“Wrestling’s fake!” Oh yeah? Then explain this

Even the devil would spit this out.

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

Thread that made me choke on my peppermint tea.

EMPRESS OF FOREVER is $1.99 at various websites! Galaxy-smashing wuxia-adjacent spaceopera adventure that kicks off from annoyingly-plausible near-future political thriller... Have fun! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... www.barnesandnoble.com/w/empress-of...

"Hi, I work for fartboner. Fuck. Fartboner. Fuck. Fartboner. Fuck. I work for Fartbo-"

Seen a bit of “ultra processed food” discourse today, and since my main opinion on UPFs is that the louder the screaming, the more likely it is to be classism in a Scooby Doo mask, I’m going to almost sit this one out. Almost, because (character limit)…

I’m really starting to think there’s something in a nihilism-as-permission-framework analysis of the (presumably in this case mostly) Millennial psyche, amplified by that raised-in-diet-culture sense that “guilty” and “pleasure” cancel through, at least for social performance.

Went to see Mother’s Pride on impulse, and kudos to the producer who realised they could trick middle aged men into watching a Hallmark movie by making it about real ale.

Also they bang on about the Labour Party being more Methodist than Marx. Ok. Fucking be that, then. www.methodist.org.uk/for-churches...

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

imagine being the guy who directed that opening sequence gutpunch of Up (2009) and now being too chickenshit to have a gay character, imagine directing Soul (2020) even as you stare in the mirror every morning trying to remember what a "soul" actually is

wait so there’s a major oil crisis and they’re gonna fly seven reps to meet each other so they can diplomatically avoid saying that one of them caused this whole ass crisis single-handedly? because that could be an email

btw about that pixar thing, the reason why these people think having a conversation about gay people with kids is difficult is because they don't know a way to say to their kid "gay people are normal but you are not allowed to be one" without sounding like a bigot (there is a reason for that)

Trying to figure out which Star Trek characters are most likely to have been in the Epstein files and right now the three frontrunners are Gul Dukat, Liquidator Brunt, and Neelix

This is so odd. If his vision of blue Labour is as staunchly against rowing back social progress as the third paragraph claims, then what exactly is its much vaunted social conservatism for? What actually are these values? The piece is a vibes-forward symphony of meaning-shaped meaninglessness.

Happy "International Men's Day is on November 19th" Day

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone! The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Skill issue

You might not know who Country Joe Mcdonald is, but he wrote one of the greatest anti-war songs of all time. It's about Vietnam, but applies to a lot of America's military misadventures. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6...

Right. Kebab time. www.louchegastronomique.com/2015/hot-sou...

I've said it before, and I'll say it several times again: technology might take some of your work, but it's the CFO that takes your actual job.

System prompt: 20000 tokens Skill definition: 4000 tokens Output style with full explanation of both my fursona and the fursona the agent is supposed to communicate as: 110000 tokens Hooks: 2000 tokens Some who is good at the economy please help me budget this my context window is dying

Breathless Uniqlo marketing email: Did you miss the new JW Anderson drop?!! 1) No, I did not. It just looked like a Marks & Spencer spring window display if someone had made the silhouettes 5% boxier in photoshop. 2) Could we not have left "drop" in 2024?

shaggy: picture this we were both butt naked bangin on the bathroom floor chotiner: sure. go on

You have discovered a planet. There, The ground is littered with scores vines. I pray that there are cats there.

February's one-a-month Cambridge Restaurant review new year's resolution entry comes a week into March, for which I plan to look February square in the eye and blame it for being short. It's about tapas. The review, not February. www.louchegastronomique.com/blog/2026/tu...

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

"The statistical Wario hentai inference engine I asked to do my tax return is conscious, actually!" asserts the exact kind of guy who, if they reasoned through it fully, probably would be ok with it being slavery.

"You're in a Toby"

Aside from all the grift, I wonder if there really is something psychological in Blair, part messianic, part dogmatic, part self protective, that means if he admits his role in the Iraq war was a horrendous error & he is responsible for that, his entire sense of self will collapse like Jenga bricks

Got fired from my job as a porn star bc I couldn’t stop saying GREAT CAESAR’S GHOST during the money shots

In what feels like some grim apotheosis of the algorithm, Instagram is now recommending me soft porn Warhammer 40K femboy fan art 🤷‍♂️

I'm too bored of this to try and be clever about it anymore. If you think that two men kissing, or two women kissing, requires any more explanation than a man kissing a woman, that is homophobia.

I was thinking earlier, with regard to Iran, some knowledge of Diodotus and the Mytilenean debate might come in handy.

Pretty much. I guess in so far as I have a point at all it’s that “a gentlemen’s knowledge of the classics” (as one of my supervisors joking-not-joking put it), ought to be seen as a public good, and grim economic wrangling over how to pay for that has reframed the joy out of the equation.

I mean, multiple things being true at once and all that, but: yes. Once (particularly higher) education became an employability certificate you bought for your children the trajectory to joyless corporate product was locked in.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Just finished reading The Inugami Curse, of the back of The Honjin Murders. Maybe less engagingly postmodern, but you gotta love the Grand Guignol convolutions of it. Might pick up another.

According to Janeway, the Starfleet Handbook on Personal Relationships is "three centimeters thick", presumably most of which is just case studies of things Kirk did that you shouldn't

Exactly. The Pentagon are never, ever going to walk us through this. We'll never know if they hit the building they meant to but didn't think it was a school, or just missed their intended target. Both would be a huge failure. But it wasn't 'AI' that did this any more than it was 'satellites'.

My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

"The statistical Wario hentai inference engine I asked to do my tax return is conscious, actually!" asserts the exact kind of guy who, if they reasoned through it fully, probably would be ok with it being slavery.

The 2 types of British poster

Greg Davies: Team task, escape from a high tower using any objects in the house: simple. Icarus: Wait, ANY objects in the house? Daedalus [head in his hands]: ...not just the bag in the lab? Alex Horne: Not just the feathers & candles no, any objects. Let's see how the boys did first.

It’s my pension provider taking that tone that really worries me: “Someone’s going to be living on baked beans and cheapmaxxing in their seventies, but that’s still cool 😎”

Bought a copy of Meera Sodha’s Dinner and I want to cook it cover to cover.

About a decade ago, Soundcloud added a cutesy “here’s the drop” gimmick (April fools?) annotation to all the waveform graphs, which was an exciting way for their complaints team to find out how many people had used it to share funeral eulogies…

This sort of thing also makes a nonsense of ‘common sense’ cybersecurity advice. ‘Does this email really look like an email from [company]?’ Dunno mate, they never use bog-standard C20 commercial English, they send me all kinds of mental shit