worst-case scenario engineer

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Relay engineer, professional worst-case scenario predictor, mad online. He/Him Infrastructure should not be for-profit

From Futurama, a scientist yells: Robot! Experience this tragic irony for me!
I have so many relics it needed to overflow onto a second row
A dog with a monopoly top hat is holding a ball, saying "pls spend?" Someone tries to take the ball and the dig gets mad: "NO WAGE, ONLY SPEND" the original comic was just a regular dog saying "no take, only throw"
Tom Hardy about to say "that's bait" from mad max
Saryn from Warframe
A lady dog (husky golden retriever mix) staring at me with half her face obscured by a pole, ominously
Mash from Mashle: Magic and Muscles. There's a girl who's been crying (she's trying to get out of blame for hurting one of his friends) and he comforts her with a hug, then says "don't worry". She thinks she's won, then he suplexes her and says "I treat everyone equally"
Patrick from SpongeBob thinking about milk spilling, it would be a gif but I'm not smart enough to get gifs to work on Bluesky or something idk
"Check this shit out motherfucker" *I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass, it's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do*
the apple pie with American cheese on it from Thank You For Smoking - it's American
Jingling keys
row of extremely oldschool switchboard panels from a hydro plant, set in granite panels from the early 1900s
Commander Shepard from Mass Effect, the female version
The second paragraph from the attached article
"Also at 15:42 EDT the Perry (nuclear) plant operator called back with more evidence of problems. "I'm still getting a lot of voltage spikes and swings on the generator... I don't know how much longer we're going to survive""
What I said, showing the recipe from the link, matching what paprika pulled
SpongeBob and Patrick amidst the flaming wreckage of Bikini Bottom, with SpongeBob saying "we did it, Patrick! We saved the city!"
"thank you for your donation"
Picture of a mosquito on a keyboard
It's the old meme post about the baseball game going on so long the announcer welcomes the sun exploding
Three panel comic, one guy asks "alright Kinsey, let's see this latest study" Next panel, he's reading Last panel, he just says "disgusting"
The code 187 screen from the computer in demolition man, it's extremely The 80s computer stuff
A petri dish with agar gelatin, the stuff bacteria grows on, which is the thing I can't help thinking of whenever I hear Liv's last name sorry Liv
DAVID PERDUE: TOTALLY EXONERATED, NO WRONGDOING
monkey wrench from robogobo, who has the kind of reality warping powers normally reserved only for an actual god IYKYK
A note that the guy in the jesus-y picture Trump posted looks an awful lot like Jeffrey Epstein
Bit from Always Sunny, it's from the Pepe Silvia scene where Charlie says "we're not gonna get fired... 'cause we've already been fired"
JK Simmons in Burn After Reading, he's the CIA boss who says "well what did we learn?"
Splash page, "thank you for donating to the trans income project"
Heartwarming: the worst people you know are all fighting Picture of a smiling man, it's an edit of the old Onion article
Card from Slay the Spire called Rolling Boulder - 3 cost power, at the start of your turn deal 10 damage to all enemies and increase this damage by 5
They are anti-life. If art is to survive at all, we cannot cede an inch of ground to these fascist idiots. It’s a shame that the figure of the sociopath in popular culture is genius-coded, because the sociopaths who are attempting to structure our reality—art included—have rocks for brains. We have to remember this at all times.
AI cannot hunger or thirst. It can only regurgitate. Seyfried’s performance is mimetic in that it corresponds to a truth, it emits a truth of a life revealed. AI, on the other hand, is emetic: It pukes up data harnessed from everywhere and nowhere. It cannot shudder, it can only move eel-like, slippery and glitchy, like vomit.
The Economist cover from October 2024 calling the US Economy the envy of the world
A graph showing power demand during AI training, it is EXTREMELY spiky. Spiky is bad
Thumbnail as if a baby was making YouTube videos, shows a mom playing peek a boo and the caption is "NOT ACTUALLY GONE!?!"
Snip from the article about them using some predictive math to raise rates AHEAD of capital expenditures
salt guy meme with 'cubes' labeled on the salt
Bluepoint was apparently working on a live service God of War game
samus picking up the spazer beam but instead it says "machine gun"
HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO TEACH YOU THIS LESSON, MICROSOFT
"forbes.com wants to look for and connect to any device on your local network"
jd Vance lies, saying "this level of engineered chaos is unique to Minneapolis"
A golden husky mix dog, sleeping on the couch
Ed zitron smiling way too close to the camera idk why he posts this all the time but I thought I would do it for some reason, guess I need some shadenfreude and he's the only person I really think hates openAI more than I dk
"they're saying coffin flop's not a show" bit from the Tim Robinson show
Buldak spicy ramen
"the free market is a fucking con. When you or I run out of money, our things are taken from us... Because the financial system is not about an exchange of value but about whether or not you can enter into the currently agreed-upon con"
The meme with a guy shrugging and it says "ok, then leave, you suck anyway"
The joke from Futurama's Scary Door where the guy says "why should I listen to you? You're Hitler!"
Sauron's eye tower collapsing, the caption says "oh Jesus I'm fucking blind"
One of The Onion's wrapping paper pages, specifically the one that is just endlessly repeated "the passerby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood" one
The neighbor from Office Space saying "I believe you'd get your ass kicked for saying something like that"
Graph of Trump's public approval on immigration correlated with media attention on the Abrego Garcia situation, showing that the more coverage there was, the more his approval tanked
A boy is playing a trumpet, following a tormented looking girl who is covering her ears. The girl is labeled "me", the boy is labeled "nonstop YouTube ads for shit I already bought"
A vacuum sucking up money
The post above except it has Dark Souls "you died" font saying "autocorrect fail" because of the "this sorry of reason". I meant "sort" ffs
The onion's "thank you" page just gasses you up for being a sexual tyrannosaur and genius
Two dogs laying side by side looking extremely pathetic
Wondermark comic - "I have to say your plan seems really risky to me" "Everything worth doing involves risk!" "But I mean, this is straight up foolhardy. Anyone will tell you how bad an idea this is. You're too smart to be this dumb!" "I do know the risks! I've studied the matter extensively! Not only do I know how it might go wrong, I've seen every possible way it can go wrong. I've seen so many people cry "nobody do what I did" that I have a road map of every pothole on the road to success!" "So not only are you smart enough to know better..." "I'm smart enough to rationalize how other idiot's failures could never happen to me!" The last panel is a train crashing through a second story building, with the guy flying off like Team Rocket "Ok listen. Nobody do what I did"