basically the difference between a recommender and a hitlist is intent

Holiday Hot Take Number 6: If you're going to invoke Eartha Kitt's groundbreaking song "Santa Baby," you better fully commit to wanting to fuck Santa. No pronoun changing, no "Santa Pally," no fully meaning chimney without the double entendre. Commit. I'm lookin at you, Bublé.

Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...

Polling basics is you don’t let your cohort self select like this. More appalling bullshit journalism laundering government bullshit form the BBC

One of my take-aways from studying all things ‘collective make-believe’ over the last half-decade is that it really truly does not matter if someone is a grifter or a true believer, and the idea that people can lie (to themselves or others) in “good faith” is a pernicious one in a civil society.

stubbornly trying to divine intentionality is itself a conspiratorial impulse

r/characterarcs

Furious at this. TERFs and Gender Critical people are a loud, radicalized, wealthy minority, forcing groups who've done the right thing for years into horrible positions that none of them want. Stop buying Harry Potter. Fight for your trans brothers and sisters. They'll come for you next.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

From the Far Side collection

A falling tide favors the moored boat

Data driven to madness

Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now. But there's an even more important reason...

I believe in the indomitable spirit of my fellow man

Folks it pains me to ask so bluntly, but could anyone use some work doing by me? I've got to find income for three months until my next royalty payment, and I'm not having much luck.

Why on EARTH would anyone suspend Goran?? @safety.bsky.app and @support.bsky.team get him back on here. What are you doing??

any way, my actual contribution to the pie discourse is this tweet from misha collins replying to dan rather that i've had saved on my computer since nov 2020 and that he had enough confidence in to like so it would show up in both his tweets and his likes tabs

unrecognisable. unusable. unbeatable

Shhh! She's coming...

TL;DR maybe you don't have to turn off smart features in Gmail after all

rear-end me daddy

the undeniable erotic frisson of being tailgated by a lorry

His name is what now

the undeniable erotic frisson of being tailgated by a lorry

Oreoboros

dear bill microsoft, why does your operating system need to be forty-five gigabytes large. what are you doing with all that space

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

fucking uuugh the game is on fucking sale I have no energy to promote it anymore it's more than a year old it should be taken for a walk behind a shed and shot in the back of its fucking head please retweet

Startled to learn that until today Dick Cheney was still alive. Felt like he belonged to a past era and must have died with it, like Gorbachev, or Calvin Harris

tremendous

can’t believe denis villeneuve filmed a whole sci-fi trilogy purely as a pretext to bimbofy r-pattz

I tried and failed to link the original post. by @shenanigansen.bsky.social

hell yeah

Great job, everyone, we did it again

mrw the guy in the next stall lets out a series of buttock-rippling farts

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

this is incredible. massive, you might even say

was unbelievably stoked for 'Stephen King's IT prequel set at the start of the Troubles'. unfortunately right at the bottom of the article they reveal 'Derry' is a fictional town in Maine

My kid volunteers for an English as a second language program. Part of his job is locking the church doors, keeping an eye out for ICE agents, and alerting an adult if they storm the church. Not exactly the life I thought he’d live.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

If you're using Windows 11, Microsoft is now surveilling you in a new way. This may already be turned on on your computer, and you would not be notified; it activates whenever they detect you are in a "game", which in my experience Microsoft often false-positives on doublepulsar.com/microsoft-bu...

got a mate who worked in betting shops for years and it was well known that problem gamblers accounted for the vast majority of shop profits and were specifically targeted (free credits on new games, food/cups of tea etc) against the code of conduct where they're supposed to look out for them

confusing to the point of unusability. love it, no notes

regexes are so wild. everything else in coding is like ‘function_to_do_x(thing_you_do_x_to)’ but then regexes are like “(?:\”)(~/)?([^/((^\)\”)]*/)*[^/((^\)\”)]*(?:\”)”

The timeline is just miserable these days. It’s just an echo chamber of panic and depression, pushing people deeper into anxiety and despair, slowly poisoning our minds just as it poisons our politics. Here’s a guide to which Friends characters would eat pussy

anyway I wrote about the girlboss ant queens that give birth to another species in order to exploit their offspring (slay ant queens!) defector.com/everything-y...

One of the few upsides of Britain’s descent into fascism is getting to see these people utterly humiliate themselves before an audience of millions