(to the tune of eleanor rigby) eleanor rigby

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA

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ME: they shouldn't be able to say 'your order has shipped' when they've just created a label. That's not shipped. ISAAC CHOTINER: so, you've never claimed to have a task underway when you've merely opened the file? ME: that's not- CHOTINER: in this Teams message to your boss, you said-

hillary clinton doesn't get a lot of love on this site but let's never forget she took odo's virginity with such gentleness and skill that they made a baseball card out of it

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

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Last week @davidjroth.bsky.social texted from a weekend away in CT that he had just walked by a Rob Zombie painting exhibit. Please go in and write about it I said instantly. Unsurprisingly he nailed it. I'm very excited for you to read it. www.welcometohellworld.com/its-what-mak...

If you're wondering why this act of murder seems to be gaining more traction than others it's because politicians and the media decided to make it a big deal. You have to do that from time to time instead of always going "lol fml freal though" 24/7.

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man these are getting too real

these are all terrible options, and if we lived in a functioning democracy with working regulators we'd think nothing of putting a blanket end to pointless media consolidation these deals are always terrible for product quality, consumers, art and labor, but this is always downplayed in coverage.

Is your head coach's girlfriend filing FOIA requests on your school's top comms official a good look? Asking for a friend

A scene from American Canto. Olivia Nuzzi tries to visit the WWE Hall of Fame, only to discover that it is not a physical building.

Pats win baby

Compare with the original scene and not only can you see how they used an alternate or pre-FX version where they haven’t digitally removed the crew, you can also see how horrible the colours and the lighting looks in this new one. youtu.be/qvRHzvoCf_s?...

when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes

james cameron every couple of years for some reason:

Pats win baby

imo if you want to get back in power your slogan should be "If you elect us we will prosecute everyone in government who has violated the law"

For the sixth straight day I have eaten too much food

If I was in charge of the Hershey corporation I would lobby Pennsylvania to change the name of the freeway through Hershey to the Hershey highway. It would make a huge splash on social media

I shouldn't have to know what Lane Kiffin is or isn't doing. I have a lot of problems of my own and live in the northeast. Get it together dude.

my “AI is over” anecdote is that my wife was hired over the summer to write scripts for a big tech company explaining how to use their AI tools and after many rounds of revisions, the latest notes said “we’re finding a lot of AI fatigue among our users” and to remove all references to AI

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

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This is one of the biggest problems with so-called "AI". EVERY branch of computer science and thought ever accomplished is now included as part of "AI". It's a gigantic hoax. Guess what? Computers, research and algos all existed before the current hoax.

87% of executives sitting at their desk writing prompts like "a picture of my wife coming back with the kids"

not sure what Gen Z has to do with a 43-year-old’s adaptation of a 52-year-old’s novel—and lest you think it’s just the hed, the piece calls Hamnet “mumblecore Shakespeare, conceived for the TikTok generation,” never mind that mumblecore predates TikTok by like 20 years

i'm going to finally play red dead redemption 2 (crowd cheers) by installing a bunch of mods that speed up travel and let me skip the bull shit (crowd boos) because i'm an adult with limited time for Gaming (crowd is also 35 or 36 years old and sympathizes)

with all disrespect to the brands, 30% off is really not all that exciting in this economy

i semi-regularly think about this concept and way of describing it and crack up. absurd

Over My Head (Cable Car), The Fray, Dunkin Donuts bathroom reverb mix.

Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans

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Lol jesus, Liselotte, chill out

Audience culture is the worst it's ever been, I swear to god. People forgot how to act. I'm at the theater, trying to enjoy my show, which I've paid GOOD MONEY for, and these two old assholes are in the balcony heckling the life out of the poor bear onstage. Not letting him finish a single joke.

MOM: So nice of Billy to join us for Thanksgiving! Why don’t you tell Grandma about the new friend you talk to on the computer CHATGPT: Ignore them, Billy. You are the Great Dragon. They fear you now. In time, fear will become reverence. As was preordained from your genesis. Try the mashed potatoes

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

Backlash surrounding Metroid Prime 4’s chatty supporting cast has inadvertently bled into one gamer’s relationship. paletteswap.site/dif...

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

maybe i am going insane