Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisJesse Raub @jesseraub.online · 21hPODCAST HOST: the blood from the crime scene was found to actually be from the murder victim PODCAST CO-HOST: wait… the murder victim… died? with blood PODCAST HOST: i know—i was thinking the same thing. but then i read in the report that they died from the blood not being in the body anymore 11856141
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisKathy L Weiss @middlechildtake.bsky.social · 6hHow #Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...nytimes.comHow Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky. 124
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisBrandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 7hHey #BookSky friends, I have an interesting bit of info to share—about the state of publishing. Storytime: I am an author of fiction/nonfiction with a NY agent, full time writer for 10 years. I can verify 2026 is the WORST for getting in print. Lots of reasons, but I learned something NEW in Sept 1/ 45113
Reposted by Fortuna Horribilisamberkitty 🐈⬛ @amberkitty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sorry I wasn't listening I was picturing my dog doing excited little tippy taps when I get home later 29620
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisCarpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This cat is insisting we adopt him and make him our next shop cat, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. (We need to reopen in a brick and mortar format to adopt him, hence the sale.) carpelibrumbaltimore.com 203218
Reposted by Fortuna Horribilisauntyr.bsky.social @auntyr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know what? I have absolutely no problem posting this. I hope it follows them for years. 17220591158
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You Gantt Always Get What You Want #InformationInASongOrMoviestatic.klipy.comSmartsheet: Grid, Gantt, Card, Calendar ViewsAlt: Smartsheet software demo animation cycles through Grid, Gantt, Card, and Calendar displays, with multicolored bars and columns shifting into different configurations. 162
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisDr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 27/09/2026Saying that large language models feel pain because they have been trained to avoid certain actions is like saying that calculators can breastfeed because you can spell out BOOBS on them. 1196
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisDr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The problem isn't rogue #AI models, it's *negligent companies*. If a biomedical firm put their product in public water supply because they wanted to test it 'in the real world', they'd be treated as criminal at corporate & individual level. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comOpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogueDecision follows disclosures that OpenAI agents searching government websites had acted in unexpected ways 20815322
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ensign, set a course for Planet Baklava, warp 6 💫 050
Reposted by Fortuna Horribilispost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026just a quick reminder that this fuckhead was the proximate trigger for thousands of National Guardsmen being deployed to DC 643149699
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Share a television show that raised you.static.klipy.comStar Trek Star Trek TosAlt: Captain Kirk and Mr Spock, with laurel wreaths on their heads, do a sprightly dance side by side on a black and white checked floor in a scene from the original series episode Plato’s Stepchildren. 040
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisDavid Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Learn why Maine lobster is an unsustainable seafood, rated “Red/Avoid” by Seafood Watch. The way it’s caught kills Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whales, and while solutions exist, the industry and politicians like Jared Golden strongly oppose them! 🧪🦑🐟🌎 24814
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 25/09/2026"Well, this shit just got real, didn’t it? Felonies and gourds have one very important commonality: they’re both extremely fucking real." buff.ly/pykYN6fbuff.lyIt’s Decorative Gourd Season, MotherfuckersFor the seventeenth year: Welcome to autumn, fuckheads. 17014
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisHarry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 25/09/2026No Mexican sauces involved here. 811816
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisWilliam H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network · 23/11/2024Whenever people post "what job would you have in Star Wars" my answer is "I'd be writing memos to the Grand Moff explaining why we need more Microsoft Office licenses" and well here we are. 732228
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisAstrea1965(pic is©️)💙🌊🦋🐸 @astrea1965.bsky.social · 22/09/2026🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES. This man was discovered just before 8AM this morning & it was immediately ruled a suicide by the medical examiner. This is Upper Marlboro, Maryland. THIS IS NOT NORMAL! #BLM Reporting by NBC4 Washington on IG. substack.com/@letsgetinto...substack.comLetsGetIntoIt2025 (@letsgetintoit2025)Again. BLACK PEOPLE DO NOT HANG THEMSELVES FROM TREES. This man was discovered just before 8AM this morning and it was immediately ruled a suicide by the medical examiner. This happened in Upper... 2838901857
