Me if you ask me about a multitude of subjects.

The greatest minds of the right wing intellectual dark web think tank cannot -- or won't -- distinguish between "comic gets yelled at in comedy club for telling shitty joke about trans people" and "federal government forces corporation to pull comedian off the air for mocking President"

#Lionsgate hoped to use AI to generate its movies and TV shows. Things haven’t quite gone to plan. filmstories.co.uk/news/lionsga...

t's hot pynchon fall, where almost everyone in the news has a stupid name, the grift is on, and we're all either deteriorating from paranoia or seeing reality in all its firework against a night sky sharpness

everyone else in the admin over the last couple days: what are you talking about, there was no attempted government censorship, stop fearmongering trump: I’m gonna sue them for putting kimmel back on the air

well if freedom of speech didn't make you cancel your sub, a price increase might 🙄

The offer made to women in the enticement to become trad wives is the same as the offer made to citizens in the enticement to embrace authoritarianism: give up. Abandon the aspiration to self rule. It’s imprisonment recast as rest and relief.

Feel free to borrow any of this language or concepts for your own AI statements. (Easy to copy text in the alt text.) Just don't feed it to a Mechanical Turk, that's all I ask.

Tom Homan, who was later named President Trump’s border chief, was recorded in September 2024 accepting a bag with $50,000 in cash in an undercover FBI investigation, according to people familiar with the case, which was later closed by Trump administration officials.

What a quick and simple way to completely undermine your reputation as a teaching and research institution.

if I can give a piece of "theory of change" advice: never never never make a purchasing decision to stay away from a brand for ethical reasons *without letting them know that's what you've done*. they don't have a way to know otherwise. spend 5 minutes and send an email to the company.

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore" THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

Same, and very proud of it.

This rules lmao

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

A fun thing to do if you can afford it is to give money to someone doing good work so that they both have more money, can do more work, and feel appreciated for doing the good work

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Vance, Trump, and Bondi each said things yesterday that were horrifying on their own. Taken together, a very clear roadmap for the future emerges Trump is actively preparing a large-scale crackdown on left-wing dissent. The threat of widescale repression is no longer abstract; it is imminent

The fact that you are being manipulated does not absolve you of all personal culpability.

Sky News says police are "overwhelmed by the numbers". Met coped perfectly well with 2x as many at the pro-Gaza rally, 5x as many at the anti-Brexit march, and 15x as many at London Pride. They're not overwhelmed by the numbers. They're overwhelmed by the ratio of violent thugs in those numbers.

Our democracy is too precious to be a plaything for foreign tech barons. Elon Musk doesn’t care about the British people or our rights. He only cares about himself and his ego.

The debate is so civil, I'm so proud of us, GOD, the concerns are so legitimate 😊

this is the key point. there were so many fantasies among people who really should have known better that this "had to be a military hit". no, this is just the country we've built. access to guns and gun culture means that there are millions of random people able to inflict military level damage

This is honestly making me so depressed

Possibly ignorant question here, but… why is saying “that shooting is awful, and also the victim said toxic things” a lot worse for our politics than telling people at a political rally to “choose violence”? Because at least according to levels of attention and criticism, the former is much worse.

Algorithms are bad for journalism and staying informed. Pick a couple of outlets that have editorial lenses you respect, then sign up for their newsletters and navigate directly to their website a few times a week. If you don't want to live at the whim of ads and algorithms, consume news on purpose.

Institutional statements like this serve the same function as decrying “polarization.” They purport to diagnose the problem while studiously avoiding pointing out that the right bears much more blame for destroying norms and undermining any sense of mutual respect.

Yep

make art! if it's the end of the world, you might as well make art! if it's not the end of the world, then the future will be better because people made art right now!

It's publication day TOMORROW! The Big Bad Wolf Murder, a fast-paced, kid-friendly noir packed with mystery, action, crooked cops and wolf assassins, finally hits bookshops. If you like the vibes of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, you'll love this. #KidLit #KidLitUK

What an expertly called shot

If you enjoyed k-pop demon hunters, please check out Jentry Chau vs the underworld. It's on Netflix. She also hunts demons and there's mystery, OoOoOoOoOoO~ She also has multiple outfits, it's so nice

Just finished Jentry Chau vs the underworld on Netflix! A bit rushed at the end, but I really enjoyed it. Loved the Chinese mythology, it was really cool. I also cried at the end. AMAZING animation. Genuinely creepy at points! I really recommend it!!

Sometimes I think back to Jentry Chau VS. The Underworld, and how if it had come out like 10-15 years ago it woulda been this HUGE multi season show and I just think. "Man... It deserved that." It's such a good show 😭

@netflix.com hey my son says if you don't make a second series of Jentry Chau he will "literally sue you". (He's 9)

so funny that there's one (1) frame of the 'movie' available and it looks like absolute dogshit

The cost of healthcare in the US is soaring because of Trump’s tariffs.

Echoes of Enrique Peñalosa's “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation."

Good heavens! You need to read @brbarrett.bsky.social on that bizarre Trump dinner with tech execs last night:

I don’t know what happened to Emily Maitlis while she was on holiday but since she came back to the News Agents she has been taking zero prisoners, and I’m extremely on board.

you simply do not have to defend graham linehan that’s not a thing you have to spend your time doing there are better options, like cleaning lint out of the dryer

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This asshole

I cackled at Emily Maitlis ending her interview with Nick Clegg on @newsagents.bsky.social by plugging “Careless People” instead of his book. Brutal (and deserved).

(My group ended up making our own TV show entirely independently, and we released it last year! It’s called Murder for Dummies, it’s a horror-comedy murder-mystery mock-doc, and we’re really proud of it! You can watch it all on YouTube for free!)

The reason you couldn’t make Life of Brian today is because Monty Python rocked up to the BBC with about three minor TV credits between the six of them, without a title or a clear premise for Flying Circus, and the BBC gave them thirteen episodes. No worldwide smash hit comedy group without that.