IRL Stine
@smollusk.bsky.social
Jewish Autist, ttrpg amateur enthusiast, retro jrpg nerd, politically enraged
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IRL Stine
@smollusk.bsky.social
· Aug 13
Sorry not sorry
oh my god just fucking pay human beings
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.
n.pr
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
oh my god just fucking pay human beings
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An incident as related by a student:
I called Waymo support because the car was on the Muni tracks after getting clipped after trying to outrun a train and wouldn't move. I asked if there was anything I could do to move the car. They said no but would "push some code real quick".
I called Waymo support because the car was on the Muni tracks after getting clipped after trying to outrun a train and wouldn't move. I asked if there was anything I could do to move the car. They said no but would "push some code real quick".
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 9:25 PM
An incident as related by a student:
I called Waymo support because the car was on the Muni tracks after getting clipped after trying to outrun a train and wouldn't move. I asked if there was anything I could do to move the car. They said no but would "push some code real quick".
I called Waymo support because the car was on the Muni tracks after getting clipped after trying to outrun a train and wouldn't move. I asked if there was anything I could do to move the car. They said no but would "push some code real quick".
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This is also why several western states are the shapes they are - There was a fight prior to the Civil War where both pro- and anti-slavery sides were adding new states to the Union in equal numbers (to keep the Senate balanced), so sliced up territories to fit the compromise lines they'd made up.
The scars of slavery really are scarred into the very face of America isn't it
How the fuck did I not know this!
How the fuck did I not know this!
December 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is also why several western states are the shapes they are - There was a fight prior to the Civil War where both pro- and anti-slavery sides were adding new states to the Union in equal numbers (to keep the Senate balanced), so sliced up territories to fit the compromise lines they'd made up.
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Evergreen.
Also, does anyone else think the “polarization” discourse and the “median/undecided voter” discourse are logically incompatible? EITHER voters are in increasingly disjunct groups at the extremes of a range OR there’s a crucial swath of people up for grabs in the middle, but not both.
Also, does anyone else think the “polarization” discourse and the “median/undecided voter” discourse are logically incompatible? EITHER voters are in increasingly disjunct groups at the extremes of a range OR there’s a crucial swath of people up for grabs in the middle, but not both.
I don’t understand why so many Democrats seem convinced that they can win over Republican voters. Those voters like Republicans and vote for them because they like their wretched policies. They do not want the diet version
December 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Evergreen.
Also, does anyone else think the “polarization” discourse and the “median/undecided voter” discourse are logically incompatible? EITHER voters are in increasingly disjunct groups at the extremes of a range OR there’s a crucial swath of people up for grabs in the middle, but not both.
Also, does anyone else think the “polarization” discourse and the “median/undecided voter” discourse are logically incompatible? EITHER voters are in increasingly disjunct groups at the extremes of a range OR there’s a crucial swath of people up for grabs in the middle, but not both.
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transphobia is a luxury belief afforded to the affluent Very Online dipshits currently ruining our country and even your average bigot would rather vote on his pocketbook
you will not be punished for your moral clarity, so find some
you will not be punished for your moral clarity, so find some
December 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
transphobia is a luxury belief afforded to the affluent Very Online dipshits currently ruining our country and even your average bigot would rather vote on his pocketbook
you will not be punished for your moral clarity, so find some
you will not be punished for your moral clarity, so find some
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Transphobia is a luxury belief. Yes, ordinary people are often ambiently transphobic, but they have bigger things to worry about. The true believers are wealthy, powerful, influential, and face no real hardship that would force them to prioritize issues that affect them.
They genuinely don't have anything better to do. These are not people capable of great things. That she was so capable, that trans people can attain successes they must win with lies & slander, gnaws at them. Even when they win, for them it has no savor
Admiral Rachel Levine was the first transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate to serve in the federal government. Her official portrait at HHS headquarters has been altered. n.pr/48HypvT
December 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Transphobia is a luxury belief. Yes, ordinary people are often ambiently transphobic, but they have bigger things to worry about. The true believers are wealthy, powerful, influential, and face no real hardship that would force them to prioritize issues that affect them.
tomato tarts are so damn good but they're so much standing for food that always leaves me hunger. truly a dilemma.
December 7, 2025 at 6:26 AM
tomato tarts are so damn good but they're so much standing for food that always leaves me hunger. truly a dilemma.
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I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
December 6, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison
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Spring iz sprung, da grass iz riz/I wonder where dem boidies iz?/Da little boids is on da wing/ Ain’t dat absoid?/Da little wings iz on da boid
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Spring iz sprung, da grass iz riz/I wonder where dem boidies iz?/Da little boids is on da wing/ Ain’t dat absoid?/Da little wings iz on da boid
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Solo But Not Alone submissions are open, and will be until the Solstice!
What's SBNA?
Only the biggest solo gaming event of the year! Solo But Not Alone is a bundle of singleplayer-capable TTRPGs to benefit @takethis.org !
I am scrambling to write a solo game so I can have my own game in the bundle this year, but I believe!
Only the biggest solo gaming event of the year! Solo But Not Alone is a bundle of singleplayer-capable TTRPGs to benefit @takethis.org !
I am scrambling to write a solo game so I can have my own game in the bundle this year, but I believe!
December 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Solo But Not Alone submissions are open, and will be until the Solstice!
