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Jay Yencich

@jayyencich.bsky.social

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Feral intellectual / whywolf (ND). Poet. Critic (Lit. / Eco. / Media). Introverted but rambunctious about thinking. Ride or die or die.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 11h

back in my day, we lurked more before posting

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cow tools daily @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social · 1d

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 5d

hanging out on app.watchduty.org, clicking refresh

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 6d

We used to be able to turn on the internet and learn about Previously Undiscovered Types of Guys and now all it is, is Billionaires I Was Previously Only Vaguely Aware of That I Now Hate with the Entirety of My Being

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6d

David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:

“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 6d

slop for pigs

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 7d

Fondly remembering the time when Zuck distorted engagement numbers because he personally preferred videos, leading to the "pivot" that wrecked the journalism industry

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 8d

The Simpsons bit that goes like:
MILHOUSE: (shining a flashlight into a cave) This is where I come to cry.
BART: Cool
Except this time they are both wearing Seattle Mariners hats

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 8d

I'll think of them... think of putting them in jail at the bottom of the ocean!

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 10d

they tried being the party of "so many celebrity endorsements we blew through a $1.5b warchest in a few months." Policy might be neat

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 12d

(at the convention to name the animals)

(looking at rooster) "This is the only one of these things that roosts, right? Don't want to screw this up..."

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WIRED @wired.com · 13d

Then there's Russ Taylor. "It's just a vehicle. So it's ironic that it would even become a political statement."

(Editor's note: Taylor was plead guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding in the January 6 attack. He was later pardoned by Trump.)
www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 13d

This needs to be a feature reported on in gaming in-line with "can you pet the dog?" Does the game allow me to choose a lesbian? If not, it might not be for me!

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 15d

I think Brent Rooker of the A's uses "Edge of Seventeen" and that's kind of impressive.

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Nate Patrin @natepatrin.bsky.social · 16d

things bullets say

Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 16d

Almost every time I go thru JFK something weird happens.

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 19d

When Awful People Find Each other probably has Neil Gaiman x Amanda Palmer at the top of the leaderboard but this is still impressive

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 20d

Among the many different models of cat in the world, he was truly a luxury one

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 22d

Anxiously remembering my friend going as Ken Bone to Halloween gatherings

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22d

the guy who caught cal raleigh’s homer was wearing a shirt that said dump 61 here and he immediately took it off and had a shirt that said dump 62 here

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 23d

I'm still disserating but I don't find academia much better. Plenty of people will say stupid, short-sighted, and cynical things because it keeps them relevant and line charting references go up

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 23d

One of us needs to win MegaMillions and then bankroll Future Affairs

Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 23d

Those pills are making me hungry

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Jay Yencich @jayyencich.bsky.social · 23d

Published by Jacobin

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good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · Aug 31

We should have required alt text for posts that don't have images but DO have vague, extremely dramatic posts about an ongoing sporting event. when you post "its over its all over" i need to be able to click a little button and see that you're talking about a quarterback named Mac Whimple

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