Conky

Conky

@conky.online

any day you hear a cool tune and read a funny billboard can't be THAT bad

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every room should have 150 electrical outlets, and also other assorted jacks and ports

i'm beginning to think world WASN'T a vampire but this guy was telling on himself (vampire)

Gore Vidal Sassoon@jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social

Just going to leave this inspiring story right here…sweet dreams…

i've been staring at this wondering why the text is on a photograph. why is it better that I can barely see a window & a fan blade around the edges. why isn't this just text. this is a web site built for making text posts. this is probably the moment where i fully lean into being antiquated online.

If I were a carny psychic and I had to do a cold reading of a 10 year old girl I didn't know at all, I would say "empathetic, creative, animal lover."

David Gura@davidgura.bsky.social

cool, cool

department of war is less good at handling antiques than the department of defense. makes perfect sense.

my one time password is 6-4-1-3-5? God, it's so obvious these things aren't random. if they were, what are the odds it would go down in the middle and up on the edges like a big smile on a day when i'm happy?

Got two and a half sentences into a story (presumably!) about it being annoying to be asked for your phone number as soon as you enter a restaurant for the first time, and the site that I was visiting for the first time prompted me for my email before I could finish the paragraph 🤷‍♀️

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com

Blogged about how annoying it is when you see the hospitality strings www.weareravenous.com/hospitality-...

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When I click a link to a piece of writing, I routinely don't know whether I'm about to have a social experience or a commercial experience. Is this being shared with me or sold to me? Am I walking into a potluck or a restaurant? Can't know until I click.

I want people to be able to make their money, and I don't begrudge people monetizing their work. I like potlucks and restaurants, I like libraries and bookstores, but I like knowing what I'm walking into. The Internet is legitimately bad at that, and getting worse.

Got two and a half sentences into a story (presumably!) about it being annoying to be asked for your phone number as soon as you enter a restaurant for the first time, and the site that I was visiting for the first time prompted me for my email before I could finish the paragraph 🤷‍♀️

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com

Blogged about how annoying it is when you see the hospitality strings www.weareravenous.com/hospitality-...

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Again, Ravenous is probably great. But I'd like to get through a whole paragraph (possibly even a post!!) to determine that before being prompted for my info. Kinda like I want to have at least one meal before giving a restaurant my phone number.

(2) it's fucking exhausting being on the web because you never know what experience to expect. At least when I walk into a restaurant, I know that I'm about to engage in some capitalism with all that entails in 2026. Who the hell knows what a website is going to be.

Got two and a half sentences into a story (presumably!) about it being annoying to be asked for your phone number as soon as you enter a restaurant for the first time, and the site that I was visiting for the first time prompted me for my email before I could finish the paragraph 🤷‍♀️

Jaya Saxena@jayasaxena.com

Blogged about how annoying it is when you see the hospitality strings www.weareravenous.com/hospitality-...

I'm not mad. I understand why they do this. I support a lot of content that I like with either my data or my money. Ravenous is probably great! Maybe I should give them my email address! I'm only pointing it out for two reasons

(1) it's kind of a bummer when you're moved to check something out because you believe it shares values with you about a certain type of interaction, then you have that same interaction immediately.

ngl, if you post anything even mildly supportive of the world-famous millionaire at the expense of the independent store, i think your phone should be taken away and you should have to spend 5 years working retail so whatever "online discourse" has done to your soul has a chance to heal.

i was in a hurry, i didn't go to my regular store, and i bought some bad butter. i got 4 sticks of shit butter now. i don't even go through butter that quick. i'm going to have the bad butter for 3-5 years probably.

Seeing the iced coffee discourse has blown up on Bsky like 4 days after the rest of the Internet was talking about it. This site is never beating the "elder millennial holding pen" allegations

how many of the people who are sure that AI is going to kill us all were also sure that we were living in a simulation in 2010?

Something happens in the news every day that reminds me of the classic quote from Jurassic Park: "your scientists were so preoccupied with being dumb assholes, they didn't stop to think if they shouldn't be dumb assholes."

I was getting ready to leave work and i realized I wasn't wearing my glasses and i looked all over and found them on THE FLOOR like they were the glasses of a DOG

i hate AI so much that i'm constantly copying and pasting random prose i find online into AI so the AI can tell me if i should hate it because the writing is AI

90% of the people interacting with this are treating it like a sign that was hung in a real window, when the entire "photo" is AI and none of this happened in the world. We're at the point in the cycle where the examples of slop are just slop themselves. Slop mouth eating slop tail.

Robert Komaniecki@komaniecki.bsky.social

We are all dogs locked in god’s hot car

I dipped my entire baby in SPF 100 yet somehow he still suffered horrendous sunburn to his heels. If only there had been some allegorical story to help me anticipate this!!

why do none of the major car shopping sites let you filter by the most important feature? (which side the gas tank is on.)

my pilot got picked up for the fall! it's called "Two and a Half Sheldons" and it stars Sheldon. Sheldon, and Young Sheldon.

Getting the dentist to use the filling material to connect all your teeth into one big tooth? We call that a "Human Dentipede"

I bring a certain awkward energy to the top of the ladder that safety officers don't really like

Spoiler for The Mandolorian and Grogu: Drung Bunto, who the fandom presumed dead after the attack on Porkusan depicted in a short-run comic, is actually alive! His survival is attributed to The Force.

i'm getting suspicious that not every game show that claims it is actually "America's favorite"

Crazy how teeth need to be professionally cleaned every six months. No logical reason for why teeth cleaning and the amount of time the earth takes to revolve around the sun would line up, yet they do. Kinda enough to make you believe in intelligent design.

babe, promise me you'll never use chatgpt and short-form vertical video in the same day. your brain isn't built to withstand two cooking methods simultaneously.

everyone needs to shut up about me taking my 14 foot trump flag off my f-350. it's NOT because i changed my mind. i simply need to reduce drag until gas drops back below $7/gallon.

Scene set in an office? You know the set dresser is gonna put one of these bad boys on the desk

Netflix got $2.8 billion for not buying Warner Bros. and I just want to say that it's a fair number and we should normalize giving $2.8 billion to people who didn't buy Warner Bros. and coincidentally I also didn't buy Warner Bros.

every day i think about Jonas Salk or Alexander Fleming saving hundreds of millions of lives and continuing to live like regular people. And then Zuck made a website so he could know when hot girls would be at the library and decided this made him the most important person in human history.

i'm bottling up all of my feelings about how politics and the economy work, all of the contradictions and absurdities and indignities, but the thing that will eventually make me lose my mind is clicking "remember this device for 30 days" every fucking day when i log into the same web site.

I'm just going to back into the pole on my way out of the driveway right now and take down my own electricity. Better than waiting and worrying.

The president deserves a brand new Boeing airplane, built right now, with all the contemporary workmanship! Don't overthink it too much, just give him whatever rolls off the line next.

social media would be infinitely better if when you start replying to a post, the OP saw the "..." so they knew you were typing. And then when you hit the back button and don't reply, they can feel relieved. And when something goes viral, they could see thousands of "..." icons. That would be fun.