Beta
@betapositive.bsky.social
Scientist, chinchilla enthusiast, anarchist, occasional activist. Bitter old man (39).
Free Palestine.
All nations are acts of aggression against their own people.
Free Palestine.
All nations are acts of aggression against their own people.
They ran out of ways to make money selling actual products to ordinary people a decade ago.
WAPO jumps into the circular-revenue graphic game.
@washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA
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@washingtonpost.com $ORCL $NVDA
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
November 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
They ran out of ways to make money selling actual products to ordinary people a decade ago.
I feel like it takes more than two insane clowns to make a posse
November 22, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I feel like it takes more than two insane clowns to make a posse
We allow landlords to service the mortgage on a property by renting it out. So yeah, this is going to happen.
We're quoted in this piece over at The Hub - Housing starts set to hit 30-year low for Canadian homeowners as rentals hit record high in 2025: CMHC
Read here:
Read here:
Housing starts set to hit 30-year low for Canadian homeowners as rentals hit record high in 2025: CMHC
New rental units are more than doubling new houses being built in Canada
thehub.ca
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We allow landlords to service the mortgage on a property by renting it out. So yeah, this is going to happen.
The Thing
Big Trouble in Little China
Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
There are PAINFUL cuts to this list.
Big Trouble in Little China
Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
There are PAINFUL cuts to this list.
Name your top 4 80s films.
November 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Thing
Big Trouble in Little China
Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
There are PAINFUL cuts to this list.
Big Trouble in Little China
Return of the Living Dead
Re-Animator
There are PAINFUL cuts to this list.
You mean to tell me Jeffrey Epstein ran his pedohpile island off a fucking gmail account?
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
You mean to tell me Jeffrey Epstein ran his pedohpile island off a fucking gmail account?
The best is that if you work on a computer as part of your job, odds are your IT department won't allow you this level of access but will happily let Microsoft's chatbot run wild on your actual work.
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The best is that if you work on a computer as part of your job, odds are your IT department won't allow you this level of access but will happily let Microsoft's chatbot run wild on your actual work.
We don't take these seriously enough. Boris Johnson killed an order of magnitude more people than 9/11.
The one thing the useless incompetent Boris Johnson clung on to for his failed premiership was the UK’s Covid response. Turns out he killed 20,000 people.
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We don't take these seriously enough. Boris Johnson killed an order of magnitude more people than 9/11.
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show us the meaning of haste
November 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
show us the meaning of haste
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don't worry there's no way any goblin-eating monsters could possibly live in this ravine
November 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
don't worry there's no way any goblin-eating monsters could possibly live in this ravine
I do like how Enterprise let Archer go get in fights like Kirk, but they did go a bit too far with him getting hurt (see also Worf) so it ends up having the effect of Archer being cool with throwing hands, but not being very good at it
November 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I do like how Enterprise let Archer go get in fights like Kirk, but they did go a bit too far with him getting hurt (see also Worf) so it ends up having the effect of Archer being cool with throwing hands, but not being very good at it
Some guy: How do you even make a movie out of Wile E Coyote?
Me:
Me:
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Some guy: How do you even make a movie out of Wile E Coyote?
Me:
Me:
I work in the regulatory side of a massive research firm whose main recordkeeping method appears to be oral tradition. Just in case you wondered how my day was going.
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I work in the regulatory side of a massive research firm whose main recordkeeping method appears to be oral tradition. Just in case you wondered how my day was going.
You mean all this time Jeffrey Epstein has a brother who was in the know and NONE of the media went and asked him?
Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton
Jefrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton
Mark Epstein wanted to ensure that “speculation does not unfairly implicate people who are not actually being referenced in those communications,” he said in a statement to The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You mean all this time Jeffrey Epstein has a brother who was in the know and NONE of the media went and asked him?
What are your top 5 movie genres?
The influential film nobody has seen
The classic people think they know but don't
The remake nobody knows is a remake
The one that has actors who are way too good for the film they're in
Horror
The influential film nobody has seen
The classic people think they know but don't
The remake nobody knows is a remake
The one that has actors who are way too good for the film they're in
Horror
What are your top 5 movie genres?
Kids’ movies that take more creative risks than grown up movies
Obscure 80s movies it’s hard to even find on the internet
Sedate international films with personal stakes
Harrison Ford
“I got this big studio to sign off and now I’m making art in spite of them.”
