zota
@zota.bsky.social
Technology therapist, gonzo designer, grey-hat historian.
Los Angeles.
Los Angeles.
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There's an endless array of shapes that could use stairs, chair, and ladders.
They keep designing human bipeds because people like Elon are afraid to admit their desire for tentacle monsters and centaurs.
They keep designing human bipeds because people like Elon are afraid to admit their desire for tentacle monsters and centaurs.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
There's an endless array of shapes that could use stairs, chair, and ladders.
They keep designing human bipeds because people like Elon are afraid to admit their desire for tentacle monsters and centaurs.
They keep designing human bipeds because people like Elon are afraid to admit their desire for tentacle monsters and centaurs.
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Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Happy birthday to the Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov who casually deciphered the Mayan script in 1952 and got pissed when editors removed his cat as co-author on papers or cropped her out of his author headshot (the only picture of himself he even liked)
Will Stancil waggling his bare ass at the internet: "We already have cities and no one wants to live in them. Do you think that opinion is bad? Am I very bad boy?"
This isn’t true, we have built lots of non-sprawly places, and while they’re good and I like them and want to build more, one thing that hasn’t happened is that people have in any real way abandoned sprawl for these places
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Will Stancil waggling his bare ass at the internet: "We already have cities and no one wants to live in them. Do you think that opinion is bad? Am I very bad boy?"
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apropos of nothing in particular, Saudi Arabia has a population of 35 million but only 19 million are citizens, in part because only Muslims can be citizens of Saudi Arabia, so the ~2 million Christians in the country are “foreign workers” forever, even if born there
November 19, 2025 at 2:40 AM
apropos of nothing in particular, Saudi Arabia has a population of 35 million but only 19 million are citizens, in part because only Muslims can be citizens of Saudi Arabia, so the ~2 million Christians in the country are “foreign workers” forever, even if born there
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YES the cake has THUMB TABS
November 18, 2025 at 7:35 PM
YES the cake has THUMB TABS
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Local independent outlets like @lataco.bsky.social have been doing great work covering the ICE raids, but absent a) strong opposition from elected officials, b) acknowledgement from @mayor.lacity.gov, and c) more mainstream coverage, people will continue to be at risk.
DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains
November 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Local independent outlets like @lataco.bsky.social have been doing great work covering the ICE raids, but absent a) strong opposition from elected officials, b) acknowledgement from @mayor.lacity.gov, and c) more mainstream coverage, people will continue to be at risk.
To all the xenomorphs, face-suckers, drippy weirdos! You. Are. Beautiful!
[opens fire]
[opens fire]
Unsurprisingly, Weyland-Yutani’s default security android is modeled after a German DJ. They fight for Planet Bass.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 AM
To all the xenomorphs, face-suckers, drippy weirdos! You. Are. Beautiful!
[opens fire]
[opens fire]
Cooperative societies looking at Predator technology: “Where do they get all those wonderful toys?”
Badlands was fun and while I typically don't care about this sort of thing, it's hard to see how a culture like the Yautja could ever cooperate long enough to develop space travel.
Nobody has ever done anything interesting or unexpected with the culture of the Predators onscreen, that they probably aren't ever going to, and I think I've just made my peace with it
November 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Cooperative societies looking at Predator technology: “Where do they get all those wonderful toys?”
Predator Badlands:
A lovable runt teams up with the android torso of “girl explaining” meme and baby sonic the hedgehog to fight corporate evil and make Thanksgiving awkward
A lovable runt teams up with the android torso of “girl explaining” meme and baby sonic the hedgehog to fight corporate evil and make Thanksgiving awkward
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Predator Badlands:
A lovable runt teams up with the android torso of “girl explaining” meme and baby sonic the hedgehog to fight corporate evil and make Thanksgiving awkward
A lovable runt teams up with the android torso of “girl explaining” meme and baby sonic the hedgehog to fight corporate evil and make Thanksgiving awkward
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
November 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
last night at a bar I learned that they improved pinball by making machines that are entirely computers and they’re much better than what we had before
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In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
November 16, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In the meantime, he got the professional networking opportunity, and I didn’t. And Lawrence Krauss gets to write nasty things about me in the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times gets to write about me like I’m a crazy queer bitch who hates men.
That’s the other side of these emails
That’s the other side of these emails
I hope Nuzzi's favorite Malibu rock is okay
November 16, 2025 at 2:32 AM
I hope Nuzzi's favorite Malibu rock is okay
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Leia Organa loved him. She loved the Hutt, even though she was his prisioner. She loved his eyes, “big as apples.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as the Sarlacc” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Leia Organa loved him. She loved the Hutt, even though she was his prisioner. She loved his eyes, “big as apples.” She loved that “the sight of something as trivial as the Sarlacc” could move him to tears. She loved his insatiable appetites and his “particular complications and particular darkness.”
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For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
November 14, 2023 at 2:00 PM
For groundbreaking synthetic music pioneer Wendy Carlos' birthday, enjoy her in her home studio with cats and friends
If we said the moderation team seems to be on drugs, would that count as a death threat?
if your moderation team bans someone for a harmless unactionable exclamation of disgust, but permits a govt account to say stuff like this,
you need a new moderation team.
you need a new moderation team.
![Dept. of War [sic]'s bluesky account says "To all narco-terrorists who threaten our homeland: If you keep trafficking deadly drugs–we will kill you."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:a4n6zqm2ufqrdbyszo5gvgyq/bafkreifpxnl7xocstyj3ztg3enbd5osgyaxznmbkkkysjjuykxbplp5gl4@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
If we said the moderation team seems to be on drugs, would that count as a death threat?
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if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.
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The book ends with a poem called "The Ruin", about a ruin, but the poem itself is ruined, full of holes, followed by about 30 pages of riddles that are increasingly impossible to solve because more and more words are missing. I don't know why I'm telling you this except it's one of my favorite facts
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The book ends with a poem called "The Ruin", about a ruin, but the poem itself is ruined, full of holes, followed by about 30 pages of riddles that are increasingly impossible to solve because more and more words are missing. I don't know why I'm telling you this except it's one of my favorite facts
should have gone with Brooklenin or Decapitated Queens
November 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
should have gone with Brooklenin or Decapitated Queens
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And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 PM
And the CARCASSES! Holy shit, the carcasses. The essence of the Pacific Ocean distilled and bottled in fifteen-pound piscine packages, infusions of nitrogen & phosphorus & fatty acids in creeks that have missed their marine nutrients for a century.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Bering Sea 🤝 sagebrush steppe.
Here's one of the major issues with assuming "AI" = "ChatGPT"
What did people think Grammerly has been doing this whole time?
What did people think Grammerly has been doing this whole time?
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Here's one of the major issues with assuming "AI" = "ChatGPT"
What did people think Grammerly has been doing this whole time?
What did people think Grammerly has been doing this whole time?
bagel atlatl
Your average Subway 6-inch has an effective range of about 15 feet, making it best for CQC or a sidearm (side-sub?). For increased range and stopping power, you're going to want something baguette-based, like a Croque Monsieur.
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
November 4, 2025 at 4:11 AM
bagel atlatl
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That visit earlier this year is a shadow over the whole season in my opinion and I actually saw that political value in the Blue Jays winning. But they didn’t. So now it’s on us Dodger fans to be extremely fucking clear.
November 2, 2025 at 4:25 AM
That visit earlier this year is a shadow over the whole season in my opinion and I actually saw that political value in the Blue Jays winning. But they didn’t. So now it’s on us Dodger fans to be extremely fucking clear.
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Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.