An easy way to explain luddites: Textile manufacturers brought in machines that could do in an hour what would have taken 12 hours by hand. And then, tried to keep paying the now 12x more productive workers the same wages as before. That's it, that was the problem luddites had. Not complex.

Dedham Priest pissing off all the right people by removing Jesus from the church's nativity scene and putting up an ICE WAS HERE sign in His place. www.boston25news.com/news/local/i...

Magpie Harpy

People have had LED headlights for a good few years now and I still call them pricks when they drive behind me at night. Do not underestimate me

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

The music of my teen years. Complicated sad feelings about this

Jay Chester, 40, can’t believe it’s been so long since you last met up and genuinely intends to remedy the issue – and will spend the next decade genuinely intending to remedy the issue.

BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.

Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

Wilmington, your sweet, sad-faced boyo awaits!

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

I am passionate about this because my father in law almost died from HPV-related throat cancer. He had about an 80% chance of dying from it. He got lucky. Many people do not. Vaccines give us the opportunity to avoid suffering and dying in so many ways. They are modern miracles. Get them

If you are an adult under 45 in the US who never received the vaccine, you are also eligible for it. (You can also get it if you’re older, but insurance might not cover it). HPV is a very common infection, but it’s not inevitable. Let’s wipe it out!

This is wonderful news, and also means it’s time for me to beat the drum I always do when HPV vaccines make the news: They are not only for women! HPV also causes penile, anal, and head and neck cancers. The latter are particularly deadly. Please vaccinate ALL your children.

how it started vs how its going! 3 years ago today, fish dad and i got the best black friday deal of all

Every American should have this in their wallet:

“Kissinger seems even more unlikely at this point.” I’m wheezing

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

King shit

Just now learning about this Frieran angle thing, looked at a couple examples, squinted really hard, and eventually said “jesusfuck”. Anyway, mad respect to the folks who ground through learning to do that technique - I know just barely enough to know I can’t actually understand how hard it is

Cheetahs continue to be scary predators.

I love this photo. This is a very cute fox and I'm impressed with anything that lives at very high altitude. But I have seen this exact pose and look in a litterbox. 🤭

Sabine is SO MAD. I picked up her front legs and held her hostage and KISSED HER LITTLE HEAD. She's been angrily grooming herself for five minutes now. (But she didn't hit me!)

Happy Wolfenoot to all who celebrate! www.wolfenoot.com

At one point @alchemy-tits.bsky.social used an app to confirm I was registering tones I shouldn’t have been able to detect from construction equipment about a half mile away, because she couldn’t hear anything at all. I live in my AirPods because being around other people is a shitshow of noise

just needed to turn down the volume on human existence by about 40%

I did do this, yes in my defense, it was incredibly funny I was directing a production of Much Ado in college where the costume director and I gave everyone goofy costumes for the masquerade scene. she was still in the wrath stage of the breakup, and I support women, so rip Josh’s dignity

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

Literally just had the conversation with my therapist a week ago about how that scene fucked me up

me: hey cat, where you goin my cat:

I need somebody to set this to Peter Fox’s “Stadtaffe”. For reasons

Kiss me like we're a cautionary tale

When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage. One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME

I have my villain origin story locked in and will not be accepting further applications in 20-fucking-25. 2026 is preemptively fired, kindly fuck off and take it up with someone else. I’m tired and don’t want to

The "liver, fava beans and a nice chianti" line in Silence Of The Lambs is a little joke for psychiatrists in the audience - those foods cannot be consumed with the meds (monoamine oxidase inhibitors) that Lecter is supposed to be taking.

The guy in the green sweater is hanging on for dear life.

Brian Fox who wrote the Bash shell once deleted the entire Bash code base up to that point because he'd just coded the "*" functionality and he had a leftover temporary file called something like "*.c" he decided to delete and you'll never guess what happened

Rise againnnn riiiiise agaaaainnnnnn

Shocking. Who could ever have predicted thi... Oh. Right.

Didn’t read the assignment and went for lomg-potato instead

The International Association for Cryptologic Research has discovered that key management remains the greatest unsolved problem in cryptography

Put. That. Shit. In. My. Veins

Behold, your moment of Void.

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

And from the recesses of my internet-poisoned brain… “I need a double cheeseburger and hold the lettuce Don’t be frontin’, son, no seeds on the bun…” youtu.be/xhlUVyDBusg

I for one as a poetry nerd am stoked about the shortsighted propagation of these things to ever customer facing commerce platform. Imagine rolling up to the taco bell drive through and laying down a series of limericks so powerful that you get 50% off a crunch wrap supreme. Like casting a spell

honestly my favorite is hearing a song you have heard a thousand times before, but suddenly it just ZAPS you like electric shock. for a brief moment you are timeless just looking past the curtains. incredible to think these moments are just given to us as a gift. that we just somehow got to exist

it can be overwhelming HOW beautiful existence is but dang does it feel nice to resonate in that space when youre lucky enough to catch hold of it. when you randomly touch the current behind everything. you KNOW its back there but all you get is glimpses when you notice the way light shines on water