already activating my 'when the world gets too much' protocol for 2026

the british press devoting any time at all to the beckham family's antics to is a fascinating insight into the psyche of a country that has passed *through* terminal decline and emerged somewhere even worse somehow

ok i think everyone can agree: i should be president

are chelsea's ownership making up for not getting a shirt sponsor by turning the whole club into a wildly funny workplace mockumentary

i would like the world to be more normal please

in english, "midfielder", if you split the two words, it's "mid" and "fielder" and that's why we need romeo lavia back as soon as possible

I should really be sleeping right now

do not like

Exactly

finally enzo maresca can get the job he deserves

i’m glad the uruk-hai are getting a balanced breakfast

based on how they've played so far this season my money is on "amusingly"

Something I got out of reading Clausewitz is considering myself subject to moral forces in the same way I am subject to physical ones. You spend a day in the rain and you’re going to be affected. You watch misery and cruelty all day, you’re going to be affected. The rationale doesn’t change that.

why are tech companies making llm-powered anime girls that lives in a jar on your desk and not a pet anomalocaris that lives in a jar on your desk

Wanting to keep a tiny anime woman in a jar on your desk seems perfectly normal. Not a red flag at all.

YES!!! People will read "realists" and view that as good advice but Athens lost the war. They lost their hegemony and they lost their democracy. Their leaders were replaced by the Thirty Tyrants. The Melian Dialogue should be a warning to avoid behaving like Athens, not evidence in support of it.

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

if part seven of in parenthesis ever fails to move me to tears i will be very worried (in parenthesis is a prose-poem first-person account of the leadup to and then battle of the somme)

people think moby dick is a stern adventure novel heavy on the plot. i can't emphasize how much it's not. it's supergay chaos with 3 plot points. there's an entire chapter that's just a chowder recipe. sometimes it turns into a play. the main character is covered in whale dinension tattoos.

harvest moon 64 mario kart 64 final fantasy vi ADOM ogre battle 64

editorial is all off at CES. the opportunity to turn the verge into a sports blog is at hand

Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

has anybody considered that anorim hates garnacho so much he's going to chase him from club to club like a vengeful ghost

falcons-saints is a pitch-perfect way to decide the nfc south winner, no notes

i knew being awake today was a mistake

some team should just outright embrace this and say they're a comedy club. lighten things up in football a bit.

Why do bash “dead-beat” [grahams] for not being there for their [football team] but we never question if the [club] has bad vibes? Or if they’re just unpleasant to be around?

met some good boys and girls

hard to see much overlap between a world in which llms fulfil the wildest dreams of their backers and one where it’s economically viable for me to be alive?

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

They are applying for a job . Just because they have to apply in public doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have performance reviews

tottenham are the best team to watch in the premier league at the moment

Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.

winning stupid >>>>>>>>>>>>> winning clean

more like the normal football league

9-yo: "if you could decide what your taxes were spent on what would you do? would it be nhs" me: "i think probably education and infrastructure" 7-yo: "i'd buy a camera and swallow it so the government could film my intestines"

it's really hard for anything that badenoch says to surprise me but ...

yeah there are a set of diseases which are potentially deadly for infants before they are scheduled for vaccination, which we had more or less eliminated via vaccine herd immunity, and they're coming back I don't read these articles because just seeing the headlines fucks me up. It's just so awful.

and yet when i talk about my plans for destroying the sun people think i'm being a megalomaniac

You’ve lost the plot completely when you find yourself having any other reaction than “this is fucking awful” to a terrorist attack. No, I don’t give a shit if certain Bad Victims were Zionists, there’s no world in which somebody opening fire on a beach isn’t just murderous terrorism. Fuck off!

and people say i struggle to get into the festive spirit

i would happily use llms to automate work i find boring and time consuming but i find checking and fixing the output even more boring and time consuming

“How do I explain trans people to my kids” mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?” what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”

browsing through uk job listings*: this london-based job requires a postgraduate degree and 10 years experience compensation: £30k pa and we might not poke you in the eye every holiday (*keeping an eye out for someone i know, not actively looking for me)

getting flashbacks to the phil humber game