Reposted by Lorpius PrimeGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 1hall the people who are like "the middle class was better off in the 1950s" have not reckoned with the census data that says 33% of American households used chamber pots in 1950. 1933249
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 4hI need to become one of those cartoon super villains that has tubes constantly pumping them full of fluid, so that my fluid can be chocolate milk. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 15hVisited my parents in their relatively rural part of Texas. I saw exactly one political lawn sign on any nearby properties. And that was a giant fence banner for the Democratic senator and governor candidates. First time I've thought the state Republicans might actually be doomed this cycle. 110
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 11/10/2026It might be time for carriage return and enter to become different keys upon our keyboards. 011
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I need to figure out how to apply for jobs without experiencing extremely bad mental health episodes. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Welp. Received the first openly racist political campaign text I've seen. James Talarico apparently hates white people. I wish Texas Democrats were even half the threat to their ideals our local bigots imagine. It's hard to recreate Sherman's march while keeping one foot in your mouth at all times. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Legendary computer scientist Margaret Hamilton apparently died last week. I'm a little bit embarrassed that, notwithstanding her contributions to so much science and technology that I love, I particularly remember her as the subject of the sexiest photograph ever taken of a human being. 010
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeAlon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products. 420031
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Dressing for bed and my undershirt tore in a way that would look extremely erotic on a lady but is just kind of goofy and uncomfortable on me. 020
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I say this as someone who does not go out as much as I would like in part because babysitting is so expensive but the "affordability crisis" being the reaction of suddenly being asked to pay market wages for feminized labor but it's gig work and not gender equality, uh, has explanatory value. 2383
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 06/10/2026MyGo/Ave Mujica fan art and comics continue to be funnier the less the characters behave like themselves. 110
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I still read lots of reddit comments, and I feel like the average level of literacy has fallen steeply over the last year or two. Maybe I'm just becoming even grumpier, but it's hard not to wonder if I'm seeing the AI-driven cognitive decline in action. 020
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeKevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 04/10/2026One consequences of the left's hostility to economics is that they rally behind solutions that will probably make things worse. Economics is not the enemy of the left, and hasn't been for nearly half a century 310016
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeCTHUEL HURAMCHEK 🎃 @greaterrealityarea.net · 25/09/2026DYLAN: "Zoe. I'm at the field hospital. It's... not looking good." ZOE: "Shit. Is there anyone alive?" DYLAN: "There's someone here, at the front desk." ZOE: "And the staff?" DYLAN: "One doctor. He's okay. Just distressed." ZOE: "And the civilians?" DYLAN: "Only one. A woman on a bed. She's crying." 8479131
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I always read the alt text on images and I find it fascinating how different artists describe their works. I definitely think there's an art to a good description, and I hope it's not detrimental to the accessibility purpose when the alt text gets whimsical. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I was uncharacteristically intrigued by the latest Fire Emblem because of the lady with the gun. But now that people are playing it I don't think I've seen any fanart or screenshots involving a lady with a gun. 020
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The Brazilian elections suck so much. Lula was always kind of mediocre as a national leader, but he's really turned himself into a villain by tying his country's democratic future to his personal political success. 020
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Just realized I left a big pile of naan in the microwave at work. Wondering how badly I'm going to regret not driving back to remove that come Monday. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I've finally used up my giant box of KN95 face masks and am pondering if I should spring for some actual N95 ones next. Annoyed I can't get them in as large quantities. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I have not bought socks in many years. Have there been improvements in consumer socks technology in the last decade? 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Gotta love discovering information that dramatically recontextualizes more memories than I can possibly hope to recall. Anyway it turns out fans of dubbed anime do not have a convention called Dubcon. 230
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Work had me doing more AI interaction than I ever have before. Using Google Gemini, of all services, to kludge together spreadsheets for a bunch of information that has been getting horribly unwieldy into more integrated and useful forms. It seemed to work fine. 100
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026almost spat out my fucking tea 3839
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I went to a Chinese buffet Saturday. As usual they gave me a fortune cookie with my bill. But inside was missing any paper fortune. I sat a while staring at cookie shards and thinking about the weird traditions and expectations that exist around the institution of Chinese restaurants in my culture. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In the grand scheme of society, software patents are a substantially smaller problem than copyrights. But they are so much more viscerally upsetting and obviously stupid to anyone who spends the slightest amount of time interacting with them. 100
