You know a lot of people are telling me, Mr. President the ribbon around your neck is the most beautiful I’ve ever seen but we never see you without it. They’re saying we need to know, we deserve to know what you look like without it. It’s true. But I’m not gonna take it off. Maybe I’ll take it off

Sam, this is Shitman. We have lost contact with east lakeside fort knot, our only hope now lies with north east fort knot, which is south of east lakeside fort knot.

streaming in 5. itchy. tasty

do the bluesky team actually want more users on the site, it is unclear to me. usually social media sites want more users right

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

streaming in 5. gonna have a complain

The conservative movement runs on nothing but ginned up outrage bait that has a half-life of exactly one week

i think this title might be wrong!

This woman keeps appearing in my nightmares

Was just thinking along these exact lines - and what's more I think they mistook their initial success as validating the idea behind ATProto instead of just because they were a sufficiently Twitter-like alternative at the right time

no stream tonight due to circumstances

what they actually have to sell here is twitter but without the bigots and obnoxious CEO, & they seem determined to piss all that away as fast as they can

to put it in terms they will understand: if you want to run a pancake store, but then millions of people who only want waffles turn up, fuck you, you run a waffle store now

nobody who works at bluesky has any idea what bluesky is, eh

posting through it always works out though, keep going

These guys come from the depths of meme culture totally divorced from the source material and that gave birth to the memes in the first place. Which is not surprising since they can basically only experience media as an expression or critique of their own fucked up worldview.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

all the news stories you see for "AI" products that seem more like advertisements are exactly that, they're hoping that if they keep astroturfing the idea that "AI" is real and everywhere and unavoidable it will eventually become true

competition, promotional shot (1996) archive.org/details/vide...

you should quit

your core users are people who have already demonstrated a willingness to abandon a more popular social media site for another, in the most part for disliking the politics of the people who run it. write this on a big whiteboard somewhere in the office