For Burial Magazine, a new set of linked epigrams — on Thomas Browne, transi tombs, Sudafed, citationality and more: burialmagazine.neocities.org/nosecondburial

@saintsoftness.bsky.social “my nightly pseudoephedrine devotion; two more salvific red no. 40 tablets” just electrocuted my entire soul, thank you

pretty wild that the sturmabteilung straight up kidnapped a NZ citizen and sent them to a concentration camp without a trial, but our government is too busy fellating landlords to even notice

Hannah Arendt, 1969.

the new zealand government’s proposed category of “biological woman” implies the existence of other, more mechanised categories

If you're looking for a commencement speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI... that's me! Same goes if you're looking for a conference speaker or a retreat speaker or a children's birthday party speaker who won't get booed for talking about AI. www.jerthorp.me/speaking

If you’re struggling to frame @katie-drummond.bsky.social’s Steyer interview, try this: Could a socially competent ten year old extricate themselves from that faux-pas without coming across like a massive tool? Could you? He didn’t even try, he just went straight to some awful name-drop attempt.

it’s weird how despite all this efficiency you’re still not allowed to replace the minister of finance with AI

Floof 2

Floof

Song of Achilles The Once and Future King A Wizard of Earthsea

This is a delight. explorer.samismith.com

Pomeranian, pittbull, mastiff, labrador, spaniel, pug.

Mr. White, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Orange, Mr. Brown, Mr. Pink, and Mr. Blue.

things ramones want: ✅ be your boyfriend ✅ be sedated ✅ sniff some glue things ramones don’t want: ❌ be buried in a pet samatary ❌ grow up ❌ walk around with you thanks for coming to my ted talk

Black powder firearms manufactured before 1900 CE are completely unregulated in NZ: no license required, no registration requirement. It’s a separate offence to hold more than 15kg of gunpowder, however, which is less than you would need to hit anything with a musket.

Michael Bay's Bluey The Movie?

Leni Riefenstahl’s 101 Dalmatians

Seth Rogen’s All Quiet On The Western Front

Edgar Wright's Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles

Werner Herzog’s Eat Pray Love

Onceit, I really think you should take another pass at this

One of my deeply held unpopular beliefs is that it is intrinsically unethical to accept payment for any service you are unqualified to perform, and that includes confidently drawing a ministerial salary for a role you don’t know enough about to do.

all day: Alexa is my best friend! She helps me have tasks not fall out of my brain! timers! unit conversions! bad jokes! view of my security cameras in my safe suburban neighborhood! I love mass surveillance! She meows bc I turned on cat mode :)) me rn: Alexa woke the baby. Death to the clankers.

Slightly increase a band Dorothy

Slightly increase a band The Arcade Inferno

Slightly increase a band Herbs and Spices

Slightly increase a band Jenny Lewis and the Watson Triplets

Slightly increase a band Bismuth Zeppelin

Slightly increase a band Yelling Heads

announcing my extreme age: man, I had an entire computer in college that had 4Mb of memory & now a freaking *browser tab* needs 141???

Post your warning sign

Ah but history does record That Bob and Charlie Ford Have laid poor Jesse in his grave

If I was facing questions at work about absenteeism and inappropriate alcohol use, I would simply not give away bottles of bourbon with my name on them. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It turns out I love being not dead and you can't actually make me feel bad about it! Sorry! LOL

I am so excited that I'm going to live long enough to find out if these meds fuck me up! Without them I'm pretty sure I would already be dead!

what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground how can you run when you know

The one Android device I have that isn’t chained up in the basement is set to permanent “Do Not Disturb” mode and yet somehow still sends at least one notification a day. Today it was “tell Google your birthday!”,which ranks slightly below yubitsume on my list of supposedly fun things I’ll never do.

Do what they did with Masterchef UK and just replace the creeper with a woman chef

bolsonaro quietly seething that giuliani gets to be in the hospital

Slightly diminish a book The Ending Story

Slightly diminish a book One Hundred Days of Solitude

the thing about with every ~celebrity's approach to LLMs is that they approach the form of the thing with zero care and then take its output with utmost seriousness and the result is a high-speed conveyor belt of people flying directly off the rails and making cartoon-whistle sounds all the way down

hackers like there’s any question

Road-runner painted tunnel shorts

ok for serious though, what movie are you pulling up and just pasting on the nearest wall?

dawkins has been so consistently flawlessly wrong about basically everything since roughly 1980 that I’m starting to wonder if maybe I bet wrong on atheism as well

every time somebody / something says “wash your hands” without “wear a mask,” i hear a medieval peasant saying something about burying a potato at midnight or wearing a pomander