Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 06/07/2025@seananmcguire.bsky.social Hi! I picked up some nice ponies at a friend's sale - do you have a list of who you're still looking for? 230
Reposted by Jean AycockKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 03/07/2025I regret to inform you all that I have been allowed inside an art museum. 382065111
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/07/2025@tkingfisher.com sometimes I'm in the store and just think, "Dang, I miss KUEC." 020
Reposted by Jean AycockCraig Shackleton @craigshackleton.com · 15/06/2025It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own. 107100002889
Reposted by Jean AycockMicah @rincewind.run · 12/06/2025there’s a reason bluesky is a retirement home for millennial posters - we grew up before algorithms and were not used to having content shoved in our faces unasked for we chose to click on those terrible threads ourselves 1254933830
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 04/05/2025When you visit the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix and all you can think of is @tkingfisher.com 's LJ posts from decades ago! The agave! The cacti! We've been trying to figure out if there's any possibly of keeping a Palo Verde alive in MS - perhaps a bonsai with its own dehumidifier? 020
Reposted by Jean Aycockderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...bloomberg.comWhy So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe RoganThe slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades. 249112472031
Reposted by Jean AycockBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now 147341406460
Reposted by Jean AycockJ Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in.. 6663033243
Reposted by Jean AycockSarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 11/04/2025TIMELINE CLEANSE: please enjoy this video of a 15-week-old puppy playing with a ball for the first time in her life. 321537
Reposted by Jean AycockKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Here is the top comment on this article: “You are advising responsible honest people who have worked hard, saved all their lives… to scale down their retirement dreams because a one person has decided to destroy the US economy. Why not write an article about how to get rid of the real problem?”nytimes.comHow to Protect Your Retirement Savings Now as Markets PlungeIf you’re within five years of retiring, either before or after, you’re at your most vulnerable financially. Here are steps to weather the volatility. 179105632968
Reposted by Jean AycockChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/04/2025Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating 8974572859
Reposted by Jean AycockJanel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 03/04/2025I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold 546286457006
Reposted by Jean AycockShane Harris @shaneharris.bsky.social · 24/03/2025In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...theatlantic.comThe Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War PlansU.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling. 772165066438
Reposted by Jean AycockGabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The same folks telling me to stop fighting against AI because it’s here to stay and humans are obsolete also told me ebooks were gonna be the end of physical books, the MiniDisc was the future of sound, I should invest all my money on NFTs, and crypto would quickly replace money. 1239596
Reposted by Jean AycockKingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 18/03/2025Just apply that to other small victories. Let people celebrate a goddamn butterfly without announcing that Trump will kill it. If we are not allowed to feel any joy, what are we even fighting so hard for? 745526
Reposted by Jean AycockMorgan Lockhart @mizdoomcookie.bsky.social · 24/02/2025The real story of Cassandra wasn't that she had magic powers it was that the bad guys test their strategies on those with the least power first and then execute them on a broad scale. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...salon.comWhat Musk's war on federal workers owes to Gamergate, the long-ago troll tantrumCulture war for the stupid era kicked off with video gamers mad at ladies who have sex 216052
Reposted by Jean AycockHipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 24/02/2025Can’t believe the knives are already out in the stores. The Ides of March gets more commercialized every year. 20396371638
Reposted by Jean AycockMikki Kendall @karnythia.blacksky.app · 13/02/2025So someone asked me to retell the story of the old lady that told me about killing her husband. Are we ready for a trip back in time to 1999? Some of you already know this story, but if you don't it is a wild ride. Apply all appropriate trigger warnings! 8534641080
Reposted by Jean AycockVictoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 10/02/2025The headline of this story says it all. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...pcgamer.comCourt documents show not only did Meta torrent terabytes of pirated books to train AI models, employees wouldn't stop emailing each other about it: 'Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn't feel rig...I wouldn't put that sort of thing in writing but I'm built different. 312279
Reposted by Jean AycockKat Flandermeyer @katflandermeyer.bsky.social · 10/02/2025funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread 242140634342
Reposted by Jean AycockBluesky @bsky.app · 06/02/2025happy first birthday to Bluesky, and what a year it's been! with every day, the need for an open network that puts people first becomes increasingly clear. we're glad to be building this with you. after all, the heart of a social network is the people. 344315233413742
Reposted by Jean AycockAmanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Saving the world before bedtime 334909800
Reposted by Jean AycockEndless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 05/02/2025AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH 06015
Reposted by Jean AycockDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Weird fash nerds running around inside the federal government twiddling knobs and flipping switches and going "what does this one do?" Getting big blobs of jelly on everything. Somehow no one is telling them to fuck off. Cards on the table I don't really care for any of this! 465065646
Reposted by Jean AycockJorge Escalante @escalante.bsky.social · 21/01/2025Who wants to see an airboat in snow?? (Video from Chase Businelle on Twitter) 16478139
Reposted by Jean AycockJay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 30/11/2024Why does nobody like the surf and turf turkey? 1786200311872
Reposted by Jean AycockYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 16/11/2024the 278 unbelievable things happening per day are a planned emotional DDOS attack; the shitbirds are counting on you perpetually being too glued to the latest thing to do anything about the previous thing suggestion: pick one action to take per week, in advance, and do it no matter what news breaks 151019373
Reposted by Jean AycockJohn Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Once again for the new folks. 7607156
Reposted by Jean AycockDan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024People will always be like “lmao they actually blocked me” yeah man I pressed two buttons to get rid of a weird guy and I’ll do it again 3938146
Reposted by Jean AycockJoseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · 21/05/2024remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works? 493184982
Reposted by Jean AycockKit Rocha @kitrocha.com · 17/05/2024Sometimes you just want an unbiased review to tell you the truth. I got you. amzn.to/3wrxIrA 13111
Reposted by Jean AycockAlthea 🚌🚏⛅️ @alymay.bsky.social · 14/05/2024In fairness, he did say he wanted to be a tampon 18817
Reposted by Jean AycockCass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · 06/05/2024::stares in LJ, Twitter, etc:: 510220
Reposted by Jean AycockKatie (she/they) @imagine0enigami.bsky.social · 22/04/2024Babe, babe wake up. New cursed discourse just dropped. (and yeah he probably has a cloaca) 161
Reposted by Jean AycockPassing Strange At Present @chimaera.bsky.social · 20/04/2024"People who menstruate will experience some 450 or so periods during the course of their lifetimes, so it would be nice to know the different effects they can have on the body, really." www.sciencealert.com/for-the-firs...sciencealert.comFor The First Time, Scientists Showed Structural, Brain-Wide Changes During MenstruationPeriod brain is real. 04220
Reposted by Jean AycockEelaware @eelaware.bsky.social · 20/04/2024Just in case you thought there was no good news 2355100
Reposted by Jean AycockCasey Jennings @rcjennings.bsky.social · 19/04/2024This is pretty wonderful. Thanks So Skynet will actually have Super Soakers and bifocals... 041
Jean Aycock @foxish49.bsky.social · 19/04/2024I have this book! It's the 1978 classic MacGoose's Grocery by Frank Asch & illustrated by James Marshall. It's the story of a family of geese who run a grocery store, and one by one leave someone else in charge until it's just their egg. Guess who gets blamed for the weasels' mess? 120
Reposted by Jean AycockAdam P Knave @adampknave.com · 01/04/2024"Look, I know it doesn't work, and it hasn't worked, and it probably won't work, but even so I need you to stop what you're doing and use it, because one day it might work so you should just use it, and only it, now, even though it doesn't work now. What's your damn problem here?" -- AI Bros. 5363116
