Andy Pearlman

at least one bsky staff person said the ceo has been targeted for verbal abuse, at least some of which has been racist or misogynistic.

yeah, can absolutely see why both sides are upset here as a person who is one of a few mods of a small discord server that mostly isn't here

oh, they had to stop that because it is now (CHEN-uh-pea-ack)

"great news, the registrar signed you up for Last of the Jerry's, 2 Last, 2 Jerry's, The Last of the Jerry's: Lababu Rift..."

running through it i see

Bhindi Di Pyaza(okra, tomato, onions, peppers), rice and samosas on a plate

@nameshiv.bsky.social as promised lol

magician here. you did seal the "jerry chen" behind unbreakable bonds, right, where it can't just possess someone else?

yellow black and red white flag against a blue sky on a pole

maryland wants its state flag back

They really need to offer a $100/year "donation" option where people who like bsky can give them money so they can keep working on fun things faster. Hire more people. 10000 people donating $100/year is a million dollars! That's some additional devs!

I think that banning a relatively small account on bsky that has a large following elsewhere, ends up bad for everyone. I think Jay and her team have had it with personal attacks on her.

But they also need a paid community manager with the power to tell bsky team members to "ftlog, stop posting!"

@starshine.bsky.social just catching strays over here, wth

second the motion. done!

"your pants are falling down"

a robot dog, very large, with mechanical shark fin and shark face, in front of an ikea

guess this explains this...

right, I think it would be extremely difficult to make an Abu Ghraib comedy aimed for Americans rather than for Iraqis.

I'd note Robert Clary, the supposedly French POW, spent 3 years in concentration camps and all the actors playing the major German roles were also Jewish, 3 of whom had fled Nazi Germany. So there's some significant Nazi punching going on there.

Had some weird discussions with my parents as a kid…

there'll also eventually be people who get accidentally crushed anyway, then pipe up because they feel they have nothing to lose, and then there are some more outgroups to squash

these AI discussions remind me heavily of when i was a college student, helping out a professor+grad students on alcohol+stereotyping research, and how easily those on alcohol would reach for stereotypes to explain apparent patterns.

and one of the conclusions was some would use stereotypes anyway.

a close up of a fried egg in a frying pan Alt: a close up of a fried egg in a frying pan for a drug commercial saying "this is your brain on drugs"

this is your brain off coffee

maybe it is heavier due to wearing a fire-resistant jacket?

smh discounting the true inventors of live sports, t-rex game of "toss the small mammal through an open mouth"

With advice from a zookeeping friend and the help of family and Airborne Warriors, Talsarnau, Cowlyd was successfully released during the last stretch of balmy weather at the tail end of September.

Yes, that’s me almost being knocked sideways by the sheer force of him bursting out of his cage.

Tawny owl

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Particularly in the context that strong majorities of American Jews consider themselves Zionists and simultaneously that Israel is committing war crimes or genocide.

Like maybe something subtler is going on here that can be hard to understand if not Jewish. Speaking as an anti-Zionist.

If you can't not pepper spray someone just for being mouthy you don't deserve to carry pepper spray (or whatever it is they carry)

makes you antsy is what you are saying?

(great drawing btw)

are you schist posting?

yeah, all kinds of lawyer-related people in my family except for me. drives me nuts to witness it.