In the run up to the US declaring new wars and attempting to occupy more countries like Venezuela and Canada, it's interesting that they show potential collaborators how they'll be treated if they help against the current regime... by deporting all the Afghans who ever helped them...

We need to be lucky all the time They only need to be lucky once Secure your cybers today!

Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, Little Gregor Samsa, found himself transformed into a horrible vermin

Went to apply for a UK ETA visa thing. Its 16GBP to buy direct from the UK government Google enshittification means the official government link is buried behind 3 adverts that will rip you off for 100GBP+ Google is broken on purpose to serve scams instead of legitimate content. Fuck Google.

Transformers needs to modernise, when I was a kid we had cassette tapes that changed into evil robots, they should make spotify streams that turn into evil AIs

Erectile dysfunction doesn't exist and Viagra gives you autism I think they should just stop pandering to confused boomers and read the Cass report and stop prescribing Viagra/Cialis, it's not safe to use, nobody ever had erectile dysfunction until the boomers started making up medical conditions

Let’s be honest: nothing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin have done in the last 56 years justifies the tremendous cost of bringing them back from the moon. NASA should’ve spared the long-suffering taxpayer and left them up there

It's almost Thanksgiving! Got an ICE member coming for dinner at your house? No you don't! Can't stop them because you're not the one hosting? No problem. You can shun them, mock them, shame them, cough in their food. They get the weird chair. No weird chair? Make a weird chair.

my most butlerian jihad coded belief is that we should probably make it illegal – and more importantly, we should work toward a cultural consensus that it is immoral – to design a computer program whose interface uses the first person

Is there a pi-hole project, but for blocking right wing media?

Dad has been in hospital for a few weeks. No access to GB News. It has been very refreshing being able to have a normal conversation with him again, not one mention of immigrants or liberals.

NZ stands with our firefighters ✊ They're facing a Dire Emergency: broken down trucks, dangerous staffing, faulty equipment, and FENZ refusing to address a failing system. Firefighters want to keep New Zealanders safe—but they need FENZ to show up and genuinely prioritise community safety. #nzpol

Unlikeable C-level exec at work sent their "I'm leaving" email Just kept thinking of The Thick Of It, s01e01 "You can say you're jumping before you're pushed although we're gonna be briefing that you were pushed, sorry."

if trump wants to win in 2027 he needs to pass a law making sonic a pokemon #MakeSonicAPokemon

i spend 29 seconds brushing each quartile of my teeth, and spend the 4 seconds i save reading up on the newest philosophies and techniques in business management

I don't think being rich makes you a monster so much as the process by which people become rich requires monsters as a prerequisite and nothing about the Epstein file revelations has dissuaded me of this notion

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

this is literally never not accurate

“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a great BBC radio sketch show Although the end of Season 9 did wreck me somewhat

The Tea Party never reached the magnitude of No Kings. Yet it was covered as if it represented “real America,” just like MAGA today. Those are not empirical assessments, but articles of faith – ideological claims about the world that are widely shared in the American mainstream discourse.

Just like when the New York Times did not think the No Kings protests were all that significant, this is indicative of how much mainstream institutions have bought into the idea that only Trump and his supporters represent “real America” and have a right to have their voices amplified.

Every year their are complaints about fireworks upsetting dogs. After all these years, you think the idiots would stop buying dogs.

I remember when we used to call stuff like this snuff videos and it was considered bad, not front page news

I've just inked a deal where OpenAI will give me $38B in 2030 and in exchange I will give OpenAI $38B in 2030, I know this isn't "reciprocal dealing", because I checked with ChatGPT first, and it told me it was a great idea and to buy more Nvidia stock too and that I'm god.

I like how American's voted to solve a fairly non-existent "gang problem" and now with ICE, they have a fairly serious "gang problem"

If Capital Gains Tax is such a good idea, why are rich people spending so much money on political parties and media companies to convince us it's a bad idea?

If seances are so powerful, why doesn't everyone just summon Jesus to do their chores?

If God is so powerful, why doesn't he send Jesus to break up all the seances?

Every year their are complaints about fireworks upsetting dogs. After all these years, you think the idiots would stop buying dogs.

Centrism is actually the perfect example of a No True Scotsman, "true centrism" has never been, and can never be, tried because the target always moves; usually rightward.

"Meet me in the middle," says the crooked man. You take one step forward. The crooked man takes one step back. "Meet me in the middle," says the crooked man.

Mad props to Football NZ for sending me an email this week offering me tickets for soccer games in USA, don't think you'll be selling many and may be safer for our team to stay home this time...

A normal person with an unintentional nazi tattoo could say "my tattoo means WHAT!?! fucking hell, i'll have it removed with a laser as soon as possible" and save some face, they wouldn't argue the toss

Private equity then borrows against the data centre assets, from the banks, who do have capital requirements that are met by only lending a percentage of the asset value - but the bank collateral can still get zeroed if the whole thing goes to zero... It's basically subprime data centre mortgages

These stories are piling up in the financial news sources* and it feels like the bit at the start of a movie where the background news is foreshadowing the crisis about to hit *Funny how the Financial Times and Bloomberg seem more fact driven than the news outlets for the proles, eh?

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.

From a conversation elsewhere: It's fascinating to see the AI bubble expressed as people being pushed to up productivity to the level that the AI hype promised and can't deliver.

They’re doing this because it’s so successful

Your landlord gave themselves a payrise last year But teachers and nurses don't deserve one

You found $$$ for roads, tobacco industry, landlords, cancelling ferries, piddly tax cuts. You cut a bunch of so-called 'back room' jobs that supported doctors, nurses, & teachers to do their work. You froze hiring & refused to employ nurses You outsourced curriculum development to AI and Aus.

This nation's goal: A nation of landlords, fast-food and delivery gigworkers; we don't need schools, hospitals, emergency services, we just need higher rents and more burger taxis and we'll all go to free market nirvana and eat chicken nuggets for eternity

If teachers and nurses want more money, they should gone to university to get MBAs, then bought rental properties and shares in cigarette companies, instead of studying stupid subjects like teaching and nursing.

me: [proposing to my girlfriend in front of the Eiffel Tower] yes or no answer quickly. and don’t worry about all those sirens her: my god that’s a beautiful ring.

Rule 34 is going to mean at least one FBI agent is about to have uncomfortable conversations

Rich people have unions to look out for their interests, but they call them corporations or trusts.

He's not the Artificial General Intelligence, He's a very naughty predictive text.

Prepping for Christmas day, I've just made prawn crackers by taking shop-bought Christmas crackers and stuffing them with prawns and keeping them in the freezer until the big day

Someone should DNA all the ICE agents, they all seem to be entitled sociopaths, I reckon you'd get a decent number of hits on unsolved rapes.