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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 15h

Most charitable interpretation is they went "LOL ummm I think we understand how jet propulsion works at this point, do we really need a whole lab?"

Reuters @reuters.com · 18h

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers reut.rs/4302N2L

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to lay off about 550 workers

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Monday it will cut nearly 550 jobs as part of a restructuring, not related to the current U.S. government shutdown.

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 16h

Ok come on now

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

I can't believe anyone is trying the "using AI for art is just the same as hip-hop using samples" angle for even a second. It's like everyone was born yesterday every day

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

Almost cliched at this point but I definitely don't think American Christians believe a single word of the Bible

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

not a perfect analogy. they'd probably know I hadn't actually had it that long

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

Showing up to work in Sid Vicious's swastika tee with a post-it saying "I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE HITLER WENT CRAZY"

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

Essentially every car on the road in Portland is a Tesla but you're not allowed to be mad because they all have I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE ELON WENT CRAZY stickers

☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 17h

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 17h

Every "TRACK PACKAGE" button now just links to a frowny face saying "wogistics is hawd"

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 18h

Gotta just let "begs the question" go I think. That horse is out of the barn. Nobody is ever going to use it correctly

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Girl playing tuba right in another kid's face

Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Turned my phone's ringer on to wait for a call and accidentally turned all sounds back on and holy shit I was instantly reminded of why I'm on mute 99.9% of the time. It's like the fuckin Fred Willard player piano sketch from I Think You Should Leave. I got a notification that it turned 10AM

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 21h

Working on a bit now about what a shit deal the Vegetable Gremlin got. Sees all his pals get X-Men powers, so he grabs a test tube thinking "ooh maybe I'll get fire powers, nobody has that yet" and gets fuckin carrots for fingers

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Do regular conservatives who have jobs and stuff actually believe that Antifa has taken over an entire city like Bane and instructed all officials and police to lie about it, or are they all just laughing along with this administration

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

“I … met with the governor, met with the mayor, met with the chief of police, and the superintendent of the highway patrol. They’re all lying, and disingenuous, and dishonest people,” Noem said, because they wouldn’t back up her baseless claims that the streets were overrun with terrorists.

ICE Barbie Says an Entire State’s Worth of Officials Are “Lying”

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is convinced, against all evidence, that Portland is a war zone.

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder how much info Amazon is passing to the feds about people buying stuff like frog costumes, respirators, whistles etc

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 1d

And yeah like you pretty much said, today's average $100 CNC-milled no-name guitar blows the fuckin doors off a $1500 one from the 2000s

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 1d

The software too; you can do stuff on a laptop from the trash that was unthinkable 20 years ago, pro-level productions with free plugins. A Pro Tools license back in the day was like $1k and took special hardware, now Reaper is free/$60 and virtually any available audio interface sounds great

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 2d

I love Strike Anywhere and I'm not a tone snob but the guitars on their records always sound like they used amp sims from 2006 to me

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 2d

There was a recent study that says it's actually fine

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Just thought of it because baseball is on at this bar and the Detroit Tigers are playing

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

As much as RoboCop is a Detroit movie it feels weird to think "RoboCop takes place in Michigan"

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, reverse pink tax. This really is the uniform of today's progressive freedom fighters

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

"600 bought in last month"

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Spinning out into speculative ontologies like "OK, the rich realized that adding more zeros to infinity can't improve their lives any further, so they've landed on a relative privation model where instead of increasing their luxury they're increasing our suffering" but what do you do with that

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

Did some of Musk's people invent The Jaunt? Find a wormhole? They've been mumbling about going to Mars forever but as soon as Trump 2 started they suddenly act like they actually believe it

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Putting in Rush 2112 at office karaoke @goofoffartiste.bsky.social · 3d

I have to admit my normally pretty trusty "who benefits from this and how?" algorithm is kind of stalling out trying to find plausible explanations for why the ultrarich have started fully acting as though they won't have to keep living on this planet

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