I do find this post from Musk hard to process. He doesn't exactly say he just found out Mars is far away, but how else to interpret his explanation for the recent shift in focus? He seems to be saying 'in the light of this new information'. Bizarre.

Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out

McSweeny resigns. First of the gang to go

There is no better question right now than “is water really blue?” I’m not joking, the wholesomeness of it, combined with glorious pictures of blue water is. Well. Cleansing.

Wow i have been extemely poorly for two days. Ive only been able to drink sips of water and most of the time asleep. Just woke up clear headed but a bit weak and shaky. Dont know what that was.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

Something I wrote 11 years ago on the old Twitter

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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

Qanon was never about taking down actual pedophiles and pursuing justice for victims. It was about smearing any and all prominent liberal figures while protecting and empowering actual pedophiles. Qanon was a movement of pedophiles, protecting pedophiles.

I signed up to the AI skills hub. It seems to consist mainly of: - free courses linked to commercial products - free courses that are not about AI - paid courses by commercial or academic providers I did not find any original learning material. I haven't checked it all. I will look.

So my son is not a programmer, but he is interested in old 8-bit video games, and the other day he taught himself a little bit of Lua in a couple of hours, and made one - maybe Catacomb Abyss? - anyway, then he tried using an AI to generate the same thing, mainly to check his handiwork...

Trump’s fundraisers are now using the threat of dispatching ICE against citizens as an email engagement tactic.

Look at this - an amazing graph if it's true. Prototaxites has a completely different carbon absorption spectrum from all other known forms of life?? (Other points in the graph are from the same early-Devonian shale deposit). Can't judge if this is real but it is from legit published research.

I've posted about Prototaxites before. Massive fungus that loomed over the early Earth. But new research released literally in the last few days is saying they might be some other unknown form of life... amazing. I hope they are aliens. youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8...

Yes. We used to say these things almost verbatim 'they are stitching up candidate selection', 'he doesn't care about building relationships', but this was fringe extremism until now it's too late to undo the damage, it's mainstream discourse.

40 years.

What was your favourite song growing up? 'Bits and Pieces' by the Dave Clarke Five because they stamped their feet. Me and my brother used to laugh our heads off and stamp our feet on the floorboards in my nan's hallway. I can now imagine the impact on the adults in earshot.

Can't sleep and rain is lashing down outside

And this was done by the working class of Minnesota.

They are wounded and flailing. Press the advantage.

Probably the moment the Labour Party died. Idiots.

🚨Ladbrokes have the Greens as the favourite to win Gorton and Denton by-election

Grant me, indulgent Heaven, that I may live, To see the miscreants feel the pains they give; Deal Freedom’s sacred treasures free as air, Till Slave and Despot be but things that were. —Robert Burns, “Lines Inscribed in a Lady’s Pocket Almanac” #BurnsNight #C18 #poem

Tell me your pet's name in a gif

First class

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Just read another thread about how nobody uses a phone in their dreams. Last one I remember I was lost in endless meandering backstreets, and I used Google maps to find my way out.

Is this real? If so, he definitely has dementia and there's nobody that cares for him enough to stop this.

Tippi Hedren by Genevieve Naylor, 1954 She began her career as a teenaged department store model in Minneapolis, & signed with Eileen Ford when she turned 20 & moved to New York. She's 24 here.

I had lunch with a tech guy yesterday - his company wants to do community outreach, my college wants industry engagement - win/win. I was a bit scared when coversation turned to AI, but he spontaneously said all the same things I have been ranting about for years. I was so relieved.

You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not!

I went to see 28 Years Later: Bone Temple. It's mostly about the dangers of very horrible people rather than rage-filled infected. I personally didn't think it took as many emotional risks as the first film. Ralph Fiennes however pushes it to 11 (he even says that).

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered on January 15, 1919.

Unpopular opinion - although birthrates were much higher in the historical past than they are today, that does not prove high birthrates are more 'natural'. Other primates leave more time between births than humans do. Low birthrates may have been common in ancient times.

"I'd almost forgotten what your eyes look like, they're still the same: piss-holes in the snow" (Get Carter) And the relationship only went downhill from there...

Bad for them more than us

River Avon. Still very small.

You might like to know that "Alexander The Great", a pilot which I believe was made in 1963, shelved then aired a few years later - is up on YouTube. William Shatner as Alexander. Adam West as Cleander. John Cassavetes, Joseph Cotten and Simon Oakland also lurking. It's... a trip.

Sylvia Townsend Warner's aunt Purefoy was married to Arthur Machen, accounting for the Machen mood in Lolly Willowes & some of W's wonderful short stories, inc 'A Spirit Rises', with its curious rocking horse. On visits to Winterton AM would sit on Valentine Ackland's rocking horse while declaiming.

Post a pic of where you saw your first concert and the band or artist: Darlington Technical College. The Doctors of Madness (feat. Richard Strange) March 1977.

The Telegraph is reporting that the UK is seeking Canada and Australia to join together to create a unified ban on X dot com

1/ What I find most stunning (in a long list of horrors) about Elon Musk’s automation of nonconsensual degradation of children and women is the scale at which *child sexual abuse material* (!!) in particular has been industrialized… …and is largely being met with a collective shrug from authorities

These are the books I am reading. Piranesi I adore, rereading. Domination - slightly dry account of collapse of Roman Empire. House of Grief, tragic true crime report on an Australian murder case. Aednan, novel in verse about nomadic Sami culture confronting modern age.

Definitely feels different. This feels like an uprising now. But I am barely seeing any news about it…

I read it in The Guardian. I believed it. I always think I'm too cynical, but I'm not cynical enough.