Kids’ movies that take more creative risks than grown up movies
Obscure 80s movies it’s hard to even find on the internet
Sedate international films with personal stakes
Harrison Ford
“I got this big studio to sign off and now I’m making art in spite of them.”
What are your top 5 movie genres?
Irredeemable yet strangely compelling asshole gets marginally better by end
Self aware but still lively comedy fantasy
Super serious space opera
Horror that has something new to say without being quippy or sarcastic
Music biopic that's not Wikipedia on screen
Irredeemable yet strangely compelling asshole gets marginally better by end
Self aware but still lively comedy fantasy
Super serious space opera
Horror that has something new to say without being quippy or sarcastic
Music biopic that's not Wikipedia on screen
November 16, 2025 at 11:23 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres?
The influential film nobody has seen
The classic people think they know but don't
The remake nobody knows is a remake
The one that has actors who are way too good for the film they're in
Horror
The influential film nobody has seen
The classic people think they know but don't
The remake nobody knows is a remake
The one that has actors who are way too good for the film they're in
Horror
I do appreciate how, like Enron before them, everything Theranos did is just normal now and we are all expected to be cool with that
November 16, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I do appreciate how, like Enron before them, everything Theranos did is just normal now and we are all expected to be cool with that
Caelan Conrad made a video about this
[0006801] AI won't fight back or respond to you killing other people
November 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Caelan Conrad made a video about this
Hey how come you're covering openly bribing the president like a reality show?
“Apple set the tone” when Tim Cook gave Trump an engraved, glass disc. This week, the Swiss delegation gave him a “special Rolex desktop clock” and a $130,000 gold bar.
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
“.. It was tough to beat Apple, but the Swiss did it," an administration official told @axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
November 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Hey how come you're covering openly bribing the president like a reality show?
*sees the news about Trump blowing Clinton*
Welp this has been a horrible day to have eyes
Welp this has been a horrible day to have eyes
November 14, 2025 at 11:29 PM
*sees the news about Trump blowing Clinton*
Welp this has been a horrible day to have eyes
Welp this has been a horrible day to have eyes
It's weird how people who live in themed elemental regions of fantasy settings use only weapons and magic that are ineffective against the things they are likely to encounter most often
November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
It's weird how people who live in themed elemental regions of fantasy settings use only weapons and magic that are ineffective against the things they are likely to encounter most often
What the fuck @nytimes.com ?!
Making it sound like the teenager was the one who messed up here and not the fucking child rapist?
Making it sound like the teenager was the one who messed up here and not the fucking child rapist?
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What the fuck @nytimes.com ?!
Making it sound like the teenager was the one who messed up here and not the fucking child rapist?
Making it sound like the teenager was the one who messed up here and not the fucking child rapist?
@potus.bsky.social you don't even exist yet are taken for some reason
@support.bsky.team I wish to report a bug
@support.bsky.team I wish to report a bug
November 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM
@potus.bsky.social you don't even exist yet are taken for some reason
@support.bsky.team I wish to report a bug
@support.bsky.team I wish to report a bug
I feel like the risk of being murdered for releasing the epstein documents is a real concern, given that's what happened with the person who released the panama papers
November 13, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I feel like the risk of being murdered for releasing the epstein documents is a real concern, given that's what happened with the person who released the panama papers
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I've put it off too long
In three days we won't have money for heating fuel, feed, or groceries. We're basically fucked. I need a goal of $2000 by the end of November, about $500 of that needs to be immediate, and we've never made a goal before.
Please help.
Venmo/cashapp: BurdockAndBramble
In three days we won't have money for heating fuel, feed, or groceries. We're basically fucked. I need a goal of $2000 by the end of November, about $500 of that needs to be immediate, and we've never made a goal before.
Please help.
Venmo/cashapp: BurdockAndBramble
Well, for the few of you who haven't muted me already, I'm about to post our MA needs again. Put it off as long as we could.
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I've put it off too long
In three days we won't have money for heating fuel, feed, or groceries. We're basically fucked. I need a goal of $2000 by the end of November, about $500 of that needs to be immediate, and we've never made a goal before.
Please help.
Venmo/cashapp: BurdockAndBramble
In three days we won't have money for heating fuel, feed, or groceries. We're basically fucked. I need a goal of $2000 by the end of November, about $500 of that needs to be immediate, and we've never made a goal before.
Please help.
Venmo/cashapp: BurdockAndBramble
Is it too much to hope they get Uzumaki'd?
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Is it too much to hope they get Uzumaki'd?
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November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM