Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialLiz Faber @lizwfab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The number of times I have wanted to write “this has been talked about extensively you’re just 21” on a student’s paper cannot be calculated in human numerals. 111360214
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialMallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 02/07/2026I feel like portraying it as a fringe theological dispute between catholic sects over the 2nd vatican council and finger pointing over who's a heretic, rather than as a conflict with a fringe far right sect that says Jews are going to hell and Muslims are rapists hides the general interest aspect. 21190313
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I think he’s baiting them to admit it’s code for other stuff “oh, you guys like the Latin Mass? that’s what this is about? Latin? nothing else? no weird creepo vibes? no stochastic terrorism? just Latin, the language, completely on its own? sure, go ahead!” 151118105
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026this line is a banger and it really crystallizes what’s wrong with the reactionary far right just about everywhere. what is “tradition”? who gets to decide what we keep and what we toss out and how it evolves? 71108117
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 08/10/2025 3411115
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialTommy Siegel @tommysiegel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025ok this joke might be a little too specific 263515902
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialChris Mohney @chrismohney.bsky.social · 28/11/2025really went dark for the sequel 152137862118
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 29/11/2025"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!" "no problem boss. i'm on it" 97102782071
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialSAM Retro @retroman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Casio QL-10 (1981) You’ve heard it a million times growing up; don’t play with matches. Well folks, the Calcu-Lighter ain’t no match. 1220436
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 30/11/2025 121933
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialJamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 29/11/2025IMO, it raises the question of how useful are executives? 3607163
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 29/11/2025Shadow Of The Colossus reskin where you play as a cat trying to take down a Christmas tree. 417948
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialBlaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 24/11/2025 4349791867
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 29/11/2025Btw we already had someone to do 11.7% of work tasks, they were called "a secretary" and the suits decided it was cheaper to make everyone do their own emails and schedules. But you can add up any number of secretaries and still not get one programmer, or architect, or nurse. 532926
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 25/10/2024 3661226
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 26/10/2024 18721
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialW.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22/11/2025AOC on MTG retiring: "She's carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in and after making millions of dollars insider trading stocks for weapons manufacturers and others while in office." 11567411971
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialAimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 22/11/2025Sometimes I have to double-take what I read because as I write about real robots w/real artificial intelligence that are actually people struggling against a society that views them as things instead, I read "the robots are people too" and go YEAH then remember what timeline I'm in and go "WAITAMIN" 113929
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialAmy @NYCC Artist Alley A-14 @amymebberson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025So IG & TT are full of Gen X/Millenials lamenting all the STUFF that dying-off Boomers are leaving them to deal with… Just saying… SORT THAT SHIT before calling in the dumpster.. you NEVER KNOW! 38919
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialKane Kisaragi @kanekisaragi.bsky.social · 22/11/2025OMG @whiskeypup.bsky.social Our dinnertable just had the best idea ever. Next Magic Set: The Great Planeswalker Bake Off. 281
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's OK to snitch on Nazis ABS Always Be Snitching (on Nazis) 123860
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialThe Bookwench 🇨🇦🐱🏳️🌈 @shiftercat.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Just like a basketball! 0101
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025People were arguing in my mentions today about whether the Earth is "round" when it's technically an irregular oblate spheroid and look "round" doesn't mean "absolutely perfect sphere" it means round. A soccer ball is round, a cantaloupe is round, a fluffy borb in winter is round, just go with it. 1814548373
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax. 19977081903
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/11/2025It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it. 8655831573
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialResting Lich Face @paullicino.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government. 148162252290
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialDoug Lindner @douglindner.bsky.social · 22/11/2025I don’t know what her next act will be but please keep in mind you do not ever have to hand it to Marjorie Taylor Greene 321276162
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialGillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025It's so rare to see the old world dying and the new world struggling to be born in the same room together 1053380
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialChristopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 21/11/2025the article says it best: yeah, climate change makes these problems *worse*, but the core issue is just people being wasteful and stupid. Which is really the thing with climate change: it mostly just removes room for error from so many decisions, creating catastrophe trees everywherescientificamerican.comIran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological CatastropheThe decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame 1216
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Rave Pope? [nods] Rave Pope. 1225457
mcalcock.bsky.social @mcalcock.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Went Linux nearly a year ago, when I needed a new desktop urgently and have despised every Windows since 7 with increasing ire. Sure, some things don't quite work (or are more trouble than I can be arsed to figure out), but no regrets. 130
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialA hot dog hollers @birdrespecter.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Shot + chaser 4448051952
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialNash @radiodeadair.com · 21/11/2025It's also remarkable how evident it is that Trump isn't a person anymore so much as a placeholder, a loud, obnoxious empty suit. He's not in charge of anything. He's just humored now and then, for the sake of manipulation. What a pathetic situation for all of us. 113119
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor 366161053079
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialFestinaut @festinaut.bsky.social · 20/11/2025"capitalism is the only system that allows innovation" and the innovation is just "what if we paid the serfs less?" 129624
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 20/11/2025private equity buys a company and immediately starts torturing their employees and the money 31981782082
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialMemento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Not only is it infuriating that guys like RFK Jr and Dr Oz are destroying public trust in vaccines by falsely linking them to autism, but it's just fucking embarassing that we have those two dipshits in charge of (formerly) prestigious institutions containing some of the top scientists and doctors 9735116
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialHelioscope @helioscopepdx.bsky.social · 06/09/2023Let's reshare an old thread from Jesse Hamm's "Hamm Tips" account. Jesse wrote: "There's a tragic urge, lately, to add subtle shading to every shape; a temptation to over-explain forms whose contours already explain them." 312217721
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 20/11/2025Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad 7263136585
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialNateMing on Elm Street @nateming.bsky.social · 18/11/2025OH WELL WHY NOT 382017768
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialMike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 19/11/2025Fish have committed credit card fraud 6243821450
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialJon Negroni @jonnegroni.bsky.social · 19/11/2025not surprised a movie about deconstructing harmful black-and-white narratives that promote violence and knee-jerk hatred of the other is unpopular with evangelicals 119796
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 19/11/2025If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void. 502098513
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialJay @jaycubed2k.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Target: how do we turn around public perception of our brand? We need to do something that everyone will love... 66993238
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialThe Devouring Mother @ragnell.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Instead of a bailout they shoukd seize the assets of every executive involved in pushing and developing this tech for the MASSIVE fraud conspiracy. 12510
Reposted by @mcalcock.bsky.socialPanning for Particles @iareed.bsky.social · 19/11/2025At long last, after countless hours, massive theft, and more money you can understand, we've achieved Babage's dream: a computer that can't do math 093
