It’s too bad no one has ever seen this obscure mid-twentieth-century film The Wizard of Oz, where everyone listens to a charlatan and fool because he has a machine that says words for him while he huddles behind a curtain, terrified and confused and furious.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

BlueSky suggestion box: they need a better in-platform gif selection.

‘I’m practicing self-care!’ (I’m letting myself add re-reads of books I’ve already read to my Goodreads reading challenge).

"no, your honor, it's not a publicly accessible CSAM machine. it's a for-profit CSAM machine. that's very different and clearly not somehow even worse"

Look it’s not FAIR to have Christina Hendricks model your clothing. You may as well have cast some kind of bewitchement.

I used to have much more antipathy towards the jabs because I think they are slightly implicated in our slide away from body positivity/neutrality but I’ve heard from so many people that a major benefit is the end of ‘food noise’. My ADHD meds do the same and honestly the PEACE is amazing.

ChatGPT told him his mother was spying on him… poisoning him. That he was being targeted by a conspiracy because he "woke up" the AI model and knew too much - and now they're both dead. Watch full video here: youtu.be/z97Pj98Fw3M

Banning smoking in public places was extremely controversial and was high on the news agenda for MONTHS before it happened. They had Damien Hirst running his mouth on every current affairs show.

Looking at everyone else’s snow like a Victorian street urchin with their nose pressed against a bakery window.

Vladimir Putin’s insistence on pseudoscience is more than just propaganda | Slava Amanatski Putin's pseudoscience is not an aberration, but a way of understanding the world in which science becomes yet another field of geopolitical confrontation.

Netflix used to arrive by snail mail.

the discourse on what jobs are acceptable to replace with generative AI reveals a lot about what we think of other people's jobs

“For only £11 a month, you can make as much violent, misogynistic and child sexual abuse material as you like!” UK media: most people can’t use Grok to make images now, so no point banning it

You know what lads I’ve had this cold since December 16th and I’m fucking sick of it.

I got really confused for a sec and thought this guy had killed someone. I’d believe it.

Tale as old as time

Popped over to twitter briefly just to see Joyce Carol Oates eating people alive again

10,000 people honoring Renee Nicole Good at the site of her murder

Rally against ICE in downtown Seattle:

I'm pretty sure this guy served me a $17 shot glass of craft beer in a Seattle bar once.

Viewing the video from one angle, it looks like an ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. But viewing the video from a different angle, it looks like an ICE agent murdered Renee Nicole Good in cold blood. So who's to say what really happened?

I got a bit behind on The Archers and fuck me it’s all kicked off, hasn’t it?

Until like 10 years ago, this is exactly the kind of thing that we (the United States) would use as an excuse to call for regime change in some hellhole dictatorship on the other side of the world. "Unaccountable secret police loyal to the regime have shot and killed unarmed human rights observers."

I think I fucked up

This is the run club I want to join who say they are ‘open to all paces’. And like sure, in theory, but that is a looooot of tall lads.

reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti

Sometimes there’s an argument for not sticking your neck out in order to live to fight another day but if you’re a person with a conscience in the US federal or state government THIS is the day you were living to fight till. Unless you weren’t really fighting, just cravenly trying to keep your job.

He blocked me too 🤭 I have like a hundred followers. Thinnest skin on the planet.

Do you think ICE invented these people? These are standard Americans with a couple of weeks training. It empowered them, it didn’t create them.

beautiful and gentle wild turkeys i met in a forest during a dream. they were velvety soft, they kind of drifted along the ground like jellyfish, and they were very aware of the Dangers.

If you’re an outdoorsy person you’re probably getting a lot of ads for £££ cold weather gear so I’m going to share the best purchase of cold weather gear I’ve ever made: fleece pyjamas from Primark ~£10. Quick drying, lightweight, excellent midlayer AND great pyjamas. Plus they are sparkly.

My take on meal prep so far: on the whole I’m a fan HOWEVER freezer burritos are for gluten eaters. Gluten free tortillas do not have adequate structural integrity.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

Pretty much everything. I use like three pans and two knives and yet my cupboards are full of Devices.

important message to all bluesky users

this is the exact scenario the gun humpers told us their unrestricted access to firearms would prevent

Every Trait Disqualifying ICE Agent From Previous Jobs Ideal For Current One https://theonion.com/every-trait-disqualifying-ice-agent-from-previous-jobs-ideal-for-current-one/

This was inevitable. As Mike correctly points out, plenty of people (including me) said this the day the law came into effect. 100% of the easily accessible porn sites in the UK don't follow UK law around explicit content.

This is quite cool but like what’s the functionality. The world isn’t full of free roaming computer computer monitors. It’s almost like a keyboard that is also a computer needs to be attached to its own monitor. Maybe with some kind of folding mechanism.

Meanwhile.

The National Weather Service used AI to create a forecast for Idaho. Low chances of wind for the nonexistent towns of Cocrerrireod, Orangeotild and Whata Bod www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

So *in theory* distilled white vinegar might be ok for me to have because the proteins I’m sensitive to in normal vinegar should have been filtered/distilled out. Anyway if this experiment doesn’t work I’m going to walk into the sea. ✌️

Why Would Women Like Naked Gorgeous Men Talking About Their Emotions. Why Would Women Like Beautiful Sexy Men Yearning Sexily. Why Would Women Like Sculpted Butts And True Love. The Female Mind Is An Enigma.

The reviews are in for Tears of the Left bourbon

Bringing back a classic format for these fractured times

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Am I going to be suckered into buying a Switch 2 JUST because there’s going to be another Long Dark game 🤔 (yes)