Planescape Torment Nexus
@mightycw.bsky.social
millennial dad. professional bus guy.
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you ever stop and think about how we were maybe two inches away from none of this happening
Arsenal are gonna blow it aren’t they
January 25, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Arsenal are gonna blow it aren’t they
sorry it's 2026, we've developed robust antibodies against this kind of clout farming woker-than-thou wrecker shit. Go away, nobody needs you.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 5:28 PM
sorry it's 2026, we've developed robust antibodies against this kind of clout farming woker-than-thou wrecker shit. Go away, nobody needs you.
i took the plunge on Claude Pro and I made it hack together a functional homebrew Trainer Road clone so it’s basically already paid for itself
@proptermalone.bsky.social thought vindicated
@proptermalone.bsky.social thought vindicated
January 22, 2026 at 1:06 AM
i took the plunge on Claude Pro and I made it hack together a functional homebrew Trainer Road clone so it’s basically already paid for itself
@proptermalone.bsky.social thought vindicated
@proptermalone.bsky.social thought vindicated
I don't mean to dunk on Mina Kimes who is cool and good, but I strongly suspect that AI use is already widespread in her industry, if not in writing final copy then in drafting, outlining, organizing etc, there are just powerful social incentives against talking about it.
January 21, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I don't mean to dunk on Mina Kimes who is cool and good, but I strongly suspect that AI use is already widespread in her industry, if not in writing final copy then in drafting, outlining, organizing etc, there are just powerful social incentives against talking about it.
it's wild that in 2020 you started hearing former active-duty marines talk about cops having lower ROE standards for protesting civilians than they did against insurgents in Iraq, and now cops are starting to talk the same way about ICE and CBP
January 20, 2026 at 4:23 PM
it's wild that in 2020 you started hearing former active-duty marines talk about cops having lower ROE standards for protesting civilians than they did against insurgents in Iraq, and now cops are starting to talk the same way about ICE and CBP
you ever stop and think about how we were maybe two inches away from none of this happening
January 19, 2026 at 7:22 PM
you ever stop and think about how we were maybe two inches away from none of this happening
current task is rewriting a grant application for a street project to rebuild a two-lane road with a center-turn lane + sidewalks and bike lanes, which was arbitrarily torpedoed by Trump's DOT last year. Basically scrubbing references to the environment and "disadvantaged" anything. Feels bad, man
January 19, 2026 at 6:54 PM
current task is rewriting a grant application for a street project to rebuild a two-lane road with a center-turn lane + sidewalks and bike lanes, which was arbitrarily torpedoed by Trump's DOT last year. Basically scrubbing references to the environment and "disadvantaged" anything. Feels bad, man
the president is threatening war with Europe because a committee in Norway (which he thinks is controlled by the Norwegian government but is not) failed to give him a peace prize which he’s already taken by force from its recipient.
- rantings of an absolute madman in every reality but this one
- rantings of an absolute madman in every reality but this one
i know it’s all unbelievably awful but i’m sorry: the nobel prize/greenland thing is incredibly funny
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 PM
the president is threatening war with Europe because a committee in Norway (which he thinks is controlled by the Norwegian government but is not) failed to give him a peace prize which he’s already taken by force from its recipient.
- rantings of an absolute madman in every reality but this one
- rantings of an absolute madman in every reality but this one
you seek approval from maladjusted randos with whom you share parasocial relationships with anonymous social media weirdos. I seek approval from local guys in their 50s on for my hourlong Sweet Spot trainer rides on Strava. We are not the same.
January 18, 2026 at 3:07 PM
you seek approval from maladjusted randos with whom you share parasocial relationships with anonymous social media weirdos. I seek approval from local guys in their 50s on for my hourlong Sweet Spot trainer rides on Strava. We are not the same.
it's all a cool kids club to these people. Utterly useless.
there are people with actually good politics who have been doing what he's doing for much longer and who understand it's best practice not log on and document your every move. he's obviously going to be so annoying about this the next time he sees someone complain about grocery prices or something
January 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
it's all a cool kids club to these people. Utterly useless.
Chickenshit gestapo
Hearing many stories now of ICE going to the homes of observers and activists to menace them.
