Parmesean

[axs @peepoveryshy]

bruh the last time i saw calus i genuinely was a virgin, i hope the boss gon be proud of me

[Cogito @cogito_yuri]

"Your Idol" is honestly the best song in Kpop Demon Hunters by far, because it's the only song that's making a real point: that the idol industry exploits the isolation and alienation caused by capitalism to encourage people (especially women) to become emotionally reliant on the

[Ryan Hall, Y’all @ryanhallyall]

The most likely place in the USA to see a tornado tomorrow is around Cleveland, OH, Pittsburgh, PA, and Akron, OH. This is a Level 1 risk for tornadoes possible.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Things most Americans agree on:

Groceries cost too much.

Tariffs suck and make no sense.

Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.

The debt is a mess.

The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.

Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.

Americans are exhausted.

AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.

Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.

Canadians are super fucking cool.

Mexicans are chill.

Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.

Good neighbors are a blessing.

Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.

We all question, are we alone in the universe?

We all fuck up along the way.

Epstein didn’t hang himself.

The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.

The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!

Things we’re told to fight about:

Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.

That’s the joke.

[TierZoo @TierZoo]

One of the tragic things about Revenge of the Sith is that they cut out half of the entire reason Anakin turned to the dark side.

He turns on the jedi because he wants to save Padme, but in that moment he is still doing what he believes is necessary to save his wife from certain death.

What actually seals his fate and *causes him to turn away from everyone, even those he loves* is seeing Obi-wan arrive on the ship with Padme, because to him, it confirms that they are having an affair.

But why? Is that really all it took to get him to doubt his wife loves him? Showing up on a ship together?

No, the reason he calls her a liar and shouts "YOU'RE WITH HIM!" before nearly killing her is that there's an entire subplot of the film that was cut.

In this subplot, Padme is secretly setting up the beginnings of the rebel alliance. She has figured out that Palpatine is an evil dictator and wants to remove him from office. She doesn't tell Anakin about this, aside from vaguely hinting at it when she says "have you ever considered that we may be on the wrong side".

Palpatine figures out what Padme is up to, but instead of directly cracking down on the rebels, he uses the fact that Padme is keeping a secret from Anakin to drive a wedge between them. Anakin knows *something* is up with her, but not exactly what. Palpatine exploits this by implying on multiple occasions that Padme is having an affair with Obi-wan. He tells Anakin that this is why he was kept off of the council.

From Anakin's POV, Obi-wan is keeping him down, stealing his girl, preventing his ascent to Master (and from accessing secret info that only masters are allowed to read), and even stealing his valor by taking on General Grievous alone despite being the less powerful jedi. And the Jedi Order is enabling him to do so.

So, when Obi-wan shows up on Mustafar with Padme, Anakin "realizes" that he has betrayed and killed children to protect someone who didn't even love him. He's lost everything and been played a fool.

Palpatine seemed to be the only person in the universe who wasn't lying to him and trying to keep him down. Or so he thought.

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Live footage of the cruise ship kitchen before the Hantavirus

[cav empty @cavempty_]

kids these days don’t have role models to look up to anymore, when i was growing up we had master chief and the bionicles to teach us right from wrong and what it means to be a man

[Transfer Portal @NCAAPortal]

In my mind every work week is a best of 5 and I’m just trying to win the series

[julie @droolvana]

they weren't lying when they said this story is a work of fiction

[Ballsack Sports @BallsackSports]

The reality for Americans is that our unrestrained capitalistic system (feel free to correct me on the term, seriously) is increasingly unpopular by the decade because fewer people are benefiting from it.

It’s fun in theory when you’re able to work hard, produce, and stack assets. That opportunity is being afforded to fewer and fewer people.

It’s no fun when you’re on the other side of the token. You work hard and produce the same as before, yet now you’re stacking fewer assets. The same amount of labor isn’t going as far. Now you’ve got to work more hours to afford the same lifestyle.

