🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
@bryangarner.bsky.social
My improv diary (talkin' to myself and making notes). I reply for practice, don't take it personal-like. MAGAts can fuck all the way off (feel free to take that personal-like, if you're a MAGAt).
Pinned
Happy to say my acct has been verified with the symbol : 🎉
It verifies you as a shitposter, and/or just validates you in general...the way your parents never did.
It verifies you as a shitposter, and/or just validates you in general...the way your parents never did.
Done
RAM shortage so severe that I reduced my full-throated explanation as to why I, as a grown-ass man, ate an entire half gallon of ice cream for dinner (complete with diagrams and amicus briefs) to "I'm sorry. Won't do it again."
(Am I doing this right?)
(Am I doing this right?)
RAM shortage so severe that while there were still clear skies in Tasman, they’ve had to reduce the frame rate to Monday speeds on a Wednesday to cut down the rendering load on distant mountains
RAM shortage so severe there was serious fog in TUCSON, ARIZONA this morning to cut down on rendering load for distant mountains
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
RAM shortage so severe that I reduced my full-throated explanation as to why I, as a grown-ass man, ate an entire half gallon of ice cream for dinner (complete with diagrams and amicus briefs) to "I'm sorry. Won't do it again."
(Am I doing this right?)
(Am I doing this right?)
Hall of Famer this one is
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Hall of Famer this one is
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
"Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."
-Robert Caro
-Robert Caro
February 16, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."
-Robert Caro
-Robert Caro
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
Eliminating all of your customers by trying to automate all jobs sounds like shooting yourself in the foot, unless the plan is to criminalize all forms of unemployment and homelessness, explode prison slave labor, and return society to oligarchical serfdom. Which is what it kind of feels like.
February 16, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Eliminating all of your customers by trying to automate all jobs sounds like shooting yourself in the foot, unless the plan is to criminalize all forms of unemployment and homelessness, explode prison slave labor, and return society to oligarchical serfdom. Which is what it kind of feels like.
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
The first few decades of the internet have been “you’re the product“ and now we’re also the problem. They are forcing us to buy the medicine that will cure them of us.
February 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The first few decades of the internet have been “you’re the product“ and now we’re also the problem. They are forcing us to buy the medicine that will cure them of us.
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
February 16, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
#improvdiary
Since the the note of "there were a lot of yeah-buts...", I've focused more on having a pov and focusing in. Have an emotion, react honestly. Don't "move the story", stay "with the thing."
The difference is amazing. I'm still not good, but we're fun. There are breakthroughs.
Since the the note of "there were a lot of yeah-buts...", I've focused more on having a pov and focusing in. Have an emotion, react honestly. Don't "move the story", stay "with the thing."
The difference is amazing. I'm still not good, but we're fun. There are breakthroughs.
February 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
#improvdiary
Since the the note of "there were a lot of yeah-buts...", I've focused more on having a pov and focusing in. Have an emotion, react honestly. Don't "move the story", stay "with the thing."
The difference is amazing. I'm still not good, but we're fun. There are breakthroughs.
Since the the note of "there were a lot of yeah-buts...", I've focused more on having a pov and focusing in. Have an emotion, react honestly. Don't "move the story", stay "with the thing."
The difference is amazing. I'm still not good, but we're fun. There are breakthroughs.
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
“If anyone causes one of these little ones - those who believe in me - to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea - unless the Dow is doing well that week”
Matthew 18:6
Matthew 18:6
February 15, 2026 at 11:50 AM
“If anyone causes one of these little ones - those who believe in me - to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea - unless the Dow is doing well that week”
Matthew 18:6
Matthew 18:6
February 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Waiting to see if he is returned:
< 2 days (moderate rain, good crops), or
> 2 days (monsoons, ruining the fields and starting a famine)
< 2 days (moderate rain, good crops), or
> 2 days (monsoons, ruining the fields and starting a famine)
Jeremy escape the pen this year which means an early spring
F***. Here we go again. We just got a call from a friend who saw this on Facebook.