January 14, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Chickenshit gestapo
the thing that fucking kills me about wellness / alt medicine shit is how they latch onto every stupid thing as a do-everything cure. It's not enough that beef tallow can be tasty when used judiciously; no, it's actually *good* for you. In fact, it's the *best* for you and other oils are poison
January 10, 2026 at 6:30 PM
the thing that fucking kills me about wellness / alt medicine shit is how they latch onto every stupid thing as a do-everything cure. It's not enough that beef tallow can be tasty when used judiciously; no, it's actually *good* for you. In fact, it's the *best* for you and other oils are poison
got an Apple Watch for Christmas and am i wrong that the fitness app is completely useless? Like i can spend an hour doing VO2Max intervals and an upper body weight session and it'll be like "congrats on doing 9 minutes of exercise today you lazy shit"
January 10, 2026 at 5:13 AM
got an Apple Watch for Christmas and am i wrong that the fitness app is completely useless? Like i can spend an hour doing VO2Max intervals and an upper body weight session and it'll be like "congrats on doing 9 minutes of exercise today you lazy shit"
ngl I am constantly having intrusive thoughts about what needs to happen to people associated with this admin which I don't post, not for fedposting reasons but because it all feels like so much impotent flailing
January 8, 2026 at 10:45 PM
ngl I am constantly having intrusive thoughts about what needs to happen to people associated with this admin which I don't post, not for fedposting reasons but because it all feels like so much impotent flailing
Like a Roman triumph every LLM should have a secondary chat that periodically responds "that's not a very interesting observation," "anybody could have made that point," "don't you have something better to be doing?" etc
in addition to forming ready human surrogates, LLMs also drip feed you the feeling of insight for whatever you are using them for, provided you are not actually an expert and it isn't very niche
even when this isn't psychosis it resembles it inasmuch as a major feature is "the feeling of insight"
even when this isn't psychosis it resembles it inasmuch as a major feature is "the feeling of insight"
I recently had a conversation online with someone that you’d probably consider to be suffering from some form of “LLM induced psychosis” and I believe that his day to day experience looked in many ways like this
January 3, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Like a Roman triumph every LLM should have a secondary chat that periodically responds "that's not a very interesting observation," "anybody could have made that point," "don't you have something better to be doing?" etc
today's fit is kind of "euro-terrorist henchman in a hollywood blockbuster"
January 2, 2026 at 10:51 PM
today's fit is kind of "euro-terrorist henchman in a hollywood blockbuster"
call me Captain Pike because i know the day I'm going to die
January 1, 2026 at 12:06 AM
call me Captain Pike because i know the day I'm going to die
they can't stop you from going full grandpacore. It's legal.
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
they can't stop you from going full grandpacore. It's legal.
you ever known somebody who doesn't know how to deliver bad news, anyway allow me to introduce you to my mother
December 31, 2025 at 12:54 AM
you ever known somebody who doesn't know how to deliver bad news, anyway allow me to introduce you to my mother
losing the stars is one thing about modernity that makes me genuinely sad. Every year I do an overnight bike ride event through the middle of nowhere and reconnecting with it is an awesome experience, in the traditional sense of the word
Yeah this is a key thing: we literally do not see the night sky with the same intensity and regularity that premodern people did!
If you ever have the experience of seeing a night sky out in the deep countryside you can understand this; it really is a fundamentally different experience, and I can't imagine it not being formative to people.
December 27, 2025 at 5:09 AM
losing the stars is one thing about modernity that makes me genuinely sad. Every year I do an overnight bike ride event through the middle of nowhere and reconnecting with it is an awesome experience, in the traditional sense of the word
the other day my 4 year old told me "Dad, you're awesome and mom is cool.
I don't like awesome, I like cool."
I don't like awesome, I like cool."
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
the other day my 4 year old told me "Dad, you're awesome and mom is cool.
I don't like awesome, I like cool."
I don't like awesome, I like cool."
you ever feel like an inadequate parent and then spend some time with extended family and realize oh I'm actually a pretty damned good parent
December 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
you ever feel like an inadequate parent and then spend some time with extended family and realize oh I'm actually a pretty damned good parent
ngl i may be overindexing on the "generations of kids were taught to 'read' based on a few letters and contextual guessing" stories but it's like the sunglasses on They Live, impossible not to see it everywhere on social media
Bunch of people on this fucking website are slamming Matt because they’re too dense to read the last 11 words of a 17 word post.
Homelessness increased primarily because of immigration (lots of people came to the US without setting up housing).
December 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ngl i may be overindexing on the "generations of kids were taught to 'read' based on a few letters and contextual guessing" stories but it's like the sunglasses on They Live, impossible not to see it everywhere on social media
On a broad basis are people actually being told this? Or are they just hearing through their social media bubbles what "everybody" is being told?
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On a broad basis are people actually being told this? Or are they just hearing through their social media bubbles what "everybody" is being told?