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Why is Blender Market changing its name to Superhive? One is clear and established the other makes no sense. There seems to be a trend of changing names to decreasingly excellent alternatives. Twitter, Oculus, Inland Northwest Blood Bank, Be the Match...

Agreed. The first amendment clearly protects companies from government interference with DEI. They're not giving up these programs because they have to, it's because they want to.

So thanks for your wonderful podcast, @jamieloftus.bsky.social it gives me a lot to think about, particularly the multiverse me who might have had a hard time from my meme instead of the nothingburger experience I had.

It was a different time and the Internet was a different place, but it does make me feel for people who have had more harmful content spread, or for people like Monica Lewinsky who get caught up in a cultural nightmare.

I was only recognized just once from this photo. It was at a college party and someone started calling me the "been laid guy". They asked if I had been and when I answered yes, an applause went through the room and people brought me drinks. It was so weird!

We just did this for a laugh, but the 16th Minute podcast makes me wonder what life would have been like if this spread virally in modern times. Would I as an undiagnosed autistic kid have been able to laugh it off, or would it have been a challenge as it was for so many of the podcast guests.

One of us uploaded it to some website which compiled funny pictures (pre-myspace) and then I was surprised when it kept appearing on other sites as time went on. I ran into it in the wild again a few years ago and it really made me laugh that this stupid scanned photo is still online.

The sign was next to where my friend Heather worked and the movie Forest Gump had just came out so we kept joking about recreating the scene on this bench. I did my best Gump pose and Heather went across the street with her film camera.

@jamieloftus.bsky.social The 16th minute of fame podcast makes me glad that this meme of me as an awkward kid never took off more than it did. Glad it happened in the internet's early days. Still, 25 years later, it's still findable. The internet does not forget...

I ordered a copy of Still Life to reread in honor of the recentlt departed Tom Robbins.

I know it's just to distract us as they rob us dry, but still, who comes up with this crap?

Holy shit, this is real! I can't.

"The Sapling Cage" is such a great title! I will probably need to wait a while before I can afford to purchase it as my job is ending with an unsure future after that, but I won't forget an intriguing title such as that!

With Lex Luthor running wild we all seem to be hanging out waiting for Superman, or Jesus, or the aliens or something. They're not coming! Except for Luigi rising up the occasion, the rest of us are just going to work like things are normal while our government fails. Crazy.

I get frustrated by how often these cases are just settled. Maybe that's what the student would prefer, but crimes should have consequences beyond a financial slap on the wrist. There should be declarations of guilt and actual justice to cause real change.

Between their recent (now backtracked) license changes and this, I wouldn't even consider Unity for any project.

If you're looking to help in these difficult times, I recommend donating to Border Kindness, Doctors Without Borders, or especially your local LGBTQIA+ organizations.

This makes Watergate look like nothing.

Actions To Take Now: Audio From A Collapsing State Time is of the essence. We have to start working. Now.

I know what Musk and Trump are doing is overwhelming and it feels like you can’t do anything.

We need to immediately demand local leaders, schools, bosses, and managers answer how they’ll stand against it before it reaches them. This is essential.

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Robert Evans' @iwriteok.bsky.social Behind the Bastards comments on Oprah's school were similar to what my African friends were expressing the year before the school was set up. They wished more public schools were funded instead of making a few individuals rich.

They're fine with the confusion since it may go to the courts and they own the courts. Dark times.

Please ignore the warning, Bibi. I'm sure they don't mean it and it would be unmanly of you to not test them on it!

Sweat is fantastic, I highly recommend it!