Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

‘Painful to hear!’ How podcasts’ rush to video is turning them into dreadful listens

Neoliberal centrist dipshits: what is your plan for that Me: [Outlines plan] Them: no your only plan possibilities are nonrefundable tax credits or corporate subsidies

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

Tonight is Christmas Eve, when we in Iceland open presents. All the Yule Lads have already come down from the mountains, but tonight the Yule Cat arrives and he will eat all the children who weren't gifted any new clothes for Christmas. My daughters both got woollen socks so they are safe 🙏

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT d-what's that? Uh-huh...by a falling turkey? Well, shit.

one lesser awful thing about the Epstein files is that genuine crimes against a huge number of children are being morphed into fuel for the influencer industrial complex who don't care about truth or accuracy and just want grist for the content mills

that the Whos celebrate Christmas suggests some knowledge of Christ, but whether this is our anthropic Christ or a distinctive Who-Christ remains obscure; some have argued Christianity was introduced to them during their refuge with Horton, which of course turns us to the matter of Elephant Religion

One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

man I love avocados but I really wish they weren't so hard to cut

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

Art. youtu.be/-LVPjtLYia4?...

Bro, you doing alright, bro? I saw the autosave icon come on just as you entered the room

Donkey Kong XII: Contemplation of the Divine Self

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

I would rather walk in on my parents watching porno than catch them reading this

TikTok will now be owned by the Ellisons, Jared Kushner's firm, and Abu Dhabi's state investment fund.

IT'S WALTON GOGGINS TIME IT'S WALTON GOGGINS TIME IT'S WALTON GOGGINS TIME

‘World’s refrigerator’ runs hot and Arctic melt turns rivers orange ft.trib.al/El2Mce0

New post just out: "The Overshoot" Net migration is collapsing, and will fall further over the coming years. We could even have net emigration. What does that mean for the country and the political narrative as we head towards the next election? (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill

Remember to cough into your elbow, not your hand, folks!

My mum, gen x, probably roughly the right demographic to be targeted for radicalisation by terfs, would easily use the men's loos if the women's had a long queue or something. She told me this herself! They're just toilets!

As i've said before, the renaissance was just 15th century OnlyFans. Artists discovering rich dudes will pay big bucks for pictures of their favourite Greek god, goddess or bible figure with their bits out.

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

During the making of Muppet Christmas Carol Robin the Frog was so gone off hot gin they had to cut around it

Jeez. All tourists - including those from Britain - will have to undergo a social media screening before being allowed entry into the US under new plans being considered by the country's border force news.sky.com/story/us-pla...

jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams

They are now targeting people who did everything by the book and were literally at the ceremony where they were going to become citizens... "Immigrants lined up to become U.S. citizens in Boston on Dec. 4 were pulled from line by USCIS officials moments before the oath ceremony"

Abolish the Home Office

The default posture of the Democrats to the GOP is the “fever will break.” That’s been their stance for over 40 years, meanwhile the fucking patient (America) is almost dead.

it is an underrated miracle of the 21st century that we really did massively, massively reduce bullying in schools

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Jack Skellington after going through the door to International Women's Day Town: "What's this? What's this? There's pay gaps everywhere!"

The EPA will approve two new pesticides containing “forever chemicals” and relax a reporting rule for companies who make products with forever chemicals. The moves come after a $60 million lobbying blitz from the forever chemical industry. Where is the MAHA outcry?

Yes, HID headlights are very bright but the bigger problem is the proliferation of gargantuan vehicles with 5’+ hood heights so that if you’re driving a normal sized car their headlights are at your eye level rather than seat level like they’re supposed to be.

upper east side mashup

the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

Johnny Bravo flirting with ChatGPT

(flipping through The Art of War) thought of this one already... this one too... thought of that one when i was kid... sigh

Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts? White adults National pride: 26% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49% Both: 19% Ethnic minority adults National pride: 15% Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55% Both: 20% yougov.co.uk/society/arti...

this man really decorated before his crush came over lmfao

Donald Trump left on two blue ticks after Zohran goes back to New York 😢