a really weedy guy just asked me 'can you bench press more than me? probably right?' and to make him feel better I just said 'what's bench pressing again?'

This is why I don’t read

I'm researching a piece and I landed on this really unhinged article about coming to terms with not liking Taylor Swift's new album; I'm just impressed that she ran an MLM with such a devoted downline for this long and the cracks are only just starting to show www.yourtango.com/entertainmen...

Today is a really bad day for the rapture to happen because we can finally see time crystals for the first time ever — oh they’re going to use them to detect fraudulent banknotes nvm the rapture may continue www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Making a podcast series about scams right now and am realising that the basis for so many MLM type things is "if you give me money I will show you how to get rich"

Did anyone else find the UK wide government emergency test alert noise very soothing

It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed. This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com. I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe. My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.

With fucktopus I can swear at so many people/things at once

After looking into it a bit more I’ve realised I’m dyslexic and now instead of feeling bad about myself for not being able to read anything for longer than five mins I just get an AI trained on Gwenyth Platrow’s voice to read it for me

I’m in Bristol just now and let me tell you it’s a lot of white people vaping

Someone just sent me this and I didn't understand what the big deal was at first because I'm so desensitised to pathetic men anthropomorphising these models in every direction

I actually feel deeply relaxed now that I know I can just defer all personal and societal issues to some point in the future when AGI exists, it's like a weight off

nowadays when I can't solve a problem I've just defaulted to saying "ugh let's just wait until AGI exists and then it will tell us what to do. Should be any day now"

Does anyone know what this flying thing is that clearly doesn’t have a pilot but also isn’t like a consumer drone that a teenage boy would buy

The universe is actually too big for me can I have something smaller pls

Ok I’m disabling the family shared calendar because I need to take my cat to the vet and he is CONVENIENTLY absent 😤

This is actually what I’ve been posting on this whole time…

Me at age 16, to my grandma asking me what I’m going to do with my life: sorry I don’t speak Greek xx

Ah good I see everything is in order here on.ft.com/450mkBn Tesla board awards $30bn of shares to Elon Musk

Making ‘love you, bye’ my email signature on all accounts

One: when are we going to stop fetishising intelligence Two: when are we going to stop turning everything a white male billionaire says into a headline

Watching ASMR on x2 speed to relax faster

You’ve heard of picky bits but what about pissy bits (booze), trippy bits (drugs), and titty bits (…sex?)

This two-parter has been so hard/satisfying to produce and I think if you care even slightly about the trajectory the power and politics that governs AI right now I encourage you to listen -- we intentionally went out to talk to researchers and practitioners who think differently about this!

I want my new tattoo looked fucked up like this forever

Still thinking about the unreleased Bon appetite episodes from Reply All

Type one diabetes Barbie

My only straight friend just sent me this what do I do

I’m at a conference and there are vaginas on this slide

I’m in Athens and the pavement is really slippery for DMs which is a new kind of infrastructural homophobia that I’ve never experienced before

You don’t need ‘pattern recognition’ to understand what Meredith Whitaker is doing with Signal, she’s very open and public about it lol

We need a cybertruck level recall on straight men I think

Why do I have an all day event in my PERSONAL calendar that just says ‘terrible’???

I know this really isn’t the time but honestly I hate rainbows

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Looks like people are having time accepting the blanket

I’m tired of not knowing how to feel about the news can someone just do weekly roundups but in animated musical so I don’t get bored

U.S. economy is experiencing ‘death by a thousand cuts’, says Deutsche Bank, as confidence in national debt management erodes. fortune.com/2025/05/20/u...

I just bought this fucked up blanket

Polycrisis? Dont you mean… polycule?

*20ish years ago* Everyone: hey they just invented the McFlurry it’s amazing you should try it Me: guys don’t you see, this isn’t ice cream, this is a series of brand partnerships that benefit only the ruling capitalist class and uphold oppressive systems by convincing us that sprinkles are liber-

Making a game about feeling sad. Gonna call it… Sad Game

My mum just bought me a terf book for my birthday and told me to ‘keep an open mind’ so I’m looking forward to not speaking to her for the next eight months or so x

I was in the writers room for this demo and Anna and Pavle are both amazing and this is gonna be a great game about gay as fuck witches racing on broomsticks so you better KICKSTART

Why yes that is a le creuset dog bowl

I also enjoy having my sexuality affirmed by a robot

How has he become such an icon overnight

gonna make you question your own existence

If you ignore me, I will become more ignored than you can possibly imagine

We've reached a point now where my gf will only hang out with me if we are on a roof terrace and she has one of these in her hand