Pierce

@pierced.bsky.social

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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.

Altered screenshot of one of the early "Strong Bad Emails" animations from Homestar Runner (dot com). "Dear Strong Bad, How do you type with boxing gloves on?" has been clumsily edited as "Dear Strong [D]ad, how do you [raise children] with boxing gloves on?"
Screenshot of heyash.com indicating that I'm unable to access it, with FAQs for "Why have I been blocked?" and "What can I do to resolve this?"
Very cropped screenshot from a text field showing only the word "sociopathic" underlined in a squiggly red line, indicating it is an unknown word and therefore misspelled.
Two-panel screenshot from Futurama: On top, the Professor is holding a miniature sarcophagus with a shocked expression, captioned "My God, this is an outrage." On bottom, he is infuriated, captioned "I was going to eat that mummy."
Screenshot from the current version of https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/for-individuals/termsofuse indicating that it will be effective June 12, 2026. This new version no longer asserts in bold text that "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" as referenced in the Bluesky post being quoted.
Altered version of the original "YOU RATIOED TEMU HITLER AND ALSO ARE HOT" cake photo, adding in smaller icing lettering "I'M COMPLIMENTING YOU DON'T PUT THAT ON THE CAKE PLEASE"
Screenshot from the transcript: THE COURT: Can you state your name for the record? MR. VANDENBERG: Cornelius Vandenberg.
Tina Fey, Timothee Chalamet, and Kylie Jenner sit courtside at a basketball game
Adaptation of the "Say the line, Bart!" meme: • First panel is the classroom from Bart's POV, with the caption "Say the line, o king!" • Second panel is Bart, with a resigned expression, with the caption "Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other." • Third panel is the entire classroom around Bart cheering, captioned "they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice"
A photo of a black-and-white dog lying in a dog bed, uncannily similar proportions and coloration to the original post in this thread.
Adaptation of the "Trump makes a stupid decision" meme: normally it's a circular flowchart with pictures of Trump and arrows pointing to each next step. First, "I MAKE A STUPID DECISION". Second, "SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAPPENS". Third, "I CONVINCE MY FOLLOWERS THE PROBLEM IS NOW MAGICALLY SOLVED". Fourth, "I REVERSE MY STUPID DECISION", with an arrow pointing back to step one. In this image, there's a dotted line and circle similar to chemical diagrams representing radiation emissions: In the arrow between "SOMETHING REALLY BAD HAPPENS" and "I CONVINCE MY FOLLOWERS THE PROBLEM IS NOW MAGICALLY SOLVED", a radioactive particle escapes labeled "CONSEQUENCES" in red text.
Screenshot from Futurama, showing the senior bureaucrat saying "You are technically correct, the best kind of correct"
Screenshot of the referenced Washington Post headline, which says "Trump faces heat from MAGA base on ‘America First’ agenda, Epstein"
Screenshot from the "Aerodynamics of Gender" episode of Community, with a character fondly talking about "a place free from darkness," which (spoiler alert) turns out to be a clue about his white supremacist inclinations.
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.
[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.
[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]
A context menu for images in Google Photos' "memory" interface. The offered options are: • Remove memory • Remove photo from this memory • Hide faces from memories
A photo of the interface for the Marvel channel on Disney+. The top row has: 1. Angry Shuri. 2. Angry Captain Marvel. 3. Angry Nick Fury. 4. Angry Sam Wilson as Captain America, giving a side-eye. 5. Angry Scarlet Witch kinda holding a red hadouken. 6. Loki with an unconvincing smile and the longest thin tie in the entire multiverse. 7. Deadpool facing the camera posed like he's menacingly walking toward you, but being partially covered by Loki's jacket it just looks like one hand is checking his right pocket. The middle row has: 1. Shang-Chi looking to the right of the image (his left), seemingly attacking with the rings. His right hand seems to control two rings, his left hand controls three. They converge awkwardly just before the MARVEL logo, so maybe the other five rings are under it? 2. The solid-red-background MARVEL logo, with a little red flare effect to the right which could be from Shang-Chi or Scarlet Witch but doesn't seem to fit either. Maybe the MARVEL logo is a new Iron Man suit and that's its thruster? 3. Yelena, neither smiling nor frowning and therefore being the most optimistic human in this image. She has a javelin or something? I've watched all these things including Black Widow and I have no idea what she's holding, but the middle part is red with white rings and the pointy ends are weirdly jagged with random lights? The bottom row is the actual interface with "Featured" shows: 1. "Daredevil: Born Again", with angry Daredevil. 2. "Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man", with a side-view action shot of him shooting a web. By far the most compelling and least depressing portion of this interface. 3. "What If...?", with just a starburst effect against a space background. What if this thumbnail showed something? We'll never know. 4. "Elektra", the traditional poster with angry Jennifer Garner holding two sai. 5. "Deadpool & Wolverine", with half-face shots of one character on each side. Deadpool is masked but looks angry, and Wolverine is angry.
