and Tiny Tim, who died, can now be interacted with in the form of a fully animated AI chat bot with just a couple of photos and simple prompts

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

The government failed at actually redacting the Epstein files because DOGE cancelled the feds adobe acrobat premium subscription is the funniest shit.

Sir Terry Pratchett is best understood as one of the most interesting, deeply ethical practical (I would say Pragmatist but I cede to actual experts) philosophers of the late 20th Century who just happened to work in deconstructed fantasy literature as his medium.

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

You simply cannot have a level of wealth inequality, where someone can be paid to by billionaires this much to be a bigot, and have democracy. It isn't possible.

Only days left of one of the most horrible years worldwide. 1️⃣ With so much evil happening, activists and other caring people risk burn-out and M.I. problems daily. Remember to breathe, remember to step away from it all every so often and look after yourself. If people berate you for it, ..

Wow this is setting a dangerous precedent

look at how little effort it takes for someone on the conservative grievance circuit to destroy a life millions of college kids have half assed an assignment at the last minute, you eat the F and move on but the effort to push trans people out of public life will use whatever it can get

You just know he (and by extension, we) got absolutely fleeced. Would love to be negotiating and this schlub strolls in.

First time my mum went to my dad's parents house she noticed my granddad had a party hat on. Seemed odd as there was no party. "Why is he wearing that?" she asked my dad later. "It's because he's so forgetful," said my dad. "My mum makes him wear it every time he's switched the immersion heater on."

We leave the door to the press open so we know the immersion is on, which mostly works, but fancy hat is a great shout in fairness. We also employ "thing in way" in our house. Need to remember thing? Have you tried putting thing in way? Can't forget thing if thing in way.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

of course bari weiss can be both stupid and evil! that is the point of transphobia, it is evil that you can do even if you are too stupid for other forms of evil, because you can just say the same 2-5 transphobic things over and over again and you get an automatic audience of rich credulous freaks

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Opened door 22 on my radvent calendar today. Yet another weird glowing rock. I'm getting sick of this. Nauseous too.

They should invent tiny speakers that can fit inside a person’s ear so that person can watch videos without other people having to hear everything.

Only 5 Fianna Fáil TDs voted to restore the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy)(Amendment) Bill. 35 voted against. They're the only major party where none of the female TDs supported the bill. We have antichoice extremists at the helm. The work of Repeal is not done #spéirgorm

Why don't all those CBS journalists just ignore Bari Weiss. She's not their real dad.

Literally having trouble thinking of an institutional sector — journalism, education, government, health care — that ISNT being run by people who actively hate the work it does

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

Working to correct the numerous accuracies we found in the story.

Void your car's warranty with chatgpt

Just letting you know this account now has a policy of reposting every single instance I see of Jake Paul cowering in a corner as poetic justice comes hurtling toward his jaw.

This is the expression of a man who is seeing the face of God and realizes He is frowning

You know you're too online when someone sends you the shocked hamster meme and you immediately know they are talking about Jake Paul.

Things are Terrible, but this isn't. Be weird.

I feel like I'm going to get a lot of use out of this Pluribus screencap

I feel like there's a word for a legal system that explicitly has different rules for different ethnic groups: www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Somebody just took irony into the woods, made it dig its own grave, and then shot it in the head and buried it.

The man in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like “Noah’s Ark” for plants – a vault for renewal after ecological disasters. Ecologist Darren Reidy has been researching, gathering and banking native seeds across Ireland since 2022. jrnl.ie/6910184

To think that providing homeless accommodation is fast becoming one of Irelands big indigenous service industries Yet we've over 160k empty homes & over 20k derelict homes How have we left successive governments normalise this violence While generations suffer Sickening😡 #DerelictIreland #speirgorm

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

god damn the opposite camera's views of each of their faces is peak schadenfreude

You know, some days I sit and think about how absolutely wild it is that we've built a society where we don't provide a place for people to even sleep at night without having to pay for it, and that we've somehow made it seem like that's normal.

I'm so angry about this I'm struggling to control my blood pressure. In my own constituency only 1 of the 4 elected TDs is a woman. She voted yes. Because of two men (Cathal Crowe and Joe Cooney) Clare is not representative of a country that repealed the 8th Amendment with over 66% favourable votes

It was a very discombobulating experience this year to see someone (in a rebuttal to a review I had submitted for their paper) cite a paper by me, on a topic I publish in, in a journal I publish in, with coauthors I publish with, but which DIDN’T EXIST! Stop this crap immediately.

Patience is a virtue, Past Cethan.

Reminder that Purdue Pharma sold oxy as a low abuse risk drug to thousands and thousands of doctors by citing a journal article that turned out to be a 5 sentence letter to the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine. And at least the letter was actually real.

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Really looking forward to the annual St. Patrick's Day measles outbreaks that start happening here in a couple of years.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Fianna Fail sold it to the highest bidder, that's what happened to Dublin. Celtic Tiger me hole

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Bilbao is smaller than Dublin

This is obscene. Why can't other politicians say that? The 25 richest families are collectively $358.7 billion richer than a year ago, with a combined fortune totaling $2.9 trillion.