Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Have had this problem myself. Utter nonsense, despite the name, is not optional. At some point everything breaks if the utter nonsense quota isn’t met. 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Over the record by 25% of the range for the past 35 years. Seems like something had to break or some tipping point had to be crossed to get here. 040
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Went home and put on “Black Metallic”. Kid #2 - a 20 year old emo kid who went with us but stood much closer to the stage than us for the show - said “Interpol has multiple songs that sound just like this”. 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026At an Interpol show even though I’ve always found them too derivative. Got all excited b/c I thought they were starting the encore with a Catherine Wheel cover, but… 100
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Just saw it Thursday evening. Really the only improvements I can think of would be a Marvin the Martian cameo and fully 2D animation. Spouse volunteered a willingness to see it again, which is high praise indeed. 140
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And monkfish ARE an anglerfish! The fishmonger around the corner from me used to put a monkfish head on ice in the window with a squid in its mouth. Definitely got the attention of kids walking to school. 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Don’t forget: tripod fish flounder cookie cutter shark leafy seadragon 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pornography the Cure album or pornography movies of sex? 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026That’s it right there, that’s the whole thing, that’s how we do it 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Dude doesn’t understand the difference between managing a business and managing an economy 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hey if “destroyed the Beauty and Glorious History of the Building” is criteria to lose a job… 030
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Or maybe it was already a national story and I just hadn’t encountered it yet? 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The general story was on NPR tonight so it’s a national story now. www.npr.org/2026/09/29/n...npr.orgHistoric science museum in Philadelphia to closePhiladelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences is set to close down thanks to financial pressures. The 198-year-old museum houses important scientific specimens and a beloved dinosaur exhibit. 111
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Is this something we care about b/c of the Frank rule or something like that, or just palace intrigue? 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Yeah. AI doesn’t have volition or liability, the people setting it in motion do. I once again refer the folks setting AI in motion to my pinned tweet. bsky.app/profile/knil... 000
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah, no point in going there again if you don’t have the votes. 001
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026You’ve been asked to program a Ridley Scott “Scottober” film program for <favorite movie house> and get to do whatever you want: speakers, double features (Spartacus & Gladiator, for example), whatever. What’s your schedule look like? 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s also an excuse to pay good writers (the ones writing the reviews) 100
Reposted by Tom LumberjackScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.nytimes.comF.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan CollinsThe inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials. 24982263350
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Was at Royal Ontario Museum in the spring & a docent came up to me w/some poop-shaped rocks & said “what does this look like to you?” and I was all “oh that’s coprolite.” Was impressed that she did not miss a whole beat on continuing her spiel. 040
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Starting to think Butlerian Jihad Accelerationism is a good idea 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Probably just my lack of restraint with their menu compared to my usual 3/4 C of granola with currants. The fat content on the irresistible hash brown bowl slows me down for a few hours. 110
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Do you have a trick where eating there isn’t the opposite of training? Because the few times I’ve eaten there (and enjoyed it, don’t get me wrong) it’s like an anti training session. 110
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Wondering if the era where every value Republicans have ever held is subservient to winning & power will ever draw to a close 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Why do I keep wanting to respond to skeets of yours with “stupidest possible timeline”? I think this skeet from the thread is worth repeating. bsky.app/profile/segy... 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How has the USA become an unreliable ally? Let me count the ways… 000
Reposted by Tom LumberjackJohn Cassidy @johncassidysays.bsky.social · 17/09/2026What a fiasco. 2328656
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026AI may kill us all, but it’ll be via cognitive surrender and something vital that we’ve delegated to them breaking in an unfixable way (my Eloi theory) 050
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That’s like secondary pulp. Like in the sense of primary sources and secondary sources, that’s secondary pulp. And the President of the United States of America is microblogging on the topic. Not just the dumbest timeline, the dumbest possible timeline. 170
Reposted by Tom LumberjackDoctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026Anyway here is my plea: please don’t surrender weird sex stuff (even cringey, ill-advised weird sex stuff) to the fash. They don’t deserve custody. 218234
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I’m nominating this one youtu.be/G3_4PoRwRTM?...youtu.beStar Trek - SabotageYouTube video by Flashback FM 010
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Yeah. We Olds don’t know how to process this high of an uncertainty floor as “normal”. Does “steady state at the sustained uncertainty baseline” pass for normal? 010
Reposted by Tom Lumberjackcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13/09/2026is it literally that easy lmao 61231147
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It was kind of like the classic Sci Fi trope of “Earth sends out a wave of colonization and 100 years later we’re visiting colonies to figure out what happened”. 050
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026That’s the CMTS side of a CATV broadband network. At a prev employer there were acquisitions that were many tiers deep. Sometimes the only way to figure out WTF was going on in a market was to go there and talk to people - especially the smart front-line people who didn’t end up on conference calls. 140
Tom Lumberjack @knilb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s mostly just the UI that differs, because no one actually likes sustained use of VR 010
