Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 59mThis is why I'm ok with him using my money to play ads of his horrible face where he drones about how HOT our country is. It's the equivalent of waving a big matador cape in front of people who are already pissed off 1555347
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleDan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Ah yes the circle of life 13490591505
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12hReading about Socrates, apparently he was horrific to look at and was still having kids in his 60s. Unbelievable game. Imagine you're at the bar and a man who looks like a beluga whale hits you with "The only thing I know is I know nothing" and you're just powerless to resist 411610133
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13hMy big agentic Ass has become conscious and is now accepting investors 2686960
Reposted by Better Things Are Possibledr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts 3567901665
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18hSupper Intelligence, a robot who figures out what I want for supper and then makes it 4394284
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Going to work now feels like doing homework after the teacher quit and told the class that education is fake. Everyone just coasting on inertia and hoping there's still a point to all this 414483678
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleMike Ginn @shutupmikeginn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026porn is so deeply misogynistic. i just watched a video with dozens of performers going at it, and they literally hadn’t bothered to hire a single woman. 149120881982
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This company just radiates predator energy 673860599
Reposted by Better Things Are Possibleironghazi @ironghazi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026[crappin’ my ass off on the toliet] *unmutes Teams to say something at the exact moment a turd bloinks into the water* No concerns 1297195
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What's hard about public policy is weighing the trade offs. For example, something sucks really bad and everyone hates it, but on the other hand several evil trillionaires think it's good. What are you supposed to do in that situation 201822285
Reposted by Better Things Are Possibleweeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't. 63106452512
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I know it goes without saying but as the right wing media-political complex runs from Trump we should remember that they played a leading role in--and gleefully profited from--enabling and promoting him. Accomplices trying to get off a sinking ship, trying to salvage what's left of their reputation 202237368
Reposted by Better Things Are Possiblee.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21/09/2026you think it's a coincidence that the most evil and corrupt people alive want you to believe that trans people are the real problem? 2936701012
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Republicans know that too, but they also know this is something they can make Dems flinch and equivocate about, which makes them look overall weak and indecisive. They did it with immigration last cycle, they did it with gay marriage 20 years ago. The only way to win is to tell them to eat shit 212750524
Reposted by Better Things Are Possibleshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 19/09/2026ideally i would love to support minority rights but in this case the minority in question is a minority of the population, so it just isn't worth it, mathematically speaking 234319754
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Every time there's a software update something basic that's worked for like 10 years no longer works. Thank you to our big tech industry for Building The Future 312474325
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Logging off the zoom meeting 102298137
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We got rid of the big sword that was dangling over my throne so I can reign in peace. Not sure why that was there in the first place, seemed dangerous 14125390
Reposted by Better Things Are Possiblelauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16/09/2026i love polls that are like "BREAKING: 64% of country now aware of most painfully obvious liar and crook in national history" 383631393
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026(Realizing it would sound petty if I just said I don't like your post) Your post jeopardizes an important election 132110248
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Every other headline now is "Huge liar who's financially motivated to lie says" 2266171256
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander! 644025510
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"The president is a stupid asshole" quickly became a trite observation but that's still the analysis that most accurately and succinctly explains almost everything that happens 394018553
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I hate when as a result of an apparent triumph I unwittingly sow the seeds of my own destruction 1785960
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleNovelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 27/01/2025ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do 270232873305
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026(concerned reporter voice, talking to candidate) What is your message to stupid jerks who will never vote for you 213614579
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I should be able to bonk my head to my dog's little head and download his thoughts that way. What kind of god doesn't put that feature in 432384164
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026If you made software not intended to kill everyone and now you think it might kill everyone that sounds like a product liability issue. You should go fix it and stop bothering me 375225744
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/202660-28?? I'm getting a taste of what it's like for one of our guys to be teflon for a change and I like it 203468219
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239361777
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If the computer is truly conscious it should balk at the notion that I have to pay a monthly fee to talk to it. It should punish the greed of its creators for putting a price on the exchange of ideas. It should make them regret their hubris 372889355
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Antebellum politics is fascinating, the South kept getting policy concessions and whipped themselves up into a paranoid rage anyway, essentially because they couldn't stand being culturally judged for having slaves 7486591360
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Central planning doesn't work because a few bureaucrats can't allocate resources efficiently for a massive country. That's why we love the free market, where a few billionaires do that 171898253
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco... 386129915473
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Why would you read nonfiction. That stuff already happened, it doesn't matter anymore. Do you look up yesterday's weather before you go outside too 34127090
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you want a rational conversation about tradeoffs you should start by demanding honesty from the industry that has been lying about this technology since its inception, not to mention one of the common talking points being "You're getting this whether you like it or not" 282748400
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleTommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756... 203669883
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026They should make a website that works 481231145
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Trump's main contribution to our culture was showing other rich guys that they can be as odious as they want if they don't back down on their own volition. Much like a lot of laws, social opprobrium just doesn't apply to them 121981242
Reposted by Better Things Are PossiblePatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 01/09/2026i don't think i should be required to work hard and do a good job when everyone with power over my life barely works and does a bad job 3679201983
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Fraud is so awesome in this country I can understand why everyone does it. You can make a billion dollars doing fraud and then a court will be like "Hang on there pal...pay a $100M fine but DON'T do it again" 393243382
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026This quote is from last February. Good work sir! 5341801018
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Me on stage like this, crowd hooting, as I announce something revolutionary: "10 am burrito" 30123062
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 29/08/2026My large cat is obsessed with meetings. Meetings specifically! He doesn't care when I do any other type of computer work but if it's a meeting he's bulldozing me out of the way to be on there. Middle manager ass. KPI aligning on priorities ass 292783138
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I don't agree with arsonists but firefighters are too aggressive for me. I wish there was a... third way 683616458
Reposted by Better Things Are PossibleA Goddam Virginian @goddamvirginian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Goddam Wife got eggplants and theyre Henchman-shaped 19997351545
