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Darryl Mott

@gamerstavernshow.com

Freelance writer on tabletop roleplaying games. I was paralyzed in a fall on Christmas Day 2025. Fun! He/him. Opinions are my own.

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How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

08.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 509 πŸ” 193 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 21

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

08.03.2026 01:48 πŸ‘ 694 πŸ” 190 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

I love everyone responding to this with jokes and not acknowledging that this is a thing one of the programmers at Bluesky did

08.03.2026 01:33 πŸ‘ 810 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 6
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08.03.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this made me cackle all the way through

08.03.2026 00:04 πŸ‘ 2479 πŸ” 526 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 11
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William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, two years before Star Trek, co-starring in an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (The Project Strigas Affair, S1E9). They’re only in this one scene together.

07.03.2026 21:41 πŸ‘ 122 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
Stephan Geering
@stephangeering.bsky.social
Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn't conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

Mad funny to disable both quotes and replies here. Just delete it dude!

07.03.2026 22:27 πŸ‘ 574 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 10

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

07.03.2026 22:24 πŸ‘ 11064 πŸ” 2210 πŸ’¬ 585 πŸ“Œ 112
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🩷 Ιͺα΄›'ꜱ κœ±α΄œα΄˜α΄‡Κ€ α΄‡κœ°κœ°α΄‡α΄„α΄›Ιͺᴠᴇ! 🩷

07.03.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 11032 πŸ” 3111 πŸ’¬ 46 πŸ“Œ 42

Liquid smoke on treats for training? Or is she enough a snob she knows the difference?

07.03.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

unless you are literally going to put the cast in fursuits I don’t know how you top the most furry movie ever created, this was a fool’s errand to begin with

07.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 487 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 3
Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X

I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together.
This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

β€œSurveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

07.03.2026 19:05 πŸ‘ 5984 πŸ” 2275 πŸ’¬ 116 πŸ“Œ 186

Instead of banning plagiarism, schools should teach students to plagiarize in ways that are more difficult to detect, that degrade the value of labor, and destroy the environment.

07.03.2026 19:36 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Pro AI is an instant block.

"I just use Claude to refine my drafts so-"

Fuck off. Block.

You don't use the plagiarism engine of fascism for anything and frankly, any writer who uses it isn't a writer and just a disappointment.

07.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

07.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3513 πŸ” 819 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 11

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

07.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 5741 πŸ” 956 πŸ’¬ 65 πŸ“Œ 20

Want me to vote blue no matter who? Spend hours in figuring out where my polling place got moved to and up to a couple hundred dollars updating IDs to meet new requirements and ask the other hoops we have to go though to vote? For someone like Newsom? Fuck that.

07.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

They don't seem to understand what they're fighting against is the voter suppression efforts.

07.03.2026 18:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

In other words, lying.

07.03.2026 18:28 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Liberals: we will do literally anything and run literally anyone to entice swing voters
Leftists: we're swing voters, we'll swing your way if you run someone we like
Liberals: fuck off, we want the REAL swing voters: belligerent racists who hate us

Liberals: we will do literally anything and run literally anyone to entice swing voters Leftists: we're swing voters, we'll swing your way if you run someone we like Liberals: fuck off, we want the REAL swing voters: belligerent racists who hate us

24.02.2026 06:13 πŸ‘ 929 πŸ” 249 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

They also offered 90 days free of the current (full-price) sub, but in my case a year at half off makes more sense. But if you’re tapering off while switching to Affinity or something, 3 free months could be perfect!

07.03.2026 16:24 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Donate to Darryl Is Paralyzed and Needs Financial Help, organized by Darryl Mott This is a long story to understand the full irony of the situation, but the s… Darryl Mott needs your support for Darryl Is Paralyzed and Needs Financial Help

After a fall on my kitchen on Christmas Day, I broke my back and am now paralyzed. I'm now in long term care and in a difficult financial situation because of it. If you can help, please donate and share this fundraiser. gofund.me/609b599d1

14.02.2026 23:15 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 117 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 8

It all started with her getting a letter when she tried to reopen the car starting she agreed the matter was settled and uploading it to the chatbot to see if she was being 'gaslit'. Of course the toxic positivity bot agreed with her.

07.03.2026 02:33 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

So a woman had a settlement with an insurance company, decided it wasn't good enough, then used ChatGPT to create and file over a dozen legal motions (most unrelated to her claim) and a new lawsuit.

07.03.2026 02:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Grammarly is using our identities without permission

06.03.2026 21:00 πŸ‘ 231 πŸ” 114 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 32

I served, you're absolutely full of shit. The poster or book with forbidden tattoos is older than either of us. And I was a combat medic, saw plenty of infantry with ink and none of it racist symbols. Because they wanted to stay in the military.

06.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 1331 πŸ” 238 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7

I blocked the account because they started justifying their right to assault someone who is paralyzed for wearing the wrong brand of sunglasses, but they said it's cool to beat people up for wearing any Ray Bans, not just smart glasses.

07.03.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Considering I was recently paralyzed and have no way to defend myself from an attack and people like you saying this shit, yes. I am.

07.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If someone got it into their heads I was recording them with my plain old just blocks out light sunglasses and then smashed them, I'd probably just break down completely on the spot. After everything that's happened to me, I'd just start ugly crying and not stop for a very, very long time.

07.03.2026 00:11 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

As someone who has had a pair of Ray Bans (just sunglasses, no "smart") for over a decade and a half and are one of the few really nice possessions I own, I live in constant fear of this attitude and some overzealous person breaking something I love that will cost $200 I can't afford to replace.

07.03.2026 00:09 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1