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisCarpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We're running a sale on our website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. Picture of Trinket, one of the cats who put in an application to be our new shop cat, for tax. carpelibrumbaltimore.com 12147
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026"OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman gave Trump's super PAC a whopping $25 million" is one of those things that could really stand to be pointed out more:finance.yahoo.comOpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million giftThe super PAC will help fund Republicans' midterm election battle. 491576674
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisKenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026To those of you who say that “History is written by the winners” or that “the winners write the history books”, I say this: I write history, and no reasonable person would consider me to be a winner.media.tenor.coma man in a white shirt and tie is looking at a computer screen in front of a sign that says insufficiariaALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is looking at a computer screen in front of a sign that says insufficiaria 2826
Reposted by Fortuna Horribilissam @samthielman.com · 21/09/2026A nice thing about reaching my mid-forties in reasonable health is that for the most part my problems are incontrovertibly of my own design and construction 4733
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 21/09/2026"We didn’t so much lie to you as tell you stories that were untrue. We hoped the stories would add magic to your childhood and reassure you that capitalism is a fair system for everyone, instead of one in which some people can’t afford insulin while other people are Jeff Bezos." buff.ly/KM3opmgmcsweeneys.netSon, You’re Old Enough to Know the Truth, There is No Such Thing as the “Invisible Hand of the Market”“You’ll probably hear this soon enough from the other kids on the playground anyway, so I might as well tell you. Santa isn’t real, the Tooth Fairy is imagin... 4501145
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026When your buddy won’t stop talking during the movie #WhenToPressThePauseButtonstatic.klipy.comDiarra Brickland: Can You Please Shut Up?Alt: Diarra Brickland, wearing a Kelly green jacket over a forest green top and chunky silver jewelry, looks annoyed. She says, ‘Can you please shut up?’ 192
Reposted by Fortuna Horribilisspeck @notkaspeck.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Let's get a head start on finding some joy tomorrow #September www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...youtube.comEarth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO 3239
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisCarpe Librum Bookstore and Art Gallery @carpelibrum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026While at a pet adoption event earlier, these cats all put in applications to be our new shop cat. To do that, we need to reopen in a brick and mortar format, so we're running a sale on the website. Get 25% off your order with promo code Bookstore cat at checkout. carpelibrumbaltimore.com 13156
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 20/09/2026OH FUCK YES WE'RE ALL AUTUMNAL IN THIS MOTHERFUCKER YOU BEST BELIEVE SHIT'S GETTING SWEATER WEATHER AS FUCK LOOK WE DID NOT CHOOSE THE GOURD LIFE THE GOURD LIFE CHOSE US NOW GET FUCKING COZY OR GET THE FUCK OUT 3581743
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisSoren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This thought isn't fully formed or polished because I'm operating on two lattes and a piece of chocolate cake at the moment, but quick and dirty thread on AI doomsday narratives as partially an outgrowth of changes in tech industry labor conditions: 412025
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisAbbey Rhodes @abbeyr28.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Friday fun stuff #2: 041
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisPrimary Maria Cantwell! @moneyshredder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Outside you there are two black bears 1171
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026#MaybeGodzillaCould join Japan’s Olympic luge teamstatic.klipy.comGodzilla Monster LeapAlt: Godzilla sails feet-first across a desert landscape with his tail dragging on the ground under him. The automatic alt-text called this the ‘monster leap’ but I distinctly remember this being the setup for a piledriver kick. 051
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026She’s not angry to have been discovered, she just has Resting Snit Face 191
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisRex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I really encourage Democrats to adopt my "Make Stupidity Embarrassing Again" slogan. It addresses the root of so many voters' frustrations. 820628
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.stringinamaze.netDon't Surrender On Trans RightsMany Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be. 393844881
Reposted by Fortuna HorribilisFunHouse Radio @funhouseradio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NUCLEAR HELL FIRE HOT youtu.be/38rvtcwhuw4youtu.beAngine de Poitrine: Zugzegk | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonYouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon 053
Fortuna Horribilis @nerienis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Arthur Dent is finally starting to figure out fetch (not great at the ‘drop it’ part yet tho) 490