Recent posts by Digital Dissenters on Bluesky

I’m going to make myself some poutine.

I don't know of Whitaker will necessarily look like a "traitor" but the failure trajectory is baked in at this point so you might look stupid

@masnick.com I used to think you were okay. Now I can just imagine you yelling at me that I need to be more accepting of AI wankers when all I wanted was to hang with my friends. Why do you get to say what I’m forced to be an audience to in the name of growth? Get off of my cloud, dude.

Bari and Bagels Bilton might end up hiriing this guy indepthnh.org/2026/05/12/n...

Olivia Miles is just built different defector.com/were-still-l...

Today @masmus.bsky.social very kindly and patiently explained The Troubles to me and this is maybe the second most befuddled I’ve ever been by a geography fact, after learning that there’s actually Only One Kansas City.

I found the used kimono holy land today, but am glad I bought an old, wrinkled one from a little grandma, instead.

As if he wasn’t furiously signaling enough his pick-me desire to be embraced by the radical transphobe crowd, Calkins actually goes out of this way to insert a Harry Potter quote in this

Not clear what's going on. The brand is owned by Kenvue, Inc.

“A Christian devotional relationship” youtu.be/2lqlpC6iT30?...

A Masked Man Was Scaring Philadelphians. Then He Picked the Wrong Woman. By Sopan Deb When Jameka Wilson encountered a man wearing a Chucky-style Halloween mask, her stage combat training kicked in. Now she’s a minor local celebrity.

ban this entire industry

you know trump absolutely did not read these

A bunch of admins bought into this trash without doing due diligence and now they're making it everyone else's problem. Shameful.

If you haven’t seen it, you should.

birthday's coming up. thinking i might be old enough to call literally everyone "kid"!

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this is kind of like the opposite of how i felt in mid-november 2024, where i'd wake up all groggy and be like "uh buhbuh, ho hum another day....OHH, FUCK!"

I think it’s perfect that our soggy brained diaper president’s closest aide and confidante is a googly eyed bunny boiler who single white femaled his own daughter’s whole vibe to make herself attractive to him. Nothing more befits the dignity of the office.

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PA leader enlists Turkey’s Erdogan to appeal to ‘good friend’ Trump on his behalf; UN official to ToI: We hope US will honor host country obligation to let in General Assembly speakers www.timesofisrael.com/us-plans-to-...

Please get the hell off Substack.

Bunnie XO is loving being single, describing her DMs as a ‘boy buffet.’

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 20,1957

I’ll be honest, the aspects of my life that needs improving are markedly not the services the likes of OpenAI offer. Lemme know when this thing can potty train my kids, make salads safe to eat, fix my dad’s insomnia, hell maybe just get the stains out of the guest bathroom tub

Nathan Cofnas, the academic who made plagiarism allegations against Prof Jason Arday before his death, has been suspended by Ghent University.

it is sad that this place has such a reputation for being anti-AI. sure there are a bunch of viral anti-AI memes, but they're all AI-generated

You should be able to get fast food eel in America.

Every single piece of clothes in the baby’s laundry basket is stained pink with watermelon juice lol

The one on the right for me, obviously. I hope the elementary school kiddie wins the "I Voted" sticker contest for Kentucky.

All of the LLMs stole from me. Most of the big "A.i." billionaires are horrifying right wingers. Consumer-facing generative "A.i." "writing" and "art" tools deskill people, cheat kids out of real education, spread falsehoods and disinfo, and violate privacy. So no, I ain't using that shit.

ready for the scene with the bunny and the stock pot

Context: Australia (See the ending of the web address? "au")

I see it's the Day of Low-Priority Follows and Mutuals Internecine Cannibalism. Okay, I guess. Do your weird "I say dumb stuff, not really sorry" fake humility thing if that's what does it for you.

i mean I MEAN "forgive me they were delicious" isn't an APOLOGY - it's a demand of emotional work on MY end to FORGIVE his ass and then "so sweet and so cold" is just RUBBING IT IN WCW is not a man who is sorry

Reform is doable but it can be a real slog.

He who controls the spreadsheets controls the people!

“It is I who is unworthy.” Lord a mercy.

Regarding the Bass-Raman stuff, just a reminder that since june 2025 federal and local cops and deputies have brutalized anti ICE protesters and people at peaceful rallies dozens of times WITHIN EYESHOT OF CITY HALL. LITERALLY LESS THAN HALF A MILE AWAY OR RIGHT OUTSIDE!

This is your brain on Christian Evangelicalism. That’s it. “Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life”

"Mr. Vice President, Mr. Secretary, the missiles are flying. Hallelujah. Hallelujah."

Okay a few things. 1) homeless Angelenos are still Angelenos, your neighbors and constituents. 2) i have never seen a taco stand deter restaurant business. 3) tacos stands rule. 4) dont demonize vendors or unhoused people

No lie, detected, here. And, nobody likes Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz doesn’t like Ted Cruz. #txlege

I can see it.

Trying to get Gemini to fill out a mileage spreadsheet based on simple commands and it can't calculate the distance between two given addresses in this context. The little "I'm trying" text stream it spits out even says it'll try then it just doesn't.

We know this much: Natalie Harp is not a spreadsheets person

Calling the newspaper when one of the other hogs jostled me away from my rightful position at mother's teat.

mom’s dogs say hi

"Thank you for being my Guardian and Protector in this Life" is some real cult stuff, though I guess the other staffers don't like one of the cult members actually hanging out all day.

