Joseph
@hbarsquared.bsky.social
An American in Sweden. Netrunner, cats, and leftist outrage.
Every time I get mad at some bullshit random grammar rule in my Swedish learning journey, I have to stop myself and ask if it's the same or worse in English, and let me tell you it almost always is.
November 26, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every time I get mad at some bullshit random grammar rule in my Swedish learning journey, I have to stop myself and ask if it's the same or worse in English, and let me tell you it almost always is.
They said "We're too big to fail".
We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn".
"Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."
We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn".
"Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."
Top US financiers sound alarm on lending standards on.ft.com/3JeFnzL
Top US financiers sound alarm on lending standards
Apollo’s Marc Rowan warns of ‘willingness to cut corners’
on.ft.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
They said "We're too big to fail".
We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn".
"Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."
We said "If you don't lose you'll never learn".
"Oh we'll learn," they said. "Trust us."
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YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
October 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS.
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If you see this, post a random photo or meme from your photo gallery without explaining it.
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you see this, post a random photo or meme from your photo gallery without explaining it.
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If you make and show me a Sora 2 video I want you to know I think of you as infinitely less important than a worm, whose movements and excrement nuture the soil, whereas a Sora 2 user is a creature that asks robots to despoil the world out of boredom.
October 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
If you make and show me a Sora 2 video I want you to know I think of you as infinitely less important than a worm, whose movements and excrement nuture the soil, whereas a Sora 2 user is a creature that asks robots to despoil the world out of boredom.
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Ope this is going off
Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.
As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.
So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.
secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...
Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.
As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.
So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.
secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...
Help Kimberly flip NC-07!
Kimberly is a mom, educator, and social worker running against a MAGA extremist.
secure.actblue.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Ope this is going off
Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.
As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.
So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.
secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...
Ok folks! My Congressman is a MAGA clown who's on multiple ag committees.
As a farmer, I need ag policymakers who tell Trump no.
So for every donation to Kim Hardy, who's running against my
Congressman, I will post one (1) ag fact.
secure.actblue.com/donate/nc07s...
Imagine spending ten billion dollars to try and save twenty million dollars, and then failing in the exact way the haters said you would.
And techbros wonder why everyone thinks they're a joke ...
And techbros wonder why everyone thinks they're a joke ...
Lionsgate right now is struggling to make AI generated movie
September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Imagine spending ten billion dollars to try and save twenty million dollars, and then failing in the exact way the haters said you would.
And techbros wonder why everyone thinks they're a joke ...
And techbros wonder why everyone thinks they're a joke ...
Ten years ago we were installing a GW of solar power every week. Now we are doing it every *12 hours*.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Ten years ago we were installing a GW of solar power every week. Now we are doing it every *12 hours*.
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AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
September 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
There are so many, but I keep coming back to when they bombed that hospital in the first days of the conflict.
They came up with a dozen lies in 24 hours, and seeing the media blindly swallow each one made me realize that they would not see any real consequences for their actions.
They came up with a dozen lies in 24 hours, and seeing the media blindly swallow each one made me realize that they would not see any real consequences for their actions.
What is the one atrocity Zionists have committed in the past 22 months that you think about the most?
August 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
There are so many, but I keep coming back to when they bombed that hospital in the first days of the conflict.
They came up with a dozen lies in 24 hours, and seeing the media blindly swallow each one made me realize that they would not see any real consequences for their actions.
They came up with a dozen lies in 24 hours, and seeing the media blindly swallow each one made me realize that they would not see any real consequences for their actions.
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We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.
August 24, 2025 at 5:48 AM
We have a societal and educational crisis on our hands of people not understanding what LLMs are and are not, can and cannot do. It's impacting economics, the job market, art, mental health, and business at all levels. If you think I'm an AI skeptic because I don't understand them, think again.
There are so many, but Rakesfall by @vajra.me is one that I'll be re-reading for years to come. If you love reading, you need to read this book.
In response to this, name the last book that you read that you would recommend.
abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...
abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...
Americans spend less time reading for fun and more time on screens: Study
Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.
abcnews.go.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:13 PM
There are so many, but Rakesfall by @vajra.me is one that I'll be re-reading for years to come. If you love reading, you need to read this book.
