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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 15h

“Remember that, Charlie? Is he here today? Come on up here!”

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 18h

🎶 Jesus is just OK with me 🎶

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 19h

“Development and abandonment of critical technologies has been a consistent pattern in recent U.S. history, across solar panels and batteries and semiconductors and pharmaceuticals. We have been committed to nothing so much as not producing anything.” prospect.org/world/2025-1...

Why China Can Collapse the U.S. With One Decree

China holds a virtual monopoly over a product needed to produce the only thing holding up our economy right now. And it’s preparing to use that leverage.

prospect.org

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 3d

I don't see the data center water-guzzling aspect of AI talked about nearly enough, but I know this: Gonna be too late to do anything about it but talk and die of dehydration if we let this continue.

www.texastribune.org/2025/09/25/t...

Data centers are thirsty for Texas’ water, but state planners don’t know how much they will need

A wave of massive data centers is expanding across Texas, prompting warnings from experts who say the new water demands could push the state’s already strained supply to the brink.

www.texastribune.org

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 1d

This article goes into something I’ve always wondered about: all the passive investors using index funds and the like. www.marketwatch.com/story/this-i...

This is the dumbest stock market in history

Wisdom of crowds, indeed.

www.marketwatch.com

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 3d

If a paper has been pure dogshit practically since its founding, should we still treat it with sadface and gentle disappointment when it's dogshit now?

www.nytimes.com/1938/03/20/a...

A NEW CHAPTER WRITTEN IN AN AMAZING CAREER; Adolf Hitler Has Risen From Obscurity to a Dominant Position in the European Scene (Published 1938)

www.nytimes.com

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 3d

I can tell who's never reckoned up how many hours it'd take them to hustle at multiple jobs to keep a roof overhead. It's plain who can't imagine life without the privileges with which they began it.

"People lazy, prefer screens to real life" is itself a lazy, victim-blaming take. Lazy? No. TIRED.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 3d

1. NO ONE ON EARTH should be capable of dismissing the loss of "a couple of hundred billion dollars." No one should have so much in the first place.
2. If this doesn't make clear how eagerly they're all salivating at the prospect of worldwide slavery, I don't know what will. They keep telling you!

An excerpt from an article in Reuters dated October 8, 2025 and titled, "Markets face 'sharp correction' if mood sours on AI or Fed freedom, Bank of England says" (paywalled, but accessible via https://archive.ph/trjvZ) is subheaded, "AI VALUATIONS ECHO PEAK OF DOTCOM BOOM." Body text reads:

On AI, the Bank of England said that 30% of the U.S. S & P 500's valuation was made up by the five largest companies, the greatest concentration in 50 years.

Chipmaker Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Google-parent Alphabet, Amazon, and Facebook-parent Meta have all bet heavily on AI.

Share valuations based on past earnings were the most stretched since the dotcom bubble 25 years ago, though looked less so based on investors' expectations for future profits.

"This, when combined with increasing concentration within market indices, leaves markets particularly exposed should expectations around the impact of AI become less optimistic," the Bank of England said.

Last month Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg said he would rather misspend a couple of hundred billion dollars than risk being late to the AI expansion.

In August, almost half of fund managers polled by Bank of America judged that owning the seven largest U.S. tech stocks was the most crowded trade in the industry.

Despite these concerns, the S & P 500 hit a record high on Tuesday, up 14% on the year to date.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3d

I mean, say you're a football fan & you hear a TV commentator say "they should have the wide receiver stand in the end zone & throw it to them as soon as they hike the ball." You'd think "why is this person on my TV?" That's what every historian & poli sci prof thinks when Trump speaks.

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 5d

Trump would take it in stride.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 6d

“ICE needs to go into Chicago because the Chicago police are incapable of protecting the city but ICE can’t protect themselves so the Chicago police must protect them”

God I hate fascism so much

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Errol 🦇 🏳️‍🌈 @eerieseymour.bsky.social · 6d

The Orphan Crusher is here to stay. If we don’t feed more Orphans to the Crusher the Orphan Crushing industry will die. It’s time to wake up to the reality of the Orphan Crusher. The Orphan Crusher is worth billions. We need to teach people to use the Orphan Crusher. It’s here to stay.

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 6d

Why doesn’t he just get it over with and switch parties? There’s no way he’ll survive a Democratic primary.

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 6d

Much as I wish it were true, billionaires aren't stupid. They aren't as smart as the media lining up to fellate them report, either--but they aren't stupid.

They think WE are.

When Andreesen & Co. word-salad about AI making everything free, they do so because they know we'll buy that nonsense.

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m @keptsimple.bsky.social · 6d

still thinking about how Charlie Kirk said that Michelle Obama's position as the president's wife was a DEI hire. "He's not really dead as long as we remember him." -- Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 6d

lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy

“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 7d

It’s kinda hilarious how even with unequal exchange with the global south the capitalists are just so greedy that it doesn’t work. Oh well. Anyway

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 7d

Ben contemplating what to get J-Lo for her birthday

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t believe how many of y’all didn’t know she dated Kate McKinnon 😂

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes"

"You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger"

"Everybody's so punk on the internet"

"So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire"

"Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list"

"Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot"

"He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs"

"Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal"

"Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?"

"Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand"

"They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away"

"Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

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Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 8d

Oh god you’re so right

Bert the Kitten @bertthekitten.bsky.social · 8d

I never imagined MTG would have more integrity than all of her Republican colleagues combined.

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Tim Murphy @tmurp1953.bsky.social · 9d

Children are expendable in Abbott’s world. Uvalde knows.

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Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks.bsky.social · 8d

clinton: i'll give anything you want. i destroyed welfare. huge on cops. immigration, i'm brutal. please be nice to me.

gingrich: fuck you, eat shit, you're the devil, also get ready for impeachment

clinton: awwww biscuits

dems years later: gosh the GOP just started being so obstructionist now

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pretty unremarkable @prettyunremarkable.blackskycomra.de · 9d

I bailed on it myself--it can be clunky; the fediverse is blindingly white and overinvested in staying that way; and if you think people are humorless *here*?!

But some of the attempts to roast Mastodon are more miss than hit. It's weird that people can understand "PDS" but be thrown by "instance."

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