this is the greatest feeling, when the cord box proves its utility to a family member

“and that’s exactly what happened”

This one feels like it might make the Trump chapter of a history book

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

the strongest form of omerta we have is the taboo on the media saying that the people who rule us are insane clowns who publicly dream of genocide

As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.

The team whose honour Britain’s largest political parties and newspapers just spent weeks screaming abuse at *the police* to protect, just while we’re talking about our politics as maybe the world’s most insulting, disastrous and idiotic.

every single day, a bunch of terrified h1b visa workers have an insane south african screaming at them to force grok to say the n word

"Preferably on a pile of corpses of gay men, but feel free to substitute other dispised minorities to taste I guess", he didn't quite add out loud (but luckily everyone with ears to hear heard it clearly enough anyway)

this is perfect

Yes we should. It's a big club and the voters aren't in it. Time for that club to go away.

*walking in a winter wonderland* ME: where's bluebird? BIRD: gone ME: w... who are you? *bird looks around shiftily* BIRD: I'm new bird

Based on today's considerable discourse I am now thinking that a partnership between a skillful but comely rat author and, say, a R "Autocue" Burgundy in a chef's hat could do hitherto unimaginable feats of Influencing People

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering* ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin DETECTIVE: ME: are you getting apricot notes

OK I'll bite; what's an "Agatha Christie"?

the weird thing is that they unintentionally decided for us that we’re hustling back to the mainframe era when owning a “micro computer” (the thing before the PC) was prohibitively expensive

We're super excited to be returning to the Bagpuss Universe for Yaffle Origins. As mega fans of the Oliver Postbox multiverse, we always dreamed of telling the story of Assistant Professor Yaffle getting his first pair of glasses or whatever. Join us on this barren sphere, in this living death.

Alright gang, there's a Senior Level Designer opening on my team. You know the drill. 👇 Please pass this along and AMA* jobs.zenimax.com/requisitions...

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

BANGER

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

the world has changed

This is a thing of considerable beauty: a young wrasslin' fan takes vigorous exception to top heel Gunther (who just beat the beloved J Cena in his final match) and Gunther stays in character and gives him space to run his mouth

You, unrefined, indelicate clod: “Grilling hamburgers” Me, continental, sophisticated, francophone:

The thort of a Benoit Blanc Origin Story has now crossed my mind, whence I have cast it out into the darkest depths of oblivion. May we never have occasion to know!

(For the record, this account remains broadly unenthusiastic about mass slaughters in fairly general)

The day everything changed

Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.

Programmer joke: "In the future we won't need programmers. We'll just need people who can tell AIs very precisely and in full detail what we want them to do using language the AIs understand."

Juno is more than usually broke today, gang gang, if you happen to have a spare cash to hand?

If you're pleading with someone to give you a sack in which to place giant crickets, spiders, roaches etc collected from swampy environs, I don't know how you could possibly describe that other than as a big bog bug bag beg

in case anyone was wondering wtf happened to @thelouvreof.bsky.social/Louvre of Bluesky: the creator got doxxed, bsky did nothing, and they decided to go out in a blaze of glory

Wait, I'm now hearing that N "Fash" Farage may actually be an racist, fascist bully? Extraordinary scenes!

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

*pounding clipboard* Avignon! Avignon!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Many people are saying that H Lewis has been seen in Waitrose pointedly asking if their Gingerbread Men were in fact *biologically* male

This cat is entirely innocent of all Christmas-tree related crime. There's no evidence that the tree simply did not fall over by itself and the cat just happened along afterwards.

I mean obviously Eurovision is dead too us all now, but we for one very much look forward to the appointment of a new Schismatic Gay Christmas, possibly but not necessarily headquartered in Avignon?

In some personal news, Theweleit's _Male Fantasies_ is top of my list of Christmas reading. (And only partly because my Kindle preorder of RCBG got mysteriously canceled.)

Awful

This is stupid and bad, and it is only fitting that this stupid and bad person didn't include alt text. (It's the Australian social media ban for children in, we are presumably intended to infer, his own laboured cursive handwriting)

The problem with Lesser Evilism is that when you merge it with the Evil Escalation Ratchet you end up in a fairly unpleasant place anyway, and with Kieth Labour now exposed as, well, Kieth Labour you really do have to start wondering if there *is* in fact an alternative