coming to the horrific realisation that Matt Yglesias would be a Tisza bro™

i am worried about the plausible-ish future where trans women achieve moderate social acceptance but become a sort of middleman minority forever segregated from wider society, including the rest of the queer community

the one thing that worries me as an eastern european about when i inevitably move out west is what happens to my god-given right to torrent, but i guess i won't have to do that on a western salary

how haram am i if i know someone who knows someone who knows nigel farage

wisdom

queer discourse makes a whole lot of sense once you realise it's at best 5% ideological and 95% modern day mods v. rockers

oh yeah, for americans lamenting their land use planning: the only thing that could make american suburban planning worse is also giving each house space for a huge garden lol. some places in my town are zoned for a maximum lot coverage of 5%(!)

the thing that fascinates me abt Charlie Kirk is that he was essentially a cog in the right-wing Attention Economy machine who was killed as a direct result of his work, then he led a postmortem life as a meme and AI slop. he was Content in life, Content in death, and Content as an apparition. eerie

why are us counties so small

sanction is a really stupid word, why does it both mean "punishment" and "explicit permission to do something (that you would ordinarily be punished for)"

the Left™ must subscribe to a sketchy $200/mo cloud service or Be Left Behind

are americans all illiterate

i must issue an addendum to my slightly viral reply i made a few days ago: the train between hungary and romania still requires an excruciatingly long id check i just got lucky that one time

post a banger that's not in english Omega - Hajnali Óceán: not technically a "banger" by the strict definition of the term but my all-time favourite rock ballad anyway. youtu.be/M4jBir34guQ

apparently im on a "techno-pessimists" list lmaoo

miyabi with tail

i just mute anyone who constantly acts smug about things

the timeline rn SLAVA FUCKIN' UKRAINI 🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦

Incidentally, this is correct, which is precisely we should pursue "you must license material for training, at normal rates" as the legal vector for how to legally end the LLM industry.

RRRREEEEEE SCREAM IF YOU LOVE EASTERN EUROPE

ayyyyyyyyyy

incidentally this is also true for the Russian opposition: if they cannot express that Crimea is Ukraine and that they will cede it immediately upon taking power, don't give them a cent

The corruption scandal in Ukraine is obviously horrible, but I can't help but think that they are handling it objectively better than literally most Western countries would now.

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Happy late birthday my shayla!!!! Opening comms in a bit teehee #projectedensgarden #evatsunaka #dianavenicia #dianeva

locking in & crashing out

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sam + cary huang and ben + michael huang jet lag season would be unstoppable i think

This year we've been really swinging for the fences. Our latest video is our biggest one yet, nearly an hour long and involving half a dozen experts. Asking "Should lying about climate change be illegal?" and, if so, how do we make it so? youtu.be/FKtCuwfUCJg

My personal nightmare scenario is basically the FRONTEXization of the rest of the institutional EU (ie co-option by the worst reactionary anti-pluralist forces)

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

Wordle 1534 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

important announcement

I made a new game where you guess how people voted in the British general election of 2024. red-autumn.itch.io/british-vote... Based on @britishvoter.bsky.social

cis dude making a 5 hour video on terfs proves that autism is stronger than transphobia www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiOc...

I have learnt a way of fortune telling and I realized I'm going to get my 9 kidneys sharply cut by a general and that I will die a painful death in 6 days

it's squares

You current biological sex is clearly defined by what gonads you used to have but don't have now, unless you never had any in that case it's what ones you would have had if you were born differently, and unless you had both or ovotestes in which case stop asking questions you don't exist, but also

I love being in a whatsapp group with a bunch of brainrotted romanians because images like this will regularly show up in my camera roll without warning

you know the worldbuilding project is 🔥 when you start making a mahjong variant for it

>Meets JD Vance >Dies of Cringe

We oppose any Digital Package aimed at “simplifying” EU digital rules. With democracy under threat from disinformation & oligarchs, now isn’t the time to weaken the Digital Service Act, Digital Markets Act or AI Act. We want the Commission to enforce the laws we already have.

scan #shimejisimulation #tsukishima #tkmiz #tsukumizu #fish

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior. youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

Very cool Casey, sounds like OpenAI's agent thing is extremely stupid and sucks and doesn't do anything interesting, and is also broken. Sounds like a really "compelling demonstration"