pyro

pyro

@pyrolytic.bsky.social

Nerd. Chemist. Environmentalist. Leftist. Dad. Old. He/him

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Seems like a relevant time to throw this out. The steps between letters are getting a bit larger and coming a bit more quickly. Maybe *this* will be the event that catalyses a mass reaction.

You ever wonder how many posters out there telling people not to worry about AI-related job losses are themselves bots? Are you, the reader of this post, a bot? Am I?

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Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

Radium. Leaded gas. BPA. The list goes on, but the challenge with AI (and crypto and other technologies) is it’s harder to regulate the use of technologies that exist as ideas.

Nick Pettigrew@nick-pettigrew.bsky.social

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Throwback playlist in car on way to swimming. Whoomp There it is playing. By the time they get to the second chorus I hear a small voice from the back seat saying “whoomp, there it is” and I know I am successful parent.

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“Lifeless… foam around his mouth. Nobody wants to see their kids like that.” ICE attacked a family trying to LEAVE the besieged neighborhood and hospitalized a 6 month old baby that couldn’t breathe.

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"But Maduro likely stole an election." Ok well Bush DEFINITELY stole an election. I don't see yall cheering for his extradition to a foreign court and the bombing of Fort Worth. It's almost like yall are stupid fucking dipshits that will swallow any neoliberal propaganda that crawls by.

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The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.

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Venezuela now, because he wants the oil. He wants the oil under Greenland too. And under Canada. He's openly called for them to be part of the USA. How long before he decides to bomb a couple of NATO members to get his own way? The USA is a rogue nation.

A reminder that when Trump is making his Truth Social posts it truly is on one of the most pathetic websites ever. This is how one of his posts looks natively, sandwiched between two giant, irrelevant ads.

Why the hell were the former prisoners so mean to Nazis? They should have tolerated their differences in values and learned to all get along! (This is heavy sarcasm for the current bullshit around people wondering why people would be mad at fascists)

I look forward to Mr Beast recreating The Long Walk with zero sense of irony. I almost feel like that’s part of the point in releasing the film now.

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This is all very simple. Let the world's two biggest babies fight and visibly construct and build a world without them. Anybody who tries to welcome Elon Musk, the world's most preeminent ratfucker, into their political party should be put in a dog crate until 2029.

Latest series of Love, Death and Robots was… underwhelming. That they brought in MrBeast is just… yeah. Disappointing. How about they put the budget for next season towards season 2 of Scavengers Reign?

This is what we need to be talking about. Materially stopping these fuckwits.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

COHN: “THE REPUBLICAN EFFORT TO slash Medicaid stalled on Friday, when legislation cutting more than $625 billion from the program failed to get through a key House committee. GOP leaders hope to try again on Sunday night.” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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Replying to @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social

“In response, a massive fire was started at one of the barricades. This fire forced the police to entirely reroute their advance, delaying them severely. This delay gave more than enough time for the group to disperse… The fire was slow to extinguish & effectively crippled the police advance.”

People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social

When pigs tried to raid University of Washington students building takeover, students allegedly lit the barricades on fire 😮😭🔥

I miss this show. It was silly and from a simpler time…

shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

Just to be clear, when I say fuck libs and fuck Democrats this is the type of spineless, useless, rage inducing activity that is making me say this. If you wanna stan these pieces of shit for not being Trump that's fine, but you're also probably a piece of shit.

thebulwark.comJeffries Wants Dems to Put an End to the El Salvador TripsCory Booker and the Hispanic Caucus were planning on going. But Democratic leadership seems to want El Salvador trips to stop for a while.

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

Heard some bs this morning on the radio about how Scottish schools must provide 50% of toilets for male students and 50% of toilets for female students. Based on the statute the TERFs are referencing, it only states that half the toilets must be for male students.

Since they want follow this 1967 statute I say we have half the toilets in a school for male students and the other half be gender neutral. There is no requirement that women be given their own toilets by the letter of the statute. Also, fuck the TERFs. Keep your transphobia out of our schools.

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If you defend this or try and explain this away, you’re a monster and I don’t know how you sleep at night.

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com

Fatima Hassouna, a Palestinian artist and photojournalist who is the protagonist of a documentary due to premiere in Cannes in May, has been killed in an Israeli air strike. deadline.com/2025/04/gaza...