Reposted by SopwithCamus Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 03/10/2026JRR Tolkien: You paint that picture of the key scene from the Two Towers where Frodo and Sam fight Gollum? Donato Giancola: Sure did, Ron, real fuckin' sexy just like you asked. JRRT: What. 5281582570
SopwithCamus @sopwithcamus.bsky.social · 3hMy own top ten most played according to Steam: 1. CK II (haven't played it in a decade!) 2. Total War Warhammer 3. Rogue Trader 4. Mass Effect Leg. Ed. 5. Steel Division 6. Total War: Shogun II 7. Saints Row III (also over a decade) 8. Control 9. Mount & Blade: WF&S 10. Dark Souls 2 000
Reposted by SopwithCamus Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11hListening to the racist podcast about the “Indian Question” and wow mediocre 2026 white guys jealous of an Indian with a tech job is very much the new mediocre Central Valley white guys in 1941 jealous of Japanese with a thriving farm. 6531121
Reposted by SopwithCamus the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026from 2001. no one’s doing product testimonials like this anymore. t.co/PEswCtbEZz 352508398
Reposted by SopwithCamus 5 foot Home Depot skeleton @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 03/10/2026wHHHWAAAATTTTTTT 1164
Reposted by SopwithCamus Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026 1862691654
Reposted by SopwithCamus Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The issue with "monsters are marginalized people in fantasy clothes" is that it ends up with things like people making orcs more explicitly like people from IRL sub-Saharan Africa. "There's kind of a racist subtext with orcs, so we've fixed it by making them H. Rider Haggard Zulus." Which, um. 1124539
Reposted by SopwithCamus Sam @mardiroos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I try to second-guess myself as much as possible but the idea that LLMs are conscious, feel pain etc is currently just prima facie absurd. The arguments to the contrary all seem like sophistry to me 8915
Reposted by SopwithCamus lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 02/10/2026much respect to the work 404 does, but plenty of real people with real problems are using AI as a force multiplier in their jobs already. like try telling boko haram members to their face that chatGPT doesn't save them hours every week planning attacks, designing IEDs, and repairing weapons 1965636
Reposted by SopwithCamus T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 02/10/2026LMAO holy shit 519339
Reposted by SopwithCamus Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026oh! okay, that sounds good then 1320537
Reposted by SopwithCamus Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I don’t think the roman helmet guys on musk’s csam emporium know this one (from josephine quinn’s how the world made the West) 301063178
Reposted by SopwithCamus Taulby Edmondson @taulby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Their use of "high-trust society" and "homogenous" has always seemed to me like the new offshoot of the same old race science of "racial amalgamation" and "miscegenation." Of course Rufo and Vance et al traffic in it. 0438
Reposted by SopwithCamus Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026This is genocidal rhetoric, if you're keeping track. This is the kind of thing they go for in the "Heterodox" community. 27221
Reposted by SopwithCamus James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026There's a poll for this: (www.cato.org/blog/75-amer...) 626154
Reposted by SopwithCamus Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/10/2026If NFL broadcasters are going to treat Deshaun Watson being ok at QB as a sign that he has been Redeemed For His Past, they must remain ideologically consistent. If he starts playing badly again they have to blame it on his failure to repent for his heinous sexual misconduct 261452186
Reposted by SopwithCamus Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026the right hates college in large part precisely because *it allows women and non white people to earn more.* 0439
Reposted by SopwithCamus BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026having seen an early cut, I did think the part where Dr Doom rewinds the movie was pretty disturbing. 151474
Reposted by SopwithCamus Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"David Cameron's former advisor is running for CA Gov and released an ad themed like softcore porn about lesbians" do you ever think we live in hell? 2018040
Reposted by SopwithCamus Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Palantir shifting from hiring only "Ivy or Ivy-equivalent" degrees to hiring only out of high school is an admission that "training" and "talent" were never factors at all. They were looking for packaging & prestige, and now they're looking for ignorance & impressionability. 471449343
Reposted by SopwithCamus Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Periodic reminder that the Thai state sucks ⬇️ 083
Reposted by SopwithCamus Spooky Kessey, Age of Skeleton @jdkessey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I finished the book around two weeks ago. His examination of the Skeptic Community hit home for me. I followed those communities and came to similar conclusions. Also, I can't believe that Linehans fall began with a mid joke in IT Crowd. 031
