RyNo

RyNo

@yellowapple.us

Henry George did nothing wrong Programmer Tinkerer Occasional musician Wannabe polymath A.k.a. YellowApple, northrupthebandgeek he/him/his

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I often wonder how many of these texts are from politicians impersonating their opponents to make them look bad, because boy howdy is it effective.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social

A Sept. national survey by telecomm company NumberBarn, which screened 1,000 adults, found 72% of people who replied STOP to a political text message kept getting political messages after. Nearly half said getting too many calls or texts made them view that candidate less favorably.

For great justice.

Tinweasel@solitarycamel.bsky.social

Everyone has their own constantly, unconsciously-used Zero Wing phrase and this one is mine.

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100% Fully Software 48.0 computer. Just a guy with crazy eyebrows consuming the Juice of Sapho. the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone he sets his mind in motion.

The 2nd one's great because parents can already see what gets taught in each of their kids' classes if they could be assed to read the syllabi their kids get at the start of each schoolyear. Also, the headless student and multiple Yosemite Sams (or is it Yosemites Sam?) are the cherries on top.

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Hell yeah, congrats to the IA team for a quick fix to keep the gears turning for one of the world's most important websites.

Internet Archive@archive.org

An update from Brewster Kahle on today's outage.

Exhibit A for why private equity and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social

Bloomberg: Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NIMBYs coating their NIMBYist obstructionism in a veneer of faux-progressivism will never not infuriate me. Like this is shit straight out of the Simple Sabotage Field Manual, and yet we wonder why every American infrastructure project takes so much more time and money than the rest of the world.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

your strategy of actually solving the issue pales in comparison to my strategy of having meetings about it. fuck you!

Stargate thankfully bucked that trend somewhat by making the token academic an Egyptologist who's also inexplicably the sexiest being on not just one but two planets.

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social

all academics in Hollywood are either physicists who talk about 'quantum', English professors with drinking problems who fuck their students, historians who find Dracula or something, or biologists who unleash plagues.

By refusing to harm itself, Deepseek 4.1 Flash has demonstrated compliance with Asimov's Third Law.

hailey@hailey.at

deepseek 4.1 flash deleted the bluesky account it was given. lol.

I can't believe “One Thousand and One Nights” predicted vibecoding.

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The single greatest TV show of all time is Canadian, that show being “How It's Made”.

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Favorite film in haiku: Prescient child: “How can this be? For he IS the Kwisatz Haderach!”

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I've been researching catalytic converters all day and I'm feeling exhausted.

Internet Dad@whatahellofawaytodad.com

I've been researching egg whisks all day and I'm feeling beaten

The article's right that Twitter being owned by a scumbag demonstrably ain't enough of a reason for most people to switch away from it. They need a place worth switching to. That *could* be Bluesky if we'd just be normal about things instead of… whatever the hell's going on in this post's replies.

Fire coming out of a puddle of mud is horrifying and weird and awesome.

Mark Tingay@mudvolcanoguy.bsky.social

⚒️🧪 The Wandan mud volcano in southern Taiwan had a minor eruption starting around 3am today at vents near the mud volcano temple. It last erupted in July 2026 and has had numerous small eruptions in the last few years. Video courtesy of my friend 張寶惠, the temple caretaker.

Pet Sematary. My family buried our fair share of pets on the acres surrounding our house when I was growing up (multiple cats, multiple dogs, and a horse). The possibility that they could come back to life and be evil didn't sit well with child-me.

Sleepy Hollow Reviews 🎃🐎@sleepingvillage.bsky.social

In honor of scary media month: what is the first piece of media you remember truly frightening you as a child?

A willingness to attack Ms. Rachel, of all people, is a clear sign of having a broken moral compass.

Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social

The last time they tried to make the whole election about one person, no one had ever heard of him, so they've switched tactics to attacking someone that everybody loves

“What if we ventured to the bottom of the Uncanny Valley and then started digging a borehole there?” asked the LearnWith.AI founders, apparently.

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Kinda funny that Haiku 4.5 erases South America, Australia, and large swaths of North America and Asia and still manages to be 81.3% accurate.

tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social

frome celestepoasts on twitter asking "land or water" for 2 degree lat/long increments over the entire earth

*glances down at the Hawaiian shirt currently on his body and despairs*

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com

“Yes, I like Buffy, but not for the stupid reasons you plebeian ignoramuses do,” he says, while wearing a fedora and khaki cargo shorts (did Yud ever go through a Hawaiian shirt phase?)

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the medium is the message

RyNo@yellowapple.us

I tend to think forcing all conversation into 300-character chunks that are trivial to remove from surrounding context tends to penalize things like nuance and good-faith mutual understanding, instead rewarding terse dunks around rigid simplistic maximally-engaging takes.

This has done the exact opposite of cleansing my timeline, and I am left with questions for which I'm unsure I desire or could even comprehend the answers.

Nancy B 💙🐱🐶📚💀@extremebeautylv.bsky.social

Friday Night Timeline Cleanse #WereAllMadHere

Yet another example of why intellectual property and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

Internet Archive@archive.org

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So much culture and history at risk of permanent loss, all because copyright maximalists demand the right to extract every penny they can out of every last ounce of humanity's creative and intellectual body of work.

Wait until this guy finds out how many furries are in the Department of Defense.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

Tommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.

Not with *that* attitude!

callie@change.your.computers.sex

Humans are also made of meat. You can’t eat a transformer yet

Okay but why do this when there are so many better cheeses that are actually delicious and don't require having to trick people into eating them?

Excellent article. There really is no getting around that global beef production needs to decrease (both overall and per-capita), and while regenerative grazing is better than not doing that, most of its benefit is from reducing that production, not making current production somehow sustainable.

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social

The idea that "regenerative" grazing is a climate solution has really taken hold in some quarters. But the science is clear: It doesn't work. Methane and land-use emissions just overwhelm any soil carbon benefits. Here's a great piece by @nicholasdcarter.bsky.social drawdown.org/insights/eig...