Python should never have become a successful programming language. It's dog slow, the syntax is horrid and its use of whitespace as flow control is morally offensive.

Happy Pride Month. If you're a gay man, please remember your power. People often think that gay men are innately fashionable, which means if you wear some stupid shit for long enough, straight people, including homophobes, will copy you and then you can laugh at them.

Read someone saying that using a CPAP is "microdosing life support" and I think of this, giggling, every night when I slap the mask on.

"We are pleased to inform you that after several decades of constant (if often subpar) operation, you have finally crossed the threshold from 'garage sale junk' to 'retro memorabilia.'"

why are they "looksmaxxers" and not Chinfluencers

Anyone who claims under is the way it should be, I would like you to focus on the patent presented below.

What do you have against bass? You bassist

Donkey suppositories? You know what you can do with those.

United States: Department of "Justice "

A typo walks into a bat

Whoa-oh Black Betty….

Calling in Net Zero was a stupid idea. Carbon emissions are only part of it. They should have called it energy sovereignty, that way the flag shaggers would be on board with it too.

*had

i think it's less the worldview itself than whether it informs your work or if your work only exists to make a political point. the second category is only less insufferable when coming from the left because we tend to agree with the points it's trying to make

Thread, answering the lame critique from the left that “the right can’t meme”.

US science for the next few decades.

Shit Ubu, shit. Good dog.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

A lot of people from around the world are about to experience the dark side of the USA.

Hard to know when someone is hitchhiking or just being supportive

Dissolving Fillers Leave Face Completely Concave

The reason the doctors keep giving him dementia tests is because he has dementia

I want to buy some kind of, for want of a better compound word “techno-sporran”, for festival use. This kind of thing, but more https://acrnm.com than hippie, aesthetically. Anyone seen such a thing?

“He couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel!”

Possible mocktails: Tequila shammer Bucks Fizzer Blank Russian Krusty Nail Kmartini Nojito Mai Try Faiquiri Pseudcar Robbed Roy Moscow Mute Hardly Wallbanger

Just in case anyone needs the reminder

Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Einstürzende Neubauten be like:

repost to scare a european

Grand Theft ATProto where you drive around a video-model-hallucinated city and landscape depicting ATProto tweets as they happen and the radio plays your notifications. #atproideasio @gracekind.net @minormobius.bsky.social you have 90 minutes

Biggest street party of 2026. (Unless It Happens)

. @actualnames.bsky.social

This is fake AI slop and I wish people would delete fake AI slop when it’s pointed out they’re spreading what essentially is misinformation but that is unfortunately way too much to ask these days.

Irish Talking Heads cover band Seamus It Ever Was

When the camera has to zoom out for the full explosion, that's bad, right?

Happy 8th birthday to this, from @orkneylibrary.bsky.social

Actual “Front fell off”.

The iMac cube was not a success.

This is why I have always said designers should be sentenced to use their own designs.

“Kinetic sanctions” result in “unscheduled repairs”.

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Honest Government Ads 🥳 What a privilege to have been able to cover a decade of shitfuckery. Only possible thanks to all the help, love and support we’ve received over the years...

Fact of the day: the person who plays Triangle in the Bermudan Philharmonic Orchestra keeps disappearing.

This implies a pile of gold bars somewhere at Langley big enough that they did not notice it shrinking

Hey, I can (finally!) set an actual _alarm_ on an iOS Reminder! But it doesn’t seem I can do it for Calendar entries?

I think about this a lot.

There's a really good post I saw on this recently... just went to look it up and found it again: epoch.ai/blog/the-lon... same concept but it does math to conclude ~15 months is the max length a training run should take

one of my favorite cheeky papers, from 1999, is this one where the authors argue that sometimes it is better to simply wait and do nothing, because your astrophysical simulations will complete faster if you simply wait for the next epoch of compute arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph...

I moved to Germany in my 40s and that’s when I learned how to pronounce this.