An adaptation of the "Drake No/Yes" meme titled "Werewolves: A Pronunciation Guide". The top row (disapproving) is a screenshot of David Kessler from "An American Werewolf in London", in pain and looking down while still mostly human during his transformation, followed by a screencap of wolves from "The Legend of Korra" of several wolves, labeled "we're wolves". The bottom row (approving) is David as a werewolf looking up, followed by a screencap from "Avatar: The Last Airbender" of a number of Water Tribe soldiers wearing wolf masks, labelled "wear wolves".
Image from the original "Mary Poppins" with the son in shorts very similar to those worn by JD Vance.
Screenshot of the disclaimer: "Child Policy Children 4-13 years are charged the child rate except during the peak period of 20 December to 20 January when adult prices apply to all. All children must be supervised by an adult at all times. Due to the safety hazards involved with boating and visiting an active volcano the recommend minimum age is 8 years, however we will allow children 4 years and older to join the tour at their parent's or caregiver's discretion. Children under 4 years old are not permitted on the island." (the phrase "Due to the safety hazards involved with boating and visiting an active volcano the recommend minimum age is 8 years" is highlighted)
Screencap from The Simpsons of Skinner talking to Lisa, captioned "When wintertime rolls around, the Marylanders simply freeze to death" (paraphrasing a joke about introducing new invasive predators to eliminate existing ones, from the episode "Bart the Mother")
The "Jason Mamoa sneaking up on Henry Cavill" meme, labelled with "Not an algorithm in sight"
UI screenshot of a "fresh" GIMP install showing the ridiculously tiny icons and the fact that the main toolbar overflows and needs a horizontal toolbar (this problem still exists if you maximize the window).
Screenshot from Zoolander, showing Mugatu about to reveal a building model. Captioned "DERELICTITECTURE", referring to the "Derelicte" fashion line from the movie.
Screenshot from Ant-Man: Quantumania (mild spoiler) captioned "VEB: I have holes."
"Always has been" meme, an astronaut looking at Earth asking "Wait, it's all containerized?", with another astronaut pointing a gun at their back saying "Always has been"
Scene from Fight Club: Tyler Durden wearing protective glasses, captioned "It'll hurt more than you've ever been burned"
Gif of hungover Ben from Parks and Recreation sarcastically saying "I feel great, I ran 5k this morning."
Google Maps screenshot from today, after clicking through that same "Gas Station" Bronx result, just showing it named "Gas Sta".
Google Maps live results for partially-typed "gas statio". First two suggestions are "gas station" and "gas station open near me". The third is an actual search result, "Gas Station" in the Bronx. Fourth is to find Costco locations. FIFTH choice was an incorrectly-named but useful and otherwise-correct station 19 miles away. Sixth was "Gas Station" in LA.
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."
The Phoebe-teaching-Joey meme for "I do not have the required background to form opinions on this topic". He omits "required" and his translation of the whole phrase is "You know when you look at evolutionary imperatives..."
Frame from the movie "Sunshine" showing Capa (Cillian Murphy) a few feet away from being engulfed in fiery plasma from the sun
Famous frame from the 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon", in which the moon is shown with a human face and a bullet-shaped space capsule is embedded in its right eye.
Image of a futuristic society ("the world if" meme) captioned "The world if Linus had supported Mercurial instead of creating Git"
Diagram of a (seemingly) right triangle with side lengths of the eye emoji and negative pi, and a hypotenuse of "ham"
Framed signed photo of Billy Corgan wearing his "ZERO" shirt.
Poster for the movie "The Pallbearer"
Last frame of the "Goose Chase" meme, with the goose angrily chasing a man yelling "Which unpopular positions, Sulzberger?"
Frame from the end of Back to the Future, with Doc Brown, Marty, and Jennifer in the DeLorean, captioned "Where we're going, we can't use roads."
Gmail screenshot showing a promotional email from Google Pixel with the subject line "Cross yourself off your list"
Meme photo of George Santos seeming to belt out a song
Photo of a bodybuilder unable to reach a piece of tape in the middle of his back
Side-by-side of the bottom of Alan Dershowitz's face and the lye scar on Tyler Durden's hand from Fight Club.