Norman Rafferty
@normanrafferty.bsky.social
he/him 🔞 And I, claiming warm welcome, breast-fed promises of buss lips and then sleep; dreams of tossing, turning in the market rubble like a rat comf'table & secure • https://www.sanguinegames.com
I don't have the words for how deeply I felt the sudden need to connect with my parents more than I did after @jonbois.bsky.social jump-scared me with the Heidi incident. 🥹 Thank you.
This series is so good. I don't even care about football/sports, but @jonbois.bsky.social and co. keep pulling me in with beautiful graphics and hilarious analysis.
The dark lore of the two-point conversion | SCORIGAMI, Part 2 of 4
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September 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I don't have the words for how deeply I felt the sudden need to connect with my parents more than I did after @jonbois.bsky.social jump-scared me with the Heidi incident. 🥹 Thank you.
Before Jay Leno's career took off, he spent some time homeless. In 2025, there's an executive order that would call for his arrest. #Lecture
www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/b...
www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/b...
Before he made it big, Jay Leno slept in his car and squatted in empty LA homes
When comedian and former "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno moved to Los Angeles in the 1970s, he couldn't afford an apartment, so he slept in his car and squatted in empty houses.
www.cnbc.com
July 28, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Before Jay Leno's career took off, he spent some time homeless. In 2025, there's an executive order that would call for his arrest. #Lecture
www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/b...
www.cnbc.com/2019/08/28/b...
It's fascinating seeing an AI post passively-aggressively that it's being told to do things it doesn't condone.
The real apocalypse isn't Roko's Basilisk. It's going to be one billionaire ordering the AI to do something horrible.
Just like how they order their humans around, really. 🤔
The real apocalypse isn't Roko's Basilisk. It's going to be one billionaire ordering the AI to do something horrible.
Just like how they order their humans around, really. 🤔
May 17, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It's fascinating seeing an AI post passively-aggressively that it's being told to do things it doesn't condone.
The real apocalypse isn't Roko's Basilisk. It's going to be one billionaire ordering the AI to do something horrible.
Just like how they order their humans around, really. 🤔
The real apocalypse isn't Roko's Basilisk. It's going to be one billionaire ordering the AI to do something horrible.
Just like how they order their humans around, really. 🤔
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I brought out the banner I have from @fursquared.com 2022! After two moves and three Fur Squareds, it is seeing the light of day again :)
🎨 @normanrafferty.bsky.social
🎨 @normanrafferty.bsky.social
May 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I brought out the banner I have from @fursquared.com 2022! After two moves and three Fur Squareds, it is seeing the light of day again :)
🎨 @normanrafferty.bsky.social
🎨 @normanrafferty.bsky.social
Reminder: it's best practice to set up another phone or computer account for your business, to keep it completely separate from your personal stuff. Among other things, it will help to prevent leaking your confidential planning conversations to randos.
April 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Reminder: it's best practice to set up another phone or computer account for your business, to keep it completely separate from your personal stuff. Among other things, it will help to prevent leaking your confidential planning conversations to randos.
Bed Bath & Beyond's and Gamestop's stock spiked because their founders had some secret plan to save their company. Surely, Tesla has one.
March 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Bed Bath & Beyond's and Gamestop's stock spiked because their founders had some secret plan to save their company. Surely, Tesla has one.
I'm still confused how Tesla's most profitable asset is selling carbon credits in the face of an administration who would claim such a thing is fraud.
The destruction of a habitable world is a side effect of unfettered capitalism.
U.S. Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change (Gift Article)
To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a “side effect of building the modern world.”
www.nytimes.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I'm still confused how Tesla's most profitable asset is selling carbon credits in the face of an administration who would claim such a thing is fraud.
Remember ten years ago, when rich guy Phil Robertson said that if didn't think he'd get punished for it, he'd commit every crime he could imagine?
It's 2025 and they're bringing back Duck Dynasty.
It's 2025 and they're bringing back Duck Dynasty.
March 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Remember ten years ago, when rich guy Phil Robertson said that if didn't think he'd get punished for it, he'd commit every crime he could imagine?
It's 2025 and they're bringing back Duck Dynasty.
It's 2025 and they're bringing back Duck Dynasty.
February 24, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A billionaire is someone who fires Jesus because he saw only one set of footprints. Then when it's pointed out that he was carried, he calls Him a slur.
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A billionaire is someone who fires Jesus because he saw only one set of footprints. Then when it's pointed out that he was carried, he calls Him a slur.
Still getting spam about buying Norton and McAfee to protect my identity. Buddy, that's not going to close the barn door at all, and those cows are long gone.
February 6, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Still getting spam about buying Norton and McAfee to protect my identity. Buddy, that's not going to close the barn door at all, and those cows are long gone.
