It is remarkable how silent Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have been in the last year. It's almost as if none of them gave a shit about the country and only wanted to be president for the pomp and circumstance.

I bet this is the exact sort of nonsense patter May, Johnson, Sunak -and especially Truss- were spouting to their Cabinet.

RIP Béla Tarr one of the best to ever do it. In his later years, he would tell film students to just go out there and make films on their phones, and not worry about having to adhere to rules of film production and distribution that simply did not exist any more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2M...

LID [lid] sb. A coverlet.

For my American followers, whenever you read a British person talking about Wes Streeting, replace that name with "JD Vance cosplaying as Pete Buttigieg" and you will have an excellent idea.

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RIP Béla Tarr, one of the all time greats. His film WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES was life changing for me.

It's the 20th anniversary of Rue Britannia this year, which I'm sure I'll write about in some format. I don't recommend it often, as it's absolutely us in the garage, playing loud, and raw, raw, raw. But it's also a book which if it was the only comic I ever wrote, would have been fine to end on.

Read it as a kid and remember it being an absolute banger. I was very much that kid that read anything that wasn’t nailed down, so I read a lot of classic literature as well as a fair amount of dodgy 70’s bodice rippers!

Had good writing block this morning, good enough that I was actually sad I had to stop and switch gears to new day job. Also, if ya'll doubt just how much last year's day job implosion where I lost my team to the LLM monster fucked me up...I dedicated this current wip to my old team. 😆 THE TRAUMA

Who cares what the lost member of Kraftwerk thinks?

Jan 6th 1995 - The Two River Times featured an article on the success of local indie comic artists, Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards, and their latest book "37". 📽️📅 Chasing Amy (1997)

the METR study is gonna go round again because Fortune *just* posted a fresh writeup of it yesterday, based on their own article from July last year fortune.com/article/does... every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)

Found in the wild. @kneecapceol.bsky.social

While I've got you, and before you start on the booze... would you mind checking out the Kickstarter page for THE DEVIL'S SOUND? It's launching in a week and is an immersive audio project in the world of WITHERED HILL. I'd love it if you'd sign uo for updates. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Just saw that the most sold manga on some Japanese e book site is LLM/GENMOD... Not sure what to make of it specially as it was from an US news source.

The unraveling continues. It’s increasingly looking like the only result of Trump’s attack on Venezuela will be to have destroyed the US’ reputation across the world.

Logging On

Still bitterly cold but heart-stoppingly beautiful on the moor today.

Not to mention the soft power. A century of developing the greatest soft power apparatus the world has ever seen, with incalculable value (but probably at least in the 100s of billions annually) all smashed to pieces by angry impotent fuckwits trying to play at being tough guys for other fuckwits.

WE'RE IN!

Because of sleep issues, made a SCP Foundation dream-world to play in when drifting off. Paid off. Last night, dreamed the Foundation were fielding clones of top agents. I was watching the explainer vid. Woke in the 'how to tell clones apart' bit. Video music was... www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOZ-...

Whenever a politician is interviewed, if they have a Xitter account, the first question they should be asked is whether they are still active on the platform to access child pornography. And when they act all shocked and indignant at the question, the follow-up should be a sceptical "are you sure?"

feels like an abuse of science fiction. as frenetic as the discordian stuff but shallow, dumb. freelance cultists clumping up

"McRib is actually made from restructured pork, combining cuts such as shoulder, heart, tripe, and scalded stomach" Sinclair warned you. McDonald’s hit with class action lawsuit claiming McRib doesn’t contain any rib meat | The Independent share.google/iHU9PPo55U4y...

Thread. :/

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to prop up interest in a franchise."

Bigger & bigger & bigger models give a bigger & better pool of potential responses, but they do not address the fundamental issue with LLMs - they are not thinking machines, & they never will be They are a clever little trick which looks like thinking unless you poke it too hard

I knew the Finns were tall people, but… 👀

human beings aren't just fuel to power your money engine we also need an economic model which is genuinely sustainable, regardless of demographics the UK 'discussion' about migration, right and left wing, is incredibly privileged and dehumanising distracting us all from urgent shared problems

I’m rewatching The Expanse. One thing that I really love about this show is that it’s one of the only I’ve seen that envisions a future that depicts climate change impacts. It feels like such a glaring omission when other media just…don’t address it.

Yep. But we can't even get people to put masks on sooooo.... My husband and I have been "shielding" for almost six years now. We also wish we could more, and have cooked for bedbound friends...but we have no help here, and the council says if we need assistance, we should sell up and move.

Who’s booking the Venezuela Comedy Festival?

I'm talking about Bowie's LOW album with a friend and just remembered this wonderful animated film about the sessions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FODv...

What we need is a movie (The Pack) which focuses on the bond and dynamics of a group of werewolves between moons. Cheap on the FX, a focus on why your running tribe isn’t just for lunar binges.

Goodnight from Joanie Stradwick, putting a porcelain bean into the Twelfth-tide Cake she’s baking for tomorrow’s feast of misrule. Goodnight from Trudy Whittle, making the traditional Ephinany Eve offering to the Soot Sprite in the form of extra applewood logs. Goodnight from Hookland.

In this book, I learned there was a first-class woman survivor who was later involved in a serious car crash requiring the insertion of a metal plate into her skull She survived the Titanic, survived a car crash You know how she eventually died? Tripped on a rug in her house and fell over

the next century really will be like being a medieval peasant gawking at roman ruins and wondering "how'd the ancients manage that?"

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

I’ve already moved from Office to Libre (for those who can’t, there are licences for standalone programs which may be found for reasonable prices). I’m migrating from OneDrive to Proton, making sure I have up to date backup copies offline. I’ll move away from Outlook after I’ve done for GMail.

Once I found out they were absolute cunts, I stopped being able to enjoy their work.

✨ if you're reposting Grok nonconsensual nudity to make a point you're just perpetuating trauma and abuse ✨

And the BBC has forbidden reporting using the word "kidnapped". The actual part... I've lost track.

I made some t-shirts. I ordered some myself, and they're good! You should order one for yourself. You deserve it. www.etsy.com/shop/moorere...

Israel still supposedly has a ceasefire agreement, which began in mid October Since when, they've still killed over 400 more Palestinians Also, they've defined a new border within Gaza, the "Yellow line" & have a policy of shooting anyone who comes near it And they keep moving it deeper into Gaza

mad men ending would have been so so so much better if peggy and joan had opened a detective agency together

Can you guys stop reposting every dumb thing every Twitter dipshit says on here

*Just one small squad of everyday Russo-Ukrainian drones could play holy hell with those fragile tin barns full of circuitry