Reposted by Bug Rydertyler @bearnurse.bsky.social · 18hA society of people in massive debt (or unable to save money) in a world where wages are low while costs are skyrocketing. Couple that with it being illegal to be homeless, you’ve got a draft kings to prison pipeline, baby. God bless the USA 0125
Reposted by Bug RyderJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending 482726735
Reposted by Bug RyderGoth Gym Teacher @2henry2hammock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New strategy I’m trying with robocalls 021
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sometimes, you see a glimpse of how life could be.... 000
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Literally the only thing I could ever want ai for is as a voice changer (tho I'm not super familiar with the tech but I think it's always been a parallel process to how LLMs work?), bc I like voice acting and want to experiment with noises and tones and fry and baritone that I- 100
Reposted by Bug RyderBibiki🌱Open for Work🤙 @bibikigarcia.com · 02/10/2026Arco is 60% off on Steam!!! 🙈 Plays really good on SteamDeck! ✌🏻✌🏻 store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...store.steampowered.comSave 60% on Arco on SteamA Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge. 04832
Reposted by Bug RyderLe Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 01/10/2026Botched US execution prompts global calls to scrap death penaltylemonde.frBotched US execution prompts global calls to scrap death penaltyRobin Maher, the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, told the New York Times: 'This event is the worst we've seen and unlike any other botched execution in the modern era.' 641322467
Reposted by Bug RyderColin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 09/09/2025check this out: action game protagonists, they walk like THIS - doot doot doot doot doot but, point and click adventure protagonists, they walk like THIS 16629157
Reposted by Bug RyderShannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Having had former friends (and an ex) commit suicide following public allegations I don't begrudge anyone their rage or upset but I also genuinely hope anyone who does heinous shit can do their best to make amends and live a better life 749647
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026You meet all kinds working retail, but man, it's not every day you meet the pinnacle of lazy political cartoon-ass character design. 220
Reposted by Bug RyderPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"It's mind-boggling" is actually fully delusional. 2059484
Reposted by Bug RyderLiliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The tortuous, botched execution of Christa Pike is truly horrifying. And while it feels unique in some ways, in reality it is also only the latest in a history of botched executions going back years — YEARS — in numerous states. Please know: this is the reality of the death penalty in this country. 111279376
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Literally my first thought the day before the execution was scheduled and it was on the news I thought "they're gonna fuck this up and this woman is going to suffer horribly" bc lethal injection is entirely insane and has a horrendous track record. 010
Reposted by Bug RyderChappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026today's hardware designers could never conceive of what Kazuo Kawasaki was doing in 1996 7869241710
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Er I should probably actually start a FEFW thread, so uh, mute for spoilers maybe? I'm playing slow as hell so Ill probably be way behind what's floating around as it is. 100
Reposted by Bug Ryderlauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/09/2026current state of the fix social media playbook: *nationalize facebook and hold it to rigorous privacy and content moderation standards *break up google and make youtube robustly fund a streaming PBS *turn off x the everything app *keep linkedin the same. that'd be a good bit *begin The Tribunals 331890323
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Fiiiiinally got a hang on how the fefw overworld map and turns work and now I'm rlly getting into the gameplay loop. I still find it kind of unintuitive that you just sort of... teleport to the capital whenever the main quest arrives on the calendar, but there's not really a graceful solution there. 100
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Genuinely the worst camera work I have ever seen lol???? 000
Reposted by Bug RyderAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I don't mean what I'm about to say in a sappy way, but a fairly hard-nosed one: natural ecosystems are often remarkably good at recovering from serious local natural disasters *if they are given the chance.* 21419405
Reposted by Bug Rydershaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position 3469361797
Reposted by Bug Rydertyler @bearnurse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A neat feature of some of these Medicare cuts is that emergency rooms are now nursing homes for people that no longer have insurance. They just sit there for days and days. Too sick to go home but not sick enough to admit. 1165
