Billy @wavdl.blog · 4hOkay so setting aside 18,000 problems, you've now in the best case scenario set up a shitty and expensive set of Rube Goldberg machines to handle parts of your daily life. Congrats? 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 29/09/2026Predators in vans trying to entrap your kids by offering free treats 020
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026Why is everyone on here talking about some country song? I kind of want to create a bluesky client that allows me to tag a bunch of posts together and find the common denominator of posts those accounts have liked in the past 6 hours that lead to this hysteria. 210
Billy @wavdl.blog · 27/09/2026How about those Guardians, winning 9 of the last 10 games to take the AL Central for the 7th time out of the last 11 years. Gotta be the best franchise in modern history that doesn't actually spend any money? 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026This is why I say that *everyone* is a transplant. Unless you're still living in your parent's home, you're a transplant. You're an adult who wants to be housed separately from where you were born which is a very normal thing to want. 130
Billy @wavdl.blog · 21/09/2026Front page of the FT today: "Yes Billy you are correct" Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...giftarticle.ft.comBig Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheetsWall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 09/09/2026"Please spend 10 seconds thinking about the thing you're replying to before hitting send" .... "Okay, first READ the thing you're replying to, THEN spend 10 seconds thinking about the thing you're replying to" The entire bluesky experience in one short thread 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 08/09/2026This is a golf swing. He shifts his weight to his front foot which is what you do in golf, but makes you look like a toddler when swinging a bat. All your power comes from your rear leg. There are 100 other things wrong but mostly it's just being a rich asshole who took too many golf lessons 331
Billy @wavdl.blog · 12/08/2026Me too wavdl.blog/2026/08/06/i...wavdl.blogI Deleted My InstagramIt’s a bit of the “boy who cried wolf” situation since I’ve been saying I’d do this for over a year and a half. But it’s done, and you should consider it too. 010
Reposted by BillyAndreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, writing in my personal capacity. More than 600 colleagues and I signed an open letter asking Sundar Pichai not to put our AI models on classified networks. The deal was signed anyway. I learned about it from the press. 335139
Reposted by BillyAndreas Kirsch @blackhc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact 171273435
Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/07/2026"No slavery whatsoever" is a very strong statement I only bring it up to remind us that in 2026, many government entities in America still use slave labor, and we all just pretend that it's not, which makes me wonder what historians will say about 21st century America in a few thousand years 270
Reposted by BillyJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026In addition to being illegal and immoral, this is also how you get increasingly radicalized and disruptive protests. If an entirely legitimate and peaceful protest gets punished anyway, no reason not to go further. 131337355
Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/07/2026"RPP reinforces the notion that vehicle owners have a primary claim to the curb space in their neighborhood." If this is true, and you have big plans to reclaim street space, then go for it. It's really hard to apply any type of rationality to Car Brain tho. The same people will be angry both ways 120
Reposted by BillyAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.rpc.state.gov 8639911903
Reposted by BillySubscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) @kleinman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Anyway, if the USMNT ever want to be world class we need MLS academies to be much bigger and have way more openings for lower- and middle-class children. It's true but makes you a bore at parties so it's the perfect fact for Bluesky. 542954345
Reposted by BillyHarris Foster @harris.zone · 07/07/2026oh so it's like rocket league but with people 294667951
Reposted by Billyshaun @shaunvids.bsky.social · 07/07/2026always hearing terrible news about that platner guy. at this point i wouldn't be surprised if it came out that he had an actual nazi tattoo on his chest. i bet everyone would immediately cease supporting him to avoid embarrassing themselves, if that happened 223102421
Billy @wavdl.blog · 07/07/2026Can you guess what song was playing when my laptop froze and created this hip remix? 000
Reposted by BillyStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be. 3135421395
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/07/2026BREAKING: Man With Nazi Tattoo Turns Out To Not Be Such A Nice Guy Afterall 010
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/07/2026Woke up today still angry at Ferrari stupidity and I'm not even a Ferrari or Hamilton fan 100
Reposted by BillyBilly @wavdl.blog · 27/05/2026It's time to tax people being mean to me and invest in hanging out with the boys 121
Reposted by BillyJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479851792
Reposted by BillyI Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 06/07/2026“He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.” 332331911
Reposted by BillyColin Warriner @colinelmustard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. From Reuters, published on the Guardian website. 21175191880
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/07/2026"Cubic executives—all of whom have a background at major weapons manufacturers—signed a partnership late last year with Palantir"prospect.orgTech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear - The American ProspectTransit systems across the country are collecting information about the movement of riders via a company doing business with ICE contractor Palantir. 120
Billy @wavdl.blog · 06/07/2026Previous to Trump's recent meddling, I didn't really buy into the "you need to root against USMNT because the U.S. government is evil" but now they're explicitly linked so yeah 000
Reposted by BillyNvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 05/07/2026*sharing a screenshot from an article that cites another article quoting one (1) “New York financier” who says his firm prefers humanities grads to STEM* this is because the humanities teaches you critical thinking 211322
Billy @wavdl.blog · 05/07/2026Pitting to give up 2nd place with 3 laps to go is just mind boggilingly stupid, like, fire the entire put wall collosal fuck up, what the fuck are you thinking you fucking imbeciles stupid. Give me the damn job level stupid. Hire Air Bud to be your strategist level stupid 110
Billy @wavdl.blog · 05/07/2026Oh god, I don't think I'd heard the British national anthem sung before? Its just "we love our big beautiful king who is a king, god save the king"? How embarrassing 000
Reposted by BillyJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207413773
Reposted by BillyYoung Pete Toms @petetoms.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Thinking of the most romantic places to get married. Madison Square Garden, of course, Bank of America, one of those cable company storefronts that’s totally empty except for an iPad on a podium that’s bolted to the floor, the streaming service Fubu 1764770
Reposted by BillyJordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Nice argument, but it’s too late. I’ve already depicted myself as the calm under pressure, cheerful, and suave Pico Lopes while you are the shocked and fearful Lionel Messi 045178
Reposted by BillyBlake ™ @neilnevins.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This was slapped on a bus station and I’ve been laughing at it all morning 2149341142
Reposted by BillyJason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving. 8893366112534
Billy @wavdl.blog · 03/07/2026guy that word searches "offsides" to tell everyone on here that actually it's just offside 100
Reposted by BillyFederal Bureau Of Controlling The Run @swolecialism.bsky.social · 02/07/2026so these are cool but the answer is because it costs about five times as much as putting them on some dirt in the middle of nowhere, so they're not gonna be common 3373382
Reposted by Billyjourneyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 02/07/2026They made Kid Cuisine for grown men. There’s even a cowboy TV show tie-in 492314362
Billy @wavdl.blog · 02/07/2026I mean, a foundational tradition from which other traditions follow is the one where the Pope is the supreme leader of the church through the apostolic succession. Not sure you're a "traditionalist" if you break that one 110
Reposted by BillyGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 02/07/2026I am not a religious scholar, but "traditionalist" seems like an excessively gentle word to use in this context? 1828722
Reposted by BillyFrank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative. 53100513970
Reposted by Billymtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 01/07/2026much our country, including our elites, live in a farcical anti-reality where Trump's was running on "secure the border, throw out the criminals" and Biden was running on "open borders." In reality Trump actually supported "mass ethnic cleansing" and Biden ran on "secure the border" 1346278