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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · May 15

Say hi to Ralph again. Ralph is 5 years old. He has been reposted endlessly across reddit, facebook, twitter, and every memedump clickfarm you can imagine. He was made to inspire existential dread, but our empathy for him keeps him alive as we continue to bring Ralph into each others' minds.

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1h

The thing that keeps haunting me about those last three designations is that I know I've read more about every period of the first two centuries of US history than the stooges who wrote this, and yet my traditional American views would be deemed subversive by these autocrats.

onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1h

Honestly Brannigan would be a step up from the current SecDef

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 3h

I can tell Bluesky's old ways are dying cause people actually ratio'd that "ratio me it's a badge of honor" post instead of blocking and moving on. I decided to repost one reply to join in on the merriment but that didn't effect her ratio and I blocked her right after.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 11h

The "you wouldn't download a car" screen but it reads "you wouldn't scrape all the art ever made and use it to create an Anime titty generator"

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Jen @jenelaina.bsky.social · 8h

lauren

@NotABigJerk

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i'm not falling for that hot take. that's clearly someone with a fetish for getting yelled at. i refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 6h

I switched to Ubuntu last year in response to Copilot and in the year since I have learned to really dislike using Linux but as long as MS is doing shit like this there isn't a viable alternative.

(Mac folks you're valid but it's not for me)

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 13h

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 6h

*yes I know the history of SF/F cons and the roots in the Sherlock Holmes fandom but when the internet entered the equation the attendance numbers started spiking and the culture of the online spaces that brought those people in reshaped what cons have been like ever since.

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 6h

5 childhood defining events

- the US invasion of Iraq
- the development of internet culture (Newgrounds, early YouTube, the rise of fandcom cons*)
- same sex marriage victories (MA, Hawaii, California pre-Prop 8)
- High School Musical 2
- the '08 crash

Started bad, got pretty good, ended terribly.

Tom Ewing @tomewing.bsky.social · 9h

5 childhood defining events

- Thatcherism/privatisation (direct effect on my family)*
- British home computer boom
- HIV/AIDS epidemic
- Ethiopian famine/Band Aid
- Fall Of The Berlin Wall**

*Falklands War/Miners Strike are downstream from "Thatcher in general" I guess

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 9h

5 events that defined your childhood?
- HIV & queerphobia & public health response
- Clinton & childhood insight that he was shitty
- MTV's influence on music access (especially things like Headbanger's Ball, Yo Mtv Raps & Nirvana)
- "end" of the Soviet Union
- home computers (internet was later)

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 11h

Ready to feel old? When Alexander of Macedon gazed upon the Great Pyramid in Giza he was closer in time to its construction than we are to him today! Only 490s kids will remember.

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Cris (without an H) @ambignostic.bsky.social · 12h

“If we do what is necessary to destroy trumpism we will become just like them” yeah I hate that too. I’m afraid the “necessary” part is what matters though

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 12h

Ruin a classic movie by casting Jared Leto as a character.

A Hard Day's Night: Paul's grandfather

รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️‍🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 22h

ruin a classic movie by casting jared leto as a character.

the lord of the rings trilogy: samwise gamgee

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · 1d

yeah so now they extremely literally produced a scene in which ICE refuses to let literal jesus' literal holy presence into their facility. i cannot emphasize enough how non-metaphoric the RCC is about this.

powerful messages being sent here

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 1d

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1d

Me: "Is that the 8chan guy?"
*One DuckDuckGo search later*
Me: "Not very far away from it..."

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 5d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1d

This made me tear up a bit. Rivera's been on my mind a lot lately cause she had a strong affinity with Saint Barbara, a figure that I've also been gravitating towards lately, and it's so nice to see a major party nominee for mayor platforming her legacy like this.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, you, the person who keeps seeing articles about a news thing that's triggering your PTSD but won't mute it cause "its important that I don't look away" - go ahead and mute it. Your trauma response shows you will never look away even when its out of your timeline. Save yourself the stress.

Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 1d

A whole swath of folks went through that yesterday cause The Onion was feeling mean.

The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Paul McCartney Now Openly Referring To Self As ‘Last-Living Beatle’

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 1d

salmonmaxxing

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah the style parodies are where you get to hear the real musicianship that sets him apart from other comedy-music acts. Also shines through in the polka medleys - his 45 second reinterpretation of "Last Night" here is incredible youtu.be/khdLj9CftTI?...

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Angry White Boy Polka (HQ Audio flash version)

YouTube video by Mr Needs

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 2d

okay so if Pepe is chaotic evil and Portland frog is chaotic good, where are our other frogs

Kermit is lawful good obviously

I think Frog and Toad are true neutral. they do them and that’s it

Michigan J. Frog is chaotic neutral

Tiana, Naveen and Keroppi I’m uncertain

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah Al's style parodies can be pretty hit or miss but he's got an ability to mirror an artist's process even when he doesn't engage with the meaning of their work. See also his magnificent parody of Dylan (who also had a million parodies that missed the mark).

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Bob (Official Video)

YouTube video by alyankovicVEVO

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Folk Puritan Mary Jane Watson @bettybitter.bsky.social · 2d

Battletoads are Lawful Neutral