Reposted by Bug RyderKeith Edwards @kedwards.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's cool and awesome that every century or so we have to relearn the hard lessons about why we invented government because some dumb motherfuckers forget that the cornerstone of Civilization is a thousand boring little bureaucrats doing their job, not Great Men Being Violent. 6567151
Reposted by Bug RyderCOINTREAUPRO @strings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026A thing we don’t handle very well is punishing corporations. Something like this should trigger a review where the owner/board has to make the case to the government that the company should not be essentially nationalized with no compensation paid to owners. Fines are simply insufficient. 55619
Reposted by Bug RyderJesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There need to be tribunals 0487
Reposted by Bug RyderAaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This really puts stuff like publicly funded third spaces in perspective for me. It's so relatively cheap to build out community centers, gyms, makerspaces, studios etc. 211432346
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Don't get me wrong I love Theodora's arc but I think I wish I had started with Cai's route simply because I've been overwhelmed with tutorials and not been able to keep any of them straight, where I assume Cai's route eases you into it a little slower. #fefw 100
Reposted by Bug RyderTW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026this is fantastic and I learned something new 562862426
Reposted by Bug RyderKasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is my new favorite thing. 74164405274
Reposted by Bug RyderCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 22/09/2026From my new essay about the new social contract AI/AGI is actually meant to force us to sign: catvalente.substack.com/p/grand-thef... 310643
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026My vacation is over and I go to work in half an hour and lord I just need one more day. One day where I don't have to talk to anyone. 110
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm loving fefw so far but good lord the UI is tiny and so busy and has no hierarchy and my eyes HURT. 110
Reposted by Bug RyderDan Sheehan @dansheehan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Real life has begun to look a lot like my horror script “Hundred Dollars World: The World Where It Costs 100 dollars to go outside” 317124
Reposted by Bug RyderCatsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 13/09/2026From the opening of "Tattooani", an indie Mexican project by Kaiser Animation studio, inspired by pre-Hispanic mythology. Full video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR5r... 4855325
Reposted by Bug RyderButtzilla @buttzilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just once I want to toss a rotten tomato at a guy I don’t like. 062
Reposted by Bug RyderA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on 8685352214
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026My bro took the day off and I have closing shift today so I'm watching him start Fortune's weave this morning and I dig the music a loooot 000
Reposted by Bug RyderMr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We are an embarrassment to the world right now. 37211
Reposted by Bug RyderIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Can't say it enuff: Every leftist politician should Xerox Mayor Mamdani's direct-to-the-people model, speak DIRECTLY to the constituency about the good they're doing, ignore the billionaire-captured filter of legacy media, & reduce those people to impotent hecklers forever reacting never directing. 025755
Reposted by Bug RyderJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 16/09/2026I do think anyone who wants us to take Elizer Yudkowsky seriously as an authority on AI armageddon should be forced to testify on video that they have read the entirety of his 660,000 word rationalist Harry Potter fan fiction – written aged 30–34 – and still thinks the world needs his take. 32723122
Reposted by Bug RyderWilder Newyear @wildernewyear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Multiverse Yoshimaru only shares counters with other elites privileged enough to be considered Legendary like himself, while his Echoverse counterpart shares the wealth with those less fortunate, even if it will never benefit him. As such, we can conclude Jace taught him solidarity. In this essay I 1152
Bug Ryder @potatotoes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026OH MY GOD ITS YOSHIMARUUUUUUU!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA T__________T 1103
Reposted by Bug Ryderwharf rat @nhwharfrat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026we continue seeing stories of cities turning away from mass surveillance, while here in NH, Laconia is accepting an $85,000 DHS grant apparently this is to prevent terrorism in Laconia, New Hampshirewmur.comLaconia City Council accepts $86,500 grant for pole camerasIn a 5-1 vote on Monday, the Laconia City Council voted to approve accepting an $86,500 grant from the Department of Homeland Security that would allow for the Laconia Police Department to purchase so... 131