There is always an XKCD

Kemi, this is just a population density map

A lot of people are overcorrecting when responding to ai hype imo. It’s profoundly impressive tech when you consider what it is.

A possum has been nibbling my fig tree trunk :(

Going to put together a starter pack of 49 decent but anodyne people and one absolute danger who'll ensure you're instantly blocked by 500,000 people the second you follow him.

Astonishing both-sidesing in The Times

If pushed, I'd probably have to say that my favourite Anglo-Saxon king is King Ethelbert since he is the only one whose name contains an entire middle-aged British couple from the 1960s.

I love Polski bar in London both in general and very specifically for the inherently threatening concept of "Polish Aperol" and this wholly novel spelling of "grapefruit":

What feels like 30h later, azure entra / managed id and Postgres roles are knitted together. That was… a pain.

Again, "I only make CSAM for money" would not help an ordinary person's defence, but would aggravate their sentencing.

Hmm, I could sell a kidney. ‘Slightly used. One sepsis episode’

hey @rentouljohn.bsky.social here’s another answer to your clueless question

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went to the Eastern Daily Press website to see what coverage they had and was fairly quickly .... distracted

(living an unexamined life) yaaaaaay haha yay wheeeeee

Increasingly Worried Man Hasn’t Yet Come Across Any Guacamole In Burrito https://theonion.com/increasingly-worried-man-hasn-t-yet-come-across-any-gua-1819576083/

Woke myself up punching myself repeatedly in the face this morning? Perhaps tapering the ssris a bit too quick

- What we mean by history isn’t the same thing as ‘stuff which happened in the past’. - Salafiism &c is closer to jacobinism than anything else. - Israel’s modern form is of a post-colonial & anti imperial state - the sheer awkwardness of justifying 1688 through the 18c

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Probably people who were talking loudly in the reference section, as a warning to others. Oh, Iberians.

A team of Harvard scientists had once verified exactly that point by sticking a rectal thermometer in a cheetah and getting it to run on a treadmill.

Local cat, Astrid’s wario

US intervention in Latin America: famously effective at reducing refugee flows

I think in this day and age they shouldn't have separate competitions based on your sexuality.

Incredibly funny that the replies to this are people complaining about him ‘attacking alt text’

grim posthumous scenario i had not previously considered: you post a picture of the missile headed straight for you, and are memorialized by a bunch of random assholes complaining about alt text

waking up in 2026

Please, my political commentariat, it’s barely literate.

Throwback to tiny Astrid

Sigh

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Chief of police here got caught with csam. You’d think ‘because he was a police officer’ would be a reason for a heavier sentence, but no! A lighter one! NINE MONTHS HOME DETENTION

God, can you imagine the panic attack the fine officer had when s/he realised what was in front of them?

Foundation, Isaac Asimov

If rereading after virtue to see in the new year is wrong, I don’t want to be right

“Where Frankena sees me as an inadequate analytic philosopher with an additional, not entirely relevant interest in history, Edel sees me as an inadequate social historian who keeps needlessly dragging in analytic philosophy.”

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)