jack the nonabrasive
John Karabaic. he/him. BLM.
NYC/BOS/USAF/CIN/PDX
USA/Croatia
Recovering engineer.
The gurney is the reward.
What is protest, if not rage persevering?
#TCMParty #NoirAlley
@bonbpdx @level4isgoinggreat
@karabaic@mastodon.social
https://brooklynbike.org
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- let me predict...not a single executive will lose their job over this idiocy. futurism.com/klarna-opena...
- i feel as if all of "a visit from the goon squad" has been leading up to this page and it just about killed me 📚💙
- If you, like me, are bereft* over the global Chartreuse shortage, may I recommend ratafia? It is a little sweeter and does not have the charming, eponymous color, but is lovely. * The monks have perfectly good reasons for limiting supply: They want to focus on God rather than commerce. Good on them
- Hey! I had turbot tonight. I thought of Stiva. #AK2025 💃🚂
- Reposted by jack the nonabrasiveNEW: I obtained two internal Google reports that indicate the company has little control over Project Nimbus, its contract with the Israeli gov/military, and is largely in the dark about how it's being used. theintercept.com/2025/05/12/g...
- Reposted by jack the nonabrasiveA new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didn’t write the words and it’s not his book. www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- JG Ballard never wrote the text used & misquoted in a Coke ad. So not only did the "creative" agency VML's use of LLM's to search work as poorly as you would expect LLM search to work, their factcheckers are unprofessional. That's some Trumpy level of incompetence. www.404media.co/ai-powered-c...
- Sunrise on Renfe AVE 02067 leaving Puente Genil-Herrera
- So on The Last of Us, has Cordyceps crowded out all other infections? 'Cause Ellie seems to think so; she seems ok with getting bitten because she's immune to that one thing. I'd be really worried about dozens of other infections from those nasty zombies.
- "TEASING THE KITTEN" from Ursula Le Guin's Always Coming Home for CatSky and 📚💙
- Very cool that @tomtomorrow.bsky.social had this little gem in his weekly newsletter that you should immediately subscribe to because THAT MAN IS YOUR FRIEND
- "Welcome To Emoluments One" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...
- Sometimes, when sitting on the porch on a cool Portland night, I miss midwestern fireflies and understand the motivations of those who introduce invasives.
- No mention of justice for those abused by clerics & nuns. huh. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/w...
- I'm glad I brought my Aranet CO2 monitor on this trip with me. First night, it got up to 2000ppm in our hotel room; opened the patio door & it's been steady 500's ever since. Been sleeping much better.
- Read Tolstoy. Slowly. #AK2025 💃🚂
- i keep reading this as genocidal laser
- ok so a baseball cap over a hijab is a super cute look
- Black Chicago roots Temperamentally conservative, embracing some liberal ideals Si, podemos say it with me Popebama
- my first time using @nytimes.com synthetic voice to read a story* and it's got a real uncanny valley problem. It does OK until it completely puts the inappropriate intonation on something and sounds inhuman & alien. * this one: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...
- Reposted by jack the nonabrasiveAlina Habba tells Fox News that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested and is being held in a secret location right now. Martha MacCallum: "Where is he being held?" Habba: 'I'm not going to speak to that right now. He's obviously in New Jersey."
- kind of interesting to see every movie and book about the first American pope instantly rendered quaint & naive
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- Reposted by jack the nonabrasiveApparently the Cardinals watched Conclave and Sinners before they voted.
- Looking forward to American conservatives deadnaming the Pope.
- no poopin in the park
- well at least he's not a virgo
- So all the church bells in Cordoba rang out when the white smoke went up at the Vatican, including here. We are having a drink at a rooftop bar across the street, whence this photo.
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- When I was a kid in 1970's NYC, the ubiquitous woman's scent—other than cigarette smoke—was Jean Nate products. It was aromatic muzak. Innocuous, but everpresent. There is some new USA scent becoming as popular. I don't know what it is, but it's aromatic fingers-on-a-chalkboard. I hope it stops.
- curl project lead Daniel Stenberg: "We still have not seen a single valid security report done with AI help." "We are effectively being DDoSed." cc @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social Via The Register: www.theregister.com/2025/05/07/c...
- live shot of me posting this
- do these iberian pigs actually LIKE acorns? they taste like they do
- Tomorrow is the 55th anniversary of NYC's Hard Hat Riots. May 8, 1970, construction workers in NYC attacked antiwar protesters and journalists, beating them savagely with tools and pipes. 70 were injured. /1
