over the course of Discworld, Terry took aim at nearly everything and everyone, but I think Small Gods is his sharpest and angriest satire and there's a reason it's one of my recommended starting points
Screenshot of a Tweet by @TheChiefNerd inclusing an interview with Sam Altman. The text in the Tweet says: SAM ALTMAN: βWe see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter.β
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
Biden really did back a genocide to the hilt, both at its beginning and through its period of greatest violence. I sympathize with anyone who finds it difficult to look that in the face, believe me, I voted for the guy and celebrated when he was elected. But pretending it didnβt happen is dishonest.
my biggest pet peeve is probably annihilative thermonuclear war iibh
At least those air force crewmen aboard the KC135 died in the cause of sub bowling alley level animations in some epic posts, just as they would have wanted im sure
Supporting genocide just to own the left
A comic with two panels. Top: ditto wearing a tie and looking at graphs on a computer titled "I'm tired of looking at the bad lightscreen" Bottom: Ditto playing pokopia on a TV and smiling. "I'm want to go home & look at the good screen" Trxyland signature
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a customer i've been working with for a year asked me today, "this is going to be your first mother's day, right?"
me, very confused, "oh! ha! i've got some adorable nephews.... and she goes, "i thought you went out on mat leave last year."
SHE THOUGHT MY BOTTOM SURGERY WAS MAT LEAVE LMAO
mfs gonna turn me into someone who reads the entire New Testament just to go ape on their asses without getting put in a straitjacket
An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable
I think I may have cracked it
'We are subjugating the women and you can just take one look at me to understand why.'
you know this. the men with the money who are causing the collective psychosis are predators first and last (google "Sam Altman sister" for more). The collective actions of capitalists are worse than the human side of each capitalist. Watch Network, and cry at how much worse things are now.
"I don't understand what you mean. The cops haven't come after me. What were they wearing?"
@bitdizzy.bsky.social @nacl.sh @goose.ski Ed Zitron is going full historical materialist, rofl
"[T]he past isnβt that useful, and itβs only useful if youβre capable of evaluating it critically, skeptically, and making sure that itβs actually the same rather than it feeling like it is."
this idea that victims can never heal is the thing that keeps so many predators protected
Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers. Quote Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville · 4h The enemy is inside the gates. x.com/EndWokeness/st⦠12:50 PM · Mar 12, 2026 · 82.6K Views
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(Liberal) No, I'm glad the Real is reasserting itself over the Hyperreal, really. I just didn't expect it to be Shi'a is all.
my reactionary thoughts regarding non-Muslims appropriating words like 'jihad' are not feeling very good about themselves in the face of recent events
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the heaviness of just literally the term 'Zionism' as in that it refers to a specific place is making me ill
Judaism predates capitalism but holy shit Israel mostly colonialist DNA
we need to talk about the actual rhetorical underpinning: "wouldn't u ethnic cleanse for your fam for your community"
at first glance i want to call this extreme, but in the context of what will actually happen in geopolitics if this sentiment became popular, it's actually good strategy. it's not like JDPON is real
The image is a six panel black and white comic. Panel 1- A person stands, back to us. Someone off screen yells, "TEACHER!!" Panel 2- A kid behind the teacher points off screen, saying, "Kevin threw a rock at my head!" Panel 3- The teacher bends down to talk to the child, saying, "Aw, he's just doing that because he likes you!" Panel 4- The kid once again points off screen, bewildered, saying "But he- Wh-" Panel 5- The child stares at the teach in silence. Panel 6- The child, now completely flabbergasted, says "That is insane."
Sorry for being a bitch, I havenβt had a normal conversation with a stranger in ten years on account of being a girl with a dick
although i think more even than the over reliance on fancy equipment, what costs america most in the wars it has waged since WWII is that it isnβt actually fighting for anything real, while the people it ends up fighting against *are* β their homes, their families, their ways of life, their freedom.
very plausible, I lived as Dorothea Brooke for about 9 years
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nah, my family life is complicated (biracial, I'm an octoroon) and I'm riding high after my boss directly complimented my professional efforts at sanity 14 years after an extended psychiatric hospitalization and subsequent schizophrenia diagnosis, all love
but I do sit at bitdizzy's lunch table
i am cursed with ambition and play MTGO with dreams of going pro some day
otherwise i would play Shenzhen I/O or read a damn book
but what's important is that I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and people like me
for me, posting is mutilationplay for the english language, beautiful snuffbait words and clauses sliced and diced for my pleasure
