Joe Crow
@joecrow.bsky.social
Artist, writer, anarchist, occultist, general weirdo. Everything I need to know about life I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains. (he/him)
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As a dev who's mostly done web and mobile, I'm constantly struck by how many careful and thoughtful standards for UX and accessibility have been rigorously applied to everything digital, and how all of those standards are instantly 100% discarded when ads become a factor.
It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.
December 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
As a dev who's mostly done web and mobile, I'm constantly struck by how many careful and thoughtful standards for UX and accessibility have been rigorously applied to everything digital, and how all of those standards are instantly 100% discarded when ads become a factor.
Ddddddddaaaaaaaammmmmnnnnn, son
December 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Ddddddddaaaaaaaammmmmnnnnn, son
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
I mean, @alexisflower.bsky.social is RIGHT FUCKING THERE, folks.
"people with renaissance-level art skills don't exist anymore" yes they do their username is something like 03748218_ and they spend all their time drawing pornography so deranged it'd kill hugh hefner a second time
December 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I mean, @alexisflower.bsky.social is RIGHT FUCKING THERE, folks.
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We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.
Hard same. I would watch that every day and twice on Sundays.
i might be generalizing unfairly from my dad but i think he'd genuinely set his schedule around watching an old man on the other side of the world earning the trust of a clever, resourceful bird and working a simple agricultural job alongside that bird
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Hard same. I would watch that every day and twice on Sundays.
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🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
December 12, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🚨URGENT: Congress prepares to push forward wolf slaughter bill that would remove federal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states and prohibit judicial review. Decision will be voted on Dec. 15 and could move to a House vote next week.
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
📣Take action: https://bit.ly/4adWexU
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while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House
support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
www.badinternetbills.com
support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
www.badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
while KOSA passed the subcommittee, there is still the full committee meeting it needs to go through before being voted on by the Senate/House
support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
www.badinternetbills.com
support is more split on it than you'd think, we just need to pull away enough votes to block it. CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
www.badinternetbills.com
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From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
“A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent allegedly used his gun and badge to force his way into hotel rooms and rob and sexually assault at least four prostitutes in Chicago’s suburbs in 2022, according to federal charges made public Tuesday.”
Border Patrol agent charged with robbing, raping women in Chicago suburbs in 2022
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
From 2005 to 2012, one CBP officer or agent was arrested for corruption, crimes, or misconduct EVERY SINGLE DAY. By 2019, it had slowed to just one every 35 hours. Still a huge problem:
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"Every movie is lit like a soap opera, with super-shallow depth of field and tons of CGI." OK, it's true that Jaws looks better than Dr Strange and the Multiwank of Mirrors. But Jaws is also better than that film in every other way.
December 12, 2025 at 9:28 AM
"Every movie is lit like a soap opera, with super-shallow depth of field and tons of CGI." OK, it's true that Jaws looks better than Dr Strange and the Multiwank of Mirrors. But Jaws is also better than that film in every other way.
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I just saw another "Why Modern Movies Look Bad" video, full of clips from Jurassic World and the MCU. Maybe people could try watching good films?
December 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM
I just saw another "Why Modern Movies Look Bad" video, full of clips from Jurassic World and the MCU. Maybe people could try watching good films?
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Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
www.badinternetbills.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Congress is trying to force through mass surveillance/censorship laws THIS WEEK
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
BOOST THIS EVERYWHERE before it’s too late. 👇
www.badinternetbills.com
Call and tell your rep:
—NO to KOSA
—NO to Section 230 reform
—NO online digital ID laws
—NO age verification laws
Dang!
I had the honor of making this painting for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein.
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Dang!
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"Our liberty is our neighbor’s liberty; our justice is our neighbor’s justice. Our choice is not due process for some or due process for all. Our choice is due process for all, or the boot."
just going to reiterate this.
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
if immigrants don't have due process, no one does. you can't tell citizens from immigrants without due process. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/if-immigra...
If Immigrants Don’t Have Due Process, No One Has Due Process
How do you prove you’re a citizen?
www.everythingishorrible.net
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Our liberty is our neighbor’s liberty; our justice is our neighbor’s justice. Our choice is not due process for some or due process for all. Our choice is due process for all, or the boot."
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KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through.
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
KOSA is back along with 17 other dangerous censorship and surveillance laws that congress is trying to ram through.
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
CALL UR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND TELL THEM
—no KOSA
—do not repeal Section 230
—no online digital ID laws
—no age verification laws
CALL NOW!!!! We are about to lose the internet
Obligatory manticore rebloggage
Fanart of one of my all time favourite Kly pieces
@klyart.bsky.social
@klyart.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Obligatory manticore rebloggage
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Omg not now, black fungus inside Chernobyl exclusion zone
December 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Omg not now, black fungus inside Chernobyl exclusion zone
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If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION.
If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.
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I do not want to hear someone say “they need to come in the right way” ever again. Never again, ever. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I do not want to hear someone say “they need to come in the right way” ever again. Never again, ever. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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1000000%
My hot comic take is all wfh comic shit should be paid a salary, every other week, like everyone else at the publishing company. I’m tired of hearing about our colleagues crowdfunding funerals and healthcare.
December 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
1000000%
As I recall, we hanged a few dudes for THIS EXACT FUCKING THING, back in the day.
Whether these men were on a list or not is irrelevant
THERE. IS. NO. JUSTIFICATION. FOR. KILLING. SHIPWRECKED. MEN.
THERE. IS. NO. JUSTIFICATION. FOR. KILLING. SHIPWRECKED. MEN.
He says the men they murdered are on a list.
Let’s see the list.
Let’s hear their names.
Show us the evidence.
If you have any.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Let’s see the list.
Let’s hear their names.
Show us the evidence.
If you have any.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
December 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
As I recall, we hanged a few dudes for THIS EXACT FUCKING THING, back in the day.
“Am gai/la fobh fearas feuchta”
“I am a spear/ that roars for blood”
That one actually lives rent free on my chest, where I had it tattooed about 13 years ago.
“I am a spear/ that roars for blood”
That one actually lives rent free on my chest, where I had it tattooed about 13 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Am gai/la fobh fearas feuchta”
“I am a spear/ that roars for blood”
That one actually lives rent free on my chest, where I had it tattooed about 13 years ago.
“I am a spear/ that roars for blood”
That one actually lives rent free on my chest, where I had it tattooed about 13 years ago.