when people tell me AI is inevitable so I better get on board

The CGT shit is driving me nuts. The 'small business types' can't do maths, and the press won't call them out. 🧵

This will be great! Doug Jones is iconic.

the fuck it will

It seems I struck a nerve

Everyone is excited about this or that athlete competing into their 40s, but what about how Kim Gordon is actively operating as the coolest person in the world at 73

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

THE CYCLOPS IN THE ODYSSEY IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE! THIS ACTOR LOOKS NOTHING LIKE SCOTT SUMMERS!!!!! CHRISTOPHER NOLAN HATES TRADITIONAL VALUES!!!!!

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone

Note that property investors get grandfathered changes, but NDIS participants do not. So our Government is effectively saying property investors deserve the dignity of maintaining their current comfort levels, but people with disabilities do not.

“Use AI or get left behind!” Please, leave me behind. Drop me off on the side of the road somewhere. Sentence me to a remote cabin with a typewriter and some wildflowers that don’t know how to use the internet

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

What kind of criminal would suggest making bechamel sauce with coconut milk?

G Gordon Liddy appeared in multiple episodes of Miami Vice. Also in eps of Airwolf, Perry Mason, and MacGyver. Fucking wild.

Men: What do women even bring to the table? They're just gold diggers. Women: *buy their own home* Men: 😡

Out of nowhere my wife just said, “Do you think if they remake Golden Girls and set it in space, they’ll rewrite the theme song lyrics to say ‘your heart is true, you’re a pal and a cosmonaut?’”

In my Inbox this morning: 4 garbage AI requests, including one from Mary Shelley, who is, apparently, a big fan... 😂

Shelley: i swear to fuckin hell Shelley: when i get my hands on that fuckin AI clone Shelley: there is gonna be so much stabbing Shelley: you won't even believe how much stabbing there's gonna be Harris: oh i believe it

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

That famous dead male writer will never read your tender essay about his suicide and fraught relationship with his sister, but lots of us will certainly notice that you didn’t think it was worth even *mentioning* the allegations he was abusive to multiple still living women.

I know I’m feeling really shitty when I feel the need to watch Killer Condom

Return, oh Janis Joplin, in anger and vengeance, and purify this land with your fiery sword

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Although some of my favourite people come from or still live there, Adelaide can kiss my arse.

The Budget Lockup is an eldritch secret ceremony during which the life essence of young journalists is drained to maintain Ross Gittins. Like the Emperor from W40K but with inflation instead of the warp

Some white teachers are so unqualified to teach novels dealing with anti-Asian racism!! A white teacher is trying to tone police a student who I tutor because she wrote in an essay that Charles Yu's novel Interior Chinatown criticizes how Asian American representation is limited by Hollywood.

TL sent me a message to phone him when I got back from lunch. Me: what’s up? TL: *tells me about something someone on a project has done* Me: That fucking idiot! That fucking idiot! *repeating and getting angrier and louder for a few minutes* TL: So…I’m glad it’s not just me PROJECTS SUCK ARSE

I have more in common with a trans woman who suffers under misogyny and patriarchy than I do with a cis woman who chooses to enforce and internalize misogyny and supports patriarchy. Trans women are my sisters. And trans men are my brothers.

The odds of being murdered in your own home by psychopathic waterfowl are low, but never zero.

Just learned Rosemary Edghill died last month. Guess that is the sign I need to do a reread of the Bast books. I’ve been putting it off for months.

This ex-PM is a piece of shit who does not understand the country he once sold out. A blatant racist, pro Zionist, apologist for Church paedophilia and economically illiterate. Very typical of the quality of "leaders" in this and many countries, and also the media for printing his pustular opinions.

IT'S NOT EVEN A REAL FIGURE! THE CLAIM THAT 7.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS TOOK SICK LEAVE IN 2023/24 IS AN ASSUMPTION PLUCKED FROM FUCKEN THIN AIR! THEY TOOK THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT THEY THOUGHT WERE ELIGIBLE FOR SICK LEAVE AND MULTIPLIED IT BY 0.8! WHERE DOES 0.8 COME FROM? IT'S A FUCKEN GUESS!

Ted Turner had an instinct for mergers, a lot of charm, an inhuman level of self-confidence, AND a wildly overinflated sense of what he could pull off, and if I were to pick a single deal that represented all of those qualities, it would be "I think I can turn Jane Fonda into a trophy wife."

how is this one not in the qp’s already

The worst season of Picard was the third.

Ok, i got a doozy. The jedi order kinda got what they had coming to them. Their fall was very much their own fault. They slid so far into dogmatism and were averse change and new ideas to the point that they couldnt figure palpatine was plotting against then until it was too late.

Rogue One is an overrated heist film where the three best characters are a blind monk and an atheist bickering like a married couple, and a sassy droid

MAMMAL BULLYING A REPTILE: Nice body temperature dude. Did the sun pick it out for you

I may have missed the lead up but now I see with the trailer release of Nolan’s take on The Odyssey, people are being absolute cunts again.

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Anthony Horowitz uses AI, says 'it feels like cheating'. I mean...yes? You're using the theft-powered plagiarism machine to generate text, do you expect it to feel like a good day's hard work?

Apparently today is Raise Your Hand If You'd Be Dead Without Antidepressants Day. ✋🏻

Bought H a bed recently (he’s usually avoided them) and it was delivered today. He has so far spent 15 minutes in it which is about 14 minutes longer than any in the past.

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Fuck you, honeycomb wrap! I hope whoever invented you steps on a piece of Lego in the dark while not wearing shoes.

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TWoP produced the most hilarious writer reaction of all time, when Aaron Sorkin got banned from the West Wing forum and wrote an entire subplot into an episode about it.