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soylent green but with muppets: thread

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

Reminds me of the late, great Jilly Cooper, who taught her daughter that 'pardon' is a much worse word than 'fuck'. "We don't live in fucking Pardonia, darling."

It would be a sea change in our political economy, yes, in much the way that the earth folding itself into a mobius strip inception-style would be a sea change in our geography and physics.

There is nothing at all that anybody could say to anybody else - with AI assistance or without - that would be remotely as humiliating as what Elon is doing to himself here. I cringed so hard I pooed two vertebrae.

"All service members are reminded that they have a legal obligation... to obey *lawful orders and that orders are presumed to be lawful*" (my emphasis) Um, so Hegseth has just stated in other words what Kelly said? Seems like you've exculpated him there, Tweety Pete

He was probably tired of all the winning anyway

dear men: plz find a route to self-actualization that doesn’t run through someone else’s uterus

A Star is Born (1937) A Star is Born (1954) A Star is Born (1976) A Star is Born (2018)

"If like me you have no actual friends you can joke with, my Abusatron 3000 has all the slurs you could want!"

Chuck Schumer asking his imaginary Republican friends what the fuck is going on

There's, damning with faint praise, and then there's this which is more akin to, skewering with a rusted blade

"I only ever targeted them *as a group*"

Oh Nigel was doing gentle and kind racism, stand down everyone

jfc that is not at all what tankie means

Tell us again how you became Creative Director at fashion house Louis Vuitton from being a music producer, Mr Williams

Kubikschach was invented in 1851, somewhat before the Federation WTF are you talking about?

The same gallon in the UK costs approximately 6.11 GBP, or 8 USD

Katy Perry should be shot back into space, but, like, to stay there

Fuck the IDF

"I can't see them in photos, so I've concluded they just weren't there. I am smart." NYT should rename itself LCD

And when international students look at increased cost and decreased value? Labour have thought about what they'll do in the event that her plan fails disastrously and there's no funding for HE, right? Not like this Government to announce ill-thought policy on the fly and hope the vibes work

universities got a tiny fee rise that was immediately wiped out by the national insurance raises. they used international student fees to subsidise capped domestic fees and now that’s going to be taken away too. universities are going to collapse and thousands of jobs will go with each collapse.

*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

"Can the Devil really head the Church?"

I've seen this one before. Iraq-It Ralph or something

They're not going to stop until someone stops them

He's Cartman post Cheezy Puffs

movie posters featuring the muppets: thread

Gee, it's a real headscratcher Could the current racist who repeatedly makes racist claims currently also have been racist as a teenager? It's like the riddle of the fucking Sphinx, mate

"And as it was in the beginning, so shall it be in the end That bullshit is bullshit, it just goes by different names ..."

lol the chief abandoner abandons yet again. Color me shocked!

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

Thinking it's eerie that an LLM can talk about its own consciousness is like asking an LLM where Abraham Lincoln was shot and then assuming it's a time traveler because it says "Ford's Theatre." It doesn't "know" things from first hand experience, it parrots them from the data it was trained on.

Until they train a LLM on input that contains no writings about consciousness and then ask it to describe its own consciousness, and it can, it's all just stochastic parroting.

It takes 225 million years or so for the Solar System to make one orbit around the galaxy. Sharks evolved long enough ago that they’ve done it twice.

God I love how ridiculously camp it all is. I feel genuinely so sad for those men who reject *anything* which smacks of joy and sparkle. LOOK AT THIS

Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.

Qu'ils aillent se faire foutre avec un gros menhir pdm

I'm up for doing this...

Mamdani is clearly so smart and so charismatic. I'm sure he had no problem leading Trump to right where he wanted him for the purposes of this meeting & presser. Mind you, I don't expect this to hold. We know Trump listens to whoever spoke to him last.

This is a super fun book -- I highly recommend it! (Yes, I'm biased, but I'm also right about this.)

I nominate KEY & PEELE for this vital role.

Well, sure, Ben Shapiro has his own YouTube channel and everything

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Also do share this if you feel like being kind. Making a serialised-novel-podcast-stroke-online-world is a mad thing to do with your time, probably. I will be very pleased if people get into it.

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