I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

Yo this Yelp review is wild

the thing about llms is that they copy old work and have no ability to intentionally pursue lateral leaps of creative insight, so a world ruled by ai is a world of endless recycling of the past. imagine that. culture eating itself. imagine that. totalitarian nostalgia. imagine

Still remember when I wondered if there was a gender neutral term for nieces, nephews, and etc., so I looked it up and learned to my dismay that it was "nibling". Please, no. Say it out loud. Listen to yourself. We can do better than this.

Disney did a live action remake of a ten year old cartoon? How long til they just start releasing the original and the remake simultaneously?

I’m not saying this is definitely inaccurate, but the machine learning tools used to detect AI are not significantly more reliable than the content generators they’re trying to catch. Numbers might be a lot better or they may in fact be a lot worse.

the video game industry is a mess

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Incredibly damning use of "we"

The day I saw the self-proclaimed "history buff with an interest in WWII" claim he didn't know what his tat was was enough for me Dude who's willing to lie that baldly about something like that will lie about anything I don't know why this is complicated for people

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

"y'know it isn't exactly fair of you to call people who served in the armed forces and us mercenary groups 'murderers'" 1.) I don't care 2.) is isn't exactly fair to occupy poor countries and kill their civilians, and I'm pretty sure my being flippant is less egregious than killing people for cash

can we please stop downplaying rape and simply calling it sexual assault? he raped her, he's a rapist who also by the way killed brown people for fun and profit with a notoriously brutal mercenary group and has nazi tattoos. the guy is a fucking nazi do you need a written manifesto

I hope nobody ever figures out my terrible secret. The one that would ruin my life should anyone ever hear a whisper. The horrible rot within, the bloodless evil that lurks inside my soul, apparent to anyone who looks too deeply into my eyes. Now let me go on TV as much as physically possible

I don't think it failed.

Leaving our Gerontocracy Era and entering our Imperial Corpse Phase

You know you have a great political system when you get one “is that congressman alive” scandal per month

As Quinn @yeargain.bsky.social explained in a piece last month, the deadline for candidates in Maine to drop out and be replaced on the November ballot is July 13—a week from today.

"Charles. Will you please. Sort out. THE GARAGE."

Film Of The Year #Filmsky

First it was goat yoga, then goat pilates and before we knew it people were talking about getting swole at goatfit

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Some folks will be like "what about women's rights?" Paine landed right on that too! Raised a Quaker, Paine essayed against the "enslavement and oppression of women," partnered with Mary Wollstonecraft on A Vindication of the Rights of Women, argued for state maternity support and civil suffrage.

“is it true that your farts contributed to the rapid decline of Mr Biden’s mental state?”

Willie looks like he just sat on his own balls.

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

During the fireworks, my cat took a dump on the kitchen floor. That's a new form of protest but sorry girl, I'm not in charge of that.

Celebrating the founding of the U.S. as July 4th 1776 is fine if you also celebrate the first time your dad saw your mom and said "daaaamn" as your birthday

Great moments in U.S. History.

Captain America: Clifford's Giant Cock (2025)

meowing the Bubble Bobble theme

It's only been 239 years since the founding of the US, but some people aren't ready for that conversation.

We shoulda known Google was completely cooked when they stole the + operator [which made a search term a hard requirement] for their Google+ social network that was relevant for approximately 35 seconds

The most powerful thing about LLMs continues to be something that search engines with a competent search operator did better 😞

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

Holy shit I have actual clear photo of a UFO and I'm posting it exclusively on blue sky

THE TIME OF THE IMAGE IS ENDED... THE AGE OF TEXTPOSTERS IS NOW

No one cared who I was, until I put in the butt plug

In the sequel to The Menu, someone gets Hollandaiseboarded

Perhaps all the valor of America residing in its people against the network of predatory institutions that comprise the political entity known as the United States tells us that we need to abolish that network of predatory institutions. Something beautiful can emerge after the United States ends.

Instagram has been running paid adverts promoting child sexual abuse material in India. The ads use terms including "rape video" and "child video" and link users to channels to Telegram, where the material costs 99 rupees (about $1). Ads can only published after being approved by its moderation.

Accidentally set my podcast app to 80% speed and just thought everyone was really high

Miners DNI Just leave that shit underground, you don't know what it might be attached to.

Shin Godzilla (2016)

The existence of a Star Trek “mirror universe” where everyone is evil and things are only marginally worse is an unintentional dunk on the main universe.

(old men sitting on a porch and squinting at the horizon portentously) Horizon's comin

ICE agents are illegally obscuring their license plates in IL—and getting more violent about it. This week, an agent assaulted a teen for filming his unmarked vehicle, reaching for his taser as he charged. Filming ICE in public is legal. Assaulting someone for it is not. More from Dylan Blaha.