The Barrister quoting Napoleon about enemies making mistakes but pompously attributing it to Sun Tzu is almost too perfect 😂 #TheTraitors

I’d love for the BBC to provide training on recognising your unconscious biases to all contestants on #TheTraitors before they start filming each series.

Based on this handwriting and this list alone, the secret traitor is a) white (no POC is making a list with 2/3 POC, for about a billion reasons including strategic ones), b) probably a woman and c) either older or very pointedly artsy-fartsy (that z). Most likely Fiona, Harriet; possibly Jessie.

Ludwig Wittgenstein would have had a Joyce Carol Oates-esqe presence if he were on social media

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

Hugo is the most Hugo looking man possible, isn't he? Like you really see that guy and think - yep - that is Hugo. #TheTraitors

it's very funny to me that etsy's morality policy re: sex toys has ended up being that they will allow 'sexual wellness' products but NOT anything to be inserted in the body, which means that it is 99% pure freak shit like hand-carpentered st andrew's crosses, and 1% cringe novelty underpants

Nothing comes out of these water jets but lies and insinuations. Why did I buy a j'accuzzi?

Watched 'Death by Lightning' and I know you're supposed to feel good about Chester A. Arthur being shamed into being marginally less shit, but instead I keep thinking about the alternate universe where Garfield accepted his resignation, appointed Frederick Douglass as veep instead, still got shot.

Great opportunity to share my favourite screenshot of all time:

Another dozen or so authors could request a correction like this. "In Covid's Wake" egregiously misrepresents research and ignores the scientific consensus throughout. Embarrassing that it's being praised by credible outlets.

I'm having a really bad time - the usual post-Christmas depression combined with the kind of migraine that feels like you're gazing into a hell dimension - but you know what? I'm still having a better day than this guy: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

god's most pitiful and downtrodden creature is a housecat denied wanted attention for longer than 15 seconds

Ah, a depiction of my favourite logic puzzle: how to get a cow, a bag of grain and a giant pinecone across a river. The bag of grain is not pictured, as its addition would sink the tiny boat. The man will have to take the pinecone back with him, for if they're left alone, it would engulf the cow.

It’s really awful that the Byzantines would ritually mutilate former rulers to keep them from taking the throne again but on the other hand this did mean no one had to suffer through episodes of the Nikephoros Bryennios Podcast Hour.

*sweats nervously while looking at my 5 vegan panettones and 1 vegan pandoro*

I'm so happy that someone verified this photo as genuine: archive.org/details/suns.... What a gift the Internet Archive Open Library is.

In 2021 I dressed in full PPE and held my phone to an intubated 45 year old man's ear while his daughter said goodbye to him. I truly don't believe in hell but sometimes I wish I did.

I like being an uncle for the holidays because: Mom and dad are responsible, and will discipline you. Grandpa and Grandma are indulgent, and will coddle you. But the uncle... the uncle is unpredictable. The niece and nephew cannot know what the uncle will do, because the soul of the uncle is CHAOS

every wiki article about classic UK comedy like "Father and Sons was a comedy duo comprised of Reg Father and Tommy Sons, who appeared on a record breaking 18,450 episodes of The Light Applause Hour. Reg Father died in 1988 of Cigarette Fever. Tommy Sons remains alive in prison since 1997"

the most Verhoeven shit imaginable - Santa Claus, hypermasculinized and armed and wearing Santa-colored armor, using advertising language to announce a limited-time offer to collect a Christmas deportation bonus. conservatives say they hate postmodernism but they're so good at it

cyberpunk dystopia is here, there's colored LEDs all over and I eat too much cup noodle they keep putting bigger pictures of the dictator's face on things but at least on the Nets we still talk freely sometimes your robot girlfriend is secretly a real person nothing's been right since the plague

We’ve created the self-regarding allegedly erudite child-molesting monsters from Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Don’t Create The Self-Regarding Allegedly Erudite Child-Molesting Monster”

excellent, an excuse to share one of my favorite videos youtu.be/qjklfGi6aC0?...

I've made a Bluesky account with the goal of creating an online persona that's less spicy, for ESTA purposes, but I'm concerned the plan may be foiled by how obviously Briar and I are talking to each other over Bluesky*; hopefully it'll just look like they're having a torrid affair with a communist

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

honestly, I still really like neural nets/LLM type things as a technology! I was experimenting with one back in like 2019, and it did result in interesting conceptual art pieces. I'm sad they've been used pretty much exclusively for 1.) irresponsible, unethical purposes, and 2.) stupid purposes.

Yesterday, Torgo restarted my computer into recovery mode. He use the computer Very Much.

I hope RFK Jr's balls fall off and when he goes to the ER they tell him congratulations you now have natural immunity against that happening again

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"Hi! Could you please doodle Pompompurin wearing a Soviet ushanka hat"

The thing is, I'm too old to be furry Hamlet so I guess I'm Hamlet's gay furry uncle??

Other houses i remember were named after david walliams, Obama, Thatcher. Wracking my brain for the others rofl

double-barelled it to have new vote of just women, so each house had man and a woman No word of a lie, Tyson-Beyonce House was one of the winners We had meetings about it wondering what to do. Eventually, the problem was best solved by forgetting the idea to have a House System completely rofl2/2

Once upon a time, a school I worked at decided to introduce a House System, but for student voice purposes allowed students to name the houses. First vote was theme. I suggested planets - the eventual vote was for famous people. The students voted all four famous figures were men, so we 1/2

From the author Stephen Stephano. Others have noticed this is the Bartle taxonomy of player types, Christmas edition. #GameStudies

Briar has got a fancy tracker bracelet specifically for people with chronic conditions and it asked them what is their sex assigned at birth because 'hormones can impact your measurements' and like. Goddammit I have said this before but I am SO tired of medical transition denialism.

it's taken me quite a long time to train myself out of being in a constant state of stress in the squareass Xillennial communist group chat because of this specific thing.

Was very close to fighting someone from another office over a Teams message this morning before looking them and realizing they are about 60. Remembered the below tweet and chose peace instead. Be proud of me.

I truly can't imagine how I'd persuade my self ten years ago that 'gaslighting your office vending machine into believing it lives in Soviet Russia and is a communist vending machine so that it gives you a free PlayStation' is now a real thing and not a Douglas Adams plot point. archive.ph/PolK0

this is an older, pulpier conceit, i think, and also the reason those new poirot movies are so, so bad. they are more concerned with giving his mustache an origin story (A REAL THING) than with the new characters in the current mystery!

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

the good news about my Bluesky experience so far is that with disciplined use of the "show more/less like this" buttons, I have gotten my Discover tab to be about 50% nature and art instead of 100% drama and doom the bad news is that other people have not done this

Not to brag or anthing

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Woke 2 rises