Crufts judges really are obsessed with Bassets Griffons Vendéens (not Vondeens, Claire).

Gah, Lumpy Sideshow Bob is still presenting Cruft’s.

Ssshhh 🤫

You ruined perfectly good spellchecker, is what you did. Look at it, it claims to have anxiety.

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

No Kindles. Got it Boss.

It is very obvious sometimes that the therapist is delivering manualised CBT with no other training.

Christ. I know food is expensive, but…

The perfect spot at the perfect time! Thank you for this fantastic picture of the Clarendon Building, Kshitij Mohan 👏 📸 | kshitijmohan.oxford (Instagram)

Freya Emerson, 35, reportedly failed to respond to your casual request for a coffee as she didn’t know how to explain to you that she was overwhelmed and unavailable without making it sound like she didn’t like you – and has felt terrible about it ever since.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull)

AND having a very natural wish to reject overcomplication on top of overcomplication being added to daily existence and not being so braindead that you don’t see right through that overcomplication’s posturing as a sleek helpful simplification and that the only motive truly underlying it is greed.

On this day 2016: the wedding of Jerry Hall and Rupert Murdoch

This needs to be done because Sylvia Townsend Warner deserves all the remembering we can manage

this year in canada and the us, international women’s day is only 23 hours long, and wow what a symbolic statement that makes

found the person in charge of food delivery substitutions

As I keep repeating, efficiency is the reciprocal of resilience. And we've had 50 years of profiteering by grifters creaming off the surplus as they steadily tweak our economies away from resilience to maximize efficiency (ie. running on zero margins).

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Extraordinary, extinct, but not exempt from a case of the Mondays. Don’t worry dodo, we feel it too.

“To all influencers and other tax exiles in Dubai, the tax authorities wish you a safe return to France”

Ah yes, those good old days when optimism was realising you lived close enough to a high value target that you'd be vaporised in the first strike of nukes, ideally before the sirens had even sounded.

Dog belly dancing, part 2.

Influencers all need to be transported to the nearest live volcano and dropped in. Or at least banned from posing and flouncing around a very busy display in an exhibition. Other people are not background noise to your main character syndrome.

Blistering Barnacles!

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Pulp poetry.

(I’m massively - probably pathologically - consensus-based. To the point where I have in the past mislaid my own judgement because others believed passionately - or just declared - something I wasn’t sure about. We’re all a work in progress.)

“My friends Camembert it. Honestly, it drives Emmental.” Whey in with your own puns by supporting us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/150759...

"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle." "OK," you say. You take a step forward. He takes a step back. "Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

In 1938, the Nazi regime invalidated the current identity papers of Jews and required specific identifying marks (and suitably Jewish names) on replacements. We are living through horribly precedented times.

"i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain."

Tasty signature. From Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.3.64.6.

Plums xkcd.com/3209/

Alma Montague, 34, could be holed up indoors with the curtains drawn because of her irrational terror of the outside world – but it could also be her gut telling her that everything’s gone screwy and it’s not safe out there.

Human Minbari Narn Centauri

History: who the fuck? Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?

I've had cause to say recently that a vital skill to cultivate as an adult is the ability to just sit with an uncomfortable feeling and let it be felt without trying to reject it, act on it or run off in search of a solution for it. This feels relevant here.

Today I learned that tempura originated with Jesuits & the word comes from tempora—times—because it was something that could be eaten during fasting times / tempora.

a mundane curse #comic

As part of measures to protect the nation’s most valuable resource – its money – minister Karen Hoyland, 42, announced the construction of a £4Bn Thunderdome, where children with autism will earn their educational support by “duking it out to the death”.

I went to the Science Museum and found Nigel Farage's actual soul

The way they keep shoving AI in things you already use and try to force it on you also feels date rapey.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Because our commentators don't want to face up to the fact that if you can do this with ILR, you can do it with citizenship.

I feel this so strongly. Covid was a test of our moral integrity & decency -- *not just elites, but all of us* -- and we failed. I genuinely think one reason Covid has been memory-holed so hard, & so crusted w/ myths & conspiracy theories, is that on some level we know this & are ashamed.

Beautiful!

I am very annoyed that people think 'rich' means 'that guy has a mercedes and takes a vacation to italy once a year' and not 'that guy has more money than 40% of the world combined and can decide to start or stop wars based on his personal prejudices' the sums involved are incomprehensible