The English speaking west currently running a demonstration on the fact that democracy and extreme wealth inequality cannot coexist

Relieved to say that season two of Jury Duty is good, actually, goddammit you crazy sons of bitches, you’ve done it again

I have suggestions for an overhaul of the entire education system buff.ly/pVh3dop

these people are running the world

Jamie’s playing Wasteland 3, which has a lot of banger music in it, but this cover of The Battle Hymn of the Republic particularly goes off youtu.be/SQ2Wok70GLs?...

Watching this country lose its mind over the Greens starting to be relevant once again makes me yearn for proportional representation

We've been doing it in New Zealand forever, like, why wouldn't you want a cool bird on your tenner?

Important to note that this started to change when universities became nominally accessible to everyone, instead of just the landed gentry

We urge the government in the strongest possible terms to rule out legalising this large-scale theft. And to AI companies we say: stop stealing our books! buff.ly/cYnU2Mw #DontStealThisBook

...and represents the impact on authors’ livelihoods and the publishing industry that is expected if the government proceeds with plans it has floated that would make it easier to train AI models on copyrighted work without a licence. 🧵

Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models. Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵

Why is there always money for dumb fuck ideas like this and not for things that are actually useful

imo all international women should be given a thousand pounds

People saying "prove LLMs aren't conscious by defining human consciousness" are hilarious to me, like, no I can't explain that. What I can explain is how an LLM works. That's how I know it's not like human consciousness.

Read a book about the tech cult that's destroying the world and got real made about the tech cult that's destroying the world ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/addicted-to-...

Read a book about the tech cult that's destroying the world and got real made about the tech cult that's destroying the world ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/addicted-to-...

We shouldn't have let so many millennials write columns about the struggles of adulting, look where it's led us

Also, the first five chapters are still free to read! calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

A week behind on Calamity's Trinket (I blame the Olympics) but it's out now! buff.ly/e5tEMMn

A week behind on Calamity's Trinket (I blame the Olympics) but it's out now! buff.ly/e5tEMMn

I want to nationalise sports, thank you for your time buff.ly/KZ7Zba2

I want to nationalise sports, thank you for your time buff.ly/KZ7Zba2

Thinking of how incandescent with rage my dead friends would be about this

I watched Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (free on YouTube) and I really think you should also watch Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (free on YouTube)

Peak valentimes: just saw a guy out for a run with a massive bunch of roses in one hand

Ok yes but see I was *decolonising* New Zealand, so

The success of Heated Rivalry shows how hungry people are for romance to be taken seriously by its creators. Everyone involved saw that story as worthy of their time and their skills and it shows and that’s why it’s so popular!

Currently watching Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (free on YouTube) and extremely recommend you also watch Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching (free on YouTube)

It sure is!

God I hope this Muppet Show works and they come back properly. End all internet based movie promotion and make them all go on this instead

Look I’ve been wanting him to shit himself to death in public so I guess sometimes you get half of what you want

Infuriating really that I do have no kids but I still don’t have three money

Tfw you got your best ideas by stealing from anime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A new question we need to be asking ourselves and each other is “to what end?” Not just why, but what is the ultimate point?

What’s the most inspiring song lyric of all time and why is it THAT GIRL THINKS SHE’S THE QUEEN OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD WELL I’VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU SHE IS

I would like all movies to have a second press tour with no one bound by NDAs or non-disparagement clauses, I think we deserve it

Give Nicholas Galitzine a full magical girl transformation or get tf out www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R-N...

Pretty sure he’s already going down in world history actually

Honestly this stuff feels similar to extremely online celebrities going insane over the last decade or so – having the option to only ever listen to people who validate you is corrosive to the brain!

Attention: I have fixed a tiny thing buff.ly/cgivgOK

Lot of people learning from this that the slutty hockey show was created by the co-creator of Letterkenny; real ones know him as the stoned intern from Slings & Arrows

A few years ago for Christmas I got Jamie the le creuset baked camembert dish, it is by far the bougiest thing in our house and it brings endless joy

Obligatory new year new sletter buff.ly/TREO1ww

I once helped put together a poetry anthology and can confirm that asking each individual artist is extremely hard and much more complicated than you’d expect And you fucking have to do it because they own their fucking work and have the fucking right to determine how it’s fucking used!

They have a stonking great majority after 15 years of Tory fuckery and they’re using it to clobber immigrants, disabled people, workers, protest groups, and lgbtq+ people and you don’t understand the extent of the dislike?

“Amazingly”

LOSER. SHIT.

I love the cinema! Save the cinema!