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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 1d

Ben Afflicted

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 1d

Pouring one out for the straight-up stupidest idea in my lifetime

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 1d

Remember NFTs lol

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 2d

I'm realizing what a blessing it is when you *don't* have to think about a social media platform you're using

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 3d

"A tiny fraction" is "the opposite pole"? I'm literally suggesting the mildest rebalancing possible.

Please keep losing your shit at the slightest critique of your favorite environment-destroying tech, but your attempts at armchair psychoanalysis are weird and creepy. You can fuck off now.

Patrick @vectorpark.com · 4d

Windosill is bundled with the lovely musical game ODDADA. Get 'em both on sale!

Sven Ahlgrimm • ODDADA @svenahlgrimm.bsky.social · 4d

Windosill was one of the biggest inspirations for ODDADA, so we’re now very happy to present a bundle with both games in it!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/60016

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 4d

Bill, if you can articulate why "human artists could benefits enormously from a tiny slice of the billions poured into tech that exploits their output" is "binary" please do so.

Because as is you're just rolling into my mentions with indecipherable BS, and insulting me to boot

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 4d

I appreciate the reminder that humans are capable of producing vapid gibberish too

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 4d

It was a joke

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 7d

h/t @rsikoryak.bsky.social

A series of comic strips by Bob Sikoryak in which Kafka's Metamorphosis is depicted in the style of Peanuts

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 8d

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 8d

If a tiny fraction of the resources deployed towards AI was invested instead in actual artists we'd be enjoying a renaissance rather than drowning in a sea of garbage

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 9d

I dare you to only watch this once

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d

ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 14d

I guess we know how this ends now

Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 15d

The rapture happened this afternoon but nobody made the cut

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furby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 16d

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 17d

Brad Dourif!

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 17d

Workin it out

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 18d

I hate even talking about these people but it's been clear for a while now that Ezra Klein is just a more palatable Matt Yglesias. I'm glad people are realizing that though!

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 19d

What the fuck is wrong with you bsky.app/profile/owil...

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19d

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires.

shame.

clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 282
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

H RES 719 YEA-AND-NAY 19-Sep-2025 10:53 AM
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Resolution
BILL TITLE: Honoring the life and legacy of Charles “Charlie” James Kirk

Yeas Nays PRES NV
Republican 215 4
Democratic 95 58 38 22
Independent
TOTALS 310 58 38 26

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 20d

The right has only ever cared about free speech for themselves.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 20d

Antifa Professor, member of a Major Terrorist Organization

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 20d

Also, making Jimmy Kimmel relevant seems like kind of a fuck up?

Patrick @vectorpark.com · 20d

I think I actually am an accelerationist in terms of "things have to get stupider first"

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