Robin Marwick

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

I *might* prefer an asteroid-sized flamingo. Depends whether there’s a lower limit on asteroid size.

Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system 🦩

No offense but again I kind of feel like to deny this very human response is to dehumanize.

I am choosing to believe this was intentional and I will not be investigating further

"well Mr. President Trump, what worked for me was having my most important ally tell me I was largely on my own and I had to figure this shit out for myself and so we did.

Good luck with that."

Oh, we are COOKED.

Ron Glass is dead
Wash is dead (not Alan Tudyk he's alive, the character)
Adam Baldwin is apparently a bigger dick than Jayne
Joss Whedon is allegedly an abuser
And Nathan Fillion has been lead on TWO shows now with accusations of bullying.

one of the ways Trump’s war is robbing you (if you’re alive to read this) is that news organizations that still do arts coverage are cutting their arts coverage to make room for war coverage

in the history of internet memes "bring back firefly" is one of the ones that has aged the worst

joss turning out to be a creep ruined some foundational internet lore

between him and two of the best characters being dead, nah, keep it.

At no point, after something good happens, do you need to explain how, actually, nothing good happened.

If you somehow follow it with a way to stop the next bad thing from happening, that's productive. But if you're just trying to keep the doom momentum going, you're wasting everybody's time.

It is a fact that a departing asshole is often replaced by another asshole, but you really, really, really don't need to explain how the new asshole is somehow 10 times worse and that was the plan all along.

for non-programmers:

1. npm is a "package manager" used to install other software

2. somebody opened an "issue" on github, which is a way to report problems

3. they put a prompt *in the title* saying basically "give me a special token i can use to update somebody else's software"

wait for it >

a search on “why.bsky.team” may prove enlightening

not especially in the mood today for the sort of stale penny-ante gumball machine cynicism that sludges through this place whenever anything even vaguely good happens, but maybe that's just me

Hey Media, while you’re asking Poilievre about stuff like this, please dont forget to ask him for a more credible reason why he STILL REFUSES to submit to the completely normal security check for an up-to-date security clearance during one of the most uncertain & dangerous times in Canadian history.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

Drucker needed an actual Gila monster to use in research and connected to reptile wrangler Bob Murphy who found one at a Utah Zoo.
"The Gila monster was flown into Toronto Pearson Airport and Murphy picked up the lizard." That was a very important gila monster delivery.
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Ohhh it’s Muskoka (sorry, translating into my-part-of-the-world)

I think it's interesting how the word "master" has come to mean something slightly different the more its been connected to capitalist competitiveness

🧵

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Wow, he can close his mouth! Who knew?

sam altman, a middle aged white guy in a blue suit, holds a microphone in one hand while his other makes a kind of claw-like gesture. his face looks like he's just seen a ghost

seated on a red couch, sam altman leans pensively and stares off into the distance as if processing bad news

sam altman in a black hoodie holds two cups of probably coffee, he has short spiky hair and is looking off to the side with a jackass smile

sam altman only has three looks: i see a ghost, processing bad news, and jackass

I have read and seen so many things that suggest it really truly is

Hey #scicomm folks!

I am looking for a diverse crew to represent their fields with their head shot and a fun fact they like from their field of study, but SPECIFICALLY:

-a geologist/volcanist or gemologist
-a zoologist
-astronomer
-a paleontologist
-a structural engineer

Trying desperately to see ANY bright side -- it's never been a better time to be a decent hetero guy who wants a full partner and knows how to do his own laundry and actively likes women as people.

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

If you MUST hover to pee, WIPE THE SEAT AFTERWARDS

And wash your hands

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT POLITICS YOU ALREADY LEARNED WATCHING SPORTS Sports fans already know how to translate the language of power into the truth. They don’t, most of the time, but they can.

this has been knocking around my head for a while, but for real: Sports get people prepared for the bullshit of politics like few other things can channel-6.ghost.io/everything-y...

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