StormRider

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the Rich Boy Winston of speedrunning • dumb weeb with money • huge weather nerd • 30yr software dev • he/him but not particularly enthused about it anymore

a sign being held up that reads "Our expectations for you were _low_ but HOLY FUCK"
Mocking Spongebob saying "it's just military operations"
Simon Rosenberg (born October 23, 1963) is a Democratic political strategist and blogger. He was the founder of New Democrat Network (NDN), a centrist think tank and advocacy group based in Washington, D.C.[1] Rosenberg shuttered NDN in March 2024.[2] According to the 2002 book How to Hack a Party Line: The Democrats and Silicon Valley, Rosenberg and NDN were instrumental in shifting control of the Democratic Party away from labor unions and toward Silicon Valley businesses.[3] Rosenberg said in 1999, "Our problem as a party is that the biggest source of our venture capital now comes from labor, which is a group that's becoming less and less important, and representing less and less of a percentage of American voters. ... We have to replace labor's investment in the party with investment from another source, and hopefully from a source that's growing."[3]
George Washington's Farewell Address, September 1796: "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
A screenshot from Doctor Who: "The angels have the phone box"
The cover of "The Berenstain Bears: God Bless Our Country"
if those kids could read they'd be very upset
Headline from The Onion: FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
Headline from Newsweek: "Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths 'Unfortunately' Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment"
from Polygon coverage: "Announced at Gamescom's Opening Night Live, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes dares to ask: What would happen if the Cylons — a race of cybernetic sentient beings who have turned on their human creators — won in their attack against humanity?"
A (fake) children's book entitled "Everything I Don't Like Is Woke: A Book For Basic Dickheads". The cover features a mid-20th-Century stylized portrait of a young man pointing at a car engine and saying "This engine is woke."
McBain is disappointed in you.
YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE SITH, NOT JOIN THEM
Garfield the cat looking at a sign saying "Matthew 25:31-46" and musing "Huh. I wonder who that's for."
a Venn diagram with two circles: one labeled "the room", one labeled "the Voynich manuscript"; the intersection is labeled "things Gavin Newsom can't read"
History: Foosball player students Matt Keezer, Stephane Manos, Sam and Hassan Youssef started a business in online pornography in 2003, growing their successful enterprise under the Brazzers name. Keezer began Pornhub under the company Interhub separately from Brazzers, and the businesses remained silent partners until Interhub was found to be hosting videos of the rape of an underage girl, and federal investigators of the US Secret Service's Organized Fraud Task Force seized millions of dollars from Brazzers parent company Mansef's bank accounts, and discovered millions in wire transfered money from Israel. This resulted in a sale of all of the founders' pornography assets, while the Youssef brothers took time off from business, until they eventually founded Valnet in August 2012.
George Carlin: "You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this fuckin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in The big club."
Satirical headline: "NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government"
Screenshot from Futurama: "First one, then the other"
Headline: "Senators reach deal to advance [Trump] Cabinet nominees, avoid weekend session"
Screenshot of PEGI's rating card for Balatro justifying the 18+ rating, with the utterly bonkers statement "Because these are [poker] hands that exist in the real world, this knowledge and skill could be transferred to a real-life game of poker."
From Twitter: [Pennsylvania] Governor Josh Shapiro comments on the arrest of [suspected UnitedHealth CEO murderer] Luigi Mangione: "Some attention in this case, especially online, has been deeply disturbing as some have looked to celebrate instead of condemning this killer. [...] In America, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy" Reply from @danishacarterr: "killing people in cold blood to resolve policy is precisely how america was founded, actually lol"
"No, dude, I have to get totally ripped to dance"
Honkai: Star Rail key art. © miHoYo/Cognosphere/HoYoverse
Key art for World of Warcraft: The War Within. © Blizzard Entertainment
Pie chart meme describing how a shower's temperature control works: a tiny sliver of "comfortable for bathing" between two large wedges labeled "the frozen winds of Hell's ninth circle" and "Planck temperature"
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,188,540, StormRider ‪@stormrider.tv‬, joined on Sep 23, 2023"
NYT opinion article by Rich Lowry: "Trump Can Win on Character"
Photo showing an M.2 Wifi card for a laptop and the very tiny antenna wires for them
the Twitch "Recommended Channels" feature offering Donald Trump as a suggestion
Tweet from Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies): "My gut is that most conspiracy theorists have never been project managers. Their optimism is adorable."
An image of an online article from The Atlantic arguing that journalism should not be behind paywalls, while the article itself is behind a paywall
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
the courts issuing an order against Trump: YOU WILL NOT DO THESE THINGS OR THERE WILL BE SEVERE CONSEQUENCES the courts when Trump actually violates said order: pls sir will u stops mbe prty pls kthx
an obviously hand-drawn "passport" from the video game "Papers, Please" the holder, Jorji, claims to be from "Cobrastan" (which is not a real country, even in the fictional game world) and says it is "pre-approved"
Timothy Mellon (born July 22, 1942) is an American businessman and was the chairman and majority owner of Pan Am Systems, a Portsmouth, New Hampshire-based transportation holding company until 2022. He is a grandson of Andrew Mellon and an heir to the Mellon banking fortune.
Garfield the cat looking at a symbolic "No Garfield" sign and saying "huh, I wonder who that's for"