February 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Waiting to see if he is returned:
< 2 days (moderate rain, good crops), or
> 2 days (monsoons, ruining the fields and starting a famine)
< 2 days (moderate rain, good crops), or
> 2 days (monsoons, ruining the fields and starting a famine)
Excellent summary. I don't hate a.i., but there are valid concerns that "just wait, it will get better" don't fix.
Not quoting because they have enough dunks on them but this strawman has taken root among some people, so: no, actually, that particular position is not predominant.
This framing conflates three distinct "anti-AI" views that sometimes overlap: financial bubble, overhyped, and societal harm.
/1
This framing conflates three distinct "anti-AI" views that sometimes overlap: financial bubble, overhyped, and societal harm.
/1
February 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Excellent summary. I don't hate a.i., but there are valid concerns that "just wait, it will get better" don't fix.
Maybe more accurate to say people should learn what questions to ask. What is a.i. & what is simple algorithm? Why are data models more credible than LLMs? What are trade-offs? There will be benefits. Energy on hype is exhausting. Narrowing the field makes us more receptive to things to come.
I understand why people are exhausted by AI hype, and why those of us squarely in the corner of "human dignity uber alles" see AI doomerism as self-serving hype, but I *really* think people on the left broadly need to start thinking seriously about the possibiltiy of the hype being...true.
February 11, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Maybe more accurate to say people should learn what questions to ask. What is a.i. & what is simple algorithm? Why are data models more credible than LLMs? What are trade-offs? There will be benefits. Energy on hype is exhausting. Narrowing the field makes us more receptive to things to come.
For all the dunking on this guy (deserved) he still seems more stable than, say, Pete Hegseth or Elon Musk.
So a Norwegian biathlete cheated on his girlfriend at the Olympics (many such cases) and then told her about it on the phone (fair play) she dumped him (which I respect) and he then gave an interview where he told the whole world about everything in an attempt to do penance or something
What happened? WHAT DID I MISS? Sounds interesting.....
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
For all the dunking on this guy (deserved) he still seems more stable than, say, Pete Hegseth or Elon Musk.
I am the most incompetent person in my company. I don't know what this means for my future.
February 10, 2026 at 9:44 PM
I am the most incompetent person in my company. I don't know what this means for my future.
Get them microchipped.
February 10, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Get them microchipped.
A fine little girl/
Is waitin' for me/
Me catch a ship/
Across the sea.
I sail that ship/
I all alone/
Me never think how/
I make it home.
Is waitin' for me/
Me catch a ship/
Across the sea.
I sail that ship/
I all alone/
Me never think how/
I make it home.
Next the FBI will be analyzing the lyrics to “Louie Louie.”
Rep. Mark Alford (R-TX) revealed that House Republicans are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show because they suspect it was "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.
February 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
A fine little girl/
Is waitin' for me/
Me catch a ship/
Across the sea.
I sail that ship/
I all alone/
Me never think how/
I make it home.
Is waitin' for me/
Me catch a ship/
Across the sea.
I sail that ship/
I all alone/
Me never think how/
I make it home.
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
Unidos somos América.
February 9, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Unidos somos América.
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
NBC edited out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post laid off 300 journalists.
Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
February 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
NBC edited out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post laid off 300 journalists.
Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
In case you forgot how real human beings sound when in leadership
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 6:02 PM
In case you forgot how real human beings sound when in leadership
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
Poll observer here. A thing *everyone* can do is teach first time and rare voters where their polling places are. Early voting places usually accept voters from many precincts, but that's NOT TRUE on election day. Students are often turned away bc they went to the wrong place on election day
anyway i know how many of you hate that i’m so vocal about this and think it makes me a naive shitlib or whatever. but again, i think the best thing you could do for yourself here is to get involved in election administration where you live.
February 6, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Poll observer here. A thing *everyone* can do is teach first time and rare voters where their polling places are. Early voting places usually accept voters from many precincts, but that's NOT TRUE on election day. Students are often turned away bc they went to the wrong place on election day
Reposted by 🎉 (Not That) Bryan Garner
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
February 5, 2026 at 3:24 PM
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."