Billy JO Crystal

I'm having a fucking awful time lately and my birthday is next week, please help me maybe have a less awful time

a collage of these three tweets https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzrkcsk3xc24 https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzsgnvof4c2n https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3lzubxv6q722o

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

It's been years since I've made a post like this but coming over from Twitter was kinda brutal for the blog's audience. Can I get my mutuals to go follow @heavyblog.bsky.social? I want to start posting there more but kind of feel like I'm screaming into the void right now.

God I hate self marketing

Missouri Advances Three Anti-Trans Bathroom Ban Bills In One Night “This is a make-or-break moment with what just happened in Kansas.”

1. Missouri appears to be forging ahead with 3 bathroom bans in public buildings across the state.

They heard 3 bills in a single night on the topic.

Lawmakers are worried that we could see what happened to Kansas happen there too.

The latest from our writer S. Baum.

reckon there's some nominative determinism going on with this Grim boy

I'm worried when Kristi Noem finds out she's been fired she's going to become America's first obedience school shooter.

the kegels bot is the only good poster

An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper

Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.

No, the family dog is not dead. We just sent it to be Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas

Kristi Noem found tragically alive after concern at her distraught state over her firing

Maine you gotta get somebody else out there, I've had enough

the constant indignity of having to hear and think about obviously, profoundly stupid and awful people

once a month I have to relearn how to write a check

the other thing about Sanguisaiehdjdjdjddogg is that they are not good musically. they are dull as dirt and I do think you have to be a bit stupid, or at least debasing yourself, to enjoy that shit

one thing my decades of experience in online communities allows me to say authoritatively is that it's extremely good that the staff here publicly air grievances about the userbase on a regular basis, because that always lets the userbase know they're being rowdy and encourages deescalation

They have it doing war crimes now. But yeah, very cool that you're doing more commits per week

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Indeed so, in my view.
Trouble is, when one is committed to the idea that autism = cannot communicate, it becomes a perfect excuse not to listen.

I want a smoked cheese pig

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this is literally a plot point in 'I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter'

Amazon's $8 billion Anthropic investment balloons to $61 billion The cloud giant holds convertible notes in Anthropic. As the AI startup raises more money, this debt converts to equity.

If the Washington Post story above sounds like PR for Anthropic, that's because it is! Amazon has invested billions of dollars in Anthropic. Jeff Bezos, of course, owns both the Washington Post and Amazon.

They killed 180 children and their teachers in a double-tap strike on a school. The girls were 7 to 12 years old.

I JUST WANT TO FUCKING BREATHE PROPERLY AGAIN

fucking garbage building fucking garbage apartment fucking garbage management fucking garbage neighbors I'm fucking sick of it all

I'm so fucking tired of not being able to BREATHE

yes, the Israeli state is a genocidal rabid dog, but the way the power dynamic here has been flipped completely around is delusional, and this kind of thinking goes to some extremely pernicious places.

the whole "the US is being used by Israel" thing drives me insane. as if the US is some naive innocent being corrupted against its will.

our government is killing Iranians because they want to kill Iranians. they don't have to be coerced or convinced to do it. they want to do it!

Every single one of those graves is for a little girl between 7 and 12 years old. This is the reality of American imperalism.

Trump loves to kill little girls