Reposted by Quill TurnerDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The sunny side of this delusion is the computer gives you a flying car and makes it so you don't have to work. The blackpill one is that it wipes us out via some cinematic method TBD. Two futures you don't actually have to live in. Both are abdications, and embarrassingly childish on their face. 82085207
Reposted by Quill TurnerDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending. 8460481064
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 22/09/2026Being a parent is a wild ride. Sometimes you have a 24-hour period in which the 10-year-old's emotional regulation goes completely out the window and we are having screaming fits - and then we decide to not only clean up the small mess we made earlier, but also vacuum the whole upstairs to boot. 140
Reposted by Quill Turnergryme (commissions open) @gryme.bsky.social · 11/10/2025aria #counterweight 122128539
Reposted by Quill TurnerMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Elon Musk: 20+ years here, hates American culture and most Americans, constantly undermines our multi-racial democracy as part of his obsession to restore the Apartheid of his foreign youth, says non-white people can't assimilate Malala Yousafzai: visits Philly once, instantly adopts local customs 695174846
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 14/09/2026Raisin bran sneezes are very terrible, second only to carrot sneezes 030
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 13/09/2026I hate having car problems. Nothing ever makes me feel completely useless quite like the complicated machine I need to get my family places refusing to work. 010
Reposted by Quill Turnerellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 13/09/2026a few things about white Evangelical Texas Christianity I think you probably don't know, that I think are necessary to understand the Talarico situation I'm just going to describe the belief structure as I understand it, from direct experience with my family. 418853
Reposted by Quill TurnerCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Seriously if any president ever did this besides him he would be gone in 5 seconds. Yet it won't be above the fold every day for the next month and it won't be the leading story on cable news every day until the midterms even though it should be. 512171412
Reposted by Quill Turnerjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/09/2026i think it is bad that the president is that helm of a deranged cult of personality 1506188956
Reposted by Quill TurnerMike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10/09/2026a whole bunch of you do not understand this place is like 27 standard deviations beyond the US electorate and poast accordingly 1534034
Reposted by Quill TurnerHolly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026my little cousin plays D1 volleyball so I have quite literally had a front row seat to some of this, there are eight girls on every one of these teams who could knock you into the middle of next week smiling, but sure, worry about the one in 100,000 who is on drugs that make her LESS of a menace 😂 328017
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 09/09/2026@shiftf1podcast.bsky.social in case you're still curious, my ads this week were Google + Gemini and Disney World. 😅 010
Reposted by Quill TurnerDaniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 04/09/2026It takes you 20 paragraphs to get to the part of the article where they admit that Mamdani isn't paying the influencers and the reason they are posting videos of the stuff Mamdani is doing is because people are interested in watching it. 14120823351
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 08/09/2026"A failure, properly sown and tended, will one day flourish, leafy and vibrant." Realis is great but DAMN that line in particular is a killer. @austinwalker.bsky.social #ttrpg 040
Reposted by Quill TurnerJess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Getting ready to check out SlashZero for my Sponsored Segment!! Come check it out with me!! Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames 097
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 04/09/2026we are doing Cooking Experiments today, wish us luck (french onion pot roast pot pie) 1110
Reposted by Quill TurnerSidney Icarus @sidneyicarus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It was never about success or failure. It's about wringing everything out of good people and then abandoning them when the money comes in. Absolutely unforgivable. Brutal. 072
Reposted by Quill Turner🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I'm of the belief that Trump will never get rid of Hegseth because he'll never get anyone as willing to turn tanks against Americans. But Democrats should still be demanding it at every chance they get. 301429225
Reposted by Quill TurnerMicah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026this is how they treat geographical and naming disputes for every country, rather than having someone decide “this is stupid and we are going to manually override the decision because we think it’s stupid” unfortunately we elected a stupid man with the power to order GNIS to change names 989293
Reposted by Quill TurnerMicah @rincewind.run · 30/08/2026re: everyone yelling about Google Maps - Maps just ingests the official data source for each country, which is GNIS in this case, and most other online maps will follow for American users nobody at Google is making an active decision to go in and change names in Maps directly 822093643
Reposted by Quill TurnerRed Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 30/08/2026The entire conservative ethos can be described as "I do what I want and you do what I want." 15510
Reposted by Quill Turnerpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026imo this is as clear a signal you'll get that dems are going for it, and with jeffries leading the charge in the house 6965
