Profile avatar
kblaes.bsky.social
56 posts 48 followers 262 following
Prolific Poster
Conversation Starter

Note to self, the cooking cutscene in Wilds does not protect you from aggroing monsters.

🍇

when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic

Well, that's a ruling. Get out there and do it.

late new year’s resolution be more like this nun

Per last week's thread about the pedigree of the Egg McMuffin (it's parents were the need for a convenient breakfast menu, and the idea of Eggs Benedict) I have successfully made a Hollandaise spread that tastes exactly like Hollandaise without being runny.

listen, i do not like total war. but they have declared total war *on us* because they think there will not be consequences. all of these people are listed and have public names. you can shame them and their friends and their families and their children.

me in 2077: what people forget is that there were a half dozen plane crashes each month before the Great AI Plane Skyfall of 2025 grandson: wow so everybody thought AI was going to fix all of that? me: haha what? oh. no. not even kind of. No

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

The model here is not a single coherent agenda insidiously making its way through policy, but a five-team game of 43-man squamish, played on an irregular polygonal field, where each team is trying to grab the Resolute Desk and move it slightly closer to one of 20 baskets, sometimes by accident.

Why the fuck was this a thing in the first place?

These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.

You've seen longcat, now see tallcat.

this is making the rounds on facebook so i thought id bring it here for u m'lord

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

This was me and the little guy who changed my life. I stopped using TikTok after he died but I can’t say I don’t still miss it.

all the comments on this comic in 2021 were just "yup that's ADHD." 2 years later i got diagnosed with ADHD.

Found elsewhere:

I knew Jimmy Carter died today but I didn't realize it was in a shootout with the feds

Resignation of the Journal of Human Evolution Editorial Board: We are saddened to announce the resignations of The Joint Editors-in-Chief, all Emeritus Editors retired or active in the field, and all but one Associate Editor. Press release below.

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

Explain this, humankind

Constantly thinking of this Marilyn Frye quote From @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s newsletter www.usermag.co/p/tiktok-is-...

DAD

Unfortunate, but necessary information

Grandma got run over by a reindeer, for real this time.

This is exactly the cyberpunk I expected.

In Soviet Cyberpunk, robot dogs don't snitch

Intelligence and national security experts I've spoken to over the years regularly say the same thing. North America has a *homegrown* extremism issue, and outside forces like Russia exploit and exacerbate these existing divisions rather than creating them in the first place.

I will say as a Jew and a rabbi that this is a profound desecration of the holy and of history. On top of all the other atrocities and harms.

D&D Combinatorics xkcd.com/3015