Pierce
@pierced.bsky.social
he/him/his
Tech by trade, politics and law by hobby. But, like, trying not to be the type of person you'd assume that describes? 😬
I think humanity went off the rails the first time someone wished they knew what time it was.
Tech by trade, politics and law by hobby. But, like, trying not to be the type of person you'd assume that describes? 😬
I think humanity went off the rails the first time someone wished they knew what time it was.
Worth a screenshot in case it's deleted or changed. Also, it kinda comes across as if they're talking to Epstein?
November 14, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Worth a screenshot in case it's deleted or changed. Also, it kinda comes across as if they're talking to Epstein?
A lot of folks should've clocked the racist and creepy agendas at the power of bleach and "[bringing] the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way."
October 27, 2025 at 5:35 AM
A lot of folks should've clocked the racist and creepy agendas at the power of bleach and "[bringing] the light inside the body, which you can do either through the skin or in some other way."
This is really good coverage of a moment.
I am torn a bit about this quote. The privilege of anonymity should usually be for statements that would put the source at risk from their employers or law enforcement, not for marketing-speak.
I am torn a bit about this quote. The privilege of anonymity should usually be for statements that would put the source at risk from their employers or law enforcement, not for marketing-speak.
![Screenshot from the article:
According to an administration official who was granted anonymity to speak freely, the decision to launch all of the accounts at once was deliberate. “It's not like we chose a specific date for a singular reason,” the official tells WIRED. “Doing it all at once makes it more of like a statement versus doing it piecemeal.”
[next paragraph is highlighted]
“This is an opportunity for us to reach a big segment of the American population that we traditionally are not reaching even on traditional social media platforms,” the administration official says.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:47kme775pvsjrl2zqvcctsrq/bafkreicq4rleswwdzj6rhcyi74muzsypjw5mrljil7l3amoe6qzbimb4ey@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
This is really good coverage of a moment.
I am torn a bit about this quote. The privilege of anonymity should usually be for statements that would put the source at risk from their employers or law enforcement, not for marketing-speak.
I am torn a bit about this quote. The privilege of anonymity should usually be for statements that would put the source at risk from their employers or law enforcement, not for marketing-speak.
Oh my goodness, reading about Mr. G is like finding the intact fossilized skeleton of the original debate bro.
![[excerpt from the piece]
Mr. G is a very intellectual young man who was an infant prodigy. He has been concerned with general ideas since the age of ten and has one of those minds that can scintillatingly rationalize everything. I have known him for ten years and in that time have heard him enthusiastically explain Marx, social credit, technocracy, Keynesian economics, Chestertonian distributism, and everything else one can imagine. Mr. G will never be a Nazi, because he will never be anything. His brain operates quite apart from the rest of his apparatus. He will certainly be able, however, fully to explain and apologize for Nazism if it ever comes along. But Mr. G is always a “deviationist.” When he played with communism he was a Trotskyist; when he talked of Keynes it was to suggest improvement; Chesterton’s economic ideas were all right but he was too bound to Catholic philosophy. So we may be sure that Mr. G would be a Nazi with purse-lipped qualifications. He would certainly be purged.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:47kme775pvsjrl2zqvcctsrq/bafkreieka4nuczx4a7zfzwbfvnncvysjjpkzbtq6rm432xb6hjgeezz7dq@jpeg)
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Oh my goodness, reading about Mr. G is like finding the intact fossilized skeleton of the original debate bro.
![[Adaptation of the "Stop trying to make 'Fetch' happen, it's not going to happen" meme from Mean Girls]
This is a photo of a dog who has dropped a ball near-but-not-super-near you. Staring you in the face. Telling you (starting with the top caption) "STOP TRYING TO MAKE FETCH NOT HAPPEN"
Below the dog and the ball, the bottom caption in a larger font: "IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN"
[t's honestly a convincing argument]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:47kme775pvsjrl2zqvcctsrq/bafkreihw4e5nxh5wazfqsa7suv2rylhfrz3fxpi62uh6gw5qyzganc5pwy@jpeg)
I absolutely understand what they were going for here, but this is perhaps the most dystopian menu I've ever seen in an interface. Feels like an easter egg from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
March 27, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I absolutely understand what they were going for here, but this is perhaps the most dystopian menu I've ever seen in an interface. Feels like an easter egg from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
I guess it matches the zeitgeist, but this Disney+ Marvel interface shows NO ONE WHO SEEMS HAPPY TO BE THERE.
