Utagawa Yoshifuji's "Rabbit Sumo". 1868. Ota memorial Museum of Art

THE ROAD WARRIOR (1981)

true or false: a tiny man named "a.t. proto" lives inside the molecules of the bluesky website

The current far-right is to a great extent and outgrowth of transatlantic settlerism - it's why you see people flying the "Don't Tread on Me" Gadsden Flag in Wales, Irish Trumpism, etc. "Indigeneity" as lebensraum, disguised as a relationship to home and land

When you think of it, electoralism is sacrilegious and harmful bullshit which never should have been invented and any proper transcendentalist movement should seek to abolish it.

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Also, Rwandan media *did* play an important role in the run-up to the genocide, but more than (though including) RTLM, it was intellectual and academic journals that radicalized the elite. Which I think speaks more to our current predicament (and the role of X) than the idea of manipulated masses.

I do think a lot of English-based analysis of what happened in Northern Ireland last night is missing the specifically loyalist aspect of the violence. These are groups with a long history of violently driving out "outsiders", turning their sights on a new vulnerable minority.

Logging on to Bluesky

I think this is an important part of the economic picture. AI investment *is* generating big profits. They're just not at the AI companies, or at companies trying to use AI. They're at the businesses upstream from the hyperscalers, selling them picks and shovels. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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“so what’s your take?” “the city of New York must pay me $1 million cash in the next hour and I will kill one person for every minute they are late” “100% disagree”

Step out of this.

Rainbow

“The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself” — William Faulkner

Best of luck in the Leaving Cert today to the one Irish person under the age of 20 on Bluesky who joined by accident and hasn't logged in since

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

You expect allosexuals to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like Ukraine where I might get slapped for being myself.

"Niles, we're lost. That's the fourth time we've passed by the pile of frankly rather tasteless sheraton armchairs." "Yes, the style clashes with the yellow wallpaper and endless billowing void. Then again, feng shui might fail to accommodate an open floor plan this... er, OPEN"

You can’t pretend that you’re getting a phone call from your wife cat, cats don’t have wives

Disney CEO meeting with Dave Filoni on Monday morning to discuss the Star Wars production calendar

And before I get the least funny or informed people on Bluesky The App for Sports posting 'Uh sweaty, are you saying that they don't believe this <surejan.gif>' - what they actually believe is far worse and for them there is no reason that something can't be both a lie and the truth.

robots look like the job they are supposed to do, which is how you know the job humanoid robots are supposed to do is trigger the perennial delusion that machines are on the cusp of replacing us completely

When folks say they have 10x'd their productivity with AI, most of the time this is what is actually happening:

According to 'Old Mother Ash's Book of Cloud-telling', this formation is known as 'The Hormed-knight wakes'. It's meant to symbolise a rising will, renewed intent. A refusal to give-up and retreat from the bullying on the world. All-in-all, not a bad nephomantic omen. – Joanna Vickers #VOH

I am begging you for the millionth time to understand, no one is pretending to like a band you don't like.

The defining principle of our society is that people who were lucky during the dot com boom or Web 2.0 should have vast and ever-growing individual power over the entire world. The only acceptable check on their power is their squabbles with each other.

It has been a feature of the Irish State for the last 100 years that it peruses policies- I mean, it really goes at them hard- without ever stating those policies at the political level. This leaves our political debates weirdly unreal, as they never get to addressing what the state is doing.

its what people get wrong when they think germany‘s pro-Israel position is all about National guilt - no they also really hate Muslims!

I like the idea that Hutts are like any immigrant family and Jabba refuses to speak anything but Huttese at home and his kids are like jacked zoomers that are a full foot taller than him and only speak Huttese specifically when explaining how the Samsung remote works on the phone.

Having a lovely time shall not want to come back to work.

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

That’s the most cat thing ever, with sass. 😹

You can say whatever you want about your motivations, but I’ve decided to believe something else that flatters me and insults you

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

why are people arguing about bluesky this morning? it’s a rainy day. you could be out there getting drenched and falling ill

Most of the letters: "Even as an avid reader, I was dismayed to see your list featured Ulysses & Proust which only pointyheaded wankers & poofs pretend to read. Couldn't the Guardian have given the Best Novel prize to something everyone enjoys, like a nice pint or a packet of cheese & onion crisps"

they can't fire the coders now that the token costs are going up so they'll try to fire the woman-coded departments next

We’re gonna look back on this period like when everything had parkour in it for a year or two there.

the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever

I see the issue. When we said we would replace human workers with machines you assumed the machines would work. That's on you

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

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