“For an Irish Government Minister, no movement is imaginable unless the Minister experiences an external pressure. Making decisions because the actions might be a good idea doesn't even enter the discussion.” www.thegist.ie/the-gist-the...

good phrase: “cognitive sovereignty” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

some heroes have feet of claude

oh “we” won? didn’t know you even played

I’ve installed an extremely bright daylight bulb in my office in the hope of staving off the winter sads to some extent

da moviesh

damn he a blue prince and he got feet???

. . . on the other hand, baby yoda mug

it’s always some psychic b-word saying “something’s wrong”

Paul Goldshit

Absolutely no way anything goes wrong with rushing stuff like this, right?

the upstream color of coercive control

in case you missed it i revisited the david foster wallace essay about the AVN awards for @flaminghydra.com recently 💋 flaminghydra.com/on-rereading...

four-day weekend BEGIN

ahhh damn i just remembered that disgust always bears the imprint of desire

the ear pads on Sennheiser Accentum are mercifully easy to replace. held on by plastic clips, they just pop right off

the iPhone global search field has gone to shit lately. and why’s it so fucking slow

“the category is Blue Peter presenters” just kill me now

“Cricket was played at the 1900 Summer Olympics, a men's contest with only two entrants, won by Great Britain over France.”

How insulting. How dare these animals make the world waste my time and my talents, how dare THESE repulsive morons be our nemesis. My dignity is wounded every time a fascist breathes.

David Foster Wallace-ass title

It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work

the golden morning breaks

any cooking method where I have to just let something happen for a fixed amount of time and trust it’ll work out is a monumental challenge. anyway I finally cooked rice myself in a saucepan and it was fine

the unreasonable effectiveness of eating dinner

why should I make my own fun? what am I paying you for then??

well this isn’t going to help the mood of the boardroom www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

I miss People’s Coffee

ha ha ha ha ha

funny thing about scurvy is that after the Royal Navy discovered how to prevent scurvy, I believe the Admiralty pretty quickly undiscovered it by trying to economize (stored lime juice instead of fresh, substituting vinegar because the cure was obviously “sour”)

the modernization of The Stand for the uncut edition 10 years later did not work at all

recession indicator: long half-empty, local mall’s new tenant is a personal finance company

everything a computer does wrong now is “AI”

Compare Mamdani's approach, which can be crudely described as "YIMBY + rent control", to (for example) the Australian Left who are currently trying to stop a rebuilding of a public housing development in Sydney to include 4x more dwellings because some of them will be private

not sure this corruption stuff will “cut through” as the wonks like to say

some people are just a little *too* diligent. like it’s not that serious, boss

everything is very lol right now

laughed out of the English dept. after mentioning John Fowles’s ”The Magoo”

I mislaid a tiny adapter so of course I cannot think of anything but finding it

vision is a spectrum, and most people are actually not optotypical; in fact, there is a good chance a lot of people you meet are actually optodivergent, or what is classically known as "optistic"

what an absurd notification. is this phone running Linux

This is my friend Hahona. He's a mean a Māori working class guy as you get, we used to volunteer for a South Auckland football club together. He put his body on the line against genocide, what a fucking legend. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

my watch just told me to restart for new time zone definitions

Opinion: Some MPs leave us to conclude they come to Parliament not to serve the people but to squeeze them for as much as they can. newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/27/s...

drag my ass to work

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

watching fringe season 3 live was real tv dude. every week a new guy from the wire showed up in Future New York as played by The Same Three Vancouver Locations and then joshua jackson had to try to hold his own in serious scenes alongside john noble while going 🥺