The straightforward alt text description is all the commentary it needs.
The straightforward alt text description is all the commentary it needs.
March 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I guess it matches the zeitgeist, but this Disney+ Marvel interface shows NO ONE WHO SEEMS HAPPY TO BE THERE.
The straightforward alt text description is all the commentary it needs.
The straightforward alt text description is all the commentary it needs.
A handy guide for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social:
January 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A handy guide for @michaelhobbes.bsky.social:
I took a screenshot of the disclaimer in 2013 because I thought it was funny. (not so much in retrospect)
December 31, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I took a screenshot of the disclaimer in 2013 because I thought it was funny. (not so much in retrospect)
That's the beautiful part...
December 26, 2024 at 5:49 PM
That's the beautiful part...
I just installed it on Windows and the current UI is so profoundly broken OOtB that I searched bsky just for commiserators. How do you make the icons so tiny (bad hires handling?) and smushed and STILL need a (low-contrast) horizontal scrollbar for the tool panel even in a maximized window? Criminy.
October 1, 2024 at 5:16 PM
I just installed it on Windows and the current UI is so profoundly broken OOtB that I searched bsky just for commiserators. How do you make the icons so tiny (bad hires handling?) and smushed and STILL need a (low-contrast) horizontal scrollbar for the tool panel even in a maximized window? Criminy.
Hey @vancityreynolds.bsky.social, your raunchy movie full of references to unappreciated Marvel characterizations missed a spot.
August 25, 2024 at 5:44 AM
Hey @vancityreynolds.bsky.social, your raunchy movie full of references to unappreciated Marvel characterizations missed a spot.
Starter packs in this context are an incredibly clever idea. Imagine if they came with mixtapes of the best posts from those accounts.
June 27, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Starter packs in this context are an incredibly clever idea. Imagine if they came with mixtapes of the best posts from those accounts.
Bonus content:
• The nearest Costco station was an hour away
• That Bronx result, as of today, shows up as "Gas Sta" (see attached)
• The actual helpful result was incorrectly named, as it turned out
• The nearest Costco station was an hour away
• That Bronx result, as of today, shows up as "Gas Sta" (see attached)
• The actual helpful result was incorrectly named, as it turned out
June 23, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Bonus content:
• The nearest Costco station was an hour away
• That Bronx result, as of today, shows up as "Gas Sta" (see attached)
• The actual helpful result was incorrectly named, as it turned out
• The nearest Costco station was an hour away
• That Bronx result, as of today, shows up as "Gas Sta" (see attached)
• The actual helpful result was incorrectly named, as it turned out
Couldn't disagree more, I was definitely thinking of driving to NYC on my way from New Mexico to Colorado when I was typing in this search.
June 23, 2024 at 2:58 AM
Couldn't disagree more, I was definitely thinking of driving to NYC on my way from New Mexico to Colorado when I was typing in this search.
Well see it's confusing because she used to be known as Liberty, she only later rebranded as Stormfront. How were we to know?
![Screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Stormfront website:
"Although Stormfront became the first website associated with white supremacy, its founding as a private cyberspace medium for white supremacy was based on the earlier online bulletin board system Liberty Net.[17][18] Liberty Net was implemented in 1984 by Klan Grand Dragon Louis Beam and protected by four password-protected computers that took the FBI two years to decrypt.[19] Liberty Net's code-accessed message board contained personal ads along with recruitment material and information about the white power movement.[19] Liberty Net's success as a computer platform led to Stormfront's establishment and later conversion into a website."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:47kme775pvsjrl2zqvcctsrq/bafkreif44lsy5st37ahzmwuxmsgmvxf4nnwzo6ew5d2nntbo2q3ob7ncly@jpeg)
June 15, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Well see it's confusing because she used to be known as Liberty, she only later rebranded as Stormfront. How were we to know?
What I imagine it feels like to them:
May 7, 2024 at 5:30 AM
What I imagine it feels like to them:
