SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 54sHad to unsub from someone I thought was cool because they bitched about “the left being taken over by identity politics.” Venn diagram of guys like that and bigoted assholes is indistinguishable from a circle. 000
Reposted by SrslyJosh the ghostes @rem.bsjky.team · 12hPRO TiP: to avoid a crisis of identity after someone you had a parasocial attachment to is revealed to have done something awful, try not making a parasocial relationship part of your identity 8585112
Reposted by SrslyJoshGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline 162597945
Reposted by SrslyJoshBi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 6h"Workers make less and corporations make more every year, to change this we MUST uncritically adopt the labor-disciplining machine built on labor theft and exploitation that is pushed by corporations seeking to be the largest rent-seekers in human history on behalf of billionaires." 06515
Reposted by SrslyJoshNiko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 10hi think if you’re having complicated feelings about a man you looked up to being outed as a sexual abuser the thing to do is work through those feelings before/without writing an essay about it. the take economy has cooked your brain. 21171157
Reposted by SrslyJoshThought Slime’s monster @slimemildred.bsky.social · 9hI don’t want to sound glib, but if a woman actually wanted to “make up a crime to ruin a man’s reputation,” they’d pick one that people actually give a shit about, like hurting a dog or something. 152550518
Reposted by SrslyJoshRóisín 🏳️⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 6hHe only recently discovered, via robot, that he can block people instead of suspending/banning them when he doesn't want to see their replies. He fully has no idea how to use the internet normally 4594
Reposted by SrslyJoshRóisín 🏳️⚧️ @roisin.northsky.social · 7hHe has set up his bot to auto detach quotes, and then manually goes through and apologises to some people who were trying to agree with his points in the quote posts they made 3412
Reposted by SrslyJoshdemon core vidal @regretagarbo.rip · 9hoh since a BUNCH of you are blocked. this is the “conversation” i don’t understand how running it past a comms team results in not posting???? fucking hello!??? 53769109
Reposted by SrslyJoshAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 03/10/2026but really, this post is just me reaffirming that I am not interested in whether they can do math because the primary function of LLMs is to help centralize, justify, and validate power, and they are doing that successfully already 312432
Reposted by SrslyJoshmcc @dryad.technology · 22hThis is known as the "hyper-anti-stratfordian" position 021
Reposted by SrslyJoshJupiter ♃ @tempestarubida.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Cladistically speaking, a fish wrote Shakespeare. 131
Reposted by SrslyJoshmcc @dryad.technology · 03/10/2026It's well known that an infinite number of monkeys will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare. However my thesis is that this formulation is naive, and we can in fact establish a far lower bound. Proof: William Shakespeare, a monkey, produced the works of Shakespeare. (1/2) 48223
Reposted by SrslyJoshAdrienne @adrienneleigh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026i just can't get over the absolute histrionic absurdity involved in saying that someone committed "literary sex crimes" because you don't like their portrayal of your fictional vampire boyfriend 619011
Reposted by SrslyJoshIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Rod Serling was a king. WWII paratrooper in “The Death Squad,” TV pioneer, LOUD critic of McCarthyism who knew his status as a war hero put him in a privileged position to call shit out. Wrote critiques of racism into his scripts, created The Twilight Zone to escape the censorship that brought on. 11278334
Reposted by SrslyJoshJesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“Nearly $100” is extremely funny 1523532
Reposted by SrslyJoshTKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 22hFraternities are the ur-old boy network in the US. Joining one won't guarantee you end up running a fortune 500 company, or sitting on the Supreme Court... but if you don't join one the odds of those things happening are practically zilch. And that's a problem. 03616
Reposted by SrslyJoshtove lovesitwhen @meghanclare.bsky.social · 02/10/2026sometimes I hear my husbands zoom calls and people will say shit like, “its gonna be beautiful because we’re using AI” and then I hear someone say “i think you left the gibberish in at the bottom” and he is really bummed he has to work with these people 0171
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Did they actually know how to do their jobs before today? Doesn’t sound like it. 010
Reposted by SrslyJoshmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"I have a harem of dozens of women who are my employees to fuck and have my children as I please" is one of the ultimate goals of the billionaire class and one of the main reasons they are so keen to fuck the labor market (so desirable women are desperate enough to sign up for this) 12781155
Reposted by SrslyJoshmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Revenge for MeToo (which severely constrained their ability to rape employees), Revenge for Black Lives Matter (which called out how racist many of them were) and most of all Revenge for the 2021 Labor Market where they suddenly had to compete for scarce labor instead of the other way around 51035181
Reposted by SrslyJoshmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Just generally the story of the last 5 years is Revenge of The Bosses, including Trump's win in 2024 101256246