Reposted by Lorpius Primeabigbatchofcumber @bigbatchofcumber.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Still one of my favorite bits of writing ever. 3557108
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Currently trawling through dozens of news articles about a UN delegate giving a statement endorsed by many countries, literally none of which provide the full statement or list the countries. I wish to wring the necks of every single one of these "journalists" and their editors. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In the transhumanist future, people will simply pop over to their local public libraries and borrow different genitals whenever they would like. 010
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026when the fascists say we just need to get rid of people, if your response is to argue about which people and how, you have already stepped into their frame to play their game of make believe you need to eat their frame: nobody goes! 335274
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 20/09/2026it seems unreasonable, but drenching a pizza with powdered parmesan cheese does make it significantly better. I wonder if this works with other things. 021
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeJinti is Making Passive Notice Checks @jinti.bsky.social · 16/09/2026y'all should push for Universal Basic Income 'cuz artists that aren't stressin' over rent and groceries and taxes all the time WILL draw freakier, more unmarketable shit 3977733016
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 16/09/2026So is Fortune's Weave the one where a lady has a gun? 110
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Got my first unsolicited political text trying to scare me about transgender people in sports. They still haven't figured out where I actually live so it's mistargeted ideologically and geographically. 100
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Countries with republican central governments but hereditary monarchies as regional governments are the most difficult configuration for me to wrap my mind around. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Predictably, I have been told that if German politicians do not want neo-Nazis to win elections, they should simply "address the concerns" of their voters. When asked for clarification, I am informed that the concerns in question are racism. 110
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I think all cities should be built on giant stilts so that infrastructure can be easily laid and accessed without needing to dig. If the stilts are tall enough we could also make an awesome transportation layer while leaving streets walkable. 310
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I find military history of very poor societies much more fascinating than wealthy ones. I think it's because conflicts in the rich world tend to hinge on boring organizational mastery. But poor countries are prone to "the battle turned after three guys in a garage got drunk and built a contraption". 000
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026One thing that really worries me about the future is that the US national debt might actually become a real problem, and while Trump is blowing a hole in the budget a lot of Dems are telling us they can build a Nordic welfare state while cutting all our taxes. 437654
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Amused by this one Ave/Mygo fanartist drawing comics of the characters in which they act *nothing* like themselves, because they're funny enough I don't care. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I think Mayor Mamdani is mildly overrated, but would mostly prefer not to think about him or New York City politics at all. Anyone who wants to exclude him from 9/11 memorial events should be kicked in the teeth and shunned until they repent their bigotry. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 09/09/2026The only Zelda game I ever owned or played much of was A Link to the Past. If Nintendo ever remade that one with modern graphics in a full 3D space, I might feel some temptation to buy a Nintendo console. But probably not very much. 001
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 08/09/2026In case this wasn’t obvious, a core reason I talk about USAID and Elon Musk’s historically-hideous mass murdering actions all the time is because he must not be allowed to get away with it. 8599152
Reposted by Lorpius PrimeOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026if it took you 5 seconds of contemplation to think of an alternative you should take at least another 5-10 to at least consider the possibility that it at least crossed the minds of 1 or 2 of the people who dedicate their lives and research careers to dealing with the problems we post about on here 282379299
Reposted by Lorpius Primemtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026this was the exact outcome that the "the economy under Biden (when unemployment was 3% and wages for lower-income workers were increasing rapidly) sucks" push was meant to engineer and it worked. 151037261
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Wish I had been able to snap a photo of the Cybertruck I saw covered in Evangelion graphics. It was somehow the ugliest I've ever seen either a Cybertruck or Evangelion artwork look. Nothing at all meshed well. 110
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I'm afraid I no longer think building a chip foundry of our own will help very much. We're gonna have to build like a hundred of the things. And probably a fuckton of additional infrastructure to supply the inputs. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Bought a cheap sketchbook on a whim. It has a picture of a horse on the cover, which feels like a taunt. 000
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Sometimes I get logged out of a site or I see someone else's browser without my settings and extensions. Then I am reminded that to most people websites look like some horrible cacophony of graphics and moving pictures rather than a clean, legible scroll of text. 120
