TheAHayKid
@theahaykid.bsky.social
Unabashedly gay, somewhat abashedly furry and vaguely socialist Canadian-American, into splorts and video gaems.
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I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 19, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
Yeah, my first thought on hearing it's only gonna be there a month and a half was "would you call fucking Oktoberfest a theme park?!"
MrBeast Land is open in Saudi Arabia but not everyone's impressed: "It's like calling a county fair a theme park" https://kotaku.com/beast-land-mrbeast-theme-park-saudi-arabia-2000645495
November 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Yeah, my first thought on hearing it's only gonna be there a month and a half was "would you call fucking Oktoberfest a theme park?!"
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"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes
November 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"sympathy for some of the GOP's voters but contempt for their elected and appointed leaders" is the proper position for dem electeds, and instead we get "sympathy for GOP elected and appointed leaders, but contempt for ~Dem~ voters" it's truly insane fuck all these assholes
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A good visualization of what I mean. This isn't one 2:15 minute ad, it's a hundred little scenes, each entirely discrete and detached from each other. There's no continuity both because it can't think, and telling it to keep the number of wheels straight is too much to ask. bsky.app/profile/wapp...
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
A good visualization of what I mean. This isn't one 2:15 minute ad, it's a hundred little scenes, each entirely discrete and detached from each other. There's no continuity both because it can't think, and telling it to keep the number of wheels straight is too much to ask. bsky.app/profile/wapp...
Grey Cup seriously turning the opening coin toss into a pseudomoney ad? Well that sucks.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Grey Cup seriously turning the opening coin toss into a pseudomoney ad? Well that sucks.
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I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
November 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.
Rewatched Superman last night and now I've got Tequila (the song) stuck in my head for reasons that I'm not sure more than a single-digit number of people on this website could guess
November 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Rewatched Superman last night and now I've got Tequila (the song) stuck in my head for reasons that I'm not sure more than a single-digit number of people on this website could guess
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The stakes for including trans athletes are real and high. Meanwhile, the idea of keeping sports “fair” is transparently a wedge designed to justify the exclusion of people from enriching—even lifesaving—activities. defector.com/what-does-a-...
What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. I’ve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticks—what feels the least…
defector.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The stakes for including trans athletes are real and high. Meanwhile, the idea of keeping sports “fair” is transparently a wedge designed to justify the exclusion of people from enriching—even lifesaving—activities. defector.com/what-does-a-...
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
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The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more,
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change www.axios.com/2025/11/13/c...
This chart shows that progress has actually been made on climate change
The possible trajectories are better than a decade ago, but still indicate significant global warming.
www.axios.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
The reason the headline is "doom!" is because when you see what's already been done, you see that we can do more,
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
which means things can get better,
which means rich people's "it's over, no stopping this, might as well let us do what we want" manipulation might stop working. Can't have that.
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
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my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
March 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time
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Genuinely cannot believe that I got invited to TEDx as a ‘content creator’ only to go on stage and say ‘fuck content’ and then end up as an editor’s choice on the main channel. What have I done
Thank you so much, everyone. ❤️
Thank you so much, everyone. ❤️
November 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Genuinely cannot believe that I got invited to TEDx as a ‘content creator’ only to go on stage and say ‘fuck content’ and then end up as an editor’s choice on the main channel. What have I done
Thank you so much, everyone. ❤️
Thank you so much, everyone. ❤️
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I’ve said it before but news outlets worry a lot about looking biased and not enough about looking phony.
Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?
Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?
"Appearing to close his eyes"
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I’ve said it before but news outlets worry a lot about looking biased and not enough about looking phony.
Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?
Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?
Okay, so, there's a lot of takes going on about this right now. I just want to say that the number is ragebait. The pay is almost all in the form of Tesla stock, and the number they're attaching to it is based on an insane projection of Tesla being worth EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS by 2034.
JUST IN: Tesla shareholders officially green light a pay package for Elon Musk that could make him the world's first trillionaire.
Tesla shareholders endorse Musk pay package up to $1T
Tesla shareholders endorsed a pay package for Elon Musk that could make him the world's first trillionaire.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Okay, so, there's a lot of takes going on about this right now. I just want to say that the number is ragebait. The pay is almost all in the form of Tesla stock, and the number they're attaching to it is based on an insane projection of Tesla being worth EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS by 2034.
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shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now
November 6, 2025 at 4:05 AM
shitfaced jamaal bowman saying this is so fuckin funny i feel so seen right now
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All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
November 2, 2025 at 3:41 AM
All the thinkpieces about Bluesky don't account for the fact that it's occasionally 100% wall-to-wall baseball on here
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If you needed more proof that much of the pundit class covered the Harris campaign by listening to what the GOP was saying about it and not listening to campaign itself.
Utterly bizarre to describe climate change policy as some kind of radical-left albatross.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
The IRA contained precisely the kind of 'kitchen table' programs everyone says Democrats should focus on — and they're popular!
The problem was that Americans *didn't know* what the IRA was or who passed it.
November 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you needed more proof that much of the pundit class covered the Harris campaign by listening to what the GOP was saying about it and not listening to campaign itself.
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Like fucking clockwork.
Every 4 months or so a bunch of queer terms are mysteriously blocked in titles and go live notifications, folks make a fuss, and it’s undone quietly after a few days.
It’s almost like they’re testing if this is the mythical time they can finally abandon us as a market.
Every 4 months or so a bunch of queer terms are mysteriously blocked in titles and go live notifications, folks make a fuss, and it’s undone quietly after a few days.
It’s almost like they’re testing if this is the mythical time they can finally abandon us as a market.
November 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Like fucking clockwork.
Every 4 months or so a bunch of queer terms are mysteriously blocked in titles and go live notifications, folks make a fuss, and it’s undone quietly after a few days.
It’s almost like they’re testing if this is the mythical time they can finally abandon us as a market.
Every 4 months or so a bunch of queer terms are mysteriously blocked in titles and go live notifications, folks make a fuss, and it’s undone quietly after a few days.
It’s almost like they’re testing if this is the mythical time they can finally abandon us as a market.
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A really good way for the Democrats to prove that they aren't fundamentally the same as Republicans would be for them to clearly and unambiguously disavow Cuomo over stuff like this, and the fact that they aren't racing to do so should suggest a few things about how wide that gulf really is
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
A really good way for the Democrats to prove that they aren't fundamentally the same as Republicans would be for them to clearly and unambiguously disavow Cuomo over stuff like this, and the fact that they aren't racing to do so should suggest a few things about how wide that gulf really is