celebrating the King’s Birthday by following his example and disowning one of my siblings and one of my children

💯 “A general pattern for LLMs is that they look really good at things you are bad at. What that means is that if you find yourself thinking of its output as significantly better than yours in a particular domain, there's a high chance that you are not equipped to judge that quality effectively.”

Paramount+ wanted to use the image on the left as a poster for the wrath of Khan, so they used everyone's least favorite technology to generate the rest of the image.

regret to inform everyone that I’ll be treated with x-rays not gamma rays. my dreams of one day hulking out have been crushed

the poster's equivalent to "imagine your audience naked" is "remember the guy you're arguing with is sitting on the toilet"

Can report that the Blood and Cancer Centre has pagers like we’re in a food court. Gonna tell them this is not what I ordered

meeting my radiation oncologist tomorrow. wonder which version of the Incredible Hulk I’m gonna become

Rewatching all of Poirot and a new reaction gif just dropped

Diphtheria? Jesus wept. This is a disease eradicated by vaccination that is returned because disinformation has been enabled to run rampant. Children died in their millions prior to the work to identify the origin & develop a vaccine: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_vo...

oh man I can’t believe the Enhanced Games are actually happening lol. wow I wonder who would win between an insane person who has dedicated their entire adult life relentlessly training to become the most perfect athlete for their chosen sport and a guy who wanted to skip that part

tonight I took oldest child to see Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers & I can confirm that the young people are making excellent music. a phenomenal show and an especially phenomenal drummer (they’re all v.good tho)

one of the best examples of cognitive dissonance in recent years is the ability for AI people to simultaneously think that art has no value, so it isn’t worth paying for, but also very high value, because their product won’t work without it

the Terminator movies are great both for their accurate depiction of time as a loop or circuit and also their accurate depiction of humanity’s relationship with computers

the arctic says trans rights

Let me take a look at today's totally normal headlines. sfstandard.com/2026/05/21/j...

to be clear I do not love Nazis. not one bit! however I *do* love money, a whole lot. so as you can see my hands are unfortunately tied

I spoke to my calculator, what it said will shock you.

oh a new music platform backed by the Substack guy? finally there’s a place Kanye can release his next album

Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped.

proud of everyone posting the 10 most embarrassing bands you’ve seen live. wish I had that lack of ego

more like penile colony am I right

how computers work

visitors to my home are warned that before you’re allowed to use our toilets you’ll be subject to a mildly invasive test (I’ll be checking your posts to make sure you’re not a bigot)

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

one of the wonderful things about art - in any medium - is the opportunity to bathe in someone else’s talent, in the knowledge their work is the result of all of their practice and experience and trial and error and passion

someone in a professional group I am part of recently asked if anyone could come and speak (for free!) at their workplace about the future of AI in our industry & if I had thicker skin I would have volunteered. they wouldn’t have liked what I had to say

too soon

which comes first, the fascism or the digital newsletter startup

bacon, eggs, hash browns, and 4 coffees

so disappointing that every time I meet someone who describes themselves as a “cat person” it always turns out to just mean they like cats

excited to find out which actor will be next in line to play an iconic womaniser and official instrument of state-sponsored murder

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

frustrated and outraged that Woke Hollywood will not accede to my demand that every role in every film should be filled by someone I would like to imagine myself fucking

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

perhaps we would all be better off if “wealthy racist has racist opinions” was not treated as newsworthy

BEN: Then the Emperor has already won. You were our only hope. LUKE: Yoda spoke of another. BEN: Oh yeah he must’ve meant Ahsoka Tano, a fully trained warrior badass who’s alive just offscreen. She’s got two lightsabers LUKE: That’s badass. BEN: You only have one and you lost it

Discovering there's a tier below "As Seen on TV"

I know for a fact Bluesky is dying because I’m out here posting banger after banger with barely a like or share to show for it. I have considered and rejected the possibility that I’m just not that funny

I was reminded of this one the other day, and I can hardly believe I first posted it 19 years ago. It's like they say, "Time flies when you're wasting it online."

Rawbraining it

inside you there are two wolves

the sex scenes in my upcoming novel will be made up exclusively of phrases from men’s hairstyling products

I’m helping!

let him who is without sin say the first slur

“We, the creators of the Torment Nexus, are now suing the writers of the classic science fiction novel ‘Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.’”

kelly! kelly, it's trent. your cousin, machine gun trent. you know that new sound you're looking for? Well, listen to this! [pounds pencil into dickhole]

everyone please say hi to your mums for me today