NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/05/2026"Olympic sized swimming pool" as a volume reference drives me nuts. Everyone assumes everyone else knows how much that is, but nobody does. The engineers that design huge pools know, but they'd rather you use gallons like an adult who doesn't make absurd comparisons. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Noticed a house for sale in a perfect location in my town. Did a Google Street view drive-by. Half of it is blurred out. It seems that all of the neighbor's house is completely blurred, from all directions. I had no idea that can be done. This tells me a lot about that neighbor. 100
Reposted by NateB Fankoosh @fankoosh.bsky.social · 11/04/2026“It’s honestly embarrassing how people didn’t know the thing I actively refused to tell them about despite my knowing it.” 21056
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 07/04/2026One of my dumbest things is refusing to believe The Strokes is a real band. I vaguely remember their name casually dropped in Simpsons and commercials when the script called for "the hip music that cool people like". So I'll forever believe they are just a marketing placeholder. 100
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Before I abandoned twitter, I had started seeing references to Rhodesia. Before that, I had only associated that with the dog breed. But the references were intriguing. Implying a "paradise lost" situation where a good society was tragically destroyed. Then I did the 8 minutes of research... 100
Reposted by NateB Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich. 12599463242
Reposted by NateB geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 07/02/2026i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros" 152160488
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Proposing a private equity version of Habitat for Humanity. Because of course. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/02/2026To recap what we've found out so far... Epstein helped create 4chan /pol with Bannon as a psyop to mobilize maladjusted young men... Cue pizza gate, where leaked Hillary emails were conspiracy-farmed to insinuate a cabal of rich psychopaths trafficking girls, referring to them as "pizza". 131
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 30/01/2026Can't give up my phone number because it's used for 2 factor authentication for all the accounts. But the spam calls are driving me insane, because all those accounts are selling my into. Is the only way out a burner phone whose sole purpose is 2FA and tanking spam? 100
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 09/01/2026"Bombshell" makes no sense as a metaphor. It's like saying "bullet casing", "cannon barrel", "sword handle", "rocket fin", "torpedo propeller". You mean "explosive", but refer to a specific component of an explody thing. We are better than this. 000
Reposted by NateB David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 17/11/2025These people combine the competence of a concussed ferret with the ethics of a rabid one. 115032
Reposted by NateB Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/12/2025nothing condemns Our Times more than the fact we appear to have *mostly democratically* elevated to power some of the most stupid assholes who have ever lived. something is wrong with a country and system that ferrets out its most undisputedly horrible citizens and then gives them nuclear codes 401338236
Reposted by NateB ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025ripley: i have met dumb men but you are truly insane kirk, holding flower: it will work ripley: she is a xenomorph queen kirk: i have experience with single moms 37215
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 29/11/2025The Bear On The Stair protects your house from Elf infestations by putting them in jail. It never moves, doesn't creepilly spy on your kids, and randomly gives treats to good kids. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Been saying this about farmers for many years. I grew up on a farm in the 80's, when they were actually poor. The families that made it are now land-baron welfare kings cosplaying as poor. Their greed is THE reason why rural America is a so shitty now. youtu.be/c1AChckVmFg?...youtu.bePoor vs. Broke: Farmers are LyingYouTube video by Farming While Beige 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Two things I wish I learned 20 years ago: Pesto and KT tape fix everything. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I'm choosing to believe he removed his helmet, mounted it on his fist (with flare and gusto), and connected with a heavy right hook. Troy Aikman: "that's not his job, the problem is he's not doing his job and it's hurting the team" 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Every white collar job listing: 1-2 sentences about your actual core work and value-add to an organization. 3 paragraphs describing administrative busy work that mostly didn't exist 20 years ago. Frenzied busy-bodies have weaponized our information systems to ruin white collar work. 100
Reposted by NateB SOTUS @steamboatusa.bsky.social · 01/10/2025I feel for that guy. I really do. Because in another life Pete would’ve been on the wrong end of a sock full of soap bars and they’d have sorted him out proper. But now he’s the boss. Given a mantle by an even fatter man. Who deliberately avoided enlistment. And that’s how a lifetime of service ends 0162
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Wow. I don't recall being banned from any online place before. I guess this is a sign of the times. They've fully embraced "cancel culture" after a decade of cry-bullying about it. 120
