Dystopian Arthur Wyatt

@arthurwyatt.bsky.social

Based in Seattle. Writes comics (Judge Dredd is the one you’ve heard of), makes web stuff for a living. "an idiot who's just throwing them all around the spectrum to sound intelligent"

@billcorbett.bsky.socialReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

“That's just not what we do here in this country." Translation: I’ve been politely pretending not to notice my racist, fascist political allies for my whole career, and I fucking expect you to do likewise.

@emily.gorcen.skiReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

Elon: i’m going to send a data center to space! Zelenskyy, packing a repurposed Cessna full of composition 4: me too

@gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gyReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

@chadbourn.bsky.socialReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

Ukraine blows up Russian data centres and immediately and mysteriously online talk about Germany’s Far Right AfD virtually disappears. Stop Putin you stop the Far Right.

Chart showing online talk about the AfD going off a cliff edge
@quinnae.comReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

Me: *slams buzzer* What is a car dealership? Ken Jennings: Yes! Bizarre little men. You're still in control of the board.

open borders now@radtranslib.bsky.social

American small business owners largely see themselves as lower-level rentiers in a quasi-feudal economy as opposed to service providers in a competitive market economy, and part of that means not having to actually be competent at providing services

@dianasroom.orgReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

I'm still sorting through these but like this thing has folders which contain hundreds of joel valentine's original sound effects for powerpuff girls and this is like fucking christmas for sound effects artists. this is like finding the ark of the covenant

@hoptimusprime.bsky.socialReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social

Easily my favorite detail:

There was the incident that became known as "the Lauren error": One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that's exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program.
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@mindflakes.bsky.socialReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

The difference between a catacomb and a basement is skulls. Catacomb without skulls? Thats a basement. Skulls in your basement? Thats a catacomb. Tired of having to keep saying this

@gorskon.bsky.socialReposted by @arthurwyatt.bsky.social

Fascists can’t stand being ridiculed. The same is also true of antivax leaders like Andrew Wakefield, because it punctures their pretensions of being real scientists.

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