Part of my job as a researcher has been to make lists of things. Mostly geolocating infrastructure. But the most significant moments of my career have been when clients have asked me to make a list of things I know shouldn't be put on a list, and I had to find the courage to tell them no.

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/Walking away from an overflowing toilet without looking back and putting on sunglasses like a cool action movie guy.

this is going to be overturned eventually, but: lol. lmao even

Oh no. Not him again. If I were a billionaire. First of all, I wouldn't be a billionaire anymore. Second of all I wouldn't be here. I'd be sitting in my various habitat trails built for the cats. You'd never hear from me again.

I should never have to see a billionaire's opinions on this site and every time I do, I should get a cash payout directly from them

… The inability of people to admit their fault and apologise has been ingrained into the mass plagiarism machines

"...even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts, while increasing their own conviction that they were right."

April fools jokes suck. boo. boo at you. boo.

Me to electricity:

my cool friend Ash achieved the impossible: ✨millennial homeownership!✨ plumbing passed inspection, and then failed, immediately and EXPENSIVELY. 🙃 she has no social media presence but she's always had my back so i'd like to have hers. here's her gofundme and a charity bundle i'm selling to help.

if you can take longer breaks from your phone there’s more there when you check the next time

I was told it was just a vibecession

A thing that litigants simply do not understand is that ChatGPT logs are not privileged and are fully discoverable, and until litigants actually realize that LLMs will be a bigger danger to litigants than to attorneys.

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

i was trying to explain to a friend the way new fonts look, so i made this graphic

STORE CLERK: i'm sorry sir but the store is closing BONO: *deep breath*

Yep! If you didn’t want us to hate your product, you should have eased off a bit on doing all the things we hate. Also, they still (all? almost all?) stole material without permission to train on. I don’t want to reward that.

Every time I log onto Zoom, it asks if I want AI help. I click no, don't ask again. It asks again Every document in Acrobat asks if I want an AI summary What exactly would a summary of a knitting pattern be, an image of the final project? I really just want AI to get up off my ass at this point.

I just had a product demo where the rep told us how to disable the AI agent without being prompted to do so.

I need 3 weeks ... one for fuck all ... second one is a warmup / transition period ... the third week for sure I'll get stuff done.

Beautiful George is one of our five donkeys (three full size and two minis). Make sure to zoom in on his wonderful stripey socks!

I can't stoop to his level, it hurts my back

I didn't know anything before about how tall that piece of shit isn't, but a lot of things suddenly make sense

Oh my god, this is how I lean down to talk to a new client’s dog, I was waiting for him to hand him a biscuit and tell him he was a brave little man

this risotto better be fuckin handsome after all this

to be fair several people did ask for it! they don't use Bluesky but they work for the venture capitalist firm that funds it! what could go wrong!

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

The liberals are trying to say that you can't die, sir. They're doubting you!

My downtroddwn face while doing a thumbs-up has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my thumbs-up

"but aren't they worried about-" no, they are very stupid. next question

still on step one then

Ah yes, the Marines, that classically easy-go-lucky group that never carries a grudge or takes unkindly to such blatant disrespect.

just learned that this incident happened at my straight up favorite restaurant in cupertino lol

The world is stupid, but I just watched a squirrel break into a car in the parking lot below me, steal a package of crackers, and escape to a nearby tree. So at least somebody is winning.

your grandparents voting for reagan

I’m still laughing about how Republicans cheered at CPAC when asked if they want to see impeachment hearings. 🤣

HOLD. THE. FUCK. UP. OH MY GOOOOODDDDDDDDD

you know you're doing something good and ethical when you have to make a disclaimer about how you don't do death markets

My "We don't allow bets on assassinations and murder" ad campaign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the ad campaign

Lmao there are billionaires poisoning every facet of our society and making everyone miserable and starting insane wars and incinerating the biosphere and there are people trying to tell me I should be angry at Muslims.

Body Positivity to me always had a fatal flaw, and I can demonstrate by asking you one simple question: Is donald trumps body beautiful? Body Neutrality is where its at.

People born today will never understand how aggressive some dudes were in the 2000s about needing to eat bacon to feel masculine. They'd make it their entire lifestyle & this was just one of the default types of guys that you'd encounter. Running into a "bacon guy" was just a normal part of life.

I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

They think everyone else is a clout seeker as void of moral commitments as they are. Not that these moral commitments are always good, mind you. But they can’t even imagine their existence, for better or worse.

Lest we forget... America's anti-choice movement has its roots in segregation and racism.

a crab and a lobster are the same creature but one is in landscape and the other is in portrait mode

I hope everyone whose job forces them to use AI starts going home early like "*shrug* No can do, Boss, out of tokens"