You know what? Fuck you, I miss microfiche. It was just better.
29.10.2025 23:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1@grimflandango.bsky.social
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You know what? Fuck you, I miss microfiche. It was just better.
29.10.2025 23:16 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1I feel like if you walked up to Hemingway and said โyour writing inspired me to enlistโ he would, without hesitation, beat your ass with a pipe
29.10.2025 23:03 โ ๐ 147 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Probably, true. Very convenient for him to end up in a Nazi friendly tattoo parlor though.
29.10.2025 23:01 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If ever there was a time for definitive proof of life after deathโฆ
29.10.2025 22:46 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is going to be a lean month for manyโplease help us continue to provide food, harm reduction and wound care distro, outreach, + low-threshold employment for current & former sworkers & trafficking survivors who use drugs/ experience housing insecurity like us! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
27.10.2025 22:39 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I refuse the framing that being evil makes you ugly (congrats on falling for one of the most historically prevalent ways disabled, scarred, poor, mentally ill, physically ill, aged, and othered people have been discriminated against) but it's not that he's ugly. he just looks... slightly unreal
29.10.2025 22:26 โ ๐ 138 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 11 ๐ 1In a joint appearance, Cuomo and Adams argue Mamdani isn't a real Democrat.
Eric Adams to Run as an Independent, Skipping Democratic Primary Mayor Eric Adams faced an uphill battle in the June 24 Democratic primary, which has drawn a crowded field of candidates. He will run for
Cuomo to Fight On in Mayor's Race After Bruising Primary Loss to Mamdani Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced he would run as a third-party candidate against Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor.
What an insane election.
29.10.2025 22:40 โ ๐ 88 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 0On the training session for phonebanking for Zohran, and there are over 200 people here - still time to sign up! volunteer.zohranfornyc.com/phonebanking
29.10.2025 22:04 โ ๐ 62 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Itโs almost as if people rightfully claiming that undermining online privacy will mean undermining actual privacy were right
29.10.2025 21:43 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I mean, Iโve heard worse ideasโฆ
29.10.2025 22:07 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0God, thank you! Everyoneโs talking like you can walk into any old parlor and get a fucking Nazi tattoo like itโs nothing.
29.10.2025 22:06 โ ๐ 125 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0If we ever come out of this it will be fascinating to meet someone who still doesnโt think we need any kind of discrimination protections in the workplace. Like, how smooth does that brain have to be?
29.10.2025 22:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0When they write the obituary of our society I sure hope they donโt forget to include desperate, mewling little tech journalists as among the causes of its demise.
29.10.2025 22:02 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Have to imagine this is an old article about a man who absolutely doesnโt have a job writing about technology for a major media outlet anymoreโฆ
29.10.2025 21:58 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And if you dig into the back of your pantry and โdonateโ a 4-yr-old box of Rice-a-Roni, you deserve to burn in all the hells.
29.10.2025 21:45 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I really want cis folks to understand the situation - trans women face widespread employment discrimination and live in devastating poverty.
Meanwhile, the woman who came in fifth place in a swimming competition, ONCE, makes a million+ a year to advocate for destroying our rights.
The debate is stupid
As visual fidelity increases it becomes much harder to tell what is a path forward or relevant to your interest and what is just background environment. Having a visual language to signify that is vital and people mad about it are the same as folks mad about easy modes, IMO
At least the systems have absolutely been trained on nonwhite faces so as to eliminate any chance of false readingsโฆ
29.10.2025 21:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Wellโฆitโs a choiceโฆ
29.10.2025 21:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI.
With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech.
My latest:
The fucking queen!
29.10.2025 21:05 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I wanna see more of this from candidates, tbh.
29.10.2025 17:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I meanโฆof course. Itโs fucking horrible, but of course this was going to happen. Buying these things should immediately require you to notify your neighbors that you live nearby.
29.10.2025 15:56 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What stuns me is that the people pushing for him donโt seem to understand that this is absolutely inevitable, and there will continue to be more stories because no one accidentally gets a fucking Nazi tattoo!
29.10.2025 15:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Oh God, a cat personโs worst nightmare, searching for a new food! Just thinking about it is giving me the shakesโฆ
29.10.2025 15:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Okayโฆupon reflection a lot of things are worseโฆbut itโs still bad.
29.10.2025 15:05 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Nothing in this world is worse than when we assume a candidate is a shoo-in
29.10.2025 15:05 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Obviously he hopped, thatโs basic biology!
29.10.2025 15:04 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Hmmm, interestingโฆI wonder how this would fly if it were the Palestiniansโฆ
29.10.2025 14:58 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was first introduced to him in โDark City,โ so itโs always thrown me a little off that he almost always plays absolute bastards. Even though, god heโs so good at it.
29.10.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0