Stop fucking posting rage bait by assholes farmed from X

This is already one of the best films on Mubi. It deserves a wider audience.

People should stop waiting for overdue sequels like The Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5, because they will likely be huge disappointments, if they are ever even made. Take joy in the older games, and find new ones to play.

My resolution for the new year is the same as all years before: not to combust spontaneously.

Requiescat in potato

Bought most of the gifts I gave from Bluesky, including @artologica.net @paperbackparadise.bsky.social and @thelifeofsharks.com -- all were well received!

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Who does he think all the scientists and musicians and mathematicians were throughout the ages: all neurotypical? Also, in the 1980s a quarter of Ireland could not eat gluten, and Jan Morris had already come out.

Autocorrect corrupts. Absolute autocorrect corrupts absolutely.

Look, sometimes I use Australian spelling, sometimes I use an obscure 18th-century Irish dictionary, and much of my fact-checking is based on a 1972 Rand McNally globe: but the important thing is, I dew it my whey.

Occam's cheese knife

Worth reading. Similar techniques to the fake networks used on the Steam gaming platform to defraud people of virtual items/their accounts.

In a time where populists are using the press more effectively than mainstream policians it feels a good time to publish on proto-populists doing the same in 1806 So if you fancy a reappraisal of William Cobbett's early radical influence, this one is for you onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The existence of Pearl Jam implies the existence of Zildjian Marmalade.

Items/powers gated behind such low, or so many levels of, RNG that they are not in any meaningful sense available to the average player.

Was talking to a 20-something about how I was once in the front row at an Etta James concert and his eyes lit up. Didn't have to explain who she was. Some of these kids are all right.

@swordsjew.bsky.social This kind of looks like something you should know about.

Such a versatile actor. Will never forget what he brought to The Kingdom (Riget).

It appears we need a new meta-portmanteau word for misogynoir and mansplaining. Mansplogynoir?

The tech monopolies need to be dismantled, and some of their leaders sent to The Hague for crimes against humanity.

Scientists should graduate ready to share what they know, effectively. Even the top science programs in our country do not require science communication and public engagement for their graduates. This is dangerous. Let's change the future. Sign the petition to make a difference: bit.ly/3LbnfHB

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NEW: I had a very interesting talk with Guillermo del Toro about Frankenstein, AI, tech bros, and whether Mary Shelley really kept Percy Bysshe Shelley's charred heart after he died. Also, GDT says he hopes to start shooting 'The Buried Giant' next year. (!!!) www.wired.com/story/guille...

The existence of trombones implies the existence of tromcarapaces.

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

Making it impossible to bind the W key to anything other than an uninterruptible minute-long dance emote.

Thomas Hobbes met Galileo, and easily lived long enough that he could have bought medicines from the apothecary of the original Merck, which eventually developed into the pharmaceutical company we know by that name.

She's a knight, an archbishop, and a nurse. Missed opportunity to go with Lawful good templar named as...

I'm going to call this Laysplaining

His use of PCR sparked a movement that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people. Dr. Blake’s testing alone helped to exonerate more than 50, including several sentenced to death. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

Not surprised that Killing Floor 3 is by most accounts a failure. I played plenty of KF1 & 2, both enjoyable, but over the past decade there were many missteps which pointed to this being the likely outcome.

Bit of a change for a transphobe to try to make everyone else obsess about _their_ genitals.

Astonishing how little time it took the bleak vision of regulated nationalized comedy as imagined by @veradrew22.bsky.social to become reality.

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞 👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

You can simultaneously believe that it was wrong to shoot Kirk, and that Kirk promoted the same stochastic terrorism which contributed to his being shot.

Sometimes I feel like I'm the @rubenbolling.bsky.social character Percy Dunwoody, and therefore just don't understand the future I've wandered into. But there's also a non-zero chance that the future itself is incredibly stupid.

WB Yeats, Cú Chulainn, and Bob Geldof?

The mosquito? Fight other enemies? I hardly see how that's possible, unless...

AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."

Who could have foreseen that an East Coast program for exploiting women would become a much more lucrative West Coast program for exploiting women?

Folks, Norwegian use of AI at its best: a breakfast baby, and 2 identical-twin Jon Hamm types.

In one of our archive strong rooms there is a shelf. The shelf does not contain the most exciting or interesting item in the archive but it does contain something amazing. Read this short thread to find out more. 🧵👇

Hey fellow authors! File your claim now to punish this AI company from stealing your work without compensation. If we punish them hard enough maybe "theft-as-business model" will stop. www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Thing with GenAI "art": ADHD types like me spend all day trying to suppress The Voice that says: "Ooh, ooh, draw a mascot for a team called the Flying Skunks." Or: "Write a troubadour-style song about rutabagas." We just don't burn down the planet and rip everyone off while doing it.

Hello, Butlerian Hotline? Yeah, it's time.

Slightly diminish a band: They Might Be Kinda Tall @tmbg.bsky.social

I take a case-by-case fiat approach of • some DMs but not others • some crypto but not others • some porn but not others etc.

Author @caulfieldtim.bsky.social has spent decades studying how health and science are represented in the public sphere—and things have never been as dire as they are right now. Here, Caulfield outlines some of the troubling trends keeping him up at night: thewalrus.ca/before-you-share...

"Men will never rest till they've spoiled the Earth and destroyed the animals." -Richard Adams, "Watership Down" (1972)