Guy Byron

a close up of a man 's face with the words `` don 't give me hope '' . Alt: a close up of a man 's face with the words `` don 't give me hope '' as he thinks about it happening

#IT

experiencing major historical events online:

"the entire second season is grounded by internal drama within a polycule of French theater queers in post war Paris being explained to a terminally catty Anthony Bourdain clone" sounds good here's millions of dollars get at it

The words "FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE" placed over David Lynch's face (a still from TWIN PEAKS THE RETURN).

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

The sound you hear is now thousands of Dads changing their passwords to "louvre" thinking it'll be funny.

two frames: - first frame: lady yells "Why can't you be normal?" - second frame: Game 7 of the World Series with the caption "[screaming]"

Don't break bread. Don't accept gifts. Make sure you spell their name right. If you're INSIDE the salt circle you're ON the record.

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As someone very into the technical side I can get into it.

Bluesky the social network was never supposed to be the product. This was a prototype/proof of concept for the underlying tech (atproto). It blew up past their intentions and so they've been trying to stick the landing since.

one thing I have to remind myself is that the bsky team actually skews very young, and haven't really worked as core actors in 'real' companies

we are posting in someone else's learning experience

‘Andor’ Writer Dan Gilroy On Disney Suspending Jimmy Kimmel & Hollywood Facing “Venomous Evil”: “This Isn’t A Skirmish. It’s A Siege” – Guest Column 'Andor' Writer Dan Gilroy On Trump's Jimmy Kimmel Pressure Campaign: "Artists Are Censored First Because They Fear Us Most" -- Guest Column

Recent emmy-winning Andor writer Dan Gilroy just penned a column about the current Trumpian assault on free speech:

deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page] "The dash of British cavalry officers was never greater than at the opening of the Crimean campaign in the spring of 1854. These aristocratic horsemen were, in the idiom of the day, "plungers," "tremendous swells." They affected elegant boredom, yawned a great deal, spoke a jargon of their own, pronouncing "r" as "w," saying "vewwy," "howwid," and "sowwy," and interlarded sentences with loud and meaningless exclamations of "Haw, haw." Their sweeping whiskers, languid voices, tiny waists, laced in by corsets, and their large cigars were irresistible, frantically admired, and as frantically envied. Magnificently mounted, horses were their passion; they rode like the devil himself, and their confidence in their ability to defeat any enemy single-handed was com-plete. Cavalry officers were saying in London drawing-rooms that to take infantry on the campaign was superfluous; the infantry would merely be a drag on them, and had better be left at home."

Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.

Someone on Twitter writes: "Derek would you ever consider doing a thread on how transmascs can dress well and have clothing that helps hides hips and stuff? Only advice I've gotten are straight leg jeans and a boxy shirt"

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

Turkeys staring directly through the window good enough?

the point of Andor isn't "only anarchists are right" or "only terrorism works" or "only liberals defeat fascism" it's that birthing a movement that can destroy an imperial regime requires a diversity of tactics and people all willing to throw their lives away for the cause

I kind of want to go

Just found out about this feed "Quiet Posters" which features posts from people you follow who don't post as often as other people you follow.

bsky.app/profile/why....

I think we've spent too long capitulating to their framing. Speaking about human rights in terms of what it contributes to the economy. Fuck that shit. We look after people cos they're people. That's it.

What's the Matter with Billionaires? How America's wealthiest sabotage their own prosperity (and ours) to avoid paying taxes

As another Trump-induced market crisis unfolds from tariffs, it's time we ask "What's the Matter with Billionaires?" I've run the numbers. Billionaires do better under Dems. So why do billionaires keep supporting GOP policies against their economic interests? See my latest piece on why. (TLDR 🧵⬇️)

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

The Pacific Rim engineers that spent weeks building a 30-foot bowie knife for a mech suit to draw from its ankle sheath must have been muttering “Hell yeah” the whole time

Democratic Insiders Are Sharing A Warning About Curtis Yarvin, Elon Musk & Neoreactionaries DNC employees and think tank workers have compiled a document about the Neoreactionary threat to democracy

I was recently leaked a document that was written by and for think tank and DNC affiliated policy wonks and circulated in private chats. It describes in unsparing terms the threat Curtis Yarvin, Neoreactionary tech founders, and Elon Musk pose to democracy.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/democratic...

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

A lawyer’s resignation letter for the ages, and that penultimate paragraph is an absolute corker.

Post from a Bluesky account called scottdagostino.ca: “An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel.” Followed by a fake grandstanding transcript of an unnamed “European reporter” asking Pete Hegseth why the US didn’t win in Vietnam and so forth.

This “NATO transcript” is fake and I’m sad to see people repost it. I’m reporting it and blocking the account that originally posted it. Always worth checking your sources before you repost stuff that conveniently affirms all your political feelings, whatever side you’re on.

"You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of AI slop & said we didn't want it in our feeds, movies, searches, phones, etc? You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of the obvious crypto grifts happening the last few years & said we didn't want to rewire our economy & our economic lives around it? You know when we (the people, the "market") made fun of M*sk for buying/tanking Tw*tter, people fled en masse & called him out online for being a fascist broligarch? The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a coup right now have all their money, business, power, & philosophy about society tied up in achieving unregulated control & forcing society to become irreversibly dependent on these technologies. It is the capitalists rebelling against the "free market" for rejecting its shit & taking over government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter. That's why it's happening. They truly, genuinely, openly don't give a fuck about you, me, or what we actually want.

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter

To: All - Intercompany
From: Maintenance
Subject: Metamorphosis
Body:

To whom it may concern,

The entire maintenance department is rockabilly now. Please adjust your files as needed

Sincerely,

Thick Dick Rick and the Husky Boys

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

*picture of a 17-year OPM veteran with coke-bottle glasses and a pocket square*

young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!