Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life. Transform a man into a fish and you enable him to roam the cool waters of the Atlantic, free from the burdens of the human world

i’m a rescue mom. no, not a pet parent. i love my tiny sewer child.

that poor dog looks so scared

what bluesky really needs is more unhinged stan accounts

really putting the rot in diderot

We’re really living through a renaissance in terms of the art of being a really evil guy. I can’t remember the last time there were so many different types of bespoke villains for us to abhor. Pretty cool if you’re into that sort of thing.

reminder:

The end product of all the Chotiner parodies is going to be recreating the Book of Job from first principles.

CHOTINER: So You created us right GOD: Yes CHOTINER: In Your image GOD: Yes CHOTINER: And sometimes we do bad things GOD: Oh Yes CHOTINER: And then you send plagues and floods GOD: OK I think I see where you are going with this

once again, if tylenol caused autism, america would have a better rail system

no damn ai chat bot could ever type "hi, please see attached, thanks!" into an email with the same endearing joie de vivre that i put into it every single time

The reason everything feels so unhinged right now is that everyone fucking hates the Republicans except the mainstream media and the Democrats, who are acting as sycophantic collaborators Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I pass by this school weekly and every time I feel a rush of despair.

We need a Hakeem Jeffries of the right.

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and one of the most influential voices in the conservative evangelical movement, has died at age 89

I appreciate that “brutalist cube built directly on top of an interstate highway” is going to be a hard sell for a lot of people but I think the Fall River city hall is pretty neat

I love reading Goodreads/Amazon reviews of books because people tell on themselves in the most amazing ways.

Everyone is talking about bikini baristas and no one is talking about how good this review is.

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

as the inventor of slicing a sandwich at a deli just enough that it looks like you have two clean halves but the bottom slice tears in a fucked up way when you try to separate the halves, i am honored to be nominated by our beloved president to head the food and drug administration

for the record, liking the musical rent is a profound moral and personal failing. no i have never seen it.

Steve Buscemi has the Christopher Walken issue where no matter who he's playing I'm just like "that's Steve Buscemi, hell yeah". To be clear this is not a problem

I know what the Constitution says, but we can't afford to change Commanders in Chief while we're in the midst of a Comically Large Ballroom Construction Project

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

god i fucking love the common loon

“illegal sea cucumber fishing”

well. at least there's new worms

now you gotta deep fry it and sell it at the state fair

It is wild how much of the LLM dementia seemingly is linked to ego. It's this weird fucking paradigm where because the LLM replicates a flattering manner, somehow these people get more confidence from using the AI than they would if they actually learned how to or just did the thing the AI is doing.

The fact that the phrase “premature anti-fascist” exists is proof that this is true

“reaches for easy, self-flattering answers” “accepts hierarchy” and “engages in othering” are all mental shortcuts that make you stupid.

it is extremely funny that the vegetables from VeggieTales are canonically soulless and will be annihilated when they die

Our beautiful president has taxed the poor, sent troops to stomp through playgrounds in California, opened up concentration camps, doubled the price of seemingly random goods for no discernible reason, and bombed a foreign country just to do it. And yet these ungrateful peasants are unhappy?

my strongest non-political opinion is that salads simply require too much chewing. it’s exhausting and i hate it. i shouldn’t need to do that much work to get full.

The two greatest evils known to mankind, A.I. and the person directly in front of you in line at the post office, have finally teamed up. We’re done.

RFK Jr: *eats a large spiderweb* we have convinced Crystal Light to end the tyranny of aspartame

even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"

The entire Republican Party platform is just gender all the way down.

similarly the numerous conservatives that NPR and PBS platformed and promoted did nothing to defend those institutions. if they are destroyed, the conservatives will move to sinecures at think tanks or right-wing funded media. they were placed there, in some sense TO destroy NPR/PBS.

The goal is also to make young people more dependent on their parents. That’s the real red meat for the MAGA base - Boomers and Xers whose children hate them.

isnt she classic

ISNT SHE BLUE JEAN

i'm so tired. i'm just so tired all the time

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.