“But there has to be a path to redemption for people like Louis CK..” Let me stop you right there: no there doesn’t. You made that up.

I finally found a 16:9 version of this. Short-format horror...!

There's no denying it!

#HappyEaster 👽 Thanks @warandpeas.bsky.social.

If your laptop is stranded on Windows 10, the solution isn't a new laptop. It's a new operating system. Read more from @steviebonifield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/905946/...

This is the truest truth of all the truths (and there aren't many).

Staggeringly high numbers of people in my community are using food banks because they cannot afford to buy their own food in one of the richest countries in the world. What is their MP, the Prime Minister, doing about it? Absolutely fuck all.

Speculoos-filled Cadbury's Creme Egg. Because.

First time I've watched a baseball match in decades (sorry, @ceciliatan.com) and I am shocked, I tell you, shocked. The Red Sox are not wearing red socks. WTF?

I've yet to encounter a publisher who didn't present their contract as a flat out "take it or leave it". At least until you've got a track record outside small publishers. I don't know if it changes when you can show a history of many units sold. I imagine so.

Not even close. The most useful function of a publishing house is distribution. Spend time in the industry and you will see the profound challenge of distribution.

Just remembering the letter Pete Hegseth’s mom sent him, calling him an abuser of women and telling him their family is “broken by your behavior and lack of character.”

also, having tried Mastodon, I am glad this place, for all its faults, exists.

ICE and the GOP need to be correctly identified as what they are: terrorists

The mentality here is that everything worthwhile is "American" or *should be* American and that everything that isn't obviously wants to be. This is why this fantasy about being greeted as liberators is impossible to dislodge no matter how many times it fails.

It’s time for my favorite cartoon of the year.

Whatever AI offers you, it took from someone else. That alone is a disqualification. But if you go ahead and use it, you have no idea of the extent of the lift and if it's uncovered, you'll be liable

Wait. You can just say "we might infringe on your rights" in your Terms Of Service?

Status report, "Time To Link To This" dep't: It's the International Day of Trans Visibility, so here are thoughts on the Wizard's Oath as it affects transgender wizards. (And to all of you, wizards or non-: you're humans, with human rights, and you are *seen.*) ❤️ dduane.tumblr.com/post/1724444...

. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .

Tell me you're on a Roman road without telling me you're on a Roman road.

HMS Bounty in CorkJun 2011, it sank n in n storm Sandy Oct 2012. The replica ship used in 'Mutiny on the Bounty' #tallShip #coast #corkCoast #speirGorm #irishBlueSky #mastodaoine #cork #hmsBounty

Just leaving this here. Seen in Halfords.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

When someone in the future asks "Who broke the Status Quo?", the finger of shame can be pointed at the Israeli government.

Timeline cleanse! A marvellous baby feeding bottle in the shape of a mouse. 🐀🐭 Campanian, 4th century BC. From the collection of the Badisches Landesmuseum, Karlsruhe (currently closed) 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

Clive Myrie: ‘The best journalists are the ones who behave like human beings’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Your annual reminder (especially to journalists) that the week BEFORE Easter is Holy Week; the week AFTER Easter is Easter Week. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

under the supreme warlord we will be abolishing "vacation bible school"

UK government can't drop low enough it seems. Still better than Reform, but I'd love if the UK voted Green next time, only reasonable alternative right now, I think?

An amazing map of all German regional names for “potato”—hurray for everyone except for those who chose Nudel

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Activist who pushed 2020 election fraud claims convicted of election fraud www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

the situation with JK Rowling is pretty unique; it's hard to think of a parallel where a beloved mass culture artists decides to lead a global hate campaign.

israel is the most evil country on the planet. horrifying beyond words.

Tell me you're an Israeli sadist without telling me you're an Israeli sadist.

Extremely pedantic point of order: "money is the root of all evil" is a contraction and misrepresentation of the original quote, "love of money is the root of all evil". That's the usual rendition of the Latin "radix malorum est cupiditas", famously used by Chaucer in The Pardoner's Tale.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS BATTER

we need to use the term “slopportunities” until Oxoford English Dictionary recognizes it

Jenni Murray died yesterday. She was a BBC grandee, probably the TERF most responsible for the current onslaught on UK trans people. My BBC staffer friends tell me her influence kept trans positive voices off air for years, and ensured terf hate speech was uncritically platformed. Rot in hell.

I am enjoying every part of Belfast except the food, which has so far ranged from acceptable to possibly a hate crime.

Disciples of Patrick were ahead of Rome in setting date for Easter

Yep. The number of times I've heard people talk about "Oh, it's just like Y2K, and that was nothing," and dammit, I lived through Y2K, and I lost quite a few nights, and while my friends were partying on Dec 31, 1999 I was sitting in a server room.