Reposted by SopwithCamus treb @treblaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"I don't follow politics" is an immediate signifier that you would eat a shit pie if a tiktok told you to 12980102
Reposted by SopwithCamus James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Simple solution: just don't do it. The US desire to find 'clean' ways of killing people is ultimately to try and absolve themselves of what they're doing: killing people. There is no clean and morally pure way of taking a life - and particularly not of someone whose entirely within your power 819525
Reposted by SopwithCamus Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026just checking the till here Pete, and i think you're missing a rather important one 1332438
Reposted by SopwithCamus Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I regret to inform you which admin originally thought putting money into Anduril was worthwhile 1857
Reposted by SopwithCamus My Password is Louvre @bmceuen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Lots of folks responding with pics of US Grant but the thing you have to remember is that Hegseth believes the Union forces were enemy invaders against the smol bean US South that was simply trying to “preserve its institutions” 38215
Reposted by SopwithCamus Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026speaking of air crash investigations, i still love this YouTube edit of the Gimli Glider (successful landing via drift of Air Canada flight) 1623441
Reposted by SopwithCamus Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Dear lord is this man compensating. 2230534
Reposted by SopwithCamus gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sweden, while subject to the same climate shifts as the rest of the planet, has some relative advantages in the near term. Mobility and freedom are assets, and the more things deteriorate the more consequential those class privileges become. Or he could need a murderbot training ground, who knows.fortune.comPalantir CEO Alex Karp quietly purchased 37,000 acres of forests in Sweden—and locals found out when hunters lost leases to use the property | FortuneCladonia Skog AB, a newly registered company owned by Karp, said it would use the land for “forestry and other related activities.” 56639
Reposted by SopwithCamus BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They won’t tell you this in school because of woke but this was a vuvuzela. 423726
SopwithCamus @sopwithcamus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026A lot of people are pointing out WFH as a possible cause of this (which is likely), but I would like to see comparisons of this American data to countries that aren't so automobile dependent, and have more robust social spaces. 010
Reposted by SopwithCamus ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026wonder how much of this is rise in hybrid/WFH 3242824
Reposted by SopwithCamus EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026AI music or whatever is rich people imparting their sense of perpetual dissatisfaction with the neverending process of acquiring and being disappointed by whatever product they imagine will make them happy. We don't have to fall for that! 1214
Reposted by SopwithCamus EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The beauty of being alive in a world with other people is that we largely have no idea what we can do to satisfy the desires that drive us and we only get a taste of that satisfaction through chance encounters. Expressing desires semiotically to a machine will never result in what we *really wanted* 28418
Reposted by SopwithCamus Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026my initial read on the Cornell 7 case is that we’re likely to have an overdue national conversation about the voluntary intoxication loophole. 1687157
Reposted by SopwithCamus Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Wrote about how Trump’s tantrums over the Supreme Court reveal the not so hidden subtext of what Republicans expect from the justices. Also a mention of how Supreme Court politics resemble the Calciopoli scandal. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 12587147
Reposted by SopwithCamus Onion Inc Union @onionunion.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Onion Union has four months until our contract expires. Here are some tips to unionize your workplace. 029550
Reposted by SopwithCamus Colin M. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 30/09/2026this is specifically what Twitter was re-engineered to do, btw. it exists almost solely to threaten anyone at the flashpoint of a nascent social movement. 92932553
Reposted by SopwithCamus mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026awoke this morning with a Vision 4991011674
Reposted by SopwithCamus Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026New Democratic candidate talking point just dropped. 491997338
Reposted by SopwithCamus Guofu 류강 대™🪨 @karnesmellagio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026People regardless of self identified idealogy really are just suckers for the aesthetic of soldiers just doing normal shit. 392
Reposted by SopwithCamus Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m sorry. Is the message “invest in us OR we’ll destroy humanity” or “invest in us AND we’ll destroy humanity“? 1827898
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