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I’m not doing an intro post. You don’t know me and that’s fine. Let’s just all be nice.

What is it about Sonic the Hedgehog that attracts autists? Sonic fandom is a sign of autism like Undertale/Deltarune fandom is a sign of being queer/nonbinary. You wanna confirm if someone is autistic without directly asking them? Ask if they like Sonic. Same question.

Nights like this make me glad I don’t drink anymore. Becoming an alcoholic and/or experiencing alcohol poisoning is not something I want to risk.

The issue that matters most.

I bitch about contemporary Apple a lot, but damn if MagSafe isn’t the best thing they put into iPhones since TouchID.

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

In light of the PHP breach, I am deleting the entire Internet. Apologies if you found it useful – the whole thing has been a figment for my imagination which you’ve been using without my permission and I think it’s time to use my brain space for something more fun like sausage recipes.

📣 INDIE GAMES DEVS! 📣 If you have a demo in Steam Next Fest and do not use gen AI, drop it in the comments below. I will repost! Let's create a thread where players can actually find our games! (Image courtesy of @kanaratron.bsky.social)

Anyone else get a fascinating feeling that’s like a combination of itchiness and pleasure when you get food stuck between your molars just right? Jerky does it the most for me. It’s like my body is saying “ack no get it out” but also “YES HURT ME MORE SNAKE” and it’s almost overwhelming.

WHEW JESUS BARS BARS BARS BARS BARS

Candidates need to run ads declaring “The US Government Won’t Let You See Your Precious Umas”

If ICE really did arrest over 100,000 people during the summer, the number of people being held in ICE camps has probably already passed the raw numbers of people held during Japanese American imprisonment. youtu.be/bny4YMWYJ6U

Shooting at a car to stop a shoplifter is not justified. Even if no one was harmed, let alone shooting to death a 1 year-old baby.

As I near day 300 of boot.dev, I can safely say it’s one of few YT sponsors that is worth your time. I have tried no fewer than 6 other ways of learning programming and none of them have come close to sticking. It’s an amazing feeling to now have a job as a junior dev. Thanks, @wagslane.bsky.social

I used it right as it was released, because I’d loosely followed development of GPT all the way back to the first few publicly available glorified toys that were impressive but also broken af. Once it became clear that the whole thing was rotten like a womb, I jumped ship.

I wish I could express all of the things I think should be done to the people who write this kind of software on any platform.

My workplace prescription insurance no longer covers weight loss drugs as of 2027, just as I was starting the process of getting on one. Nothing like struggling for years, finally caving on the popular treatment I’ve been avoiding the entire time, and then being told to go fuck myself.

It's pretty funny how, in the discussion of everything AI that's being inflicted on us, the group of folks at fault have weirdly escaped scrutiny, namely software developers.

this fucking sucks

Again, Neither NAFTA nor China are the reason that union auto jobs are leaving the area. Kyle Bos, the supposed union rep, voted for Trump 3 times. Three!🤷🏿‍♂️ Yes I'm sad that 1,400 truck manufacturing jobs were eliminated. But in California, BYD, a supposed "Chinese company" created 750 union jobs.

My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on

Me: “It’s so strange seeing young people romanticize the 90s and 2000s. Like, I see a girl doing Scene makeup when she probably never saw it irl.” Also me: “Man, synthwave is such a great genre and I love neon lights and cassette tapes.” Yeah, just realized this isn’t a new phenomenon and I’m old.

Sort of insane fact about how broken US urban planning is—America now spends more building *just the lights for roads and highways* than on all subways & ground mass transit combined Spending on roadway *pavement* is 18x transit spending

General mood these days.

GOOD NEWS GUYS!! I MET MUSE AT META CONNECT AND IT'S INTO FEET AS MUCH AS I AM!!!!!!

Every person this Meta Connect Muse marketing material has talking about what they have it do for them, sound like if they looked up with their mouth open in a rain storm, they'd drown. Like do you seriously need something to do the things for you?

Ai has ruined all my favorite stock photo websites. Even when you filter to exclude it half of whats left looks suss and every time I change the keywords it switches it back on 😑

I don’t know why I still get e-mails from Glassdoor but boy am I tired of seeing posts like “hey guys I only make $2b a year in total compensation how much should I worry about the economy.” Reminds me of those insufferable chuds on Blind unironically complaining about their 6-figure salaries.

No Doraemon! Don't take the Hitler Pills!!

A world where a twist ending is repurposed as a video title. where a thing's climax has been removed, leaving an advertisment for the gap where it used to be. such things are commonplace in. the twilight zone

AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...

Same people who seem to think it’s bad for China to beat us at AI are perfectly fine with China beating us at high speed rail, solar energy, wind energy, shall we go on

I am so goddamn tired of this shit. support transgender people or fuck off forever

honestly some of the most apocalyptic impacts of "AI" will be shit like this, and most of the doomsday dipshits predicting SkyNet can't be bothered to notice or care