i think the disorganized nature of social media, where you see a cat pic followed by an interesting model release followed by a Take About China followed by RAM Shortage Bad followed by concert pics etc etc etc forever is both why its so attractive to my brain and why it's so bad for my brain

Just rediscovered Antidepressants or Tolkien antidepressantsortolkien.vercel.app

How bad was the Venezuelan quake? It lifted my country's - Trinidad and Tobago - coastline in some areas by 20 feet. We are many miles from the epicenter, though only a few miles from the Venezuelan coastline. And yes, we felt it. trinidadexpress.com/news/local/q...

love the name "meemaw" as ot conjures a grandmotherly figure with a voracious appetite, and gullet to match, swallowing her grandchildren as if she were one of the titans

Robert Eggers marketing his movies:

extremely fair to not like ODNI, not a fan of potentially creating a bunch of jilted former intelligence officers

the destruction of ODNI, burning an entire generation of CIA recruits, redirecting FBI to beat cop delusions, and all the other things i'm probably forgetting is a genuinely frightening confluence of factors

One of the most nefarious effects of the far-right conspiratorial bullshit about supposed persecution of Afrikaners is it obscures that the actual viscerally dangerous racism in SA right now unites Black and White racists in hatred of non-SA African immigrants, especially Zimbabweans + Mozambicans.

The guillotines were brought out by a bunch of upper middle class lawyers who mostly used them on people much poorer than them.

kites legit has orders of magnitude more

It's so sad that kids growing up now are going to think that AI is the way to learn how to make art, when actually the only real way is to buy a "How to Draw Manga Characters" book from Waterstones

Just peed so much that a little laugh came out.

I would never tell a woman in this situation to get a gun, because according to data from 2024 it makes that woman not twice or ten but one HUNDRED times as likely to get shot with it by the attacker

Getting laid off 5 days before Christmas

Writing in 2015, Buzan and Lawson were able to characterize "scientific" racism as unsuccessful, and the only one of the 19th century's four "ideologies of progress" that had been entirely delegitimized and jettisoned as a feature of world politics. More innocent times.

Omg volunteer crab flippers!!! 🦀

I know I'm naive but I still find it hard to imagine the degree of internal flexibility, the sheer spinal agility, for an entire party to spend years spluttering "HUNTER BIDEN" to anyone who would listen and then immediately pivot to "look, it's a family of good businessmen".

"There are so many cases, and so many defendants, and so few attorneys who are capable of doing this work, that it's going to take a long, long time to truly find out how many people were affected by our misconduct," Lohnes explained.”

Q when Bond blinds himself with the world’s thinnest crossbow bolt:

Unsurprising. I have been using 3 AI models for numerous technical issues for the past few months and typically catch them out making serious mistakes 2 or 3 times per day. I don't count trivial errors. Sometimes they are hallucinated facts but there are a worrying number of pure reasoning errors.

"There is no appeasing these people, and no point in trying and the sooner govt realises that the better."🤔🤔🤔

Among everything else this guy is just such a creepy fuck

Jerking off at the female acrobats. At multiple performances throughout the day. To the point the performers noticed and complained. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-fanatic...

ryan carsling

The thing about right wingers “entertainment” - Trump events, alternative halftime shows, their movies, their “comedians” - is that it’s so bad that even right wingers don’t want to endure it. They want it to exist, just to Trigger Libs. But they don’t want to sit through it. They know what it is.

Just seen a vox pop where somebody said "Well I voted leave because we were told it would be better." Yes, but you were also (accurately) told it would be worse and you chose to ignore that, so maybe ask yourself why that was.

An old high school sleeping injury has been coming back to haunt me.

All advertising basically comes down to “see this thing you don’t have, well you need it and we sell it!” … unfortunately that thing is now intelligence.

My theory of why AI adverts are so bad is that essentially all the use cases allow someone who knows what they’re doing to do it quicker - but for obvious reasons you can’t show that in an advert effectively.

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

I haven't liked or commented on a Facebook post for two years. So Facebook thinks it's ok to suggest a post by a far-right politician from the National Party? We need to have a very serious conversation about people still using Facebook, much like the conversation we had about Twitter

Freedom but more so

I'm 43 and I still remember how excited I was to learn the word "peripatetic" when I was ten

Wait until y'all hear about Robespierre and his insistence on keeping a daily routine (including wearing a wig while it was becoming literally dangerous to dress "aristocratically,") inability to make eye contact with people, having meltdowns that weirded everyone else out, monotone-sounding speech-

The reflecting pool debacle is a marvelous illustration of the interconnection between autocracy, illiberalism and incompetence. Trump broke the pool. Lied abt it. Said it was violent outside agitators. Now he’s created a vast security perimeter to prevent people from getting near it.

a true knight fights for everyone ⚔️🏳️‍⚧️ (chivalry is gay!! happy pride!!)

When Lin Yu Ting passed the new IOC sex test, Mumsnetters claimed they must've done it wrong, they *knew* she was "really a man" b/c they claim they could see a penis bulge in her shorts, even though if she had the intersex condition they claimed, even a doctor looking at her naked wouldn't see one.

Early in my transition I was heading to a bar where the bouncers knew me from before. One of them stopped me and asked if I had a sister. I told him it was me. 'No!' 'Yes' '... No!' 'Yes' *looks at me, slaps me on the shoulder* 'good for you'.

🙃

Southern and parts of central Russia might be a global agricultural powerhouse, but that won't help Northern or Far East regions if road and rail supply chains fall apart.

Worth noting that quite a few Russian regions are not self-sufficient when it comes to food security which opens up wider political stability questions surrounding any breakdown of Russia's supply chains.

Nobody ever believes I'm trans when I first tell them because, as this post says, they think they can always tell and they can rarely tell. Even trans people I meet go 'no way'.

It even looks like the Spinal Tap Stonehenge.

Harmonica is the only thing you are allowed to whip out in public and it's still frowned upon.

Dominative Wetermonisdom

If you can believe this story, Donny Jr wants to give $20M to rapist Conor McGregor but the rapist won't accept it. www.thetimes.com/article/21b3...

taking a break from milking my anemic micro-cow to thresh the 126 individual stalks of wheat that make up the entirety of this year’s harvest

This is a tactic police used to flag young people as "gang members" in Los Angeles, so probably they are keeping some kind of database. (Cops forced teens to sign it without explaining what it is.)

Bloody hell.