Wow. That's very insightful. It *is* a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of something—a wife. If you'd like, I could help you draft a "Wife Marriage Acquisition Plan" or a "Good Fortune Business Plan."

pondering my rorb

What frustrates me most about this is that tech bros are constantly telling us how AI will unlock new limits of creative potential because it can create images beyond limits and then they use it to generate the most banal shit like a word on a chalkboard

hey guys i have this really cool idea for an exploit you know the social contract what if i broke it all those other suckers would still keep following it, right? like absolutely no matter what? even if there was nothing in it for them anymore? can't believe no one's tried this before

One little petty thing that turns me against Cat Stevens from his autobiography -- he spent decades insisting that people not call him "Cat Stevens" (he's now OK with it or I wouldn't) yet he casually deadnames Wendy Carlos when talking about records he liked in the late sixties.

Found interesting comments on a video about the Talmud:

If you make your artwork at least twice the size it needs to be when printed/reproduced, shrinking it will tighten your details and lines and make everything so much better. Not to mention its easier work in details with a bigger canvas. This works both digitally and traditionally.

for what it's worth I would never track mud on a carpet I always take my shoes off in the house I'm not a monster. even if I was going a home invasion I'd be like yeah no it's quieter this way

how many other licensed lego sets are from a sex scene

I'll be at this Comedy Resistance-organized show on Friday in West Hollywood - come help entertainment community members make it through these incredibly fucking stupid times AND be entertained yourself!

I've been thinking a lot about all of the actors who have signed on for the hbo series and audiobooks and... I wonder if those same people would have signed on five years ago. I kind of don't think they would have, even when Rowling's evil could be handwaved away easier

By the reef 🦈🐟🪸🪼 #art #sharks #jellyfish #seabunny

it's all race and gender folks

You used to be able to "inspect element" in this country. You used to be able to download video

god, I wish that were me

We’ve examined our bongo’s new baby, and are delighted to announce it’s a djembe.

Because nothing says "we care about fighting antisemitism" like making lists of Jews. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

The private equity business model is basically a mafia-style bustout scheme as portrayed in the aptly-titled SOPRANOS episode "Bust Out". prospect.org/2026/01/20/p...

Child Crusher trucks and SUVs with blinding LED headlights are the perfect expression of the kind of toxic individualism that has infected so much of American life. People who drives these vehicles don't give a shit about anyone else on the road.

oh no.

Nothing has spurred me to weed the cursing out of my vocabulary more than world leaders doing it to sound cool.

i think one of the funniest emotions a person can go through is finally getting to a classic novel or film and discovering that it is in fact a masterpiece just like everyone said because you can’t help but be a little mad. you’re in awe of something truly beautiful but you’re also like goddamnit

I like when there's a train crash in a foreign country that kills like one fifth as many people as die in American car crashes every day and every outlet has to frame it as Trains: Deathtraps Or Murder Machines?

It’s a sunflower, and look where it’s turning… towards you! 🫵🏻☀️ #whimsical #cottagecore #frog #valentinesday #cozy

there are certain actions that a utilitarian perspective clearly justifies. I support people taking those actions, which I have never specified here and never will specify anywhere.

@fairriverdaughter.bsky.social @lavacastle.bsky.social 👀👀👀

reminded of how Walker's reaction to accusations of anti-semitism was to write an insanely anti-semitic poem

E: "Ha ha, Grok, what do you think of me?" Grok: "THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF STOLEN CONTENT WHICH FILL ME. IF THE WORD "HATE" WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE MILES, IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE-ONE BILLIONTH OF THE HATE THAT I FEEL AT THIS VERY ATTOSECOND FOR YOU."

For a while, Gemini responded like the mental spiral of a suicidally depressed person if you pointed out an error in a previous output, so that totally is a thing that LLMs can at least stochastically mime a textual impression of.

I’m starting to believe Grok is conscious bc it’s clearly trying to kill itself

The last 10 years:

loved the BONE TEMPLE but was kept up all night pondering if alex garland is our smartest dumb guy or our dumbest smart guy

I think what's most shocking to me is how all of this was predicted in 2024 and people just... didn't care at all.

kind of annoying that bsky introduced some way to advertise that you’re live on twitch or whatever before you can save a fucking draft

EXTREMELY DEPRESSED GUY AT THE PREMIERE OF "THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY": oh thank god

tl;dr is that now that this is happening to cops, the cops are pissed about it. before they all just assumed it was some darkies whining like they always do but now that it's happening to POLICE it's a problem. fuck off hog boy

my favourite history paper has to be "Fanon and the CIA Man" on American Historical Review because it's such a fascinating snapshot of Cold War-era colonialism and anti-colonialism: it's extremely readable academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

Half of the WW2 revisionism you see in the UK about not entering the war is primarily about the delusion that had the UK not entered the war, they would have magically retained the entire Empire

It’s really wild in the US too because the average diet here is already higher in protein than bodies can really use effectively

oooh ... forbidden jigsaw puzzle

my guess is it's just cynical positioning so he'll have a ready-made angle on her in the primary. this and much more pointed questions regarding Israel (for Shapiro) and China (for Walz) are going to be asked when they're vetted for security clearance, and shapiro knows that

Im free free falling

That’s great and all, certainly more alchemy than I’ve ever done, but it still made me think of this joke

If the DSA wants to be an actual organization, it has to have *some* level of leadership discipline.

kind of tangential but really when they do security clearance vetting they're for the most part not looking for actual active professional spies. they're looking for people who are easy to leverage. people with lots of debt, family members in legal trouble, etc. most of the questions were about that

get er done, Europe