….. ah.

Every day, I am more convinced that we are going to need to just turn everything off and start again. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/b...

And yes, this is in a real way the extension of what so many of us faced way before "AI": Being told we couldn't have known that word, that phrase, that idea, someone must have written it for us or "helped" us— & all the various prejudices attached thereto— when we were just nerdy & neurodivergent.…

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

Just organised our dnd snacks from salty to sweet to chocolate and my husband just said ‘no, not on the spectrum at all’ 😂

'Better for more young trans people to die than us admit our policy choices are killing them": this now seems to be Labour's position. I'm sorry we have to write about this stuff. But unless we do, nothing will change. CW: suicide.

If you’d like a Silly Little Guy to use as an avi, my DMs are open. It would REALLY help us as my wife’s mobility scooter charger has died. Usual rules apply: ⭐️£30 each ⭐️no portraits ⭐️nothing complicated, just simple silly guys As always, shares are very much appreciated ❤️

I understand that it is deeply inconvenient for everyone with money and power that the richest man in the world is a Nazi, but the richest man in the world is a Nazi

So far on this trip to Holt I’ve heard one 50 year old guy berate his friend for reading his daughter’s diary and a 20 something guy talk about how his female friend was being sadly let down by unrealistic expectations for a boyfriend. Some men are pretty ok.

What he had was a gun.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

If you'd asked a dog in the street if either Johnson or Mandelson SHOULD pass vetting, the answer in both cases would have been "very obviously not". The whole country has been wondering what our intelligence services are paid for, for the last couple of decades, frankly.

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

Woooo I have NADDPOD tickets for September!!

So I mildly enjoyed Project Hail Mary but I feel it’s not a film for people who enjoy the science bits in Apollo 13. I spent most of it going ‘that’s ridiculous’ and ‘you can’t bring skittles into space, loose skittles will literally kill you by gumming up a vent’.

This is just spoilers for Project Hail Mary

We get our birthday off as leave in my company, so that’s nice!

It's astonishing that Epstein could end up bringing down a government, and that government NOT being Donald Trump's.

This is the question I constantly ask of pro-AI people, like I know someone who constantly talks about how integrated it is into his work now, and I ask them, "what are you going to do when the tools are no longer available because Anthropic goes bankrupt?"

Have done the most adhd thing possible by moving a restaurant voucher somewhere for safety and then immediately forgotten where I put it. I hate my brain some days.

Happy birthday to my birthday twin @johnnymains.co.uk !!!

I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason? just a wild country

It would be nice if Genshin stopped writing quests that made me cry

“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake.. Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted. Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

What happens when AI Zuck convinces an employee that they are good or to commit suicide? Why are tech CEOs so goddamn stupid??

This deserves an award and some sort of banishment

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

This is the work. Harm reduction and outright resistance.

Whilst I very much don’t want to look at everything globally through the lens of British political culture, I also want to point out that Matthew Goodwin was getting paid a lot of money by the Victor Orban led government and highly likely he won’t be from now on and that’s y’know very funny?

To any Hungarians annoyed that Americans are placing the credit for your momentous victory on the shoulders of our stunningly repellent little weasel of a VP: you are correct to feel that way, I'm sorry, we just want to seize any available oppurtunity to humiliate him specificially

Hungary has chosen Europe. Europe has always chosen Hungary. A country reclaims its European path. The Union grows stronger.

Weird post: anyone here in the UK and a bra size 40F? I’ve gone down a couple of sizes but I have two unworn, still with tags on bras: a beige Skims t-shirt bra and a cobalt blue Prima Donna (bougie and insanely comfortable brand) bra that makes me so sad I can’t wear it. Free to a good home!!

I just had my best royalty payment from Romanitas for quite some time and I'm just hoping this person gets to find out about that.

So while the blockade is an attempt to get China to lean on Iran, this really is the best time for China to push some boundaries. What is the US going to do, fire on a Chinese vessel? And then go to war with China?? With what fucking missiles?? They just spaffed them all on Iran lol

Gonna be That Person and point out that villains are nearly always framed as right about the problem but too extreme in their methods, leading to a situation where the hero fights for the status quo and the problem the villain identified is never addressed. And the hero still wins through violence.

I've heard there was a favourite arm That has its own erotic charm But dont ya really care for sea-sex roadies? It goes like this, not fourth or fifth Or seventh, eighth: the third one lifts In briny hanky-panky Octopodes Octopodes Octopodes Octopodes Octopodes www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

A Cat has chosen my lap and gone to sleep but oh, I need to get up for my bath. This is the worst.

i have very rapidly become incapable of thinking about anything that isn’t this video

On the same dayyyyyy

Off out tonight, looking glam!

At some point, women are going to protest this weird trend of crop tops and clown pants, right? I do not need this much fabric around my legs. I'm 5'3, it looks ridiculous.

Gen X collectively reliving Challenger, Columbia and Cold War nuclear holocaust anxiety all in the same week is a fucking lot, y'all.

What a f*cking waste of lives and money. 😠

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here: