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Creative Technologist & Animator/Dev in LA. Tabletop and Videogames, Weird Culture, He/Him. Operating at about 0.42 self-actualization. One half of Scuttlebutt: https://www.youtube.com/@scuttlebuttery
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I found the most incredible graph on the other site

Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!

If there's one feature I would like @bsky.app to offer it's to be able to apply image alt-text after publishing

It does feel like Trump panicked the markets with tariffs and then was surprisingly effective at pretending to pause the tariffs to calm the market while still basically keeping them

My daughter and I are playing through Split Fiction (amazing 2-player game from the It Takes Two folks) and it appears to be an entire thesis on how AI is the theft of art and ideas by greedy techbros

“The mentality of retaliation destroys states, while the mentality of tolerance builds nations.” - Nelson Mandela

Imagine the politics that’s downstream from this culture

So many girlfriends, from Canada, you wouldn’t know them

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

i said this before but this is basically a proxy war between 2 White House factions; one which is for 'smart trade'/trade primacists and the other is pro-autarky/protectionism

portfolio day

Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand. You can see before Trump posted "buy" on Truth Social, traders opened $QQQ $TQQQ and $SPY calls RIGHT BEFORE THE NEWS, someone opened $SPY 509 calls, expiring TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those calls are up 2100% in one hour.

This remains the consistent supplier of warm fuzzies in what has been an absolutely dire weekend for our country

it's really easy to make people like this totally spin out if you ask really basic questions like "what's the strategy then?" or "open my eyes to what?"

Now that we’re all discussing China and American Manufacturing, we should all probably get off our asses and watch this movie youtu.be/m36QeKOJ2Fc?...

Speedrunning towards holocaustism