Tobjorn
@torbjornr.bsky.social
Software Developer by day, anxiety developer by night. He/Him.
"It's OK, Zohran, say yes and move on, I'm not really hiding it anymore and we're having too much fun here..."
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
"It's OK, Zohran, say yes and move on, I'm not really hiding it anymore and we're having too much fun here..."
It's cool that the President of the United States is as trivially easy to drive to fawning sycophancy as to murderous anger, right? That emotional seesaw is... good for the nation, overall, correct?
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
It's cool that the President of the United States is as trivially easy to drive to fawning sycophancy as to murderous anger, right? That emotional seesaw is... good for the nation, overall, correct?
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this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 PM
this is your brain when your entire politics is just a set of aesthetics
Listen, these user-friendly sycophantic multipurpose LLM-company chatbots may be unreliable, have no concept of true or false nor right and wrong, be subject to gross manipulation, cause suicides, and have terrible economic and environmental impact, but at least they're also endangering non-users!
Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
This will get someone killed sooner or later.
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Listen, these user-friendly sycophantic multipurpose LLM-company chatbots may be unreliable, have no concept of true or false nor right and wrong, be subject to gross manipulation, cause suicides, and have terrible economic and environmental impact, but at least they're also endangering non-users!
One thing I think none of us were properly prepared for about late stage capitalism was how the most "powerful" people in the world would somehow also be the most shit-kickingly stupid insecure losers in the world at the same time.
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says
Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 11:14 PM
One thing I think none of us were properly prepared for about late stage capitalism was how the most "powerful" people in the world would somehow also be the most shit-kickingly stupid insecure losers in the world at the same time.
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> “The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
who is this legend
who is this legend
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
> “The first time I caught up to them, I could tell that they already knew who I was,” he told me when we first spoke on the phone in late October. “They had seen me before, so they thought they were just going to speed away. I was like, ‘Ha ha, bitches, I got a new scooter!’”
who is this legend
who is this legend
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Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊
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I think part of the reason non-monogamy is so prevalent in TTRPG spaces is once you have to regularly schedule five adults to be in the same room at the same time, the idea of working around multiple people's schedules where they don't all have to intersect is way less intimidating.
November 20, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I think part of the reason non-monogamy is so prevalent in TTRPG spaces is once you have to regularly schedule five adults to be in the same room at the same time, the idea of working around multiple people's schedules where they don't all have to intersect is way less intimidating.
Happy International Men's Day to all the guys who'll think they're oh-so-clever and edgy for performatively asking about it in March!
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Happy International Men's Day to all the guys who'll think they're oh-so-clever and edgy for performatively asking about it in March!
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when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
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I do think we’ll look back on this period of American history as producing - if not being exemplified by - several discrete, yet related (and maybe even mutually compounding) mass hysteriae.
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I do think we’ll look back on this period of American history as producing - if not being exemplified by - several discrete, yet related (and maybe even mutually compounding) mass hysteriae.
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Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Knowing the key to understanding right-wing politics in the US is understanding wrestling, they see government as kayfabe, I will ask my more wrestling-adjacent friends if this MTG/Trump break is a face turn by MTG (still a racist anti-semite, don't get me wrong) or a false break like Musk/Trump.
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this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
November 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc…
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work
2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst
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Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
November 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.
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I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
November 14, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.
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I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
A few weeks ago I was talking politics with a local, highly straight, bartender.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
All the sudden he said: “Well, I think a big part of the problem is that so many of the people who would’ve been our progressive leaders died of AIDS & can’t help us now.”
And I’ve thought about that every day since.
November 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I guess I wanted to point out this guy was very clearly straight because…I mean it’s just important for there to be straight white representation in the “seeing the world as it is, not assuming it’s a conspiracy against the dominant culture, & easily acknowledging the struggle” cinematic universe.
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
November 15, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Post your favorite Star Trek character(s). Wrong answers only.
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if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
November 15, 2025 at 1:59 AM
if we take it to be true that the tariffs are aimed at getting americans to buy US-made products, then what's the point of rolling them back when they become painful? the entire point is to cause financial pain to change consumer behavior. what's the strategy here?
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Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oreoboros
Man it's like the wealthy just lie to your face regularly to try to intimidate the working class into falling in line, knowing full well that none of their claims will actually hold water and minor gains from the working class won't really hurt them tangibly.
Weird.
Weird.
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
No one leaving New York City because of Mamdani, say two top real estate CEOs
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's democratic socialist views spark fears companies and capital will flee, but top real estate CEOs say it's not true.
cnb.cx
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Man it's like the wealthy just lie to your face regularly to try to intimidate the working class into falling in line, knowing full well that none of their claims will actually hold water and minor gains from the working class won't really hurt them tangibly.
Weird.
Weird.
Multiple Black Mirror episodes against this one, just ages of science fiction warnings about this particular Torment Nexus predating the horrifying subscription models of late capitalism, even...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
November 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Multiple Black Mirror episodes against this one, just ages of science fiction warnings about this particular Torment Nexus predating the horrifying subscription models of late capitalism, even...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
But to top it off, why are "future screens" always CLEAR? What a HORRIBLE idea that somehow won't die...
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crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
November 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
crazy
IG em_clarkson
IG em_clarkson
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and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"