Jared Gray

People often compliment me on being organized and generally having my shit together. What they don't realize is I'm just a precarious tower of coping mechanisms in a trench coat.

I'd forgotten that all the Klingon weapons from TNG were designed by mall ninjas.

25AQI. This might be the cleanest air I've ever seen in Phoenix. Of course, it's also 88% humidity and we have a koi pond in the back yard, so it's not like I'm going to open up all the doors and windows to air out the house.

Quick, put out all the shiny things!

Sounds like me and my 30k+ song music collection that will probably never have all the duplicates fully removed.

also, have quokka hugs

I can smell your spicy brains

oof, no bueno :(

Congratulations, you just reinvented Starfinder or Spelljammer depending on your preferred system. 😁

Rachel, from Blade Runner, looking at a reCAPTCHA check box and thinking, "That's odd. Why isn't it letting me check that box?"

The best games (and players) are the ones that enable stories you retell for years after. That time a kender with a Wand of Wonder said "oops!". That time the entire party and the enemies headed straight at them all rolled 1s on their perception. The NPC so absurd and fun they took over the plot.

booo!

Opening 70 year old Peaches from a Fallout Shelter (@mrs.fallout on TikTok) Posted in r/interestingasfuck by u/Adorable-Cattle-5128 • 6,244 points and 1,629 comments

Fallout game: 200 year old canned food is perfectly fine!
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A neighbor tried to get me fined for having an untrimmed dwarf palmetto in the front yard. So I went out at 3AM with a 5 ft Chinese broadsword and practiced my cuts. It was quite satisfying, and nobody bothered us again after that. 😁

Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.

Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky

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I'm still using Visio 2013 for exactly that reason and there's nothing they can do to stop me! MUAHAHAAHAH!

MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

This is the part where they're going to pretend every single one of us who were correct about "AI" for the past few years actually wasn't, because that would mean the media, tech executives and most of Wall Street were wrong.

So long as the fine is less than the profit, it's not a deterrent, it's just the cost of doing business.

Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay

“Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later no one even remembered who they were, let alone what they had said or where the mob had buried their ashes.”

Everything is a lot right now, so I thought I'd share a heartwarming video I found bsky.app/profile/full...

The real crisis is the ponzi scheme most countries use as their pension plans and the unlivable wages for healthcare and support workers. The real crisis is capitalism. The moment we stop infinite growth, the entire thing collapses. We mislabel stability as "stagnation" for a reason.

I really wish media outlets would stop screaming about the "birthrate crisis" or "population crash". It's not a crisis. It's a huge victory we should be celebrating. The only chance we have of sustainability is to draw down the population, and not making more people is the most ethical way to do it.

We need to move an entire team into your house to pamper you.

You can form coherent sentences. You're already vastly better qualified.

Oh god, you're giving me flashbacks to my nasal surgery. You have my deepest sympathies!

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