Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 27/09/2026I’ve been sayin this forever: it turns out that 45 years of declining funding for public education has maybe not been the best idea we ever had. 010
Reposted by Pete EhlkeFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/09/2026if Eliezer Yudkowsky was born into a somewhat poorer family and missed a couple lucky breaks, he’d have ended up as an archetypal specimen of your friend’s older cousin who keeps boa constrictors and makes you listen to him talk about quantum physics in his parent’s basement in exchange for weed 301986166
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs 525528950
Reposted by Pete EhlkeDoctor Memory @blank.org · 12/09/2026Remember when we were all complaining that this wasn’t the weird cyberpunk future we were promised? Well, about that. 382
Reposted by Pete EhlkeChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/09/2026can we bring this design asthetic back please 3864162
Reposted by Pete EhlkeDoctor Memory @blank.org · 14/08/2026Ankle monitors are a little over the top; surely they could just wear, like... a cloth patch on their shirts? Maybe a big "H" in yellow? If you don't see what's coming here, I don't know how to make you. 163
Reposted by Pete EhlkeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification. 609191142374
Reposted by Pete EhlkeSean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 11/08/2026So embarrassing when people think the point of reading a novel is to know the plot, so a summary is just as good. The plot isn’t important, you rube. You absolute simpleton. The point of reading a novel is to find out what the characters are eating and start thinking about what you want for dinner. 734053832
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 27/07/2026In college I worked the graveyard shift in a coffee shop that shared basement space with a bar that had a cooler with this exact latch. Let’s just say that that coffee shop was my friends’ favorite after hours spot. 020
Reposted by Pete EhlkeIan Campbell @neurovagrant.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A reminder that no one is ever entitled to your time and attention. That is especially true on the internet. That is excruciatingly true of AI bros on the internet. 1182
Reposted by Pete EhlkeDeth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Exactly. Pretty concrete (ahem.) evidence that we need a hell of a lot more of them. 2252
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 04/07/2026Vicious Sneering Odium is the name of my Faith No More themed Oasis cover band. 010
Reposted by Pete EhlkeRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 03/07/2026we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever 7966751338
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 02/07/2026this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit 7142441332
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 26/06/2026My old friend Chloe is kind of a big deal. You should follow her. 000
Reposted by Pete EhlkeWill Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18/06/2026If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250 517278326363
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 17/06/2026There are two kinds of people: those who admit they pee in the shower, and filthy shameless liars. 000
Reposted by Pete Ehlkemuscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 14/06/2026What you wish you could be doing in New York right now is what you could be doing when It happens. HAVE A PLAN. 454109713
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAdam Herman @adamzherman.bsky.social · 14/06/2026NYC's response to the Knicks' run is an explicit rejection of Trumpism. Civic engagement is at an all-time high. Fearmongering about public safety was crushed by the hundreds of spontaneous watch parties. Unimaginably diverse groups rallying behind a sense of collective identity. 322839
Reposted by Pete EhlkeDefector @defector.com · 13/06/2026"The Trump administration's goal is not to make the world think none of this is happening, or to make the world think what's happening is fine. It's to show that nobody can stop it."defector.comThe State Of Sportswashing | DefectorOn Dec. 5, 2025, FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Donald Trump with the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, nominally for Trump’s “tireless efforts to bring people together in a spirit of peace.” I… 09836
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAndrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 12/06/2026A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure. 14276781912
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 04/06/2026I retired last year after nearly 30 years in Hotel & Hospitality IT. As of 2025, bots accounted for well over 90% of all requests for hotel room rates and availability. 020
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 02/06/2026Doctor asked me if I would be ok trying lithium and I am so Gen X, I just started humming it. 1825215
Reposted by Pete EhlkeAubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 30/05/2026I love that there's incontroverible proof Talarico is straight in this picture and it isn't the girlfriend. 1736928796
Reposted by Pete EhlkeJames Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I’m glad he was here with us, here at the end of all things [giftie] www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/a...nytimes.comEnd of a Colbert-a 118525
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 21/05/2026OK let's do this the other way. Introduce yourself with ten bands you wish you'd seen but never did: The Spiders From Mars Pretenders Stiff Little Fingers Buzzcocks The Jam Front 242 Ultravox Prince & The Revolution Pet Shop Boys Bauhaus 130
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 21/05/2026Doers suck.com count as niche? I don't care. The answer is suck.com.suck.com 020
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 21/05/2026Introduce yourself with 10 bands you’ve seen live: Runaways Ramones Gang of Four Replacements Love & Rockets Laurie Anderson Talking Heads Ministry Jesus & Mary Chain Clan of Xymox Mostly in bars. 010
Reposted by Pete Ehlketweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 18/05/2026I sold Mitch Kapor an inkjet once. think about THAT. thing was a piece of shit. 3151
Reposted by Pete EhlkeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Never heard someone preach on the one and the three before. 924925
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 17/05/2026Norman Mailer, The Executioner’s Song. Mailer was to say the least _deeply_ problematic, but this is a masterpiece of American writing. Chinwa Achebe, Things Fall Apart. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow. And if you mention Infinite Jest, I will cut you off and never speak to you ever again. 000
Reposted by Pete EhlkeA.L. Goldfuss @ghoulpus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Washing one pair of pants while wearing another pair of pants, that’s better productivity gains than AI 1201
Reposted by Pete Ehlkegeoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 12/05/2026i genuinely, truly hate them for what they’ve done and any plan for getting us out of this that requires millions of people to pretend they don’t hate the people who put us here is masturbatory make-believe 18113
Pete Ehlke @rfc822.net · 08/05/2026In what way is the United States not currently in a civil war? 000
Reposted by Pete Ehlkeclod @whatever.mom · 06/05/2026a vanilla soy latte is a variety of three bean soup 8512101
Reposted by Pete EhlkeRyan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now 5939751575
Reposted by Pete EhlkeMark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 04/05/2026It's very painful to me to see so many people speaking ill of Rudy Giuliani. Don't they know they're jinxing it? 401593148
Reposted by Pete Ehlkeutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 30/04/2026This is a cold civil war. There is no more territory to expand as a release valve, there’s no Kansas-Nebraska Acts and more Indians to force onto reservations; the only frontiers are inward and slave power is forcing its hand to tilt the scales while it still can. 342223635
Reposted by Pete Ehlkemolly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 11/09/2025i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence 302273196368
Reposted by Pete EhlkeMaia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 19/04/2026let's make a cultural value judgment: palantir are a bunch of execrable fascist shitheads and their ideas go against the basis of every civilized country on earth, from which they should be extirpated like the intellectual cancer they are 161903402