Reposted by Quill TurnerTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Another highlight from the Minnesota State Fair: seeing a fully veiled woman having a ball filming a high school marching band playing Dua Lipa while I munched on elote tots…it’s all gonna turn out alright folks 968554
Reposted by Quill TurnerTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Oh that’s not all, folks. Antifa Waldo, beatifications of ICE martyrs, ICE agents slipping, and more—all from the likes of corn, barley, and alfalfa 181946491
Reposted by Quill TurnerTim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops 6277282026
Reposted by Quill TurnerJess/Fawn (they/them) 🍉 @faunandgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Do I clean up good? I dunno let's find out. More PowerWash Sim in space with Ambrosia Sky and then cleaning up Bubbly Basin in Pokopia so everyone can get the new Twitch Pokemon Drops! Twitch.tv/FaunAndGames 11910
Reposted by Quill TurnerEvan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Part of treating children as human beings means simply reminding yourself that the younger version of you would have hated to have been surveilled 24/7, and that your sense of self is formed in part through privacy from others. We parent well when we let our children find themselves. 7280110
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 24/08/2026Take that, TTRPG grognards, orcs have been Hispanic since Tolkien wrote 'em (This is a real page from the last chapter of The Two Towers.) 030
Reposted by Quill TurnerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Western US water righs: Our baffling 100+ year old laws require me to pour 3 cups of water into this cup, leading to outrageous waste. We should blame the Saudis for this 228152
Reposted by Quill Turnerellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 20/08/2026The only thing worse to a leftist than the American history of colonial domination, persecution, and exclusion of the subaltern is the idea that minorities affected by those things don’t want to burn down the idea of having nice things but rather want to be included in the system 414526
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 19/08/2026so I also don't like AI and would have bought into this if I hadn't gotten into a discussion about it the full context indicates that the driver for low scores is spending less time on homework, likely because AI is doing the homework for you. Full article for context: archive.is/IpzHi 110
Reposted by Quill TurnerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026And here's the best part: "Tehee but at least agriculture uses the water to make food!" Uh, you'd be surprised! Farmers are INCENTIVIZED TO WASTE WATER. To use more than we need, to grow thirsty crops in deserts, etc. A whole lot of that massive ag water use DOES NOT MEANINGFULLY GROW FOOD. 181040214
Reposted by Quill TurnerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026We really have to understand that decades of being told "Turn off the water when you're brushing your teeth!" was kinda bullshit. Folks we are failing to comprehend the SHEER VOLUME of water agriculture uses. ALL urban water use in the CO basin? Is ~1/3 of what the farms there use. 7843134
Reposted by Quill TurnerSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture. 7236461228
Reposted by Quill TurnerLoveThruPoke💜 [commissions closed] @lovethrupoke.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Transing the Spiderverse🏳️⚧️✨ #spiderman #trans #sizesky 11698962636
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 18/08/2026pretty sure I already live in Civ so: good to go 040
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 18/08/2026Aesthetic goals: Guile from Street Fighter in a lefty colorway 020
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 17/08/2026I think I didn't really parse until recently the (significant and meaningful) differences between and speed cameras / red light cameras vs an always-active pedestrian-facing camera (like Flock or Ring) One mitigates a public safety issue while maintaining privacy; the other much worse at both 030
Reposted by Quill TurnerCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026Turns out that liberal sloganeering isn’t cringe, it’s actually needed as you constantly need to be making the case for a liberal multiracial democracy in the face of an opponent who will gleefully exploit whatever complaint they can find to undermine it 11307
Reposted by Quill TurnerCooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 16/08/2026Also frustrating: Responses to this post about how the HR trainings are just “covering corporate asses” that haven’t put together that corporations giving themselves cover to fire people for being racist/sexist/abusive is good for maintaining diverse teams. 717316
Quill Turner @quintessential-gaming.itch.io · 16/08/2026One of the great mysteries of the universe must surely be "why does the automatic cat food dispenser only run out of kibble in the middle of the night" 060
Reposted by Quill TurnerDante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Here are things that happened at the DNC today: 1) Resolution calling to abolish ICE unanimously adopted 2) Brand-new early state calendar that reflects the full diversity of the Democratic base 3) Rejection of insider efforts to ban RCV from being used in presidential primaries Great results here 1424820839
Reposted by Quill TurnerRowan Mysel Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's like if yellow stars could track your location We know where this is heading. Get involved in your local rapid response group and anti-ice organization. 04823
Reposted by Quill TurnerRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Checking back in on the Women's Pro Baseball League: through four games, Denae Benites is hitting .824 (14-for-17) and leads the league with 5 home runs (the rest of the league has 6 combined) and 6 stolen bases (nobody else has more than 3) what the hell 1733740