I came across this poem and it made me think of a flippant piece I wrote about how the encouragement of "you can do or be anything" is, in fact, rather pernicious. An ordinary life is where meaning, beauty, and awe occurs. Article: open.substack.com/pub/wordscha...

Let’s take our daily moment to hate her.

The thing about AI is that it ultimately doesn't matter how realistic it gets, or looks, or sounds, or seems - those are all red herrings. The problem at its heart is that nothing it produces comes from a real person, and it therefore has no aesthetic value. That's it. No more needs to be said.

this kinda gives me hope (he says on social media)

Memorizing this

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sorry did george sail on the mayflower?? #bbuk

Genuinely why are they allowing political activists in under the guise of just being a normal little bean? Like yes she said it in her intro, but she's 160k followers and clearly isn't an ordinary person. #bbuk

i’m here for his disapproving slow clap #bbuk

i’m feelin very poorly today and my darling boyfriend made me the most amazing sausage sandwich to eat in bed ❤️❤️

I started work 30 mins ago and I am still in bed 😪

good morning

Australia recognizes the State of Palestine

god an 11 hour overnight flight fucked me up

it looks like a channel 4 ident

putting increasingly vulgar songs on the bar playlist until we get kicked out happy birthday @imjoshhbu.bsky.social

Yvette Cooper instead of cracking down on racist mobs outside the homes of vulnerable people, is cracking down on the victims.

my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

realistic Star Trek

Your favourite geography teacher’s favourite geography teacher

no new pictures, where are you mentally

Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places

THIS is more like it. Great work @jaseokundaye.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

there’s something about modern tv and films that aren’t super high budget that really turn me off. like Star Trek SNW looks amazing but I watch Gentleman in Moscow (TV) or Branagh’s Poirot (film) and there’s something just not quite right. The lighting is mediocre? and (cont.d)

Oh my god Kim is back… youtu.be/BytJKFn0oXw?...

i can’t believe there’s people who take home like £5k a month just easy while i have to work my butt off doing 6 or 7 day weeks to barely reach £3k… i want nice things but at what cost

This ignorance is an intentional failing. It's not accidental. It's been done to sell papers and for political expedience.

i haven’t powered down my work laptop in 19 days??? no wonder it’s crawling along

Are we allowed to acknowledge that Labour has a fascism problem now or are people still going to storm into your mentions, slam their head into the sand and claim they can't hear what Labour are clearly communicating?

the concept of a live-in landlord looking for a lodger to pay £1300 for a room writing this

Santander bikes are free on Sundays all August! Even the ebikes!

do I have any birmingham oomfs on here? visiting this weekend

god ethan peck got hench

At my fave wine bar

HOT …errr… THINGIES IN YOUR AREA.

finally got to Voyager: Endgame. Let’s gooooooo

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

If you take heroin your GP will help you with blood tests. But if you follow international healthcare protocols and take eg puberty blockers NHS England has told your GP not to help you monitor hormone levels with blood tests. Gender affirming care is, apparently, worse than heroin.

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

This seems to be framed as "look at this unbelievable cost the health board is wasting" instead of "look at the unbelievable cost this woman has created just because she hates trans people"

this is insane - ask grok 4 a sensitive political question and it genuinely searches Musk's tweets to find an answer. this is not a hallucination where LLMs lack the capacity to report on their own capabilities — you can just see the searches the bot makes

Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

lord I see what you have done for others

there is no feeling more freeing than deleting a bookmarked set tomorrow in the glastonbury lineup app

via @tkingfisher.com #diet #cultural #modern #lifestyles #historical #food