Toejam & Earl on the Sega Genesis. The high-level enemies (crazed dentists and phantom ice cream trucks) were a staple of my 8-year-old nightmares.
What was the first video game that scared you?
It doesn't have to be a horror game. Maybe you didn't even play it -- plenty of ads freaked me out as a kid.
It doesn't have to be a horror game. Maybe you didn't even play it -- plenty of ads freaked me out as a kid.
August 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Toejam & Earl on the Sega Genesis. The high-level enemies (crazed dentists and phantom ice cream trucks) were a staple of my 8-year-old nightmares.
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rich people were a mistake
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
rich people were a mistake
Welcome to the slop-pocalypse. Five years from now, we're going to see 100,000+ games released each year and discoverability will plummet to zero.
Lineage developer NCSoft establishes AI-driven casual mobile division
Lineage developer NCSoft establishes AI-driven casual mobile division
'NCSoft will extend its proven AI and data capabilities into the mobile casual gaming space.'
www.gamedeveloper.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Welcome to the slop-pocalypse. Five years from now, we're going to see 100,000+ games released each year and discoverability will plummet to zero.
Even if you ignore all of the other idiocy, "Hamas didn't build magical bomb shields to stop our bombs so they're really the ones at fault" is one hell of a take.
How is it possible that Jonathan Greenblatt hasn’t read the United Nations definition of genocide? It was codified in 1948.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/m...
August 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Even if you ignore all of the other idiocy, "Hamas didn't build magical bomb shields to stop our bombs so they're really the ones at fault" is one hell of a take.
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there is no route through the control of pornography and queer views that doesn't have an endpoint in the erasure of non heteronormative public life and domestic slavery of women; they are part and parcel of the modern patriarchial social complex
July 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
there is no route through the control of pornography and queer views that doesn't have an endpoint in the erasure of non heteronormative public life and domestic slavery of women; they are part and parcel of the modern patriarchial social complex
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Maybe we could find out.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.
are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?
are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?
July 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Maybe we could find out.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
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RAKESFALL by @vajra.me has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic!
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell"
Buy: geni.us/rakesfall
So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic!
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell"
Buy: geni.us/rakesfall
July 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
RAKESFALL by @vajra.me has been shortlisted for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction!
So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic!
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell"
Buy: geni.us/rakesfall
So now's the perfect time to pick up this hallucinatory, mind-bending epic!
"Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell"
Buy: geni.us/rakesfall
As someone who chose not to have kids, I would absolutely love to pay higher taxes if this is what they funded. A society that takes care of its children is a society that thrives.
Universal childcare would be one of the best ways to stimulate the economy. Studies have shown an increase in workplace participation and wages. For kids, it helps foster development. The ROI on childcare is insane.
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
apnews.com/article/chil...
#econsky
July 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
As someone who chose not to have kids, I would absolutely love to pay higher taxes if this is what they funded. A society that takes care of its children is a society that thrives.
These are two of the best books I've read this decade
Ebook sale! For the next ten days, Solaris is selling (giving away, really) an excellent selection of modern SFF titles at 0.99p in the UK, including both of my novels, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL. See geni.us/Solarissale! Some titles are available outside the UK, too.
July 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
These are two of the best books I've read this decade
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Ex-Xbox pals: We have some short to mid-length contract roles (VFX, Lighting, Cinematic Artist/Animator - all remote and in UE4) for Snap & Grab opening up. Email jobs at no goblin dotcom this week if doing cool crimes with us between jobs sounds fun.
July 2, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Ex-Xbox pals: We have some short to mid-length contract roles (VFX, Lighting, Cinematic Artist/Animator - all remote and in UE4) for Snap & Grab opening up. Email jobs at no goblin dotcom this week if doing cool crimes with us between jobs sounds fun.
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i don't like to go down these rabbit holes too much anymore but it is unfortunate when nice people make art i hate, so when the artist does act like a dumbass it does make me feel a little better about hating something so much when i didn't know anything about them
June 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
i don't like to go down these rabbit holes too much anymore but it is unfortunate when nice people make art i hate, so when the artist does act like a dumbass it does make me feel a little better about hating something so much when i didn't know anything about them
What's a poster you had up in your room growing up?
June 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
What's a poster you had up in your room growing up?