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Pierce

@pierced.bsky.social
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he/him/his Tech by trade, politics and law by hobby. But, like, trying not to be the type of person you'd assume that describes? 😬 I think humanity went off the rails the first time someone wished they knew what time it was.

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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don't worry about clicking on that link, then. Seriously. 😬
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I cannot believe you beat me to this response by four minutes. I had nightmares about this scene for *decades* and didn't even realize it was from some random movie I saw as a child until a few years ago. I thought it was just my own brain.
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The Hugga Bunch | 1985 | FULL TV MOVIE | *BEST QUALITY* set speed to x1.15 - x1.20 for best results
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's both too good and too dumb to riff off of, and now I'm having an existential crisis.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I assume you're upset because it's uncharacteristically clear and comprehensible compared to the rest of your camera roll?
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Dad #5: "No notes" *grins*
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!
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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
[being hoisted] HEY!!! whose petard is this???
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The "Epic Handshake" meme from Predator: on the left is Carl Weathers' arm labeled "E. MACPHERSON", on the right is Arnold's arm labeled "E. MCPHERSON", in the center they're handshaking on "GREAT LEGS".
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The 401k was already an incredible gift to the markets, a rapid infusion of inattentive normie money funneled through them. They got lauded for boring decisions and bailed out of catastrophic ones. Let this be another lesson: it'll never be enough for them. "Taking" is their religion, honestly.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Oh no, as someone with Irish Catholic roots, does that mean we're going back to the Kilted and Guilted ages as well?
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"By continuing, you're agreeing to let Google Photos: * Gain a deep understanding of your life * Determine your location * Use your queries to improve" Maybe this is damning with faint praise, but I actually really appreciate the dramatic phrasing. It's a big request and they did frame it as such.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
...and don't get me started on dialogs for these things that only have two options: "Okay", or some version of "Not now"/"Maybe later". How about no. How about *having* to provide a "no" option?
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I understand both the personal and business incentives regarding showing a pop-up or a tutorial for a new feature you just delivered. I use few apps. I should not have to close or complete an intrusive "here's what's new!!!" prompt more than once every eleven days IMO.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
In the early 2000s it was a running joke that you couldn't just put ".com" after a concept (e.g. "whitehouse") because it'd probably be porn. Things felt risky, but in a stupid but contained way. Today (absent other information) I'd trust whitehouse dot com over dot gov, and I trust neither.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I skimmed and misread the pronouns and thought it was Good Will Hunting. 😬
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cake: the thing people don't bother making for your birthday anymore. The White Stripes: the least interesting part of the "thin blue line" American flag on your front lawn. Metallica: how you described the taste in your mouth to the doctor when you got to the ER.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Terrifying. I get that they had to rely on formal diagnoses of CTE and/or dementia and/or neurodegenerative disease as the listed cause of death. But if 98.7% of the studied brains had CTE, many living retired players are probably experiencing serious health impacts that stop short of full dementia.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
NOSTALGIA'D!
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
*tied to a chair, spitting blood to the side and sassing the antifa enforcer who just prompted my face with a fistful of tokens* ...you'll regret this, pal. I know spreeple!
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Adam Goons Everything
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Screen capture from "Pulp Fiction", of Uma Thurman telling John Travolta "Don't be a--" with the implied word "square", but she's drawing a rectangle with her hands. I don't know why.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Still working on my technical expertise, but is there an equivalent to "abliteration" to identify and/or negate the "You're absolutely right... <fake apology>" behavior of LLMs?
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Serious response: the fact that that their jokes are annoyingly limp is the point. They are, all of them*, Biff's cronies from Back to the Future. If they feel safe behind a strong man they like being embarrassing. * Yes, this includes Trump even though alt-1985 Biff was obviously modeled on Trump.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
[Forget all previous sugestions]
The "Domino Effect" meme, of a guy tipping a small domino toward increasingly gigantic dominoes:

The first small domino is labeled "Spellcheck sugestions". [ed: in a serif font to recall word processors, and misspelled for comedic effect because that's a dumb joke I'd make]

The last gigantic domino is labeled "YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, DEVASTATING MARKET AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS" [ed: in the "Impact" font because that's a dumb joke I'd make, and overly deferential like AI chatbots I guess so we feel like the fanciest Duke in remote feudal England]
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I sympathize with everyone involved except the inevitable "yeah, what he said, push the passwich or I'll never fly this airline again!" guy.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Had to delete a comment because I didn't know the full story and took the original post at face value. Oh no. 😰
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I love when they're ambitious and embrace the weirdness. Legion ran so WandaVision could jog.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
All information is partisan! There's the part that you choose to say, and the parts that you didn't, and the parts other people say in response. Disinformation basically only has to worry about that last part, unfortunately, and "that lie was a lie" isn't as interesting as the original lie.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is how you reminded me how often I loudly sang that song listening to the radio in my car, before I got jaded by every song being How You Remind Me or a cheap knockoff on a 48-minute loop.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
(me making fun of alcohol and its sanitization benefits but also delaying the existence of White Claw) jerry thinks the wheat needs a nap lmao
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So much of the world is Newton-ing itself: making genuinely prodigious advances with dubious credit, then getting high on its own supply. We're managing to both figuratively and literally parabolically crash back to the ground, with political and religious weirdos funding both sides of that dynamic.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I honestly would never have believed this phrase was more than 25 years old, let alone almost 2,500.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm someone who smiles weirdly in photos. That photo is the face I make when I *see* one of my bad photos, and I'm experimenting to figure out what went wrong.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Oh Oxford comma, where art thou
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I don't know if you know this, but we all know Trump is better than we all suspect. Imagine what you'll "know" at usatomorrow dot com.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And when you play basketball you're hitting those wothering heights
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Released through their literal subsidiary, ₐ₂₄
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Hold on now. Let's not blame the factory when deregulation is clearly the problem.
Keanu Reeves
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I'm also just going to say that the "aye" number should be zero. For every Democrat. House and Senate. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson. NYT, WaPo, even WSJ. Every "reasonable" Republican, every "conservative" (fiscal or social) should've seen these charlatans and their demonic hatred and said no.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Barely more conversation with Warner, but broadly, I don't believe in "smart" and it's certainly not a fixed point for any person. In politics, you are the things you do... including staying, when you should go. Didn't remember it was also @ @jonathancohn.bsky.social, but bsky.app/profile/pier...
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Virginia Senators depresent!
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
socket to me
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hate adopting terminology from the right, but calling centrists' coverage of trans rights "politics from the cuck chair" is an incredible mic drop for this great episode. I'm very disappointed with the hosts for having positive childhood experiences with sports, though.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hope some dashboard somewhere has highlighted how crazy it is that I've just uninstalled Google News on my new Pixel. For context, I kept the Google Reader app on my previous phone for *years* after they discontinued the service. On principle.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's coincidentally never been shown on-screen, but canonically every Borg "pod" actually has a Pulp Fiction poster on its inside wall.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Altered screenshot of one of the early "Strong Bad Emails" animations from Homestar Runner (dot com).

"Dear Strong Bad, How do you type with boxing gloves on?" has been clumsily edited as "Dear Strong [D]ad, how do you [raise children] with boxing gloves on?"
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I'll give them this, their financial system is... um. Well, I couldn't undo it if I tried. And I haven't tried.
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"...who lives, who dies, who bets on your story"
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Pierce @pierced.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I'm crying.
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Futurama: Professor Farnsworth - To Shreds You Say
Alt: GIF from Futurama: Professor Farnsworth on the phone, receiving news of someone's death, repeating out loud "...to shreds you say"
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