Goldgrave
@goldgrave.bsky.social
Leatherworker, software tester, seeking wisdom and compassion in a kinda fucked up world.
Don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but if these people lived truer to their kinks they'd be less toxic and destructive to everyone around them. If they put the same energy into sexual fulfillment they did into stripping rights away and killing brown people, they'd be happier!
LOLOL. @dfriedman.bsky.social found that the Goodreads page tied to an email of a key Whiskey Pete advisor: it sandwiched Whiskey Pete's book between books about wife swapping!
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
December 11, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Don't want to yuck anyone's yum, but if these people lived truer to their kinks they'd be less toxic and destructive to everyone around them. If they put the same energy into sexual fulfillment they did into stripping rights away and killing brown people, they'd be happier!
He's the skull of a 13th-century Dominican friar with a chip on his shoulder.
He's an overworked presbyterate official just trying to make it to the weekend.
Together, they fight crime.
He's an overworked presbyterate official just trying to make it to the weekend.
Together, they fight crime.
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
He's the skull of a 13th-century Dominican friar with a chip on his shoulder.
He's an overworked presbyterate official just trying to make it to the weekend.
Together, they fight crime.
He's an overworked presbyterate official just trying to make it to the weekend.
Together, they fight crime.
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Data centers don't pay their power bills, you do. Your electricity bill goes up, it gets hotter where you are, and there's not enough water anymore so if you pay for water, that goes up too. And the rich get richer, passing the costs on to you. #MakeBillionairesAfraidAgain #CorporationsAreNotPeople
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Data centers don't pay their power bills, you do. Your electricity bill goes up, it gets hotter where you are, and there's not enough water anymore so if you pay for water, that goes up too. And the rich get richer, passing the costs on to you. #MakeBillionairesAfraidAgain #CorporationsAreNotPeople
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Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Houses are expensive because billionaires gobble up homes and fix the rent or turn them into Airbnbs. The billionaires want you to think immigrants are buying up all the property.
Trying not to spread rage-bait, so I'm just going to fact-find.
Anyone use, or got family who uses, a chat app called Wizz? Like, is this a real thing?
Anyone use, or got family who uses, a chat app called Wizz? Like, is this a real thing?
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trying not to spread rage-bait, so I'm just going to fact-find.
Anyone use, or got family who uses, a chat app called Wizz? Like, is this a real thing?
Anyone use, or got family who uses, a chat app called Wizz? Like, is this a real thing?
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also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
December 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
also always deeply funny that every sci-fi video game from 1999-2014 was trying to be Aliens, and copied everything except the...working class woman protagonist
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washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
December 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
washington post reporter code-switching on twitter and bluesky like a key & peele sketch
Writing Project has now officially breeched the Muppet barrier. Imagine a LARP where your PC was a puppet, and not *your physical body*.
My brain works sometimes, and when it does it makes amazing things!
My brain works sometimes, and when it does it makes amazing things!
December 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Writing Project has now officially breeched the Muppet barrier. Imagine a LARP where your PC was a puppet, and not *your physical body*.
My brain works sometimes, and when it does it makes amazing things!
My brain works sometimes, and when it does it makes amazing things!
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Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
$28 million of cocaine seized off Miami Beach. Three men charged
Coast Guard and CBP seized about 3,715 pounds of cocaine worth $28 million from a 65-foot vessel near Government Cut off Miami Beach; three men were arrested.
www.miamiherald.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Whoa … this is really strange.
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Federal law enforcement managed to confiscate almost two tons of cocaine, and arrest 3 suspects, without blowing the boat out of the water or killing anyone.
🎁 link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
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My ten cents is that newspapers should stop calling it a drug boat if there was never any evidence presented of it being a drug boat.
December 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
My ten cents is that newspapers should stop calling it a drug boat if there was never any evidence presented of it being a drug boat.
He is decaying in real time.
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
He is decaying in real time.
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"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
December 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.
