Y'know Uber, I don't think "audio recording in the app" is going to make me any safer, but I get the feeling someone's getting something good out of you for that one and it ain't your customers...

That video could have been an article. That 3.5 hours of some internet "personality" injecting their brand and plugging their sponsorships could have been a tight 4000 worder.

UK elites in an ongoing campaign to legislatively restrict the types of person you're allowed to be. This isn't new if you've been paying attention. Should probably write something about how they leverage the media to manufacture approval for this by whipping up moral panics

Gonna get in on this and fuck up all the tasks. Pay me to poison training data with my Shit, nerds

The worst part is that this won't even WORK. Humonoid robots are a terrible idea in large part because it doesn't matter how much data you shovel into them, the mechanics don't add up

Before man was, crypto scams and drunk driving the Tesla waited for him

This thought has plagued me ever since my boyfriend (longtime Hole fan) and I (disgusting grind creature) had a conversation about confronting and/or horrible lyricism and what makes something really *grim* as opposed to gory slapstick

good thread. more of these please. less of the eye-rolling from pundits in demographics that statistically use state services less than most people (youngish, male, middle class)

Meta debut new "jump me" glasses for people who want to get jumped

Just referred to DragonForce as "the guitar hero house band" so needless to say I am feeling Powerful right now

New blog post/cheap excuse for me to roast some shitty music. N'joy. fixeroptional.co.uk/2026/05/06/f...

Mandatory AI training at work. Training material seems to think spending half an hour verifying the output is more "efficient" than spending 15 minutes writing it yourself. Such is corporate life. Excited to rinse these suckers in a few years by having my own ability to think.

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Jack Black is enough of a nonsexual entity that he could get away with a child molestation joke in a BBFC 12A film

In 2021 I started writing stories in a future where China, the US, and Russia had all been weakened due to unwinnable bullshit wars that eventually crippled them, mostly cuz I was sick of them being in the news constantly. Ever make a prediction in jest, then bits of it start to come true?

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Getting a psych degree only to go into advertising is either an Icarian fall or a type of moustache twirling evil you rarely see outside of Wacky Races

Caffeine is the one drug, legal or illegal, that nobody will tell you you're doing too much with. Have a Productive day

All-inclusive apartment blocks are reeducation camps for making people into office drones

Remember that bit in LOTR where they accosted a mentally ill homeless guy then tortured him until he agreed to do unpaid work for them?

Anonymity online is sick because I'll be talking about recording my album and will get replies from dudes who assume it's my first time in a studio and talk to me like a wet-eared teenager

You either die going NICE ONE BRUVA or live long enough to see yourself doing Super Mario cosplay in an advert for a fucking casino Danny Dyer what have they done to you

Making up ridiculous lies about the film Melania. Not like anyone's going to watch the fucking thing to prove me wrong

"the president of the USA shits his pants on live TV and his sycophants all have to act like nothing happened despite the stench" is something my editor would send back for biting Garth Ennis too hard

I understand In The Aeroplane Over The Sea on a deeper level having witnessed the existential misery of Paddy McGuiness (Inside The Factory)

When you get to your mid 30s targeted ads get all like: "Death is approaching You should Buy Things"

Fuckin picture didn't save but HOT GIRLS HIT CURBS is the best bumper sticker I've seen in ages

“Ghost in the Machine paints the rise of AI as a fascistic project that aims to demean humans and establish the techno-elite as our de facto rulers.”

I'm not claiming full credit for bullying my local Curry's into moving location but it's a funny coincidence they fucked off a couple of months after I started using them as a testing ground for my Flipper

This came and went in the time it took us to parody it in a novel (release date TBC)

I email myself a job listing with the subject heading 'hope' and when I go to apply that evening the applications have closed

I've been kinda checked out at work so I didn't notice right away that I'm the only person not invited to one guy's wedding. I guess these folks really do care about me after all ☺️☺️

I was telling my coworker about my weekend so my supervisor set off a car alarm next to my head

AI bloatware infesting all our shit is just the tip of the iceberg. Mark my words, we'll have a whole procession of wannabe Da Vincis looking for a problem for the bullshit "solutions" they invented

Rest in piss Ian Watkins, you'd have loved Grok

at Fixer Optional we do negotiate with Terrorists. And by terrorists we mean @abivasquez.bsky.social 's laptop

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Virtua Pop is selling well enough that we've been able to buy the domain. On the subject, go buy a copy of Virtua Pop. Link's in our profile

The internet is haunted and all the ghosts are boring, but we have a short story, live. Check all the details here: fixeroptional.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/h...

Our first release will be Virtua Pop by @abivasquez.bsky.social, releasing on the 29th of July. It's a story about cyborgs, corporate media exploitation and drone murder. Of course you want to read this.

welcome to the future: where everything is the worst it's ever been, and everything is the best it's ever going to be

the trouble with a 'DIY ethic' is that I don't wanna do it. you fucking do it

the problem with 'the grind' is that work should be rewarding: it should feel good to do and confer material benefits. Too often it just fucking sucks

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pulling together an online project is a level of hell. Teenage Mr Brett never had to choose between Mailchimp and Mailerlite

If I were in the business of running a scam account or phishing campaign, I would simply spell correctly, and thereby be utterly undetectable.

The Terminator was about anxiety around automation in manufacturing and industry. Terminator 2 dealt with digitisation of crime and authority. To be successful, a third Terminator film would need to mash up with Nightmare on Elm Street, and automate our dreams

no-one does anything alone. I'm not typing it alone, you're not reading it alone. We live in a system made up of other people.. a society, if you will