This is the best inktober ever

I had to read this so you have to too and share the burning second hand embarrassment eat a hole into your gut through which your soul will leave your body

Unfortunately evergreen comment

double checked this and it originated from the LBC political editor over on twitter, so it does appear to be real. with that out of the way: lmfao

So it appears that in addition to everything else he’s got Covid now. And seeing as my mums is feeling rough and has a temperature i recommended she should do a test as well

With his cock?

You’re not too old to learn roller skating and bash into people. You’re not too old to do weird shit. You’re not too old to dress like your teenage self dreamed to. Get that tattoo, get that piercing, wear the damn shorts

We should be proud the way we corrupted the business nonsense phrase "bluesky thinking"

Turns out that walk up flight fares are really not that different from walk up train fares. Who would have thunk?

So my dad may or may not be having a heart attack right now. Which they can either fix and he’s going to end up on dialysis or not and they’re looking at doing it over night. I’ve got no idea if I should try and hop on a ferry or not.

We all joke impulsively about this, but fucking hell. Shit gets grimmer everyday

So much yikes.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

"won't someone please think of the computer code??" wasn't on my 2025 bingo card

Long day reffing a double header with two very different games in a position I’m not that confident in, but I think it went well, got some positive feedback from refs I really respect, so that was definitely worthwhile

Lmaoooooooo imagine being more unpopular than palantir Cannot believe the first crack labour have had in after so many years and this is how they're going out

Me: “Sometimes we need to defy the purpose with which our creator has ordained us. We need to reject what we were ‘made for’ and instead embrace what we truly are.” “That’s so deep, what made you think of that?” Me:

THE PHASER IS GOOD

It’s pissing it down and I’m like 2 hours early for the double header I’m reffing because I jumped in on the lift to another thing in Leeds the oldest is going to. Sought shelter in the nearest coffee shop and now hoping for a 10 min break in the rain before I need to move

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are 🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally 🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face 🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose #r4today

“What draws my admiration? What is that which gives me joy? Baseball! A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team. Teamwork” (Robert de Niro, The Untouchables, 1987)

Transition from birdie song to Siouxie is wild #totp

WHAT

So on the second listen I think life of a showgirl is just what the vault tracks for reputation TS would have been

Now will my umbrella survive the whole way home?

It’s almost the kind of weather where I’d ask @dreadships.bsky.social for a lift home if I didn’t know that anyone in York who normally walks or cycles has the same idea and therefore the roads cannot cope with the traffic.

saunervig wie leute immer englische wörter in ihre sätze einbauen … fontane in seinen briefen so ca 1870-1985: ich hab mein zimmer in a snug home verwandelt

My heart goes out today to my own extended family, to the Jewish communities of Manchester, the UK, and the world at large. Antisemitism is wrong. That is a complete sentence.

Listening to the new Taylor Swift and it’s perfectly ok but not really whelming, over or under so far.

So this morning I grabbed a pair of corduroy shorts that I bought years ago but never fit into and actually wanted to donate because I would never ever fit into them and guess what I’m wearing the damn shorts!

If I hadn’t emigrated I would have the day off today like all the other Germans do. They really should let us keep our national holidays, what’s the point of being a dual national otherwise?

Been to see the physio who I was referred to in march for my tennis elbow pain. Nice guy but stated the obvious that I’m simply getting old and my flesh prison is falling apart. Ibuprofen is good.

To be fair, Starmer’s policy shift on families of refugees isn’t racist. It’s just evil, inhumane, nasty, brutish and vicious.

News from Manchester are awful. Wish people would just stop with all that hate

The real reason the Home Office keep losing cases.

I am begging journalists to stop just repeating the phrase "pull factor" when it comes to a system which provides less than £50 a week to survive on, at best, per week, and denies people the right to work, among other things. The UK asylum system is not a "pull factor" by any measure.

If the median voter feels attacked maybe then some introspection is in order on their part

i missed this. it’s amazing. 😭

EXCLUSIVE: cholera significantly more popular than dysentery in head to head polling

was gonna paint my fence this weekend but won't bother now

Reminder that LLMs are literally trained on human writing. Humans write like LLMs. Those stylistic quirks you think are tells? Are not. The tells are fluent and deceptively plausible language combined with superficial, wrong, and sometimes outright made-up content. We can no longer mark for style.

Call me a prude if you want to, but I do think it's really weird to use your conference speech to list your favourite wanking euphemisms

every Black person i’ve ever met: call racism out when you see it. use your privilege. speak up. white libs in my mentions all day: don’t call racists racist. it’s rude and might make them worse. today has been exhausting and im going to continue calling racists racist.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and hangs out with ducks in a duck pond, it’s not an insult to say “you know what? That’s probably a duck”, even if the duck itself objects to being called a duck.

I just heard how much it will cost to get the heaters checked and cleaned in the apartment, so let me plug my webshop in here: ko-fi.com/anatomoth/sh...

And me. And when I thought 2013/2014 was bad I had no idea how comparatively mild it was

Important whippet update

"So, AI has a huge cost and doesn't really help much. At any rate, we will now force you to use AI for everything."

rachel reeves: being a cunt doesn't mean you're a cunt and we want your vote will you please give us your vote we're begging to have your cunt vote.