It’s just felt like a firehose for years now and again the bigger problem is those things actually happening but seeing it day in day out is doing something to everyone’s soul

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instead of feeding a document to a chatbot, i today paid a human translator to translate it for me. when i asked the translator what his fee would be, he said whatever i thought would be reasonable. so i took what we paid him last year for a job of the same size and added 15% to cover inflation.

the nobel committee needs to resign with retroactive effect and declare every decision they made in 2025 null and void. say they were hacked or whatever. say they let chatgpt do their research. say they were drunk. say they're all moving to bouvet island to spend their remaining days there in shame.

i don't speak german, but i'm pretty sure this is telling you to walk like a penguin and i'm all in favour of that.

I can't stop laughing at this (source: imgur.com/gallery/take...)

i love the 9-star reviews of 4.3-star movies on IMDB that go "i know the people who made this movie and it's a real labour of love" of course these reviews are completely useless for anyone wondering if the movie is worth watching, but i like to see people boosting their friends' mediocre projects.

Folks, please don't do this. Don't post AI-generated "unmasking" photos of the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good in Minneapolis. This is not this man's real face. This is three completely different faces. You're not helping anyone by sharing these. You're just muddying the waters.

I'm already seeing people on here use AI face tools to try to identify the masked ICE agent in Minneapolis. It's a truly terrible idea and here's why

one week in, and i'm really not liking this year so far.

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

saw someone post here that only very online people like us know/care what happened in minneapolis, and that's not really what's happening now. it's currently one of the top news stories internationally. they're quoting frey and eyewitnesses and showing the video of what really happened.

Come on writers, dial it back a bit

looks like my place turned into aninal planet overnight while i slept. lots of fox tracks in the snow outside my house, and there was a dead mouse in one of the traps this morning (i heard it a few nights ago, so i'd refilled the traps with fresh cheese)

it's snot-freezing-in-your-nose cold outside and while i curse my ancestors on a regular basis for settling in this godforsaken climate, i also have to respect them for all surviving enough winters to manage to procreate.

you say these are my kids? well i don't like them, they all smell funny.

Here's Eve the 3 month old capybara at the Miami Zoo demonstrating one of the OTHER many ways capys have of moving through the water: half-hearted bipedalism. Note that eyes, ears and nostrils are fully above the water line.

just now remembering that right before i woke up this morning, i dreamed i woke up and checked the news and some famous person had died. i don't remember which famous person, but unfortubately it wasn't that guy, or that other guy, and i think it was even someone who's already been dead for a while.

not even some of the better-known clowns

I need a mood booster, let's talk about capybaras. Here's a capy demonstrating one of MANY ways they can move through the water: running along the bottom. They're 'semi-aquatic' mammals, just like hippos, seals & beavers. They LOVE water. (📷: Fernando Maidana)

productivity!!! in this sunset of a dying empire!!!!???

not now, doomsday fish.

more and more every day i feel like one of those fictional movie/tv show characters trying to find their way back to the correct timeline. because this one is so very obviously wrong and it just keeps getting wronger.

they’re calling it the strongest sunday scaries in recorded human history

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

my mom wants me to listen to a podcast recommended by my cousin so we can discuss it, and 1) i don't listen to podcasts in general, 2) having googled the podcaster, i don't find them credible or interesting, 3) i'm not listening to that podcast, 4) i have no interest in discussing that podcast,

anyone seen any of those ads from some small italian mountaintop village seeking a full-time hermit lately? i'm tired and if i'm going to make it to retirement age i think full-time hermitry might be the only viable option.

the cabin in the woods used to seem pretty implausible, but the rules for what can be considered realistic have changed quite a bit over the last 15 years, and today i think it's a fairly believable story.

seems almost quaint in hindsight how even supervillains like GWB, cheney, rumsfeld, wolfowitz and rove thought they'd at least try to fabricate some reasons to invade and occupy iraq and didn't just come out on day 1 and say yeah of course we're taking their oil.

hey so if you're really angry right now and need an outlet, i have just defrosted my freezer and it didn't make me any less angry, but the anger helped me get it done. one caveat: no sharp implements unless you were going to replace the freezer now anyway. otherwise, do not stab your freezer.

ok guess i've been proven wrong after years of telling americans that no, US laws don't actually apply in my country and the thing you're telling me i can't do because it's a felony is actually perfectly legal here (not talking about machine guns, i don't have a machine gun, please don't abduct me).

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

way to beat the trafficking allegations, good job!

youtube is pushing skin serum videos and excuse me, but does really nobody on skincare youtube know how to use a pipette/dropper bottle? is this some kind of ancient knowledge that we have failed to transfer to generation z?

since what happened with 2016 i refuse to call any year the worst one ever, because then the next year just decides to prove me wrong and i'm getting really tired of it.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

i'd like to see my coworkers stop using chatGPT so i don't have to spend so much time cleaning up the mess they let the chatbot make.

after a buzzcocks concert at camden palace summer 1995 there was a really long line for the ladies' bathroom and everybody waiting in line could hear someone having sex in one of the stalls. eventually the singer in menswear and a girl came out and we glared at them for making us all wait.

one time on my lunch break, obama's car drove past me. his smile was bright enough that i could recognize it through the tinted window, otherwise i would have had no idea.

one time i was late for work and walking really fast past a hotel when bill clinton walked out right in front of me and we bumped into each other and i was slightly worried that secret service might interpret it as some kind of attack. bill clinton did not apologize, neither did i (i was annoyed).

the band sleeper had been warming up for a boo radleys concert and while the boo radleys played, some sleeper members (louise wener was one of them, but the guys were interchangeable to me) were standing next to me. between two songs i asked if they were sleeper and they confirmed and that was it.

one time (1998-ish?) i met brett anderson (suede singer) who was for some reason hanging out with a friend of mine that i had a crush on, and i felt like i had to say hi to brett just to be polite, but i really wanted him to go home so i could hang out with my crush without brett getting in the way.

was trying to find out if the shipwreck off north sentinel island that's visible on google maps is MV rusley from 1977 or MV primrose from 1981, and google ai told me that MV rusley is actually the MV primrose (i did not ask google ai, it interloped like a drunk pathological liar with zero manners).

1995 in camden (london, UK) we saw a guy we thought was probably one of the tindersticks walking down the other side of the street, but decided not to bother him since he was probably being bothered by fangirls all the time (probably not, he's not so famous i even know his name. not stuart staples.)

yesterday my niece asked if i had any new year's resolution and i didn't, i don't usually do that. a few years ago i decided it would be to give every delivery person who delivers something to my door a 5-star rating, and i stuck to that one and it's become a habit, i don't need a resolution for it.

my niece (age 11) has decided her new year's resolution is to learn to speak turkish. she asked her dad (who's fluent) if he could help teach her, and he told her to ask chatGPT instead. i do not understand my sister's taste in men.

i've decided to reframe it as she's (accidentally) given me the gift of never stressing out over being bad at presents again. if it hadn't been this book, it would just have been some other book i wasn't going to read, and at least this is funny.

lmfao my sister got me a book for my birthday and it's the exact same book she gave me last year (i didn't read it)

thinking again about that president of turkmenistan who renamed the months of the year after himself and his mother and a book he wrote, and how trump hasn't even bothered to name anything after his mother, only himself. it'd just be trumptember and trumptober, not marytember or artofthedealtober.