Reposted by McDyerNational Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Pope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him.bit.lyPope nixes 'virtual pope' idea, explains concerns about AIPope Leo XIV said a proposal to create an AI-version of him so people could have a virtual audience with the pope pretty much horrified him. 531466300
Reposted by McDyerChris Ingraham @cingraham.bsky.social · 02/10/2026why does the WaPo print headline on the botched TN execution read like The Onion 622230296
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Chicken of the woods, but make it fashion. #mushrooms #fungifriends 1263
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Woman who believes private homes should be inspected like restaurants, and everyone's ratings should be posted above their doorbell. Guests have a right to know. 010
Reposted by McDyerParis Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 1533451490
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Papal orb spore emerging from storm drain. Has anyone at the Vatican checked on that thing? Did they get it wet? 010
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Welp, birthday flow graph no longer the most literacy-regret-inducing thing I've seen this month. But something tells me one of you Bluesky rapscallions is creating a mashup as I type. 000
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026More chickens than I've ever seen, and a really good tree #fungifriends #mushrooms #forest 0190
Reposted by McDyerBrooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Yes. It does not matter if you think the Kennedy Center is bougie: private individuals do not get to destroy public goods. If you budge one iota on this stance, then you lose the right to object when he demands bits of the national parks as a treat. You've already agreed with him on the principle. 241275315
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Feel like this is lining up with "the pope gets a mysterious green orb" a little too neatly. 000
Reposted by McDyerspirit airlines presents: airplane fall @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026you can’t just dismiss the kidney stone of galilee like this 542710
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026That day I met SO MANY people, who came up to me like long-lost friends. We shared how we all started our day the same way, and how much we appreciated HCR's clarity and perspective, and how much it meant to count on it. If social media likes are skittles, those interactions were pot roast. 030
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The definition of "you're doing it wrong". (Culmination if I'm intending my puns.) 010
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026TBH, my veneration for Tufte led me read the whole thing, and now I regret my career, my literacy, and my rods and cones. 030
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This is my favorite comment of the whole year and immediately became a visual, and a story, and had people in it, and the kettle on. 0180
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 08/09/202652% humidity is a refreshing break, a promise of fall a mere 6 weeks away. Let's open up the house! 120
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026It's been dry here in my side of Atlanta, so I felt lucky to find this one mushroom, but also liked this tree that for some reason reminds me of the three-headed knight that Sir Robin ran away from. 010
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I feel like they got tired of being the fawning acolyte in a million sad shallow relationships, and have faked their own deaths. 000
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I remember when The Onion hit it out of the park with Jacques Derrida "dies". 0220
Reposted by McDyerKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/09/2026There are endless studies showing this and also the financial and societal benefits of universal basic income and or housing-first policies but the U.S. never goes for any of it because it would require allowing the poor to receive benefits that the rich consider “undeserved” 20591043163
Reposted by McDyerKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Jesus Christ, this. Platner was given the benefit of the doubt despite having a fucking Totenkopf tattoo on his own skin, while many of the same people are demanding El-Sayed answer for any random comment from anyone who supports him. 4950711107
Reposted by McDyerMina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Working through my fundraiser paintings and the request here was “paint my two dogs looking happy sitting behind Ben Roethlisberger after he threw an interception” 984090229
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Uh, just posted above (below?) Publix Hot Honey Mascarpone Praline Ice Cream. It's delicious. 130
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Perhaps, but Publix' Hot Honey Mascarpone Praline Ice Cream, which sounds absurd, is the bomb. 000
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 26/08/2026NOT Tim Curry! NO. (Also someone go put Julie Andrews in a vault right now.) 0100
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026We called it Dolly Juice, and lorded it over those Pfizer dweebs (it was a time of boredom, and pointless wins). 1430
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I grew up next door to George Hamilton IV. The Hamiltons were friends of Dolly's, and always said she was the kindest and smartest person you would ever meet. My daughter and her roommates had a giant What Would Dolly Do? poster in their living room. She was goals in every human way. 000
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026The Elf on the Shelf keeps it, scribbling his dreams of the pale winter sunlight, certain this will be the year he will be freed and know the spring on his felt. 111
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 22/08/2026As soon as it's appropriate, you might want to go with True Stories. My kids still thank me for having them watch that. 010
Reposted by McDyerThe Women's Game @womensgamemib.bsky.social · 21/08/2026RECORD BROKEN 🚨 With 25,433 fans at Sanford Stadium, the University of Georgia’s women’s soccer team set a new record for the largest attendance at an NCAA soccer game, women’s or men’s! 👏 443018453
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We've had that conversation! (EPL yelling ≠ acceptable communication) 000
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yep! Daughter looks at us and says, "What's a ******?" We both involuntarily looked so horrified so fast that she burst into tears. What followed was a really confusing conversation about how she hadn't done anything wrong, but she must never do it again. VERY spotty parenting. 130
McDyer @mcdyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Thanks, but there's a flip side to that parenting excellence. 20 years ago, after carelessly misremembering the details (I blame the basic cable edit), we bought and showed Blazing Saddles to the kids. Emergency vocabulary lesson. (Other than that, it's canon now.) 4380