Patrick Sullivan

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

bitch what

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

it actually offends me how sloppy and careless they are. anyone who’s ever been laid off knows the panic you feel when it happens. and while obviously it’s good that they backtracked, these are people’s fucking LIVELIHOODS they’re messing with.

There’s basically one set of conditions where shining lasers at aircraft is a good idea, and that’s when the aircraft in question is actively attempting to kill you and the laser is the best thing you’ve got. We aren’t there yet, you do not want us to get there. Don’t shine lasers at aircraft.

There's no "regular politics" anymore because you can no longer maintain the idea that we all agree on common goals but we only differ about the means of getting there or whatever. The guys in charge now are plainly amoral, sadistic nihilists. They delight in it! You can't civilly disagree with that

Protesting Kamala Harris when she’s not the President is some performative bullshit, and I can’t take you seriously! 🙄🙄🙄🙄

It's amazing to think that there was a time before social media when, if you were a gobshite, everybody ignored you. There was no way to make money saying stupid, provocative things because nobody wanted anything to do with you.

you're watching comedy central and airheads comes on so you watch it again

Tron Legacy rules and yall are talking nonsense

Yikes! I thought having to wait a week to find out why my right ear is sending me telegraphs was bad enough! Your situation sounds way worse. Hope you get it looked at sooner than that.

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

my right ear started doing some morse code tinnitus bullshit out of nowhere yesterday. the closest ENT appointment was a week from now so hopefully i either get used to it or it goes away on its own because this sucks. all this to say, my sympathies!

THEY ARE LITERALLY ARRESTING INNOCENT PEOPLE OFF THE STREET AND SENDING THEM TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO SOUND ALARMIST?!?!?!?!?!

Doomers get unfollowed, because when you're so busy focusing on what you think is impossible, you're the one creating the world where nothing ever gets better and everything perpetually sucks.

related, when the president is invading our own country, waging war on our own people, i don't wanna see dems give the GOP shit they ask for, don't wanna hear shit bout 'we hope our friends across the aisle will work with us on bipartisan solutions to the problems they cause' i don't want none of it

Hocus Pocus easily

I increasingly think the subreddit model is the best conceptual way to structure a social media platform, even if actually existing Reddit I’m pretty meh about. You gotta let people enforce their own community norms, but those norms have to be opt-in

The ICE agents deploying these are people without necessary training, those who couldn’t cut it in police training or didn’t want to join the military.

They are in this to hurt people and play Call of Duty on our streets, deploying chemical weapons on our neighbors as if they’re pressing L1.

That looks incredible

If you were online before 2010 you know it's not a true mod crashout until a mod takes all the Adderall and then posts a sprawlingly incoherent sephiroth speech manifesto, breaks the site, and then vanishes for 3 months

when you become a boss you lose the right to chop it up with the employees in the break room. you gave that up in exchange for power. if you want a business AND the camaraderie, start a co-op

It's honestly hysterical that basically everyone building or maintaining social media these days couldn't even tell you what IRC *is*, let alone Usenet, like they never heard of it.

Fuck, you can mention SOMETHING AWFUL and just get blank stares, what're we doing here? :'D

I'd actually prefer a $60 version without bloat and spyware

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

I have learned to expect very little in terms of courage in Dems,

bur I hope that they fully appreciate that we will NOT TOLERATE any capitulation at this point.

If we all have to bear the pain, then so be it. But do not lead us into chaos & get NOTHING for it.

WIN or die trying!

Period

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

I'll put this marker down now: if we go into a shutdown and Dems actually hold the line and don't immediately cave, their poll numbers will go up

90% of the reason their numbers are so low with non-Rs is they've managed exactly zero concrete opposition so far