As a moderate when it comes to reforming tech I think any person responsible for devices trying to predict behaviour should be trampled underfoot by wild horses

This is such a perfect encapsulation of why bagpipes were such a good accompaniment to soldiers marching into battle. It just works.

Cartoonist Jon Kudelka has passed away, his wife Margaret has confirmed. www.facebook.com/margaret.kud...

hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”

Gervais is one of those guys where sure, I never agreed with any of his positions. But also I had never enjoyed any of his comedy which always felt like it carried the same sneering smug tone as everything else he did. Outside of reactionary dickweeds I never understood what anyone got out of him.

*Currently every other day as we are super busy getting our sister project birdbrainer.app up and running 👍 Please do check it out when you can! ❤️🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

"Multi-agent Claudeswarm" is one of the worst turns of phrase I have ever had the misfortune to register

In High School I kind of knew that listening to music was a done thing, but didn't have any real idea about music generally so my iPod shuffle was a mess. A girl curious about what I had been listening to grabbed my headphones once, and was bamboozled by the weird kids music that was playing.

Jacob Bethell is the only cricketer to be averaging single figures in 1st knocks and triple figures in 2nd knocks in Test cricket Jacob Bethell Test averages 1st inns: 9.16 2nd inns: 100.50 #AUSvENG

It's kind of wild that Elon Musk hasn't stopped people from generating child pornography with Grok. It's like, dude, Epstein's dead. You're never gonna get that island invite.

Knowing the usual demographics and approach of social media teams for government agencies I am really curious what the heck is happening that leads to content like this being published

My mind is not capable of imagining the wretched creatures who podcast "best of" episodes are for

Everyone wants to make grandiose unrealistic statements, but how many are willing to spend even one hour playing pretend with the unicorn puppet

The real takeaway here should be that toilet diagram - see the weak and inferior syphon system, exposed by its inability to flush an intruding rat.

Nothing more simple than Ashes cricket. You just roll out the bowler you've been keeping on ice for the test at the ground where he's the leading wicket taker, and watch him immediately start producing wickets #AUSvENG

The great thing about the Larian story is that the CEO can clarify and contextualise all he wants, but the backlash shows how genAI is so caustic to any brand that wants to produce media and I think that's beautiful.

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

These doinkuses aren't even in the legislation, talk about complying in advance...

Rogue One is a movie that fails because its characters are flat nothings and this is an entirely correct take

The injustice of an American dominated feed/social media is that Travis Head can be cooking off and nobody posts about it #ashes

This is like seeing the stat about CEOs waking early and deciding to solve poverty by sending poor people alarm clocks in the mail.

Having a post get even a mild amount of attention and just blocking every annoying reply probably confirms that I would never have a big account, even if able

Developing ethical porn in 2025 (I have watermarked every square inch with both the family trees of all participants and written statements of consent)

think most left-leaning folks underestimate the importance and impact of having your cadres in the bureaucracy as well as in elected positions

Someday I will get around to making my tabletop wargaming rage-bait video essay "Warhammer 40k is a skirmish game" but it's such low hanging fruit when GW will refer to 1500 points of Horus Heresy as a skirmish www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

It drives me insane to think back to the pre-Covid years of basically never being sick and then contrasting with now, having gotten it three times, regularly being wiped out by any random passing cold/flu/whatever.

I'm a soft touch on wanting people to be welcomed in/forgiven but even that doesn't extend this far. You need to do more than forgive yourself and blame others, which isn't a high bar.

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

This idea of a nazi phase circulates from time to time but what I've never been clear on is what exact shape that's expected to take. Is the average guy that gets deep into WW2 going through a Nazi phase? Because most of them are deep into Wehrmacht shit

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

For a friend's bachelor's party I ran a relatively brief game of "Fellas is it gay" by @ashthestampede.bsky.social and boy was it delightful. As soon as one of the fellas got "sailing underneath the Colossus of Rhodes" down as not gay it unlocked an entire world of whimsy

Nearby attraction that makes a compelling case to visit

It's a meow meow kitty cat kind of day #AFLGF

Total #AFLFinals experience for the GF named 23s 297 - BRIS 240 - GEEL Total #AFLGF experience 36 - BRIS (19 players) 20 - GEEL (13) #AFL

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

Honestly seems more like a French problem more than a gender one, but you really need to read the room on the timing of this shit

This is the latest despicable action in a series of despicable actions from a despicable regime, but also I find it infuriating that they just don't seem to understand what government actually is or how it works

The appropriate response to people telling you to be civil to people who want to oppress other people is to tell them to get fucked

It's a shame the internet isn't real, maybe I could have found someone who cared any amount about the ending of Crypt Custodian like I do

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

Slightly diminish a book Howl's Unmoving Castle

1️⃣ Post-apocalyptic 2️⃣ 1993* 3️⃣ Horse & musket 4️⃣ The Iron Kingdoms (2d6 system era) 5️⃣ Anything Redwall-esque (Mouseguard, Bloomburrow, etc.) *Specifically because I have stuff written up using it very specifically, and this is my list dang it.

at their core, trans rights, abortion rights, and vaccine rights are actually all the same issue: they’re all about bodily autonomy, and the willingness to concede any of them puts the others at risk.

The present me that hyperfixates on specific things needs to start doing a better job of leaving clearly labelled instructions and explanations for the future me, returning from other nonsense, who has now forgotten every piece of context

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

If I've said it once I'll say it a thousand times but the Zoomers are God's weakest generation

I too feel nervous that we have not, as a society, done enough to sufficiently comfort men who use homophobic slurs in anger. Truly one of the great at-risk groups.

In a way that undercuts the satirical intention I'm just getting a lot of genuine enjoyment out of how much he loves that prod