a reminder: most sexual and domestic violence against women is committed by a cisgender man she knows well. Acceptance of trans people has never once even remotely changed this because there are more sexual and domestic violence incidents in the UK per year than there are trans people total.

I've started to realise that the kind of person who I cannot comprehend in the slightest what they're on about, how they think and what they could possibly be getting out of life, are the sort of people who don't like or comprehend art (they call those people neurotypical but I DONT KNOW)

It’s funny how the “tough shit, learn to code” advice only flows in one direction

I wouldn't trust a solipsism study that didn't rely upon self-reports.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Earl of Sandwich: "I put something in my mouth one time and now that's all I'm known for!" Duke of Fellatio: "OH MY HEART BLEEDS!"

"just enough personhood to absolve us (the companies selling AI tools) of liability in cases of harm, not enough personhood to make us responsible for any icky (costly) ethics and compensation stuff wrt the AI we call people" (this comment is orthogonal to the content of the essay, btw)

We talk a lot about how the mindset of there being two sides and how you're on the good side, can make you vulnerable to hubris if you're too inflexible but I think the mindset of there being two sides that are both wrong and you being in the sensible middle makes you even more vulnerable to hubris

"it is an indicator of clean rivers and ponds" ... "It is almost extinct in the United Kingdom". hmmm that doesn't sound good if those two facts are connected.

imagining the cleaning lady standing in shock as all seventeen fall one after the other through the door of a cupboard which could surely never have contained them in the first place

Remember that maths professor who futilely tried to persuade Cambridge police that simple maths actually makes it really fast and easy to find a bike theft in CCTV footage? Sometimes I think we should have made him prime minister www.thepoke.com/2023/11/27/t...

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

i have no mouth and i must run out of cyan

They're acting like the problem with denying so many vulnerable people a covid vaccine this year is that the information informing us that we're no longer eligible isn't clear enough on the booking website! The fucking problem is we're being denied vital healthcare! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is there a term for a group of words that were never actually used to refer to a group of animals?

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

I will never not repost this (Sound on for maximum effect)

This decision is both bad and unfair. People will be able to get the bus for free if they drove to it, but have to pay if they walked or cycled to it. Where is the sense in that?

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

ARCHAELOLOGIST 1: So you thinkin' what I'm thinking? ARCHAEOLOGIST 2: Esteemed deeds. A1: Fuckin' HIGHLY esteemed deeds! A2: I mean if this isn't a place of honor I've never seen one. A1: Get the truck, I want to start substantially disturbing this place physically as soon as possible.

Just filed my claim for compensation for the illegal use of my work by Anthropic AI. A past version of myself would maybe find it quite exciting if I told him he would be involved in a worldwide battle against robots. But probably less so when he found out the robots are invisible, tedious twats.

Ok this slaps

unfortunately there is no way to be so crystal clear that someone can't wilfully misinterpret you, the moment you put pen to paper to say "weekends are great" you almost guarantee that someone is going to come at you 10 years later screaming "you said paprika vampires are real so I killed my uncle"

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

"Why is antagonizing the existing bluesky userbase harmful to bluesky inc's goals? It feels odd to even have to answer this question" azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...

Bring back inscrutable security posters

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

K-Pop Demon Hunters is legitimately the global cultural phenomenon of 2025 and honestly there are far worse things to be a cultural touchstone this year than a trio of young women fighting literal soul-sucking hegemony through the power of their art

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

magician: *sweating* hold on i can fix this

OPENAI LAWYER: so how does this sound. 'user x' pays us $3 to generate a video of elsa suffocating him with her ass. from that, you will receive a princely 50¢ DISNEY LAWYER: i am going to shoot you with a gun

"He points at polls that show diminishing support for trans rights or reproductive rights as proof that 'we' are losing the argument, but never pauses to wonder why a party would be losing an argument that it has been scared to even make."

You can technically install Tinder on a Kindle but it's dangerous if you get a match

normal person: i just want a place to hang out with my friends tech weirdo: and shitheads np: no just my friends tw: but what about hearing alternative views on race and gender? np: we just want to hang out and goof around tw: so where do the shitheads fit in then np: no shitheads tw: not following

A work of art

Thinking about how human cloning technology could be used to not only revive famous musical acts, but make them even better. Just imagine Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Crosby, Stills, Stills, Nash, Young & Young

Fellow Britons, when did it become "spooky season"? Sounds a bit American. When I was a child we always described it as "The Mordant Months".

Reform UK’s Councillor Dave Poole has put out this bizarre graphic littered with spelling errors. Our favourite part is where it says Reform UK keeps being called the ‘fat right’.

A lot has been written about what social media does to brains but maybe one of the worst is that you get lots of rewards for talking and no rewards for listening or thinking. You gain nothing and lose relevance by taking time to chew and digest what someone says before pooping a result back at them

Really hoped this would be, like, "Satan" and "Witches" or even "Popish conspiracies" but turns out to just be "reconciling the worldwide anglican communion" as you were

the genius ceo of the world's hottest tech company here offers the stunning business insight that openai will "have to somehow make money"

Someone is going a great bit on r/djs.... at least I think it's a bit

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n