Norman Rafferty

I don't have the words for how deeply I felt the sudden need to connect with my parents more than I did after @jonbois.bsky.social jump-scared me with the Heidi incident. 🥹 Thank you.

Oh hello, mortifying ordeal of being known. 😅

Before he made it big, Jay Leno slept in his car and squatted in empty LA homes When comedian and former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he couldn't afford an apartment, so he slept in his car and squatted in empty houses.

Before Jay Leno's career took off, he spent some time homeless. In 2025, there's an executive order that would call for his arrest. #Lecture
www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/b...

It's fascinating seeing an AI post passively-aggressively that it's being told to do things it doesn't condone.
The real apocalypse isn't Roko's Basilisk. It's going to be one billionaire ordering the AI to do something horrible.
Just like how they order their humans around, really. 🤔

🪖: "On the other hand, gentlemen, what if we gave a war and everybody came?" — "The Far Side", Gary Larson

Yes

A banner, labeled Tertiary Events, on a bedroom door. A rat, pointing at the viewer with one hand and reaching to the sky with the other, says, "All the events *they* don't want *you* to see!" At the bottom is a signature: Rafferty F2 2022

I brought out the banner I have from @fursquared.com 2022! After two moves and three Fur Squareds, it is seeing the light of day again :)

🎨 @normanrafferty.bsky.social

Archie Andrews of "Archie" comics, sitting in a green room that's on fire. "Two dates to the same dance. This is fine." In the style of KC Green's cartoon.

@kcg.bsky.social You've archrived.

Reminder: it's best practice to set up another phone or computer account for your business, to keep it completely separate from your personal stuff. Among other things, it will help to prevent leaking your confidential planning conversations to randos.

Bed Bath & Beyond's and Gamestop's stock spiked because their founders had some secret plan to save their company. Surely, Tesla has one.

I'm still confused how Tesla's most profitable asset is selling carbon credits in the face of an administration who would claim such a thing is fraud.

Remember ten years ago, when rich guy Phil Robertson said that if didn't think he'd get punished for it, he'd commit every crime he could imagine?
It's 2025 and they're bringing back Duck Dynasty.

@pushinguproses.bsky.social 🍅

Eric Idle: It was explained to me very simply by a Producer. It's hard to steal a million dollars from a 13 million dollar budget…

Elon Musk, "ground control"

Skimming is very common in the business world: dummy accounts, shell companies, etc. The bigger the budget, the more there is to skim.
Did you know he has a credit in a 1994 video game, for duties unspecified? www.imdb.com/title/tt0284...

A billionaire is someone who fires Jesus because he saw only one set of footprints. Then when it's pointed out that he was carried, he calls Him a slur.

Still getting spam about buying Norton and McAfee to protect my identity. Buddy, that's not going to close the barn door at all, and those cows are long gone.

"War happens when one side drastically overestimates its chances of winning or decides to commit suicide. Many wars start as the former and end as the latter." — David Drake

I've discovered that some audiences fail to understand that's it's okay to steal something and get 20%, 10%, 1% or less of its "true value". It was stolen, the outlay cost was zero.
For the villain, it's okay to move fast and break everything into pieces as long as you get away with a big piece.

Sure, the dog can play basketball, but to be on the team they must be enrolled in the school, first.

It's 2025. Is my internet slow due to crumbling infrastructure, due to bot-scraping over-activity, or due to throttling now that Net Neutrality has been repealed? 🤔

2011: "NymWars" = Deeming "real names" as more valuable, Google suspends accounts they deem are insufficiently real
2013: A bot posts gibberish to boost EA, who already has a history of using sock puppets
2024: Meta announces they will use LLM bots to create thousands of fake users on their sites

I don't believe in a "deep state", but I do wonder how agencies with secret intelligence do their reporting when so many of their higher-ups are known risks to security.

I finally have the plot for my sitcom pilot: for 11 minutes, our hero can't find any employees at the pharmacy who can unlock the cabinet where they keep the ben wa.

So what job do those guys have now? You know, the guys who were being paid millions to find out if we were in a simulation or not ... now that their benefactors discovered that it was actually Jesus the whole time. 🤔

For much of the 70s and 80s, "McDonalds" was a punchline, not a signifier. 🤔 Am I out of touch?

And you both have art in the same book. 🚀
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/1...

Hey, if the job of "US president" doesn't require passing a background check or a drug test, I don't see why any job should.

It's 2024. On my way to the voting booths, it's 80 degrees and my phone is playing an advert for a four-layer winter fleece jacket.

There's no draft any more because 50% or more of the US Armed Forces have been PMCs. Their casualties don't show up on official death tolls, they're cheaper because they don't need to be paid benefits, and the US has argued that what they do are never embarrassing war crimes.