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Blindspot for the right? Because it might give hope to incels? 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025One of my college jobs was tech support for computer labs. I had after hours access to our NT machines and pinball a lot. Now I can pretend to be a frame rate hipster. "meh 120fps on doom is fine but nothing will ever top pinball at 5k while drinking Surge" 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025We can't click on the Windows clock on the lower right to glance at the calendar anymore. This is terrible. All the other methods are multiple clicks away and by the time I get there I've forgotten why I was looking up last Thursday's date. 120
Reposted by NateB Pernicious and gay little ghoul🎃🏳️⚧️ @gremlinjess.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Computer was born to help us create and learn and allowing men from hell to make it make us stupider and angrier without severe physical consequence is one of our greatest failures 1504
Reposted by NateB Keith Avery @slabgorb.com · 23/08/2025Smart rock is sad to have to do the things smart rock is made to do 1523
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/08/20251000lbs is like half a pallet. This story is only interesting if the vehicle involved is a Miata. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025There's a clear Schwann's truck delivery to fascist pipeline. First you start with the mozzarella sticks then a decade later your freezer is packed with a year's supply of fried food. It's backed up by a generator and protected by the 2nd amendment. Don't tread on my chicken tendies. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 23/07/2025I swear I'm nice in irl but if someone ever tells me their dog is 14/15 lbs I'd become laser focused on reflecting their absurdity until one of us snaps. 200
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Thinking back...it's damn impressive that the World Wildlife Foundation took the title from these guys. 020
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Some day a compelling story about an actual bomb shell will happen and it will be universally ignored as clickbait. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 05/07/2025My dream is for @scalzi.com to write this book. It's dark comedy sci fi that only John can pull off: There's the stereotypical clash between the good and evil aliens, saving/destroying lesser civilitions across the galaxy. The evil aliens set their sights on earth...the good aliens can warn us. 100
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025It's adorable that tech slop writers still have that Popular Mechanics positive futurism vibe. "More space for people to enjoy" Lol, its not 1970. They'd "maximize shareholder value" with that space through 3D CAD before it ever flies. It'd be fully enshitified on day 1. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Ticketmaster has to be some mass psych experiment to see how far people can be pushed. Fighting through their labrybth of inconveniences while being charged convenience fees is threatening my sanity. 100
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025I feel like the Mormons could help calm down the culture war by leaning in. They were doing poly waaaaay before it was cool. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 27/06/2025In chess: castling early is strategy castling late is tactical castling in the middle is being out of ideas and hoping they are too 010
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 26/06/2025At the end of the 90's every kid was named Skyler. I've never met an adult Skyler. This haunts me. 120
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 25/06/2025I know we're all busy but has anyone checked in on Spain lately? Feels like we haven't heard from it in 150yrs. It's just been enjoying retirement this whole time? Watching soccer, making wine, letting Portugal drive it to bingo every Wednesday? 100
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025Every ww3 story ever has more believable characters than ours. Imagine the movie pitch. "So the president is stupid." "Like Bush 2?" "No. Like Elmer Fudd...and his cabinet is even dumber" "The audience won't buy it" "They'll have no choice, THAT's the twist" 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I was halfway to work today before noticing it was still dark. I was 2hrs early, by accident. 1st time in my life. When I got to work the machines were down. I fixed the problem right away. Trying not to read too much into this coincidence. 000
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025"Gas prices" as a universal voter concern diminishes as the share of electric cars rise. Wondering how that's going to drive policy. Like will blue states start to add even more gas taxes as red states consider subsidizing it? That's kind of already happened I guess. 010
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The Venn diagram of people who start with "adieu" and the people who buy the extended warranty is a circle. 000
Reposted by NateB Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025People trying to decipher whether Trump’s drive for war with Iran means that he’s abandoning his paleoncon base for a neocon revival are missing the reality that he’s a dumbass who only wants to look like a big man on TV. 14865140
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025Every movie producer reading the first page of an original story. "NO! This is garbage! The people want the same story with the same characters!" "So Batman.... again.... but silly?" "NO! It'll be dark... again... but... a slightly different kind of dark!" "Brilliant! Lets do it! Again!" 010
NateB @nateb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025It's trivially easy to find where someone lives if they own a home under their own name. Everyone has so much fun looking at what their friends and coworkers paid for their house that nobody cares how freaky it is that your name-and-address is "public information". 010