Reposted by Lorpius PrimeGlonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 2hall 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. 2139261
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 5hI 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 · 16hI think the overall trend for Texas politics is really, really bad for Democrats because the government has been drifting from effectively-libertarian patrician democracy towards right-wing populism. But this election might be a brief, wild interruption. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 16hVisited 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 · 11/10/2026Jae they needed to invest in their future by building a city shaped like a wall and financing American legacy media mergers. 110
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 · 06/10/2026The quick-witted and sarcastic Mutsumi bullies an indecesive, fainting Sakiko, sure. Tomori swears like a sailor in Portuguese. Of course. Anon is a licensed pilot. Yes. Pure genius. 010
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
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I'm imagining the looks on his bridge officers' faces when Captain Keyes drew out that pistol and handed it to Master Chief. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 04/10/2026How could you possibly sleep knowing that person is still out there? 100
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 · 03/10/2026Do you cook salami? I always think of it as a cold cut. 000
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 · 03/10/2026lol, it gave me São Paulo and the Weimar Republic. I don't think I buy this one. 010
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 · 02/10/2026I did miss that! And yet I still think people would bet on it again. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They don't. Looks like "larping" and "brainrot" are the only words >1%. I think you would get more bettors for slop. 110
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 · 01/10/2026My mental model for the current crop of gen-AI tools has been that they may be quite useful for people who understand the tasks they're performing well enough to quickly check and judge their work, but extremely suspect for users who don't. After a day of tinkering I think that's still where I am. 010
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No instant output of magic perfect documents. But it didn't do anything obviously stupid and was verbose enough for me to evaluate its steps. I could very much see the paths leading to skill rot and stunting beckoning. But also I'm not sure I care much about my personal mastery of spreadsheeting. 110
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
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026He always looked to me like he wandered in from a completely different tv show but was politely excited to hang out with so many weirdos. 010
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 · 27/09/2026The US Patent Office eventually required anyone patenting a perpetual motion machine to present a working example with their application. I think we've long since reached the point where this principle should apply to everything. 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
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I'm with you but I think some people do just really appreciate certain outfits. 010
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
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I think a fun application of this would be to send someone a package that is clearly and correctly labeled and compliant with all of these rules, but the inner receptacle is just empty. 011
Lorpius Prime @lorpius-prime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I haven't watched the show but I like the sentiment of that final sentence. Whatever the context, hell yes. 010
