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James Endicott

James Endicott

@o76923.bsky.social

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Arknights player. Anime enjoyer. Furry. Waster of my masters degrees. @[email protected]

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James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · Oct 19

I also make a bunch of bespoke (for lack of a better term) neomoji. Haven't quite gotten around to releasing a full set yet but I have contributed to neogob and neobot.

Neocat striped in the colors of the plural pride flag. Instead of normal fur, you can see it is made up of numerous smaller neocats.

A neofox made up to look like Fenneko from Aggretsuko. She is holding up a pink heart.

Two neogobs celebrating the younger one getting its first lighter.

The larger one in the back is a mushroom caster. It has a yellow right eye and an orange left eye, each has a rounded slightly misshapen plus sign for pupils. There is a teal mass of mushroom growing on the tip of its left ear. It has a wide open smile cheering where snaggleteeth are visible on the left side.

The smaller one in the front has legs instead of being a round blob like they usually are. Its eyes are transfixed on the flame from the lighter it is holding. They have darker splotches of green concentrated on but not exclusive to one of their legs. There is a teal film spreading from the right ear similar to the bigger neogob but lighter in color and no texture. They are smiling with one snaggletooth visible.

A green neoslime with a small neobot floating around inside of it.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 53m

Newsom's favorability is 21 approve-40 disapprove. There are approximately 50 million Democratic voters who would be starting at a better point than him.

I may not vote for them but Pritzker and Beshear are at least not severely underwater despite 80% recognition so no one is left to win over.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1h

Motor vehicle deaths in the US are slightly over 1.1 per 100 million miles driven. For every fatal car crash, 199 non-fatal ones are bad enough to get reported. That's roughly 1 per 500 thousand miles.

Unless the average trip length of a tesla taxi is 50 miles, he's proposing a huge increase.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1h

Shooting yourself in the foot by picking awful people like Newsom (no e), Shapiro, or Buttigieg is one of the big reasons Democrats lose. You can't back an unlikable institutionalist with no spine and connections to the right then expect to win in this environment.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 1h

I have a Heph with multistrike that I've been planning to put siren on but now I pulled an eel gorgon. The question is, who do I put on whom? Eel gorgon gaining +30/+30 probably averages to +150 per turn. Heph would only get +50 but hers is a lot more stable, can't be wasted, and might get quick.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

If Gavin Newsom runs, he'll loose anyway. If you don't want a Vance presidency, nominate someone better.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

Of all the things you could pick to care about, this is the one that's good enough? Your litmus test is whether they will spend tax dollars making the president's house less tacky?

The symbol of America needs to look more like it did when slaves built it.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

I'd argue we forgot how to do capitalism too. PE and vulture capital aren't actually good capitalism.

Hell, even the regulatory arbitrage behind most of Silicon Valley's bullshit is bad capitalism. It's jumping out of a local optimum to reach a short term gain/long term loss thing.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

There are some Uyghurs who might object to that characterization (among others).

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

My first impression is that these numbers indicate the actual value of Bluesky is the userbase that rejected Twitter but didn't migrate to Threads.

The protocol doesn't matter.

Threads' problem is that people check it occasionally but don't get hooked. Probably why it's low priority for Facebook.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah. It's certainly a 🚩 that they have something that successful but don't care about it enough to put staff on it to fix it.

Then again, nobody ever accused Zuckerberg of being good at business.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 2h

The numbers are from Similarweb. The guy in charge only cited that topline figure because daily active users are a very different story. It's 7M on Threads to ~100M on Twitter.

So it seems you can't cook your brain getting hooked to Threads the way microblogging is supposed to cause addiction.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, I can view Threads posts from my home instance last time I checked (we really ought to be blocked by now though). I doubt it works in the other direction or will any time soon. But it's still more than nothing.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for the suggestion but I'm not really worried about AtProto. I'm just thinking about the implications of it failing so thoroughly.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 3h

Threads has over 400M monthly active users. Twitter is under 550M. It's possible that, excluding bots, Threads is bigger.

Bluesky is at 5M. Since Threads uses ActivityPub, that's not great for AtProto. It's a small incompatible niche service.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 5h

Does anyone have suggestions for a PC repair place in the Madison, WI area?

I can't tell if my desktop's mobo is fried, the PSU is dying, there's a short somewhere, or if it's just a loose wire. I'd like to take it in somewhere but don't know who to trust around here.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 5h

This isn't to dismiss how many shitty leftists there are who are also racist, misogynist, and homophobic. That's also a real problem that needs to be addressed. But we can't ignore the other half of the problem is Bernie's tent attracting so many right wingers.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 5h

An often overlooked part of this problem is that Bernie attracted a lot of cross party support. Anti-corpo Republicans are a big faction within the Republican party. Some of them felt neglected because the party is pro-corpo so Bernie was appealing. They kept their racism, misogyny, and homophobia.

Save PBS, NPR!!! @theelites.bsky.social · 1d

There is a white male to Bernie Sanders to far right pipeline, that needs to be explored.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 5h

And historically, we've had a lot of problems with this as leftists. Leftist movements around the world and over time have struggled to accept Black people and women. Even the "good" ones are frequently plagued by it.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 5h

Red-Brown alliances were mostly a myth made up to fight communism. Then a bunch of dipshits got suckered into it online with "No war but class war" bullshit. Now it's a thing we all need to be hypervigilant about lest left populism become right populism.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

He was later called before their legislature to testify about the bill. Apparently the guy who tasked him with writing the bill didn't understand what my dad's job was to serve the legislature, not individual legislators. He tore it to shreds, much to the surprise of the people asking questions.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

Apparently, when my dad was Legislative Counsel to the North Dakota legislature, one of the members tasked him with writing a bill that family members would have to pay the cost of incarceration because the state shouldn't be forced to shoulder that burden.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

There are way too many deeply racist people on the left. "no war but class war" is a flag as red as a MAGA hat.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

It comes with benefits like all your plug-ins work and it's easy to migrate between them but it comes at the cost of Google doing evil with it.

There are very few alternatives to Chromium since Opera and Internet Explorer both switched to using it. Firefox and Safari are the big ones.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

Chromium is the underlying technology made by Google to make their Chrome browser. It's the open source parts so others are free to make and modify copies of it but Google still has complete control over the fundamentals. So when they decide to kill ad blockers or reduce privacy, Chromium does too.

James Endicott @o76923.bsky.social · 7h

Vathlo Island is that, kinda. It's like the Kryptonian Wakanda. They have more advanced technology than the rest of Krypton but are insular and choose not to travel to space.

Fun fact: at one point, Kandor was a Vatholan city. Brainiac wanted the most advanced city so of course it's Vatholan.