"more people would use this site if it wasn't so AI-critical but also people are AI-critical of me so not those people"

“Respectable outlets that would never print a race scientist, perish the thought, took the racist premise of hereditarianism—barely scrubbed of its stench—and ran it in the pretense of due diligence. They laundered it and executed it.“

my name is greg pak and i rock the wok

Sounds like I missed a real cool topic today. (While I was out having a nice time with friends to be clear.)

can you imagine if Katie Wilson just up and said "Pike Place Market is overrated actually". But also, Ken Sim is exactly like this. He's a crypto bro dingdong who could be the failmayor of any random city.

Who is making the GIF, please?

“It is I who is unworthy”

The fish rots from the head.

Never forget the victims of Ghouta. 🇸🇾💛 Don’t suffocate the truth. Justice must come. 🧵

The flight deck is strictly restricted to essential flight ops personnel, 70% to 80% of the crew work entirely below deck. These sailors can go weeks or even months without seeing natural sunlight while on these extended deployments. That’ll do it, alright. www.wunc.org/2026-08-13/l...

still furious about the plums tbh

spreadsheet people in the sheets, spreadstreet people in the streets

Choose 1: Take on a flooring job or enjoy squatting and deadlifting. Woof.

could have had a sad bagel for dinner but remembered i had some pork belly in the freezer so

A friend sent this video a neighbor took of a tornado on Long Island.

Major progress has been made in talks with a pair of Israeli banks to push off imminent plans to cease providing correspondent banking services to Palestinian counterparts, which could collapse West Bank economy @jacobmagid.bsky.social www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

“That the clinging of the church bells blew far into the breeze Leaving only bells of lightning and its thunder Striking for the gentle, striking for the kind Striking for the guardians and protectors of the mind”

“the vibes are bad” “we must learn to accurately measure vibes at scale”

“We entered into this Trumpian bulls–tocracy bc we stopped giving proper value to the character of our leaders, and like a virulent epidemic, the flaws of those we elevated then spread so rapidly that they now threaten the very life of our republic. That’s no exaggeration.” ‼️

If @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social is your rep, please give her a call!

I’ve been mostly offline because of work travel and it’s been pretty great but there’s a little bit of me that’s relieved when I drop back in here and see the usual level of unhinged drama over trivialities. A nice warm blanket of familiarity and predictability in a cold, cold world.

You might not believe it, but, truth, can set us free. “The only path out is that each of us, individually, makes seeking the truth our top priority, and skepticism our constant ally. We must seek out reliable sources of info and reject those who deliver anything less.” @djrothkopf.bsky.social

that’s like the mayor of Rio bashing Carnival

State Sen. Aisha Wahab will win California's 14th District special runoff election, CNN's Decision Desk projects, setting the progressive Democrat up to serve the rest of former Rep. Eric Swalwell's term. www.cnn.com/2026/08/20/p...

lol

When a drone strike closed an airport, a writer was forced to make his way home from Saudi Arabia. Along the road, perceptions of the conflict and its politics varied widely Anonymous The author is a Kuwaiti writer who requested anonymity newlinesmag.com/first-person...

karen bass bb whatchu doing

Thank you for rejecting Bichotte Hermelyn's undemocratic power grab, @jumaane.bsky.social and @newyorkstateag.bsky.social. @agounardes.bsky.social also shared and supported this on X. I'll add to this thread as more New York electeds speak out against Bichotte Hermelyn's plan!

Doris Miller was raised on a farm outside Waco. During the attack on Pearl Harbor, as the military was still segregated, he was a mess attendant assigned to laundry duty. When the attack happened, without any gun training, he shot down Japanese planes and carried his commander to safety.

A demented person in Idaho* is defending Charles Manson. Please do not engage with her. Blockity block block. *First sentence of her bio. I'm not singling out Idaho. It singles itself out.

"It’s long overdue for Post-Incarceration Syndrome to be classified as a distinct psychiatric disorder, deserving of compassion and treatment." Story via Inquest.

I’m having fun writing about Greenland

Living in blissful peace not knowning anything about Spreadsheet Wars

"I write, listening to one of my fantasy shows in the background, and smile. It’s in this moment, this little thing, as my pen creates a new realm, that my world grows."

The thing I don’t get about this whole “learn AI or you’ll be left behind” is most LLMs don’t seem particularly complex to navigate. This isn’t learning Excel. Get on or get left behind” feels less threatening when the people I know on the train don’t know how to attach a pdf to their emails.

Random photos from last night's walk to the train station

This is beyond disgusting. If you're a Democrat in Brooklyn, PLEASE call your D electeds and tell them to publicly speak out against Bichotte Hermelyn's anti-democratic power grab. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

The scandal-ridden Brooklyn Democratic Party is trying to make June's regime-changing elections meaningless. hellgatenyc.com/rodneyse-bic...

Thanks LinkedIn, but I have found I when I lead with curveballs it makes the interview more fun.

So you're saying he fucked a monkey

Found this picture D took recently of me taking my little nephew climbing and it's a bit...Renaissance?

Karen Bass is trying to win over the Republican voters of Orange County

My only complaint about The End Of Oak Street is that no one asked “why do they have feathers???”

Is there any dating app that has successfully steered out of this particular vortex?

Doris Miller is a war hero who deserves the Medal of Honor. One of the best people to name a major ship after. This would be a giant about face

Logging off for the rest of the day. Possibly also a lot of tomorrow as well. (Deadlines!) If you respond to something I wrote, I'll get to it when I get back.

“You can use an LLM to do your research for you!” You want me to delegate the thing I do as an excuse not to write?!?

The scandal-ridden Brooklyn Democratic Party is trying to make June's regime-changing elections meaningless. hellgatenyc.com/rodneyse-bic...

"A canvasser for Susan Collins threatened to call ICE on me." #Maine