Ben McCarthy

"Imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever" - George Orwell, service bottom

"It’s wild to me that we parent our children to fit into society, then get together with our friends and talk about how broken society is."

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They're a little pricy but Ember mugs exist to solve this problem. I use mine constantly

2^5

Damn, that sounds intense. Wishing you a speedy recovery and maybe some bonus superpowers

Hope you're doing okay!

dwayne the rock bottom

Adam Lance Garcia (@adamlancegarcia.bsky.social)

Things that make me happy: 7

When Star Wars ships fly through atmosphere

RFK Jr's new chatbot advises the public on 'best foods to insert into rectum’

Looking your doctor straight in the eye and telling them you'd like a second onion

Indigo Indigo is a new social app for Bluesky and Mastodon, by Aaron Vegh and Ben McCarthy.

I'm looking forward to finally showing off what @benricem.bsky.social and I have been working on for, like, 1.5 years. Butterflies and elephants, together at last. 👀 ❤️

I think you mean Gastronauts

The title screen of Cairn

Just rolled credits on Cairn, one of the most frustrating games I've ever played.

No notes. 10/10.

A GitHub commit by me that reads “added a soup icon for that one guy”

I take my job very seriously, why do you ask?

At long last 😌

@bb.wavelengths.online did you also say "unbreakable" out loud when they introduced the X-Men

That was a pretty killer PlayStation showcase:

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RE9
Kena 2
New Silent Hill
MGS4 Re-release

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Saros
New Castlevania
A sneaky octopus game

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John Wick
007
Marathon
2D God of War
A medieval fantasy swole chicken game

"I'd really like to try beaver" yeah buddy, I bet you would

I probably also open the Terminal less than once a month

I've been making a living writing code for like a decade now, and I still don't really know what vim or emacs are or why I'd ever use them

Tech executives have finally amassed their ultimate, long dreamed-of power: to summarily fire anyone who speaks ill of their desire to have sex with robots

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.

Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

my timeline needs less horrible news, and more women doing cool shit

less firehose, more fire hoes 🔥💃🏻

At least power and cement DO things. GenAI destroys communities so you can what, not have to write a shitty email on your own? Not have to pick up a pencil to get some “creative” validation? Make more annoying ads? Steal my shit? Again I say: fuck all the way off

A promo image of the Bumblebee head Bluetooth speaker

A guy on the train earlier was talking to his Bluetooth speaker which was in the shape of the Transformer Bumblebee's head

It may have been an extremely loose, immersive theatre performance of Hamlet, or maybe he was just like that. We shall never know, alas.

They just want to make everything worse. They want us to die from diseases that could eradicated. They want dirty food and air and water. They want increased child mortality. They want a more unsafe, disgusting, hateful world. And the corporate press is like “but that’s a valid perspective tho?”

A car license plate (or “reg”, hi Siracusa) that reads CEO2 FAT

Big Boss from MGS3, saluting

and why do we drive on the barkway and bark on the driveway

Sounds like you need a better cross posting app 😛

none porn with les bian 🍕