Fast forward a decade later, and all of a sudden your same labor is only keeping you afloat, you’re no longer able to build assets. You start to realize you’re joining others who’ve always been in this boat… who’ve always been on that other side of the token. Welcome to the party.

Our wealth has been continually siphoning up into the hands of “the one percent” for decades. We’ve been trending here.

The ultra rich aren’t making your lives better. Rather, you’re making theirs better and they convince you otherwise through propaganda and the media.

The good thing is we passed a Big Beautiful Bill to make this wealth transfer to the top expedited and more efficient.

You’ve seen with your own eyes the world get shittier and shittier. So why don’t you believe yourself? Do you feel like you’re winning like you deserve, or just better relative than the person next to you? You’re being gaslit and desensitized into accepting shittier living terms every year.

If I was rich and wanted to get richer, I’d buy Twitter, flood it with bots, and pay people to push my propaganda 24/7.

Keep you struggling, keep you distracted with fabricated problems, keep you exhausted, and lie, lie, lie. It works, man. It fucking works. We’re all vulnerable to it.

A lot of people had this figured out forever ago. But we’re so indoctrinated and propagandized into not questioning our system… until it hits us directly. And man, is it hitting a lot of us.

You have to stop being so fearful to think. To express. Stop seeking validation and think for yourself. If others won’t engage in civil conversation with you, that may not be your fault. That’s okay. Don’t stop asking questions. Don’t let others insult you intelligence.

They got us more angry at each other than at them. Whole pedophile ring, genocide with your money and they got you worried about Jared McCain. You know how crazy that is to type? They got you mad at a genuine dude who just minds own business. And maybe you don’t like when dudes paint nails. But this how they distract you from the second sentence. See?

Wasting our time on bullshit as our lives and futures get robbed from us. Look at those nasa photos of earth.🌍 we get one life here. We’ve waited billions of years for this moment. We get one life here. Is this how you want to live? Are you truly okay with these terms?

Stop being so fearful, so hesitant. You’re human.

God bless and I hope you had a great Easter

[beetle moses @beetlemoses]

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)

[maya !! @koitojpg]

heaven is a place on earth

[Samantha Ruddy @samlymatters]

White collar jobs in 2016: Free cold brew on tap! Conference rooms? Too old school! We’re yoga ball people. We have catered lunch on Wednesdays. If your benefits don’t cover something you need, tell us!

White collar jobs in 2026: Use Chat GPT or we’ll hit you

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

My company rolled out AI tools 11 months ago. Since then, every task I do takes longer.

I am not allowed to say this out loud.

Not because there is a policy. There is no policy. There is something worse than a policy. There is enthusiasm.

There is a Slack channel called #ai-wins where people post screenshots of AI outputs with captions like "this just saved me an hour." There is a VP who opens every all-hands with "the companies that adopt fastest win." There is a Director who renamed his team from Operations to Intelligent Operations. There is a peer review question that now asks: "How have you leveraged AI tools to enhance your workflow this quarter?"

If the answer is "I haven't, because I was faster before," that is a career decision.

So I leverage.

Emails.

Before the tools, I wrote emails. This took the amount of time it takes to write an email. I did not measure it. Nobody measured it. The email got written and sent and it was fine.

Now I write the email. Then I highlight the text and click "Enhance with AI." The AI rewrites my email. It replaces "Can we meet Thursday?" with "I'd love to explore the possibility of finding a mutually convenient time to align on this." I read the rewrite. I delete the rewrite. I send my original email.

This takes 4 minutes instead of 2. The 2 extra minutes are the enhancement. I do this 11 times a day. That is 22 minutes I spend each day rejecting improvements to sentences that were already finished.

In #ai-wins I posted a screenshot of the rewrite. I did not post the part where I deleted it. 23 people reacted with the rocket emoji.

That is adoption.

Meetings.

We have an AI notetaker in every meeting now. It joins automatically. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. After each meeting I receive a 3-paragraph summary of the meeting I just attended.

