LeMonde said, not on our watch

I spent the bulk of Christmas Day teaching 14 year old who wants off the algo how to use their brand new CD player. I have never in my life felt more like the holder of sacred arcane knowledge.

I see the Brexit-backing owner of Dyson, who offshored himself and the firm for tax reasons, is moaning about having to pay tax on the extensive farmland that he bought here as a way to avoid inheritance tax. Hang on. I'll find my violin.

Dems should be running on this stuff, I truly believe that you could engage a lot of non-voters if you actually tackled real fucking problems

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This place's hatred for Palestinians is second to only Israel's

Can you believe we're nearly at 400 followers for this campaign ahead of our launch next month??? WILD

#InverteFest throwback to this mega commission I got for a father and son. The peacock jumper plushie is TWICE its original size! It easily lays on a persons chest it's that big #plushart #inverts 🪲🦐

Thinking about how moving away from people-first is a growing trend, and how this is something quite important. It's been on my mind since my local McDonald's refurbished, and there's a reason for that.

It couldn’t be clearer who and what they are.

(Extended family at the table yesterday) "...and some fella came to the village grocery shop looking to buy trousers because he was heading up Mount Brandon in a pair of shorts." "Where was he down from?" "Dublin!" *communal disapproving muttering*

In 2008 the only people who had ever heard of NVIDIA were video gamers, 3D designers and video editors. Now the company is worth 5 trillion dollars and it's owner bestrides the world in a leather jacket announcing plans to build data centers in space. It's a goddamn bubble.

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My cartoon in today's @irishexaminer.bsky.social.

While not contained in the report, the cost of Storm Éowyn in January was more than €300m alone in Ireland, the biggest insurance bill ever for a one-off climate event in the country. Nearly €130m came from 22,530 homeowner claims. Irish business claims came to more than €165m.

I might need to frame this on my wall

For anyone curious about the overlaps between Bipolar I and II and ADHD, ASD, PTSD, BPD, [etc], I just made some updates to this interactive with requested definitions of terminology. I'm not a medical doctor, so none of this is advice, but this specifically is my published research area

The principle I go by is to treat every person like a person. You never know who will be successful, nor do you know who will become a dear friend. So just be kind and engaged. The only people who hate being treated as normal are nightmares. Not clicking with them is a secret bonus.

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Karma is a fascinating thing.

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This is a Gallup poll from last year. Did the Marlboro Man write this ad?

Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt

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Flight home's been delayed two hours so I had to make something important

Happy Christmas.

And Tiny Tim, who did not die, became the first successful candidate of the Weapon X program.

sprideman go B R R R R R R

Christmas can be a difficult, sad, disappointing, or frustrating time for so many of us, but remember you're not alone. I've been quietly hiding behind your sofa until it's over.

#batman #fanart

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“All it is, is a parrot... It has no sense for what the truth is or what reality is & it is causing massive harm. Google, OpenAI, Meta & others that have rolled out this technology in an incredibly irresponsible way are directly responsible for this mess today, & MacIsaac’s case is not in isolation”

Just want to find someone who knows me as well as the Irish husbands who, after 50+ years of marriage, still burst into shops at 5pm every Christmas Eve, wild panic in their eyes, yelling that they need "SOMETHING FOR A WOMAN"

It's that time of year again. On your guard.

This is astonishingly moving.

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Didn't a techbro claim he heard the shot of a Glock - not just any gun, specifically a Glock - and it turned out it was a car backfiring.

As it should be.

The notion that only "genius" writers can write books worthy of canonization is one of the primary ways that hierarchies of domination reproduce themselves in publishing.

"Great writing can't be taught." Total bullshit. Writing is just as much of a teachable and learnable skill as playing an instrument or acting or painting. You don't have to have any prodigy to write a great book - just a strong work ethic, years of practice, and a willingness to innovate.

He turned right in anticipation of all this shit coming out so he could play victim and whine about cancel culture and find himself among allies, friends, and apologists. Mission accomplished.

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die. He was unable to. He still walks among us, cursed to remember in a world where everyone has forgotten. He’s out there now, just beyond the light your lantern throws,

Shut the fuck up Will I Am

Disney Corp sued a laser based microscopic surgical device into bankruptcy because it was named Lightsaber Literally a life saving device that slashed patient recovery times in half, and now the technology cannot exist

The confusion and conflation of ‘generative ai that is built on stolen artwork’ and ‘machine learning, character behaviour modelling and proc gen’ is intentional on the part of the grifters peddling the former. They benefit from murkiness of classification, because the latter predates their bollocks

The *best* writing advice I can give is that if you think "this is OK" while writing, your audience will think it's just OK. If you think "oh my God I can't wait for them to see this, this is my best work ever" *or* "this is torture and the worst writing I've ever done" the audience will love it.