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bsky gonna bsky i guess 🙄 they suspended @hyenablood.bsky.social right before Bandcamp Friday landed.
go snag the new cobalt bloom album, it's an incredible release 7 years in the making! cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/album/liminal
and repost this!! it's up to us to spread the word while steve's down!
go snag the new cobalt bloom album, it's an incredible release 7 years in the making! cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/album/liminal
and repost this!! it's up to us to spread the word while steve's down!
liminal, by cobalt bloom
12 track album
cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
bsky gonna bsky i guess 🙄 they suspended @hyenablood.bsky.social right before Bandcamp Friday landed.
go snag the new cobalt bloom album, it's an incredible release 7 years in the making! cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/album/liminal
and repost this!! it's up to us to spread the word while steve's down!
go snag the new cobalt bloom album, it's an incredible release 7 years in the making! cobaltbloom.bandcamp.com/album/liminal
and repost this!! it's up to us to spread the word while steve's down!
If you may feel a sensation of vertigo, congratulations! You can perceive the yawning, technofascist void beneath American civilization that is LLMs!
Running out of time, the admin brute-forced a bunch of tower pings and found someone they could blame.
Running out of time, the admin brute-forced a bunch of tower pings and found someone they could blame.
This is VERY rough. But here's a Google map showing the towers Robert Cole's phone pinged on, per complaint, and the FBI map on where the pipe bomber was caught on surveillance.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
www.fbi.gov/video-reposi...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
www.fbi.gov/video-reposi...
December 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
If you may feel a sensation of vertigo, congratulations! You can perceive the yawning, technofascist void beneath American civilization that is LLMs!
Running out of time, the admin brute-forced a bunch of tower pings and found someone they could blame.
Running out of time, the admin brute-forced a bunch of tower pings and found someone they could blame.
If the station wagon in question has good gas mileage? Fuck yeah, sign me up. I already got the cats.
2026 is my year
December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If the station wagon in question has good gas mileage? Fuck yeah, sign me up. I already got the cats.
Writing Project has taken another sudden turn, and I am re-writing this world for a third time... but it's better than before? I feel like I should give it a rest and focus on other worlds... let this newest iteration marinate a bit.
December 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Writing Project has taken another sudden turn, and I am re-writing this world for a third time... but it's better than before? I feel like I should give it a rest and focus on other worlds... let this newest iteration marinate a bit.
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This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
My brain did that thing where I read this in her voice... but retroactively. It was "un-voiced" until I got to the final word and then *click*.
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
My brain did that thing where I read this in her voice... but retroactively. It was "un-voiced" until I got to the final word and then *click*.
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I've said it before: the person who wants to use genAI to create things has no interest in the act of creation - only in having the created thing, and in being seen as a creator.
When your brain is so cooked it has turned to ash and blown away in the wind
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I've said it before: the person who wants to use genAI to create things has no interest in the act of creation - only in having the created thing, and in being seen as a creator.
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Morale at paypros call centers is in the toilet right now. It’s not just normal Black Friday stress, they’re being pounded. Corporate is pressuring bosses to end the paypros call campaigns. Source familiar w/ internals at MC stressed that folks should stand their ground but be kind to agents (1)
November 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Morale at paypros call centers is in the toilet right now. It’s not just normal Black Friday stress, they’re being pounded. Corporate is pressuring bosses to end the paypros call campaigns. Source familiar w/ internals at MC stressed that folks should stand their ground but be kind to agents (1)
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The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Three years into the generative-AI wave, demand for the technology seems surprisingly flimsy
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The numbers in here are hilarious.
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%
Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B
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Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...
www.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
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Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again
Saw someone cite the Collective Shout thing and payment processors in regards to the Horse situation and say "Valve can't fight them by itself", and I think we maybe shouldn't be defending multi-billion dollar companies for arbitrary takedowns of artistic works and acting like they're the little guy
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again
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Backlash surrounding Metroid Prime 4’s chatty supporting cast has inadvertently bled into one gamer’s relationship.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Backlash surrounding Metroid Prime 4’s chatty supporting cast has inadvertently bled into one gamer’s relationship.
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