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@jeblucas

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An argument for the pit@jeblucas· 22d

Mood.

YES! SLAY! By hausofdecline@bsky.social detail.

Foreground a crazed, jaw-wide beast curls fingers and lips to exclaim YES! SLAY! as their formerly good mood “yasss slay” friend looks on with concern.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· 28d

Given the Netflix news, showing you all my new Letterboxd replacement recommendation:

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jul 11

Last issue of Epic. Couple of great stories in here.

Cover of the last issue of Epic magazine, dated Feb 1986.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jul 11

Yo dawg is was made known to me that the passive voice was employed

While the man was being evaluated by medical personnel, "an incident occurred resulting in an officer-involved shooting" at the medical facility shared the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

According to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, the 46-year-old was hit by gun fire and is currently in stable condition after receiving medical aid for his injuries.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jul 8

Thank you @josie.zone

Josie’s John Gets Slapped meme recreating the scene from Raising Arizona where Glenn suggests wife swapping with H.I.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jul 7

Nostalgia off the charts with this UFO50 physical edition from Fangamer. A strategy guide!!

Shot of the spilled contents of a UFO50 physical editor Switch game from Mossmouth and Fangamer. It shows the game box, a colorful strategy guide, a couple sheets of small character stickers, and a “handrawn” folded map of some game.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jul 1

Dammit Evie!

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 26

This seems good! I can tell you where I am “failing” this: I am in pharma and GLP-1s are miracles. I use GenAI to help code and it’s very good at that. I wish the models were much smaller, and I think we’re getting there. Anyway, I think tech is good and this poll leans toward agrarian revolution.

Poll results showing I am 79% Woke, 53% Techbro, 55 % Hopepilled, and 73% Davos. My closest match it Zohran Mamdani. This seems good! 👍🏼

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 26

What you need to know, and reckon with, is that we live in the Evangelical Christian Republic of America. You are one of those hip disco Iranian women in 1978. Your life is being destroyed right in front of you by religious extremists and you feel like you have to go along.

Headline from Associated Press:

What to know about the push to make Bible stories required reading in Texas public schools

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 26

USMNT defense:

Celestial judging the USMNT. Thumbs down from the space god.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 21

William Conrad maybe as the model for a CONTA bad guy.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 17

“Map of lighthouses of the coasts of France” by Guillot and Bucquet, Paris 1844. Detailed map of the Brittany coast, depicting the radiant circles of lighthouses along the coast, showing with overlaps that no spot of coast is ever in the dark. France’s smaller coast on the Mediterranean is in an inset.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 17

“Circulation of travelers by public carriage on the roads of the region in which the Dijon-Mulhouse railroad will be built”, a viz by E-J M, Paris 1865. It shows a roughly 80x100km map of various towns with lines of varying thickness between them showing the relative and absolute intensity of travel.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 17

It was funded; I have the books!

Books on data visualization history on a table.
Florence Nightingale : Mortality and Health Diagrams edited by RJ Andrews
Étienne-Jules Maray : The Graphic Method edited by Georges Hattab & RJ Andrews
Emma Willard : Maps of History edited by Susan Schultan

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 9

Y’all hear that? We’re quote-posting headers.

My header here, it says I am :

Gen X Dad // Data Science and Analytics // Ultimate // Recreational Math // Movies // DemSoc // Games (board/card/video) // Puzzles// Post-retirement Peaker (in about 15 years)

And has a banner of a Celestial judging us, poorly.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 5

Ok, that’s cool.

Picture taken from my car, behind another at a stop light. It’s a Scion XB, painted matte black everywhere it’s legal. The license plate is a California Yellow on Black style saying “SOGOTH”. There are tiny cobweb stickers in the corners of the rear windshield and the license plate frame is little filigreed chains.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Jun 2

Many are saying this

Still from REPO MAN. Duke says “Fuck this! Let’s go do some crimes!”

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· May 31

Me when the boomers at the bet knesset start talking about the “youth” and their “crazy opinions.”

Mlle Mimieux has pursed lips and is waiting for Goebbels to stop jibberjabbering.

“Please get me out of here,” thinks Emmanuelle Mimieux as Goebbels prattles on with the his nonsense.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· May 20

RETVRN 🧪

Article from phys.org headlined “Early complex life clung to oxygenated seafloors for hundreds of millions of years, scientists discover”
by University of California -

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· May 10

“1 in 4 chance they shift fire to my platoon. That’s basically zero, right?” #boardgames

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Apr 26

Comeback time!

Bruins are getting washed 0-6 by the Sabres. There is 3:17 left in the game.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Apr 26

Egyptian refried beans!! (Ful medammes) I went all fancy with tahina, so it looks a little 🤢. Still rocks.

A glass bowl on a counter top, it’s full of ful medammes, basically Egyptian refried beans. It’s creamy, light tan, looks kind of unappetizing, but that is just a set up.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Apr 19

I just know this arrgh406 dickhead saw an em-dash and thinks he so fucking smart. Hey, dickheads everywhere: HOLD DOWN HYPHEN ON YOUR PHONE. TA FUCKING DAH. There it is. Or shift-option-dash on a Mac right? It’s easily accessible to people that know what the fuck they want to say -correctly-.

arrgh406 said:
was chatgpt used to write this? "A slight misalignment at this stage isn't just a problem; it can be catastrophic—a mispointed beam at full power can burn through optics that take months to source and replace, setting the entire laser back." is a very chatgpt sentence

Reply:
I know Ars has (rightly) been castigated for LLM usage in writing articles, but what you quoted is a normal-ass sentence for anyone who's graduated with an English degree or has written for a while.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Apr 3

They don’t know Bluesky doesn’t get as many Likes as it used to

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Mar 26

John Byrne can’t draw children. Power Pack, a team of tween/adolescent superheroes look like they have excellent skin care routines for 45yos.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Mar 26

Mondays amirite

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Mar 25

Incredible defense theory here. “Our product literally MUST allow adults to prey on children sexually. It’s impossible that our product would prevent adults from gaining access to and then exploiting children, and, in fact, ensures that this will happen.” Amazing work, capitalists.

Ars Technica article screenshot, highlighting this portion:
At trial, Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram chief Adam Mosseri testified that "harms to children, such as sexual exploitation and detriments to mental health, were inevitable on the company's platforms due to their vast user bases,"

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Mar 18

I want this for us

Alia triumphant at the end of DUNE (1984).

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Mar 13

My Last Four movies watched from Letterboxd: Crimes of the Future, Welcome to the Space Show, The Informat (2023) and The Green Knight.

An argument for the pit@jeblucas· Feb 25

Before the rice goes in…