I read the summary. This takes 3 minutes. I was in the meeting. I know what happened. I am reading a machine's account of something I experienced firsthand. Sometimes the account is wrong. Last Tuesday it attributed a comment about Q3 revenue to me. My manager made that comment. I spent 4 minutes correcting the transcript.

Before the notetaker, I did not spend 7 minutes after each meeting correcting a robot's memory of something I personally witnessed. I attend 11 meetings a week. That is 77 minutes per week supervising a transcription nobody requested.

I mentioned this once. My manager said "think about the people who weren't in the meeting." The people who weren't in the meeting do not read the summaries. I checked. The read receipts show single-digit opens. The summaries exist not because they are useful but because they are there. I read them for the same reason.

Documents.

I write a weekly status update. Before the tools, this took 10 minutes. I typed what happened. I sent it. My manager skimmed it. The system worked.

Now I open the AI writing assistant. I give it my bullet points. It produces a draft. The draft says "Significant progress was achieved across multiple workstreams." I did not achieve significant progress across multiple workstreams. I updated a spreadsheet and sent 4 emails.

I rewrite the draft to say what actually happened. Then I run my rewrite through the grammar tool. It suggests I change "done" to "completed" and "next week" to "in the forthcoming period." I click Ignore 9 times. Then I send the version I would have written in 10 minutes. The process now takes 30.

I have been doing this every week for 11 months. I have added 20 minutes to a task that did not need 20 more minutes. I call this efficiency. I have been calling it efficiency for 11 months. That is what efficiency means now. It means the additional time you spend to arrive at the same outcome through a longer process. Nobody has questioned this definition. I have not offered it for review.

I kept a log once. 2 weeks. Every task, timed. Before-AI and after-AI. The after number was larger in every case. Every single one. Not by a little. The range was 40 to 200 percent.

I deleted the log.

I deleted it because it was a document that said, in plain numbers, that the AI tools make me slower. And a document like that has no place in a company where AI adoption is a strategic priority. I could not send it to my manager. He championed the rollout. I could not post it in #ai-wins. I could not raise it in a meeting because the notetaker would transcribe it and the summary would read "[Name] expressed concerns about AI tool efficacy" and that summary would be the first one anyone actually reads.

So I do what everyone does.

I use the tools. I spend the extra time. I post in #ai-wins. I write "leveraged AI to streamline weekly reporting" in my review and my manager gives me a 4 out of 5 for innovation. I have innovated nothing. I have added steps to processes that were already finished. I have made simple things longer and labeled the difference with words that used to mean something.

Every week in #ai-wins someone posts a screenshot. And 20 people react with the rocket emoji. And nobody posts the part where they deleted the output and did the task themselves. Nobody posts the revert. Nobody posts the before-and-after timer. Nobody will. Because "I was better at my job before the AI tools" is a sentence that cannot be said out loud in any company that has decided AI is the future.

Every company has decided AI is the future.

So we leverage. Quietly. Adding steps. Calling them optimization. Getting slightly less done, slightly more slowly, with slightly more steps, and reporting it as progress.

My yearly review is next month. There is a new section this year. "AI Impact Assessment." It asks me to quantify the hours saved by AI tools per week.

I will write a number. The number will be positive. It will not be true.

But the AI writing assistant will help me phrase it convincingly. That is the one thing it does well.

[summer ☀️ @ughitssummer]

americans really spend 4 years in a walkable community (college), say “wow, those were truly the best years of my life. oh well!” and then proceed to buy a house & car in the middle of a suburbanite hellscape

[kevln @notorlouslT]

bam has ethical sex so

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

I actively mute ads and look away from the TV or my phone when they run, it's almost a sport for me. This is more than enough for me to abandon a platform completely, insane dystopian stuff here.

[Schaffrillas @Schaffrillas]

I've never had a commercial do the exact opposite effect of what it intended before. I had no opinion on Ring doorbells but now I will actively avoid purchasing one as long as I live

[Kevín @KevOnStage]

This is how Batman found The Joker in The Dark Knight and I don’t like it.