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As long as this massive tool is still in charge of that company I'm not playing that shitpile. Ian Proulx can suck a hot one.
December 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
As long as this massive tool is still in charge of that company I'm not playing that shitpile. Ian Proulx can suck a hot one.
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EMERGENCY
homeless disabled trans woman KICKED OUT temporary housing today because of a dispute with the landlord/host
I need 10 to oil up my car so I can sleep in it, if I get more maybe I can spring for a hotel.
I'm scared and can't stop crying.
ko-fi.com/shrikepublis...
$robinvbelle
homeless disabled trans woman KICKED OUT temporary housing today because of a dispute with the landlord/host
I need 10 to oil up my car so I can sleep in it, if I get more maybe I can spring for a hotel.
I'm scared and can't stop crying.
ko-fi.com/shrikepublis...
$robinvbelle
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
EMERGENCY
homeless disabled trans woman KICKED OUT temporary housing today because of a dispute with the landlord/host
I need 10 to oil up my car so I can sleep in it, if I get more maybe I can spring for a hotel.
I'm scared and can't stop crying.
ko-fi.com/shrikepublis...
$robinvbelle
homeless disabled trans woman KICKED OUT temporary housing today because of a dispute with the landlord/host
I need 10 to oil up my car so I can sleep in it, if I get more maybe I can spring for a hotel.
I'm scared and can't stop crying.
ko-fi.com/shrikepublis...
$robinvbelle
some unrepresentative OSR blogger: "we should split the hobby into RPGs and Storygames"
me: "tag is an RPG"
me: "tag is an RPG"
December 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
some unrepresentative OSR blogger: "we should split the hobby into RPGs and Storygames"
me: "tag is an RPG"
me: "tag is an RPG"
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This is the Quadro Tracker, a machine that was sold to cops and the military as a bomb/drug/contraband detector that worked by taking a picture of the thing you wanted it to find, inserting that picture into a slot, and then waving a divining rod around
![The FBI commissioned the FBI Laboratory's technicians and Sandia National Laboratories to examine the device. They found that the Quadro Tracker contained no electronics whatsoever. It was merely an empty plastic box in which the only metal parts were a couple of wires and the antenna, which were not connected to each other. The antenna was merely a transistor radio aerial.[4] Attorneys for Quadro Corp. later contended that the inductors and oscillators supposed to be inside the device "aren't the type usually thought of by electronics experts".[6] The "locator chip" was shown to be equally fake; one example put on display by the FBI contained dead ants that had been frozen and stuck onto paper with epoxy glue.[4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wfy4l5sl22lgb2lakf6kwqvw/bafkreifppvwls7shwcthyiri7vnzj2ljarq3ug7mf4snpp3iflw3qcctne@jpeg)
December 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is the Quadro Tracker, a machine that was sold to cops and the military as a bomb/drug/contraband detector that worked by taking a picture of the thing you wanted it to find, inserting that picture into a slot, and then waving a divining rod around
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(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
Scenes from a Hallmark Hanukkah Movie Written by Someone Who Has Definitely Met a Jew
EXT. SMALL TOWN BUS STOP – DAY (A beautiful woman with slightly wavy brown hair steps off a bus. She’s RACHEL, a corporate lawyer from The Big Cit...
buff.ly
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
(RACHEL walks past children playing. Her biological clock ticks. She’s thirty, almost dead.)
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
LITTLE GIRL: Are you excited for the County Hanukkah Fair?
RACHEL: Not really. I’m not super into Hanukkah.
I love my dogs but I don't "let them have my chicken skin" love my dogs
December 7, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I love my dogs but I don't "let them have my chicken skin" love my dogs
there's a lot going on here that's way worse, but the assertion that the sabbath is Sunday, in the context of a Jewish culture, is making my brain itch
Quite the shift from "I think if you do something bad you should die" immediately to "as they say in the Bible..."
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
there's a lot going on here that's way worse, but the assertion that the sabbath is Sunday, in the context of a Jewish culture, is making my brain itch
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call her charlie kirk the way she give neck
December 7, 2025 at 12:44 AM
call her charlie kirk the way she give neck
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Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
Tenured US professor fired over pro-Palestinian protests contests dismissal
Sang Hea Kil is first tenured faculty member fired from a public university in connection to the protests
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.
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It’s always worse than what you thought it was. Don’t sit comfortably with what you imagine is going on. It is always way worse.
You've seen the video of an 84-pound woman, a US citizen, being dragged out of her car and handcuffed by ICE/SS thugs. You've probably seen the total bullshit statement from ICE.
Here's the real story of what happened, and it's way worse than you thought it was.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Here's the real story of what happened, and it's way worse than you thought it was.
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
It’s always worse than what you thought it was. Don’t sit comfortably with what you imagine is going on. It is always way worse.
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The dog whistles are getting louder. We are days out from Gavin Newsom just going full anti-LGBTQ, dropping the mask entirely.
Culturally normal is a dog whistle.
Gavin Newsom Urges Democrats to Be ‘More Culturally Normal’
YouTube video by The New York Times
www.youtube.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The dog whistles are getting louder. We are days out from Gavin Newsom just going full anti-LGBTQ, dropping the mask entirely.
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I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has an implicit colonialism of patio furniture problem
December 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I’d never really experienced it much before but holy shit now I know what people mean when they say the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has an implicit colonialism of patio furniture problem
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Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
February 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:
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