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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 3h

Literally doing stalinist purges in the middle of a war we're losing. This man is a world historic military moron.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h

Most TV is just this now.

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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 5h

Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 17h

Honestly, I wouldn't put it past Sand to appoint a Republican.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Damn, maybe it was a bad idea to put a couple podcasters in charge and fire a bunch of people.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excited for this to be Iowa's version of Wisconsin's Foxcon TV factory: loudly tauted by Republicans, lavishly subsidized with taxpayer funds and giveaways, never ultimately materializes in anything like the promised form.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

if you show me an AI video you are my enemy

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I talk about it a lot, but an invaluable experience for me as a pretentious precocious kid was getting lovingly humiliated by some older online friends when I was trying to show off how smart I was. You can always tell the types who never experienced that kind of humbling.

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michael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"it's good to be evil actually" is sophistry, obviously, but what you need to understand is that it is literally just ayn rand talking points rewritten. they keep doing this!

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not sure if 2008 me would have believed that the ultimate regrouping of the right in America would be an alliance between the evangelicals and a gay billionaire who says it's good to be evil.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Drone delivery is one of those ideas that proves the big tech firms are run or at least beholden to morons, because it's obviously completely unworkable/undesirable at scale if you think about it for more than like five seconds.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My only thought about the interview coffee thing is "wow, people still get in-person interviews?" I didn't meet face to face with a single person when I was doing my internal job hunt a few years ago.

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 25/09/2026

nobody in the 21st Century is the first person to have an idea, you don't need to rush to the replies to let them know for sure. we just out here having fun and riffing could you please consider having a relax

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

*Just reviewed mortgage paperwork voice* Interest is a black magic spell cast by evil math wizards

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The way America has handled tech is as though 19th century China, instead of banning opium and fighting several wars to try and keep it out, had instead been like "lol, this stuff rules, everyone has to smoke like five opium pipes a day. Except kids, who can only have two pipes a day after school."

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not seeing Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law anywhere on that NYT list SMH

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ignore The Devil All the Time and instead imagine Hope is on this list.

Resident Evil, Transformers: The Movie, Dead Man's Wire, The Devil All the Time

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Going to go hard for my birthday this year (get the COVID/flu vax double tap right before the weekend in case I get any side effects).

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Lol, Xi's had his ear for a couple hours and Trump's ready to tell US automakers to get fucked.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Doing a first time homebuyer online class and this earnestly presented graphic is just the dril candles tweet.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

TRUMP’S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS “Was the bravest boy at the doctor and only cried twice” “Remembered to flush two hours later” “Didn’t throw dinner vegetables at Natalie” “Voted ‘Best Napper’ unanimously by every administration member”

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Increasingly think my joke that the rationalism/EA/AI-risk movement was mostly just an effort by middle age nerds to get sexual access to teens and twentysomethings is maybe not entirely a joke

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Other than being kind of grimly entertaining, the lesbian bar article doesn't really say anything more profound than "selfish assholes exist in all communities and you have to be willing to police their behavior if you want to maintain that community".

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is just the program working as intended.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Literally laughed out loud at the trailer for the Endgame rerelease they're doing ahead of Doomsday. Something incredibly grim about treating a seven year old movie with the same gauzy nostalgia that, like, the recent Star Trek rereleases got.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think not infrequently about the much less often commented on but still extremely astute detail in 1984 that The Party has made a point of enabling gambling as a way to keep the proles down.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Big Half Price Movie Night success with Resident Evil. Tons of fun with an audience.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dave's Hot Chicken is not agreeing with me.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not to be crude about it, but it never ceases to amaze me that Republicans can get away with truly poisonous Islamophobia in domestic politics, while happily waving through the sale of huge swathes of institutional America to foreign Muslim monarchists.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Boebert really is the perfect avatar for the suburban/exurban white business class slice of the Republican coalition.

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Andrew Quemere @andrewqmr.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Your kid not wanting to talk with you because you're a giant piece of shit is not a political problem for the rest of us to solve. Look inward.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

i mean, just look at how the populists talked about the railroad barons and others like them. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger liberty."

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My dog (who has a UTI) broke out of my house (I left the door unlatched) and peed on my neighbor's rose bushes. This is clear evidence that the dog is going to pee on everything in town, which is why the mayor needs to sign a law saying the dog can't do that and you all need to give me $50,000.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Leftover Crock-Pot Vegetables and Chicken Curry is becoming one of my signature dishes.

A bubbling pot of curry with a wooden spoon in it.

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foaming pipe snake @guntoucher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

ISAAC CHOTINER: well mr. cruise, im impressed. you've given me absolutely nothing TOM CRUISE: [weirdly aggressive handshake] its been a pleasure. what was the name of that series you mentioned? ISAACH CHOTINER: dragonball z TOM CRUISE: goku, right. excellent, thanks for having me

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Really glad I finally hauled my ass to the theater to see Hope (bought and refunded tickets to it twice earlier this week because I was too tired/lazy). Movie is totally baffling but absolutely thrilling and phenomenally entertaining. Some of the best action film making I've seen in a hot minute.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Been spending a lot of time reading and thinking about ancient Mesopotamia and it has left me convinced that 21st century America is ripe for a revival of municipal paganism. The average American would absolutely love to have an awe-inspiring building in their town where they could go and leave

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

At the risk of making polisci guys and political pundits feel old, I think it's long past time they got some more recent touchpoints than the Daisy and Willy Horton ads, which both relied on now antiquated media and that the average American was not alive to experience.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The AI industry right now is as if a bunch of obsessive Gundam fans managed to actually build giant robots and within three years of that were like "Whoa, hold on, these things can be used for WAR? And war is BAD?"

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the first thing Democrats should do in 2029 is to tax the sale of voting dual-class stock according to its percentage of the total control of the corporation rather than its book value

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's the same dearth of imagination where broader culture loves to envision zombie apocalypses, Mad Max wastelands, and survivalist utopias, but the far more likely gradual slide into decrepitude and poverty are unimaginable and therefore goes unadressed.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Democratic strategists: Ahhh! What's the right message!!?? Where do we moderate!?!? Jon Ossoff: This administration is horrible. I hate these people. We should put them in jail. I'm pissed Voters: This guy is cool Strategists: I can't figure it out!!!!!

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My accidental early 2010s Ben Mendelson/Ray Liotta Supporting Actor Banger double feature was the highlight of my week.

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Grumpy Rootbeer @grumpyrootbeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Age 20 me would be mildly disappointed, but age 22 me would be shocked I hadn't killed myself and am actually pretty happy with my life after everything that's happened.

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