a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

Can't stop singing this to the theme of the Muppet Show

In case you're wondering, my recipe for a Good Bluesky Experience here at the three year mark: 1. Decide not to be a dick 2. "Don't engage, just block" for trolls/bots/chuds 3. Mute stressful nouns 4. Follow super cool people of all sorts 5. Choose to have fun over "engagement" 6. Pictures of cats!

I am entirely unfamiliar with Taylor Swift's cinematic work, but if this is accurate… ouch.

Last week before *waves hands* I was stumbling trying to come up with a pithy way to describe how dangerous the current inequality of consequences is to society, but now I guess I don’t need to.

every time someone's like Claude deleted this or Claude convinced a teen to kill themselves I picture a mischievous french guy

Can’t wait for the Rolf Harris biopic 👍

Web design trends in 2001 – 2Advanced Studios v3 – Bionic Systems – Floodgear – Tonic Group #WebDesignHistory

In a random side-quest, my character hires an AI journalist into the teddy-bear-staffed newsroom she took over two patches ago, and the cost of queries almost bankrupts them.

In which I continue to assume trending topics form part of a larger narrative.

Gavin Newsome has said his son is a fan of Charlie Kirk Andrew Tate and now Clavicular. You should probably stop running for office and spend time with your son

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

And now US cable news, even the lib one, is speed-running "Why these security measures, which just demonstrably worked to stop a threat before it got anywhere near any of its targets, are in fact woefully insufficient."

It's the White House Press Corps, so we'll find out the details in 27 different books approximately 2-3 years from now.

One party makes things worse, the other stabilizes and normalizes what the first party did until the first one gets back into power and make things worse again. And if you ask for anything better you're told you are just making it easier for the make-it-worse party to make things worse.

There is something peak arsehole about booing acknowledgment of country at a dawn service. The festering heart of what ails this place.

David Zaslav is set to earn $886M for successfully running Warner Bros Discovery into the ground and thus making it an acquisition target by Paramount. Shareholders have voted against the pay package but it’s largely symbolic as the vote is non-binding. Phenomenonal example of failing up.

The level of autocracy where if the King once said something dumb off the cuff, all his courtiers have to pretend he invented a new branch of mathematics.

The list of shops exempt from the new all-day retail ban for Anzac Day in NSW is very odd. Tl;dr - you can't buy cat food, but you can buy a cat.

Call me totally naive, but I can't help feel that if Labor decided to cancel the submarine deal, tax gas exports, and use the windfall to fund social programs and y'know, make things better for the average punter, it might go a long way towards blunting the rise of opportunistic "populism".

In Australia they decide whether national welfare policy is good or not based on how it would have hypothetically affected the prime minister’s long deceased mother

Got a message in GMail from Google Drive, and not sure if it's supposed to be a reminder I have Drive, or that GMail still has chat.

This is an incredible tweet.

This rules

This is not wrong.

Now they’ve proved they work well enough to be generally useful, the dominoes are falling on subsidized access to coding tools.

There's a graphic in the new Ember report showing what happens if current demand and clean power growth rates continue: fossil fuels plateau by 2030. I think it highlights something kind of important, but probably not what you think

Claude Code told me that it was too much work to chase down a leaky test, and I should just bring up a new MySQL instance for each test class. On that evidence, it should immediately be promoted to Engineering Manager.

I never caught his later career, so he was always the guy from my childhood pre-dinner television who did bits between The Goodies/Danger Mouse/Doctor Who.

"Even the weather felt expensive..." What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat. "If everything is free and nothing matters, then the world and other people exist only to be acted upon, if they are acknowledged at all." [kottke.org]

with the lights out it’s less dangerous from the icebox plums cry “save us” “we’re for breakfast” “please don’t take us” but we ate them we feel heinous they were tasty please don’t blame us

Instead of "Michael," I want to see a Lisa Marie Presley biopic. The first act covers her childhood with and without Elvis. Second act covers her marriage to Michael Jackson. Third act covers her whirlwind marriage to Nicolas Cage, who plays himself.

Live really understood how to write a hook with escalating action

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

hmm. interesting. would you say it damn near killed him?

I regret few things less than the stream of Facebook recruiter emails I summarily trashed when I was living in SF.

I always imagine these articles about EVs written in the opposite direction in time. "I tried out an Internal Combustion car for a week, and was so used to my car just quietly charging itself overnight that I ran out of petrol driving to work."

Damn soup has no texture

Actual damage calculation from video game. (the current HSR arc is peak brainrot)

There's push polling, and then there's…

Fixing spotlight so it is useful as an app launcher again.

hawking a line of branded Mountain Goats smart glasses. no matter where you look things look a little bleaker and also the wearer cannot remove the glasses once worn. I’m disrupting this sector

Thinking of how November Kelly described the influx of Tory politicians into the UK Reform Party as "about to be the only ship sunk by rats running onto it."

Going back in time so I can replace "reticulating splines" in old games with "compiling shaders" and look like a prophet.

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These are some serious “I’m in a quirky early 80s music video” glasses.

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

Hi this joke is for me