People like this guy should be set adrift on ice floes

so important to understand that it’s perfectly normal to be frustrated with a crying baby, you just need to have the emotional maturity to realize that negatively reacting would be insane

She was a hell of a woman

Conor here had to take a long pause in our correspondence about how he thinks I and all other immigrants, should be deported, because he was working abroad.

You might think this is a layout fuckup caused by too much vibe coding but it's actually a real interaction pattern called criss cross apple sauce, which is empirically proven to be better than doing it the right way around.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

so wait you basically can’t even use your hands at all unless you’re the weird guy at the end

"Hahaha, Kermit, that's hilarious, that really is. But have you seen The Odyssey yet? You really should. Take the whole gang, take Pig, take Bear. If you can see it in IMAX 70mm, you should, but anyway you see it, it's a great time at the theater."

Accusations of bias actually have specific content that can be assessed. The left attack the BBC for justifying a genocide, the right attack it for having too many black people on screen. These aren't equivalent extremes that cancel each other out leaving only the enlightened centre.

Why is it called the "World" Cup if they're only playing it in America??

Infantino: You get me that trophy case? Lacky: Sure did boss, real fuckin tacky just like you asked. Infantino: Perfect. Exactly what I wanted. Excellent work.

I'm supporting Spain but I don't have a Spanish jersey so me and five of my friends are going to walk up and down Grafton Street wearing identical schoolbags instead.

Could Excel be conscious? We surveyed more than Jan 1 1900 people to find out.

i think they have a deep desire for all of their opinions to be in the majority, so if seeing a black person in a movie ruins it for them (for instance) they really need that to be true for most other people, too. when it isn't it causes distress & makes them say silly things

I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years.

An actual two-sentence horror

A sequel to Troy (2004)

at its core the Backrooms is a story about how scary chairs are

Mamdani's critics in one screenshot, lol

Having won the war against trans people, the Spectator moves on to its next vulnerable target

Having kids was the most radicalising thing for me in wanting to transform streets. You suddenly realise how wild it is that our everyday environments not only completely exclude a massive part of the population, but also casually put them at very real risk of death.

Ah the article is by William MacAskill, the effective altruism guy who disappeared when his friend Sam Bankman-Fried got jailed. Remember that his thesis is that humanity's betterment depends on techbros becoming unimaginably wealthy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

As The War with Cars made the point recently. Yes it is basically a necessity to own a car in order to have children. That should be changed. You shouldn't need a car to get to school, the doctor, the shops, playground. These things should be reachable without a private vehicle.

Oh so all the stuff about housing delivery was the total bullshit everyone said it was huh, funny that Also government ministers current obsession with the hard-man act is so funny. What consultant got paid to advise them all to act like this

I absolutely agree with this, but I also think mass social detachment is a response to a world that has consistently demanded more while reciprocating less we study for jobs that don’t exist. we work but can’t afford our lives. we rinse our recyclables but billionaires destroy the world —

The 73 can’t get down Philipsburgh Ave because some people attending the All-Ireland Final decided that their parking convenience trumps Dublin’s need for public transport.

The right wing blow ups over movies & pop culture isn’t about making the movies fail. It’s about soaking up the oxygen with hate speech. Now that this movie is out, it’s onto the next. They just want a constant stream of hate speech surrounding whatever the next current event is. They’re succeeding.

Fuck it, time to remind everyone of BRODYQUEST www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygI-...

The Odyssey is probably a good diagnostic test: anyone who thought even for a moment the backlash was real has been brain poisoned by right-wing social media and they should immediately discontinue reading X, Facebook, etc.

The CHUDs all thought their movement killed off Star Wars after The Last Jedi and have been high off their own supply ever since. And now X: The Everything App has been warped into a validation machine for their own stupidity so they really did think they control the culture now (they don’t)

Polymarket lets people bet on wildfires. Wildfires that those samepeople could easily set in order to win money on this illegal gambling site. Big Tech is organized crime.

Twitter was wrong about Platner, wrong about the Odyssey, wrong about pretty much everything, but you know, it really reflects the mood of the people, you know?

elon musk going all in on "the odyssey being woke due to casting black people and a trans man in roles" is one of the most embarrassing things i've seen in a minute. conservatives genuinely think they took over the cultural zeitgeist, and that their ideology of hate became mainstream

I like how Platner was this singular irreplaceable figure and within ten seconds everyone was able to go “never mind this other guy is just as good”

The best metaphor I read was inagine you’re trying to get off oxy and your phone randomly dispensed tablets and every ad is getting you great this is

Perhaps "Demolition Man" wasn't a dystopia.

*Frank Black voice* Silence of the Lambs

The Devil's work is never Dunnes but he worked the till in Marks and Spencer

BBC burying the lede here until paragraph 3 - JKR bankrolled this and LOST. I repeat - JKR bankrolled this lawfare against the Belfast Film Festival and... LOST. It can be done! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is why NASA blows up all its rockets on the launchpad and elon musk is taking us to mars O wait hang on, the opposite. the opposite of that

I said long ago that ICE specifically looks for guys with a history of domestic violence/violence against kids to hire because the administration knows they're asking them to ignore all the laws in the name of hurting and torturing people and that requires a piece of trash to have the stomach for it

Nobody disputes that having access to a car in a car-dominated society is good. It gives one access to jobs, healthcare, food, education, social opportunities and more. All we're asking is for people to go one step deeper and ask why access to such basic rights requires buying and operating a car.

Golf nonces are a danger

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. Cannot CHECK PHONE in combat. You were killed by DARK WIZARD!

The billionaires have a vision of the future, and in it, many of us are dead. Not because they all want to kill us (some of them want to kill some of us), but because we are simply surplus and expendable in their eyes.