“Why I Cried When My Husband Bought Me a Louis Vuitton Bag” I would cry if my partner bought me a Louis Vuitton bag too, because DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY BOOKS HE COULD HAVE BOUGHT ME WITH THAT MONEY??? 😝

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116711333688461127 Boris Johnson.

Someone asked me why, specifically, we should boycott Wix: Because tech is the backbone of the Israeli economy. Tech companies, like the rest of Israeli society, benefit from occupation and apartheid (cheap land, cheap labor, quasi-free natural resources, security contracts with Israel's […]

#nadiawhittome MP calls on the #starmer government to withdraw the #ehrc's Code of Practice, and instead legislate to amend the Equality Act 2010 to restore the #trans inclusiveness that was intended when it waa passed. 👍👏🍺 #transgender #lgbtq #ukpol

Look, we all bust on capitalism, but the thing about so much techbro bullshit now is *it’s not even good capitalism.*

“We have created mid-level spy action thrillers with $ 1 billion dollars of AI investment!” “Cool, we gave this lonely weirdo a camera, some juice boxes and the internet and got back an ROI of infinity.”

It’s crucial we accept the inevitable dominance of AI generated entertainment and also the top 2 movies are the product of obsessive, idiosyncratic creative visions by functionally amateur weirdos, and I mean “weirdos” in the best possible way.

RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@johnayliff/116677367489590407 I’d watch the hell out of this.

Reducing the stock I made earlier…

Meet Dr James Barry.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Zwergi/116669207576416650 Pride was brought to you not only by the folks mentioned in the quoted post. It was brought to us by men dying of GRID, it was brought by men cruising in parks, on public toilets. It was brought to you by dykes on bikes, by the butch and […]

The three genders (nonbuynary)

Interesting experiment I just found out about. Assuming you’re a man... Say, out loud “I am a woman.” How does that make you feel? For me, it’s just so obviously incorrect I just laughed out loud. This is how I know my gender for sure. For some other people, though, it’s been the start of a […]

Making stock. :)

"Henry Ford understood, perhaps apocryphally but correctly in principle, that his workers needed to earn enough to buy his cars. The AI economy is eliminating the workers and expecting the cars to keep selling" -- Owen McGrann #genai https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

2am-5am are called the Wee Hours because that's when you have to get up to use the bathroom

RE: https://mstdn.social/@cammerman/116664833626354108 This is worth your time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116664888403341312 🧵

A legend, an icon and a trailblazer.

Not done one of those "fly into a panic because number go down" special offers in a while, so: Father's Day's coming. 10% off annual subs AND I'll throw in a three book for any dads (or, frankly, anyone else) who might like it. Come on Rodney, you know it makes sense.

Everyone talks about not having senior devs in the future because we’re replacing the juniors with LLMs, but nobody’s talking about losing senior devs now because people who are competent and care about the quality of their work are leaving this LLM-infested hellscape of a career path to go into […]

This is perhaps the thing that's annoyed me most about this government. They have had an opportunity to do something important AND in their political self-interest and instead chose to ignore it.

I had a small moment of delight today. I saw a tape — yes, a cassette tape! — on the side of the road with the tape blowing in the wind. It made me realize how common that sight used to be, and how long it had been since I'd seen it. At some point in my past, I saw a broken tape on the road […]

Sometimes, you can hit 2 for the price of one, and the damage is much greater than the sum of the strikes. #ai #meme #mastoart #aiart

How many £millions do English water companies gouge from their customers only to be unable to deliver the basic product they gouge so much for? apple.news/AyhNF4ZCQQLm...

Big let down, to be honest

Like most people who like writing, I keep notes. Sometimes, I’ll go back through the notes and find something that’s quite lovely. Such as my description of Blairism as “the political equivalent of a late-period Genesis album”.

A hundred watts is a guy and every time I make a cup of tea that's like having eighteen guys in my kitchen pedalling on static bikes hooked up to dynamos sweating while I moan "This kettle takes ages, I miss English kettles that run on thirty guys"

Some of them have occasionally been honest about the strategy. Helen Joyce, 5/25/22: "We can't win this by saying you know there's 60 x million people in this country and we've got to persuade all of them or a great majority of them. We've got to get through to the decision makers."

Imagine for a moment what he could do if he were the prime minister, had a legislative majority, and appointed both the Chancellor and the Culture Secretary.

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #ai #openknowledge #berlin

My guillotine investments continuing to look prudent https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98rqld1j3yo

Bit late for handwringing at the Guardian chaps.

Pondering why Method I (4d6 drop lowest arrange as desired) is the only one which survived. Stains are probably tea or coffee. Probably.

Add these to your toolkit: https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/force-the-oppressor-to-make-a-lose-lose-choice/

We had the best possible deal with the EU. We had a deal other countries would have killed for. We aren’t getting that deal back. Nothing even close. What a terrible bloody choice that was.

Doing some old school 1e character generation (METHOD III!) and just wanted to record this roll for posterity. :)

That sad moment when I realise I ate the last of the ice cream yesterday…

bro, goddamn bro

Harry Potter pays for this shit, remember.... #transphobia #ehrc #lgbtqia #TERFIsland #jkrowling #epsteinClass #ukpol #ukpolitics

My informal metric for the health of the morale of a company is how much shitposting and bantering folks feel like doing. When all the channels are quiet aside from "work speak", it's a real real bad sign.

Waiting in Leicester Square to go see Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm, a film I have never seen before and about which I know exactly three things: - It’s about Lawrence of Arabia - Omar Sharif’s in it - There’s this one really awesome shot with someone riding towards camera

I know you're sick of it, but the key to political messaging is repetition: A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

It's that time of year again, had the first Properly Hot Few Days, it's time for the annual "Exhaust Fan Beats The Shit Outta Air Conditioning" post But this time I've got a graph! I started to caption it but I figured fuckit I'll explain it right here in the […] [Original post on retro.social]

i love my town (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ ☆ ♥ 💖 https://www.thestranger.com/furry/the-seattle-opera-hosted-its-first-official-furry-night/ #seattle #furry

The choice before Labour is quite simple They've had two years in which the departing prime minister basically failed to make a single 'hard decision that will pay off in 2028-9', and indeed who has actively punted a lot of political pain into 2028-9. Rightly they are gonna make an urgent change.

I think this may be the best parenthetical direction I've ever seen.

We all blame the change to the subscriber-growth model, and that was a factor, but end of day a bunch of limited series with sexy movie stars you couldn't get any other way, and fun new ideas, and also easier to promote, are just more fun than making 100 solid episodes of good television.

You people have no idea how much of TV got broken because empty-inside execs wanted to sound cool at parties, and "15 episodes a year of really popular TV" was just not cool.