Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialpublic health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20hall of us just watched these university admins wield enormous power against palestinian student orgs, including unaffiliated ones, so these excuses land flatter than ever 132142588
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJulie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity. 98127563760
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 14/10/2026Last night the President of the United States posted a video of a tiger attacking an unwell person (who was fatally mauled shortly afterward), then an AI video of himself befriending the tiger. Remember when Howard Dean yelled weird 532901407
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 14/10/2026my most fervent wish is for every one of stephen miller’s fears to come true hound him everywhere he goes prosecute him any way you can sue him and sue his wife and bleed them dry until the end of their days 442310400
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I know writers who use subtext and they're all cowards.inquirer.comThe SS United States is set to be sunk in mid-NovemberOkaloose County expects to sink the SS United States the second week in November, depending on weather. 5045351073
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 12/10/2026whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again" 401906315
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026If I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me. 46107823007
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world' 1282791626
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026the reason “AI will create so much abundance we will have a utopian society” rhetoric falls so flat is that the people building it will never, ever share their bounty unless it is taken from them and we all know it 95115242676
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMike Masnick @masnick.com · 08/10/2026All these guys spent all this effort to get "fuck you" money and can't even bring themselves, even once, to use it to say "fuck you" to Trump. Pathetic. 563173480
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 08/10/2026Trump: *says horrible thing* the media: he didn’t actually mean it Trump: no I definitely one hundred percent meant it 4541421008
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026a little louder for the cheap seats in the back 3256311950
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMatt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026When Trump posted a video of the Obamas as apes the NYT claimed "it was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware" that he posted it 491873396
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 06/10/2026We’ve had so many “Any Other Presidency Would Be Ended By This” statements that it feels banal to point out, but suggesting the deaths of millions of people by a foreign power would be a fine cost because they’re politically inconvenient should end a presidency in any functioning democracy. 421849
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 05/10/2026the reason these people need to be stripped of almost all of their money is so that they stop thinking that it gives them the right to nominate themselves for the "benevolent dictator" position 412688561
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialIron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 05/10/2026To expand on this: Bigotry isn't a result of an innocent misunderstanding, or not having all the facts. It's not a choice made rationally, defeated with a rational argument. Bigotry is a self-protective, foundational belief used to help make the world make sense to them. Debate won't change that. 31986570
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialmcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of 6164072448
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious. 5164371787
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house 362341423
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-... 119116092882
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"biden is sooo mad at netanyahu he's going to stop funding the genocide any day now, probably" is a tactic they tried every couple of weeks while he was in office. there's no rescuing his legacy here sorry 362521369
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 01/10/2026good the court has upended the rights and freedom of millions of people and declared donald trump of all people an untouchable god-king whose every feeling must be coddled they deserve to be miserable 251839351
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter 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 353376417
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialonion person @junlper.beer · 01/10/2026it’s amazing that there’s no crime anymore. if you do crime you’re actually just the victim for getting caught. the people who catch you are the criminals 533155557
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/09/2026listen everyone, i’m getting sick of all the criticism. this is my first blender project. i’m still figuring out how pivot points work. i am also aware that at frame 860 he teleports to fairfax along the x-axis. i’m working on it 303797359
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Every time a discourse kicks off over whether AI music, literature or art will be "as good as" the real thing, I'm always amazed more people don't cite that **there already are** creative pursuits where human-free spectacles have been available for decades, and nobody has ever wanted to watch them. 441726335
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPatrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 30/09/2026The “super intelligence” thing is useful in the sense that if someone calls AI that you know you are dealing with a TURBO bozo 442788386
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialChris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 27/09/2026Dipshit writing for a fascist rag that pushed for this moment at every step of the way cannot fathom how we got here 114915
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialwarrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 26/09/2026All serious like I’m making an actual point: when are democrats gonna go back to lip service and pablum instead of making concrete promises 211634198
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 26/09/2026hi we're a website you have used for 20 years, we have no idea if you are over 18, send us a selfie. let us connect to your camera. can we get a booty pic with panties on and one without them on? can we also get 3 different pics of your boobs any position 3469781805
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialMicah @rincewind.run · 26/09/2026I think it is very important that Big Balls, personally, goes to jail there are a lot of young goons who think they are invincible and it is important to make it clear that they are not 7065711333
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialceej @ceej.online · 24/09/2026impeach them all. fuck em. why should they get to fly around on our dime and hurt people? “they’ll never actually removed from office” who gives a shit? I want them miserable every day for the rest of the term. I hope they have nightmares. air their dirty laundry. make em sweat 9678421312
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.sociallauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23/09/2026look, you can't just punish trump when dems are in power. that might make republicans do something crazy, like stage a coup, illegally shred the federal bureaucracy, or even vstart abducting people off the street and extraditing them to torture sites all over the world 434435786
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialA.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What I can't get over is the Dems out there trying to transphobia their way out of these numbers. Just out there riding the crest of the wave, doing morally unsupportable pandering to bigotry at a time when it is also strategically foolish, just for love of the capitulation game. 361730397
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialdr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 22/09/2026it's weird that ai got too dangerous to keep advancing right around the time money got more expensive to borrow 344706969
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialshaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 21/09/2026when the republicans are weak, the establishment dems will weaken themselves also so as to not win by too much. if they had future sight and knew which policies would result in a resounding victory and which would result in a nailbiter, they'd pick the nailbiter policies every time 81443173
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialPuff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When you hear a fantastical story about AI, you should ask yourself, "How does this serve the political project of AI?" Because, as others have pointed out, that's what AI really amounts to: a political project. 41282309
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialthe hills have vrunt @vrunt.social · 19/09/2026sure yeah, can't even make a stick figure without fucking up and no one at the company gives enough of a shit to even give it another pass but go ahead and take my money so i can use this lazy shit technology every day too 633637674
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialthe babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here 111112201907
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026“Abolish ICE” was immediately met with eye rolling condescension and after events proved that policy correct, and support *among Democrats* for it exploded to like 80%, it didn’t move party leaders at all. How is this tenable 382917354
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander! 634033510
thegreghelmer.bsky.social @thegreghelmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Surely THIS time I’ll be on the pump side of the scam instead of the dump side 2910
Reposted by @thegreghelmer.bsky.socialTommy Tomlinson @tommytomlinson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026So here's a quote from @pablo.show that applies to not only his Clippers investigation but the best of what journalism can be: www.nytimes.com/athletic/756... 203669884
