I would be immune to this sickness. If a machine were nice to me I would know it's wisdom could not be trusted.

Ihr Lieben, ich bin jetzt seit einem Jahr hauptberuflich freie Lektorin. Das werde ich auch weiter machen, jedoch unter neuem Namen. 💚 Wenn ihr ein Lektorat benötigt, ein Korrektorat oder einen hübschen Buchsatz: Schaut gern vorbei! www.lektoratwortwelten.de #BuchSky #GermanBookSky

Ist die gewaltige Abneigung gegenüber Telefonaten mit Servicemitarbeitenden eigentlich ein Millennial-Ding? Oder gibt es Millennials, die spontan bei Hotlines anrufen können und nicht erst einen Kaffee, die Lieblingskekse und einen zehnminütigen Pep Talk brauchen? Frage für ... eine Freundin. 👀

Damn it, Youtube, read the room.

It appears our local German tax-funded broadcaster NDR found their very own Graham Hancock and netflixed him up, including the right-wing "Spezialistentum" allegations against established academia. Great write-up by historian @smagnussen.de from my alma mater Kiel. German language.

Behold: The argument for why AI is a massive time saver meets the argument that AI "art" isn't slop because it requires a lot of tireless "work".

i cannot stop laughing at this

Student of mine on the concept of a single exam at the end of the semester to make up the entirety of one's grade: "You know what it's like to play a video game without checkpoints?"

Comment thread by me underneath a post by @ibogost.com, who I've quoted in my videos plenty of times, but who seems to have an ambiguously defensive stance on AI use for powerpoint slides, which he proudly confesses to, comparing it to using non-AI images you didn't secure the rights to.

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Several comments underneath my last video questioned my claim that I have terrible taste in video games, so here's a list of awful takes I may add on to when I remember them.

Just started playing Ghost of Tsushima and the gameplay is really neat. Now usually, I value mechanics above story, but the writing sure is - a surprise. I may as well sit through hours of Overwatch Hanzo cinematics on repeat. This doesn't feel like a Samurai film, but a caricature of one.

Harming trans kids - using art to capture the impacts of the Sussex ICB investigation on trans adolescents and families. Please read and share. The art is not mine - the artist wishes to remain anonymous. growinguptransgender.com/2025/11/19/h...

And the award for best radicalizing young reactionary men goes to...

One reason the Hitman games feel so comforting is that they simulate a world where the rich and powerful are geniuses masterfully pulling strings in pursuit of devious schemes, rather than a bunch of embarrassing nepo babies stumbling over themselves on the hunt for their next power trip.

"Surplus value" or "profit" is the value of your labor that your employer decides not to pay you.

*Fortunate Son intensifies* www.dw.com/en/germany-t...

Now that a self-proclaimed "democratic socialist" has won the NY mayoral race (and I couldn't be happier about that) and after I'd read a CNN article about other "moderate" Democrats winning, I made this little table to help translate between the American and European political spectrum.

Mamdani quoting Andrew Cuomo's father during his victory speech over him

You must take my legitimate concerns seriously, ideally without making me say out loud what they are as I find when I do that they tend to sound a bit awful.

Installing anti-weed fabric in the middle of fall be like

"Vonna vin somesing unwheel?"

@crocodilegambit.bsky.social : »Wir haben einen Brief von der Deichmafia bekommen, glaube ich.« 🤨⁉️ Wenn das nicht der perfekte Plotbunny ist, dann weiß ich auch nicht! (Keine Sorge: keine Deichmafia, alles rechtens! Nur Dinge vom Land. 😄)

In the next 20 years, someone will make an American horror movie about a family or small community that got cursed and did unspeakable things to their own. And then when the curse is lifted, everyone feigns ignorance and goes on living like nothing happened.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_XF... by @wtyppod.bsky.social if you need a good summary of the guy.

After 1100h of Skyrim, I finally finished the main quest.

This reads like post-credit camp horror film sequel bait: Now with even more genocide support!

The wonders of ChatGPT's life advice! It may tell you to move to France, it may tell you to kill yourself, who knows! Just tell it everything about yourself and don't worry about where the data goes! Just... don't worry about it. Write up all of your thoughts, paste them in there and press Enter.

The whole Platner SS-tattoo thing is a mess, and at best, Platner is severely uninformed on fascism, the ideology he claims (and I believe he believes himself) to be fighting, but what actually worries me is this paragraph from the Guardian article.

Brain just avoided an embarrassing end to a Skyrim trap by triggering a distant memory from Ster's videos. I think I may have watched him a bit too much. youtu.be/wmvHtkK2i5U?...

Question to my international followers: I just came upon a German thread of self-described Zionist antifascists, some of whom both claim to oppose American imperialism *and* defend Israel's apartheid regime. Only in Germany, or do these people exist elsewhere? I'm fascinated and appalled.

Are they for real? They aren't serious, are they? Guys, we all know you broke it every day since it was enacted. You killed journalists and children.

Gotta block ‘em all! Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday. Flush these turds HERE - bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thanks Youtube, I really needed you to burn a rainforest so you can simplify this intellectual behemoth of a video down to where my tiny mind can comprehend what I'm in for.

Thanks to the EU's consumer protection laws, our Windows 10 extended security registration is free for a year and I just wanted to point that out. Regulation works.

"The EHRC’s exclusionary interim guidance has had a devastating impact on trans people’s lives" “Now the guidance has been withdrawn, so should the exclusionary policies that organisations rashly implemented in its aftermath. If not, they could find themselves in hot water.”

“Our militia can’t even handle protecting ICE from an inflatable frog” ass civil war

He does not miss.

www.bbc.com/news/article... This is who they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to.

So the Nobel Peace Prize laureate just dedicated her prize to the guy who blows up innocent fishermen from her country on a regular basis? Am I getting this right?

First of all: I couldn't be happier that it seems like Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people will slow down - for now. But I don't like the vibe coming from the media right now. Am I supposed to thank Netanyahu for deciding that a few tens of thousands of dead Palestinians are enough for now?

Was just perusing older files and came across some that me and @coffeeandkismet.bsky.social sent each other back when we were living and working in different countries. Gave me a chuckle. British weather truly is something else.

Absolutely fuck this man.

I just realized that from the top of "Sundered Towers" you can see Solitude, Whiterun, and even the College of Winterhold, all in one 90 fov shot. #Skyrim

Sad to see Hollywood falling for the AI hype trap and sounding the alarm over losing roles to a "model" that, in the ad material, looks objectively awful, with warping pupils, melting teeth and wandering hairlines. Guys, you're reacting exactly as that company wanted you to.

When you arrive, nervously look around the room and lock eyes with this guy.

Tagesschau claims train sabotage may be down to leftist extremists who, according to the constitutional court, consider Deutsche Bahn the "largest logistics company of the capitalist profit-based economy". Right. Leftists famously hate state-owned public transport. Is this the RAF-scare 70s?

thank you PREDIENT TRMUP for allocating $10 billion to the FBI to finally find, locate, and neutralize the President and CEO of Antifa

One of my students said in class today that they use AI all the time to improve their emails and acted like everyone did that. Frankly, I would prefer an honest, misanthropic email over a glossy, vapid sheen of AI that makes it sound like everything else.