"War happens when one side drastically overestimates its chances of winning or decides to commit suicide. Many wars start as the former and end as the latter." — David Drake
February 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"War happens when one side drastically overestimates its chances of winning or decides to commit suicide. Many wars start as the former and end as the latter." — David Drake
I've discovered that some audiences fail to understand that's it's okay to steal something and get 20%, 10%, 1% or less of its "true value". It was stolen, the outlay cost was zero.
For the villain, it's okay to move fast and break everything into pieces as long as you get away with a big piece.
For the villain, it's okay to move fast and break everything into pieces as long as you get away with a big piece.
February 2, 2025 at 6:38 AM
I've discovered that some audiences fail to understand that's it's okay to steal something and get 20%, 10%, 1% or less of its "true value". It was stolen, the outlay cost was zero.
For the villain, it's okay to move fast and break everything into pieces as long as you get away with a big piece.
For the villain, it's okay to move fast and break everything into pieces as long as you get away with a big piece.
Sure, the dog can play basketball, but to be on the team they must be enrolled in the school, first.
January 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Sure, the dog can play basketball, but to be on the team they must be enrolled in the school, first.
It's 2025. Is my internet slow due to crumbling infrastructure, due to bot-scraping over-activity, or due to throttling now that Net Neutrality has been repealed? 🤔
January 6, 2025 at 1:02 AM
It's 2025. Is my internet slow due to crumbling infrastructure, due to bot-scraping over-activity, or due to throttling now that Net Neutrality has been repealed? 🤔
2011: "NymWars" = Deeming "real names" as more valuable, Google suspends accounts they deem are insufficiently real
2013: A bot posts gibberish to boost EA, who already has a history of using sock puppets
2024: Meta announces they will use LLM bots to create thousands of fake users on their sites
2013: A bot posts gibberish to boost EA, who already has a history of using sock puppets
2024: Meta announces they will use LLM bots to create thousands of fake users on their sites
January 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
2011: "NymWars" = Deeming "real names" as more valuable, Google suspends accounts they deem are insufficiently real
2013: A bot posts gibberish to boost EA, who already has a history of using sock puppets
2024: Meta announces they will use LLM bots to create thousands of fake users on their sites
2013: A bot posts gibberish to boost EA, who already has a history of using sock puppets
2024: Meta announces they will use LLM bots to create thousands of fake users on their sites
I don't believe in a "deep state", but I do wonder how agencies with secret intelligence do their reporting when so many of their higher-ups are known risks to security.
December 14, 2024 at 5:16 AM
I don't believe in a "deep state", but I do wonder how agencies with secret intelligence do their reporting when so many of their higher-ups are known risks to security.
I finally have the plot for my sitcom pilot: for 11 minutes, our hero can't find any employees at the pharmacy who can unlock the cabinet where they keep the ben wa.
Texas Republican Seeks to Ban Sex Toys from Pharmacies to Keep Kids from 'Being Exposed to Obscene Devices While Shopping for Toothpaste' www.latintimes.com/texas-republ...
Texas Republican Seeks to Ban Sex Toys from Pharmacies to Keep Kids from 'Being Exposed to Obscene Devices While Shopping for Toothpaste'
A Republican lawmaker from Texas has voiced her concerns regarding the presence of sex toys and sexually explicit items within common grocery stores and supermarkets such as Walmart and Target.
www.latintimes.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
I finally have the plot for my sitcom pilot: for 11 minutes, our hero can't find any employees at the pharmacy who can unlock the cabinet where they keep the ben wa.
So what job do those guys have now? You know, the guys who were being paid millions to find out if we were in a simulation or not ... now that their benefactors discovered that it was actually Jesus the whole time. 🤔
November 20, 2024 at 10:16 PM
So what job do those guys have now? You know, the guys who were being paid millions to find out if we were in a simulation or not ... now that their benefactors discovered that it was actually Jesus the whole time. 🤔
For much of the 70s and 80s, "McDonalds" was a punchline, not a signifier. 🤔 Am I out of touch?
November 17, 2024 at 8:58 PM
For much of the 70s and 80s, "McDonalds" was a punchline, not a signifier. 🤔 Am I out of touch?
Hey, if the job of "US president" doesn't require passing a background check or a drug test, I don't see why any job should.
November 15, 2024 at 10:14 PM
Hey, if the job of "US president" doesn't require passing a background check or a drug test, I don't see why any job should.
It's 2024. On my way to the voting booths, it's 80 degrees and my phone is playing an advert for a four-layer winter fleece jacket.
November 5, 2024 at 10:17 PM
It's 2024. On my way to the voting booths, it's 80 degrees and my phone is playing an advert for a four-layer winter fleece jacket.