comJoe’s Crab Shack apologizes for using photo of lynching as table decorThe photo showed white people watching a public execution of at least one black person. The caption reads, "All I said was that I didn't like the gumbo." 14829
Reposted by Calbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 101142614694
Reposted by CalZoë; commissions open! @tankpotzoe.bsky.social · 08/10/2026So significant they immortalised her in Lego form. RIP. 113518
Reposted by CalU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 11hIf you lose power during Hurricane Isaias and use a portable generator, remember to run it at least 20 feet away from your home. Never run a generator indoors. Carbon monoxide is a deadly gas you can't see or smell and it can kill in minutes. 7351160
Reposted by Calelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15hAs others pointed out, Farage lost multiple times before having a single victory. And every loss was accompanied with a media discourse playing up his influence. They kept that up until he actually won. 020748
Reposted by Cal🎃👻 peppermint.jack-o'-lantern 🎃👻 @peppermintjack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026it bums me out that Gooseworx poured so much of her self into Jax, a traumatized character whose psychic wounds makes her (wrongly!) feel like she’s a monster unworthy of love, and a sizable portion of the TADC fandom’s response was “yes this traumatized person deserves all their suffering & more” 16412
Reposted by Calzheida ➡️ COMMS OPEN @zheida.northsky.social · 17hcant believe i have to say this but maybe dont. use the ai stolen photoshop? i know we hate adobe but i thought we were all on board for not using the tools of the enemy 27322
Reposted by CalAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18hIslamic Relief calls for global action as deadly Israeli attacks in Gaza continue and humanitarian conditions worsen.aljazeera.comIsrael kills or wounds Palestinian every 90 minutes in Gaza since ceasefireIslamic Relief calls for global action as deadly Israeli attacks in Gaza continue and humanitarian conditions worsen. 312898
Reposted by CalAl Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18hMayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity.aljazeera.comICE agent shoots man in car with five-year-old child in New York: MayorMayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity. 1914960
Reposted by CalRav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 9hYeah, no shit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...theguardian.comUN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics liveCondemnation comes amid fierce backlash from US lawmakers who branded the move ‘grotesque’ and compared it to actions of some terror groups and oppressive governments 2446
Reposted by CalGloopQueen 💜💚 Boat Apologist @gloopqueen.bsky.social · 19hthere's a lot to make fun of here but I'd like to focus on the tiniest detail: a 1:1 of any given city would suck mondo ass as a GTA Map. His idea tripped and ate shit before he even got to the end 3387
Reposted by CalPhoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.latinsky.app · 23hThe cult of the blood god is at it again 0206
Reposted by CalAliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 13hNote: the headline is absolutely not what the report said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... (it was more measured and the actual risk of over diagnosis is based on "well numbers are increasing" which, you know, we could also say of cancer)bbc.co.ukADHD and autism at risk of over-diagnosis, says government reviewThe review, which focuses on younger people, warned there was a risk society was moving from an era of under-diagnosis to over-diagnosis. 15822
Reposted by CalWitchy Annie 🏳️⚧️ 🔞 @possmom.bsky.social · 08/10/2026When the US government is talking about livestreaming executions I don't want to see even one person harassing queer artists for drawing something "problematic" 613657
