Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256281950
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialFunranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It is ALWAYS a good time to review the Geek Social Fallacies. Teach them to the young that they may live better than you did. 213472
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialMarielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 18/09/2026“I ASKED FOR EXPERIENCES AND I GOT THEM” is going to be psychically load-bearing for the rest of my life I fear 33142713
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Susan Sontag's 9/16/01 piece in The New Yorker got her crucified but it's one of the few things from that era that aged well. "'Our country is strong,' we are told again and again. I for one don’t find this entirely consoling. Who doubts that America is strong? But that’s not all America has to be." 3942221
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A cool thing about how your eyes become dark adapted is how long and complex the process actually is. You might think "oh your pupils just dilate" but your photoreceptors have to transition for like two hours to a different photopigment layout in a complex process en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptat...en.wikipedia.orgAdaptation (eye) - Wikipedia 0438
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/08/2026People born in 2008 are 18 years old. Think about how if Dolly Parton had died in the 90's, literally *all* the news about her would be boob jokes and catcalls and schlubby guys going hur hur *That's* the culture all these Republican sexual predators and freaks feel nostalgia for. 4480112
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialJosephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11/07/2025{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone {𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone except Michel Foucault 161625245
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialCaptain Awkward @captainawkward.bsky.social · 31/07/2026One way to fight back out of the gate is to banish “efficiency” as a goal or value. Cop: feeds suspected plagiarism into the automated plagiarism detector Teacher: “Welcome to being Maximally Perceived within a creative community as we joyfully interrogate each creative choice out loud!” 114918
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 25/07/2026"Do the thing you can do instead of beating yourself up over not doing the thing you're not doing" is honestly life-changing, even life-saving, advice. 6069612175
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialbea @frogappreciator.bsky.social · 17/07/2026how many GULP sexual erm.. (tugging my collar) p-p-partners have i had .. ?? well ah.. nine (reading the room and feeling like a loser) hundred (realizing this might make me seem like a womanizer) men (afraid of coming off like a serial monogamist) at once 102265654
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialAmanda Kolson Hurley @amandakhurley.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite 572631955
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 28/06/2026sometimes something is really obvious but you need to type it out anyway for mental health reasons: the venn diagram of people who believe in dignity and democracy for all & people who support the rich, cops & israel is two entirely distinct circles 192535478
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialBo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 24/06/2026When folks like Jeffries talk about "our Democratic Party"- Did voters agree with you? No? Then you're outside the party lines on that issue. Sorry. Take it up with the voters. When liberals insist "the Democratic party isn't about ..." Did voters demonstrate that? No? Sorry. The voters disagree. 🤷🏿♂️ 06617
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialSmall Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done. 512280449
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialqdot @buttplug.engineer · 13/06/2026you can pokemon anything if you're not a coward 41226
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialemily blight 🐦⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 21/05/2026it’s weird how often nominally liberal white cis americans seem to think “access to bathrooms outside of home” is a hilariously abstruse and low stakes problem, having forgotten that a whole part of jim crow was “if you use the wrong bathroom, we can basically justify doing anything we want to you.” 327074
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialKeezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 17/05/2026although I think jayapal is on board, I do disagree with the phrasing that it's a failure of ICE, here. it's exactly in keeping with everything they ever stood for 16710
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialRoss Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/takensinceyouarrived.worldtaken.A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you. 1553892982
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialWillow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants. 11106973142
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialHaus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 24/04/2026 84135442672
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 13/04/2026In pop history, people learn that the Allies almost assassinated Hitler several times but each time went "oh no, he would be replaced with this even worse and more competent guy, call it off" That is because the US government hired tons of Nazis after the war, that is Nazi propaganda. 2567134
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialRoo @roobyroo.crocodiles.online · 07/04/2026train subway announcer blown out speaker snare drum xylophone 92043877
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 13/04/2026the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there 705103946
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/03/2026The purpose of studying anything isn't the subject itself but to learn how to *think* like an expert about it. People outsourcing their thinking to genAI are not learning how to think, at all. Part of the cognitive atrophy that genAI immediately induces is no longer being able to understand this 7744242
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram... 216102352466
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025i 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 173121913
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialbort @crushbort.bsky.social · 16/03/2025mrs. gennaro I am sorry to have to tell you this but your husband was killed in a work accident. they made dinosaurs real for fun and he got eaten by one while sitting on the toilet. he wasn’t using it he died abandoning children 6278741659
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Begging for one single day when dominance feminism isn’t proven right in such a relentlessly stupid fashion. 1435535
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialLady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 07/01/2026here's this vintage jeopardy clip with ken jennings 3854551502
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 07/01/2026better way to think of this is “20,000 of the dumbest, most violent people in the country currently receive government subsidies for their stupidity and violence. should we continue doing that?” 352517260
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialThe Wyzard @thewyzard.bsky.social · 06/01/2026In short, every shithead you don't ban costs you ten other customers. "A [potentially regular] customer doesn't say anything but never comes back" doesn't register with you as An Event the way that kicking someone out (temporarily or permanently) does, so it's extremely easy to miss it. 92124316
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026it certainly does not mean I secretly like the roaches and want them to carry on infesting my house if I were happy with the roaches infesting my house I wouldn’t be mad at my shitty exterminator 192675276
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026if I hire an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he instead presents me with a list of reasons he is incapable of doing so while asking for more money so that he can maybe handle it later, I am not angrier at the roaches, I am in the market for a better exterminator 213360588
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations 83322478
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialTV's Adam, who died 25 years ago THIS VERY SAME NIGHT, @tvsadam.bsky.social · 03/01/2026the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches 191128884031
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialSunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 28/12/2025This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h... 474403344
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 26/12/2025(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne 3255541563
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Why do men need an exclusive vision of virtue? Why don’t they want a universal, ungendered ideal of a good life? Why won’t they share in that striving with us? 949753
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time. 1202082433
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialTyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 28/11/2025Jesus Christ. JESUS Christ. Jesus CHRIST. Yes, this person is correct, remigration is a white supremacy term for ethnic cleansing, basically. And the Department of Homeland Security, WHICH SHOULDN'T EVEN EXIST, just used the term. An official government account. That is...that is beyond fucked. 14855298
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialMiss Riss @missriss.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Because I like to experience every emotion at once, it also makes me absolutely furious no congressional Dems have the aura, charisma, authenticity or basic fortitude to ever come remotely close to a tiny percentage of what we watched today 1445
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialJared Wade @jaredwade.bsky.social · 19/11/2025I'm hearing full-grown adults who spent ten (10) calendar years saying "Nice" every time a basketball score or someone in passing says 69 think The Kids Today joking about 67 is dumb and annoying. 5706
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialAnthony Oliveira @meakoopa.bsky.social · 11/11/2025there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all 7689422124
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialSpreadsheet enjoyer 🇨🇦🇪🇺 @bluser12.bsky.social · 03/11/2025Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine. 118100671780
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialtante @tante.cc · 28/10/2025We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need? 601717394
Reposted by @porchaspen.bsky.socialjon rosenberg @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Even if you fully denounce and apologize for your white supremacist past, that doesn't mean you should be handed access to the levers of power. Your decision-making abilities are suspect, sorry! That's ok! Lots of people shouldn't be in office. You can find another way to contribute, like podcasting 522937
