Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialInternet Dad @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 21/10/2025Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days. 137177974670
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Proposal for a commercial service: - they issue you a celphone, pre-loaded with social media content such as a Truth Social account, praising current POTUS - if you travel to or from the US, then you leave your usual phone at home, and bring that phone, to placate the authoritiarian border guards 140
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 07/10/2025IYKYK, "if you know, you know" can come across elitist, hipster, cooler-than-thou and shitty. The more people get in on a joke, the better. A good joke has value from its cleverness, regardless of scarcity. - IYDKJA: If You Don't Know, Just Ask! We'll welcome you into the circle of those who know! 030
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 06/10/2025There are a few words which, as keyword searches, prompt exactly one result. TIL one of those words is "ihctacuoyllatubgnihsifemosodotpotsuoy". Unless, of course, posting this here, means that a search for that word finds this also as a result; but I think that Google doesn't find Bluesky posts. 020
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Kublacon Fall has given thumbs-up to my repeat of a workshop on "Queer-Friendly Gaming". This workshop will engage maybe ten to twenty people, for 80 minutes; it's not a large-scale operation; but it's the difference between zero and more-than-zero LGBTQ+ visibility in the convention program. 010
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Today, as I was walking home after an errand, I ran into a local figure, Marty Medina. He recognized me from working together on a volunteer project. He was delivering flyers about a local event celebrating cultural diversity.... 100
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 21/09/2025For years I was a participant at a community mental health program, a chapter of the Clubhouse movement. When the executive director resigned, candidates interviewed with selection committee and then met with the general membership, right after lunch, taking questions from any member who asked... 110
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 21/09/2025This 1948 film explaining propaganda to school children should be shown to every US, UK and Australian schoolkid in 2025. #USPolitics #UKPolitics #auspol #politics #propaganda youtu.be/8AGpILvdwDM?...youtu.bePROPAGANDA For High School Kids In 1948! Would They Show This Today?YouTube video by David Hoffman 412148
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialDevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Keep cancelling! creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st...creators.yahoo.comDisney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspensionThinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone—after Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, so many people rushed to quit that the cancellation page itself started crashing. 28567742008
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialDave Lee @davelee.me · 19/09/2025Dutch late night TV has its take 507207478836
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 18/09/2025When Helen of Troy found herself wallowing in regrets, over hard choices and losses, she reminded herself... ...she'd always have Paris. - (if you haven't seen Casablanca, then I recommend it; it's a classic for a reason.) 000
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct." 1785360189162
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialThe Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2025Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office 77111392058
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 13/09/2025They travelled to a less advanced nation, to share their technology skills. They learned the language, they ate the local food, and so forth. But even so, the natives were fearful, and eventually the natives turned on them, violently. - I'm referring to the South Korean Hyundai workers. 022
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialShiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025 121890390
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 12/09/2025"I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational." - Charlie Kirk - You might even say he really stuck his neck out, for 2A! 000
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Yet another successful use of "I disagree" rather than "You're wrong": Talking yesterday with my mother, who has dementia. I mentioned my housemate's kittens. She said she'd never had a cat. I said, mildly, that I disagreed. And then she DID remember the housecat we had from about 1978 to 1985. 010
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialPOLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 05/09/2025🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission today fined Google €2.95 billion for abusing its dominant position in the advertising technology market.politico.euEU slaps Google with €2.95B fine for adtech abuseBrussels hammers U.S. search giant after internal Commission feud. 517050
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialDr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 29/08/2025From Jane of the North: 412435
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 25/08/2025I have wondered, what Germans could have done differently, in the early 1930s, to avert the rise of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. According to this article, the window of opportunity closed in 1933. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/i-research...cmarmitage.substack.comI researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.Once they win elections, it's already too late. 210
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Rocks form three ways. Sedimentary rocks form slowly, as material (eg sand) settles in layers, over a long time, and compacts under weight. Igneous rocks are formed from molten rock. Metamorphic rocks were once sedimentary or igneous, then changed under heat, pressure and/or chemical reactions... 100
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/08/2025Someone in comments (and now I can't find the actual comment, sorry) said the best Star Wars trilogy is now Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars Ep 4, and you know what, I'm here for that argument, call it the "Death Star Trilogy" 822345268
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 22/08/2025Autocomplete thought I might be typing "shrimp ceviche" into a search bar. In a better world, ceviche would indeed be the word starting with ce. But in reality, I was curious about shrimp cesium-137. - I wonder if anyone will find the source of the cesium-137? 000
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialjosh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 06/08/2025An adage a day keeps the doctor cliché 211410
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialSarcastic Cat @sarcastic-cat.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Fifteen year olds can walk into any Subway and order a sandwich. No background checks. No sandwich licence. No wonder cops don't feel safe on our streets. 141
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialU.S. Federal Department of Propaganda @usfdop.bsky.social · 27/07/2025 247181323845
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 11/07/2025I heard about an attempt to gene-splice crabs with cheetahs... I dunno, that could go sideways, real fast. 011
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/07/2025LULA: “.. Brazil is a sovereign nation with independent institutions and will not accept any form of tutelage.” 🇧🇷 25970471927
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 09/07/2025When the moon hits your eye... - When behavior's informed, by strict cultural norms, that's some mores! 020
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast. 790223744044
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6253660311253
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 19/06/20251/2 My favorite passage from the Second Edition rules for Dungeons and Dragons: Lawful evil is the most dangerous alignment because it represents methodical, intentional, and frequently successful evil... 120
riley37.bsky.social @riley37.bsky.social · 19/06/2025The first rule of Apophrasis Club, is we never mention apophrasis! 010
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialTableTopBill @tabletopbill.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Love it.... #StarWars 310610
Reposted by @riley37.bsky.socialLeigh Booker @leighbooker.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Accordion to a recent study, 7 out of 10 people don't notice when a word in a sentence is replaced by a musical instrument. 3536332