Reposted by SrslyJoshGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 02/10/2026accumulating vast wealth is like drinking seawater, creating a thirst for more while driving you mad but unfortunately for the rest of us rather than bringing a swift end, it prolongs life 06310
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Celebrated by substack as one of its best writers. This is why I don’t click substack links. 000
Reposted by SrslyJoshkottke.org @kottke.org · 02/10/2026A large collection of amazing photos of old control rooms from nuclear plants, dams, power stations, etc. So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. [kottke.org]kottke.orgSo Many Amazing Control RoomsFrom the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over. See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside 116945
Reposted by SrslyJoshStarbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 02/10/2026St Louis and Philadelphia's city councils just became the first to officially endorse the Starbucks Boycott. Starbucks is the biggest violator of US labor law in history, and it's time we ALL push back against corporate greed. ✊ 25697229
Reposted by SrslyJoshc.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I wanna show you guys something. Those following me know something important, Ive lost my ability to draw rn. I have weakness in my arms & am partially blind now. Im the "disabled" person ai techbros scream about but instead i fight my body to relearn to draw again w/ unfamiliar devices. Fuck ai. 420741
Reposted by SrslyJoshKevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 01/10/2026*La la la driving until I am stopped by a construction queue* *look around* *double take at the giant hand rising out of the corn* Oh! It’s a tree covered in vines and not the emergence of an elder god! Whew 2539954
Reposted by SrslyJoshPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star. 282158614
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026They know it’ll fail, but they have to put on an act for investors. By the time they have to admit that they’ve cancelled the project or they’re discontinuing it as a product, they will have started hyping something else nobody asked for. It’s the Musk Cycle. 010
Reposted by SrslyJoshGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026And, for the coup de grace, two bills protecting fire survivors from predatory insurance companies, which he vetoed, deliberately, to punish fire survivors for rejecting his "reform" bill that was actually a huge payout to SCE for starting fires. calmatters.org/economy/2026...calmatters.orgNewsom vetoes insurance-claim bills: Is it ‘petty’ politics?California governor rejects legislation sponsored by LA fire victims, who had spoken out against his wildfire-liability effort. 72680643
Reposted by SrslyJoshGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 294111854055
Reposted by SrslyJoshBen McAdams (The Resurrection Arc) @purrtah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A Texas GOP State Rep is retweeting Team Talarico 13624117
Reposted by SrslyJoshEb @ebthen.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is what we need from healthcare professionals. Because the other way is the Aktion T4 way. 0128
Reposted by SrslyJoshJulia @foxgrrl.northsky.social · 02/10/2026It's kinda incredible how earth.google.com can smoothly render and animate 3D landscapes in realtime (only using a few hundred MB of RAM), while in another Chrome tab, at the same time, "bsky.app" can't smoothly scroll down a list of 300 character long text messages (while using over a GB of RAM).earth.google.comGoogle Earth 2143
Reposted by SrslyJoshJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.) 9752012126
Reposted by SrslyJoshBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Finally a president who solved our age old problem of being a country where people wanted to be 353328408
Reposted by SrslyJoshJohn Voelcker @johnvoelcker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Ah, New York, New York. Street-parking a #Tesla Cybertruck in the deep East Village is ... a choice. 81826110
Reposted by SrslyJoshOne Amahira, MA @oneamahira.bsky.social · 01/10/2026My sister has her own office now and she is incredibly delighted with her stress relief decor choice: www.etsy.com/listing/1671...etsy.comLegend of Zelda Breakable Pot With Rupees - EtsyThis Art Objects item by OakMesaGifts has 7965 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from Lompoc, CA. Listed on Sep 30, 2026 064
Reposted by SrslyJoshGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 01/10/2026a thing anyone can do is look up jury nullification 6803219
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Very brave, but please remember to STFU if arrested. Invoke your right to remain silent immediately, then re-invoke it any time that you speak. (E.g., after asking for a glass of water, bathroom break, etc.) 010
Reposted by SrslyJoshOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This 33-year-old nurse told the FBI she knew she was “going to set him free” after border patrol agents brought in a man whose face was bloodied and seriously injured. She treated him and helped him escape, and she faces charges now. He got away, and they never relocated him. 18181281770
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Serious question about that, because every phone I’ve owned in recent years has been rated to survive a ~30 minute dunk down to at least a few meters depth: Was his not actually water resistant? Did he drop it in water that was too deep? Was it damaged in a way that compromised the water resistance? 100
SrslyJosh @srslyjosh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Internal screaming will continue until…ha, who am I kidding? Internal screaming will continue, period. 000