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@hbarsquared.bsky.social

An American in Sweden. Netrunner, cats, and leftist outrage.

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Is that ... is that the White House? I swear, you go on a three-week news fast and all the metaphors start leaking into reality.

21.10.2025 11:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They said "We're too big to fail".

We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn".

"Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."

15.10.2025 11:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.

06.10.2025 17:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
the outsiders game studio is closing after 10 years because of funcom layoffs

the outsiders game studio is closing after 10 years because of funcom layoffs

06.10.2025 14:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 453    ๐Ÿ” 123    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 79    ๐Ÿ“Œ 45

If you see this, post a random photo or meme from your photo gallery without explaining it.

06.10.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This scene really stood out to me on my last watch, mostly because I'm certain if the movie was made today the music would be deafening and the audience would completely miss the conversation.

06.10.2025 09:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you make and show me a Sora 2 video I want you to know I think of you as infinitely less important than a worm, whose movements and excrement nuture the soil, whereas a Sora 2 user is a creature that asks robots to despoil the world out of boredom.

01.10.2025 02:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 328    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Help Kimberly flip NC-07! Kimberly is a mom, educator, and social worker running against a MAGA extremist.

Ope this is going off

Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.

As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.

So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.

secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...

30.09.2025 22:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1379    ๐Ÿ” 219    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Wheels spinning pretty fast these days innit?

30.09.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Imagine spending ten billion dollars to try and save twenty million dollars, and then failing in the exact way the haters said you would.

And techbros wonder why everyone thinks they're a joke ...

24.09.2025 11:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ten years ago we were installing a GW of solar power every week. Now we are doing it every *12 hours*.

15.09.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

America drinks 1.7 million tons of coffee annually, and Hawaii only produces 7,000. Looks like we'll have to cut down to about one cup per decade.

12.09.2025 15:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Clearly it entered your bloodstream. After all, if it just took eating the yogurt, we'd all have accelerated healing.

11.09.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Have you considered that the probiotics in the yogurt may have given you SUPER POWERS?

11.09.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

11.09.2025 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Not in Wisconsin, though we had our share of real drunk driving funerals. In my class of 170 students, 3 died in DD incidents over the 4 years of high school.

Wisconsin is kinda fucked up.

03.09.2025 07:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You know? That's a good point, I aught to follow the sexy Watto guy; my timeline needs more self indulgent bullshit.

30.08.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congrats on the endorsements, but also I gotta say - whoever is doing your graphic design has just impeccable taste in fonts.

28.08.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are so many, but I keep coming back to when they bombed that hospital in the first days of the conflict.

They came up with a dozen lies in 24 hours, and seeing the media blindly swallow each one made me realize that they would not see any real consequences for their actions.

28.08.2025 20:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.

24.08.2025 05:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 138    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

There are so many, but Rakesfall by @vajra.me is one that I'll be re-reading for years to come. If you love reading, you need to read this book.

23.08.2025 18:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Toejam & Earl on the Sega Genesis. The high-level enemies (crazed dentists and phantom ice cream trucks) were a staple of my 8-year-old nightmares.

23.08.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Episode 7 was pretty good! Episode 8 was almost great! Episode 9 killed my lifelong obsession with the franchise and tainted my memories of every film. JJ Abrams is a nepobaby hack who destroys all joy he touches.

22.08.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's been hard for me to articulate the omnipresent dread of the past 3 years, and you just went ahead and made a beautiful essay about it.

19.08.2025 12:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

rich people were a mistake

19.08.2025 01:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 105    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

More nose

12.08.2025 10:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Welcome to the slop-pocalypse. Five years from now, we're going to see 100,000+ games released each year and discoverability will plummet to zero.

11.08.2025 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Even if you ignore all of the other idiocy, "Hamas didn't build magical bomb shields to stop our bombs so they're really the ones at fault" is one hell of a take.

09.08.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

God mode is a hellish curse if you are immobile and immolating

06.08.2025 21:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there is no route through the control of pornography and queer views that doesn't have an endpoint in the erasure of non heteronormative public life and domestic slavery of women; they are part and parcel of the modern patriarchial social complex

24.07.2025 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 208    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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