This is ridiculous and stupid. It's a Johnny Cash lyric and was posted about a Johnny Cash article. Even the most basic reading comprehension would have revealed this. I feel like I'm being protected by a vicious guard tortoise that occasionally hisses a few minutes after a car goes by.

I adore this comic and everything @rosemarymosco.com does with all my heart. But also: I'm more mystified by the people who wonder about this. I never see ANY baby birds of ANY species unless something has gone very badly wrong for them. Where's all the baby [~]? In their nests, mostly above you. 🤨

Trump sues Everybody!

Is it maybe time for a plucky little nation to tell a despot across the ocean to pound sand? Someone could make a whole musical about it in the end. How about it?

Oglaf is the funniest filth on these here internets.

The ancient road map is very nice. But where I live didn't get colonised, so there's just no roads. Come find me in the forest and try not to get ambushed, I guess.

Now Andy, did you hear about this one?

KOKO: Chatgpt, good chatgpt, vibe code app ME: No Koko the app doesn't work, it won't function KOKO: Gorilla code, gorilla engineer ME: Koko the app doesn't even load on mobile KOKO: jealousy cynic

Indeed. God bless every one of them.

A Map Of Britain After The 2029 Technology Crash, by me and my dad.

Still thinking about yesterday's customer support chatbot telling me "I’m really sorry to hear you’re disappointed. I understand how frustrating this must be." Coming from a bot, incapable of feeling sorry or understanding anything, this is borderline demeaning.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Bought Vivobarefoot sneakers that I genuinely loved, but they started coming apart at the top eyelet after four months. Vivobarefoot now uses a godforsaken AI chatbot for customer support. It's going EXACTLY the way you'd expect it to go.

Definitely worth billions of dollars

Potatober #31: Happy Halloween! My only deviation from the "draw a potato" rule. But I say it's still art. And so Potatober is at an end. It's been fun, see you next year?

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Potatober #30: Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered tuber lies, whose flaked and flame-charred peel, distant from farmer's land, Tells that its sculptor oft those taters baked, The skin that crisped up, and the flesh that fed; And on the pedestal...

Pumpkin contest patreon.com/berkeleymews

Potatober #29: What kind of sicko would do this?

Potatober #28: I made knishes for the very first time in my life today, and they turned out okay. What did not turn out okay was the attempt to draw one, also for the very first time in my life. I can only apologise.

Potatober #27: Potatoes of the Deep Sea.

Potatober #26: I've been packing a parcel today, so this gets packaged as well.

Potatober #25: Today may be international pasta day, but pasta is basically Nudeln, and Nudeln include southern German Schupfnudeln: a delicious noodle-dumpling-hybrid that nowadays contains potatoes. I pan fry them, mix them with sauerkraut and other ingredients, then bake them. Better than gnocci!

Potatober #24: According to @adamcsharp.bsky.social , "t'es une pomme de terre avec la visage d'un cochon d'inde", "you are a potato with the face of a guinea pig", is an insult. But potatoes are awesome and guinea pigs are cute, so I can only put this down to an odd French aversion to lumpiness.

Just to point out the whole thread is glorious.

Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters

Potatober #23: Word salad. The various words for potatoes are derived from either a word for sweet potato or yam (papa, patatat etc.), "earth apple", "earth pear", "truffle" or, for mainland China, "earth bean".

⚠️ Google has given you access to The Computer That Lies. ⚠️ You are now required to use The Computer That Lies.

Potatober #22: Limitless opportunity.

Oh ffs. I am going to have to endure a bunch of Americans explaining how "that's not a skull, it's a Totenkopf!", right? Uuuugh.

Can't wait for the "rover somehow eats another rover" headlines

Sorry, Eloquenz ist gerade aus. #NichtMeinKanzler

Potatober #21: Realized I don't know how to make a chip look like a chip. So here's four. I have never had curly fries that weren't a disappointment and crinkle cut always ends up too crunchy.

Potatober #20: That's not how any of this works. But let it dream.

Something something post-hog rationalisation.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Potatober #19: Jewellery that was stolen twice already and ended up in a place from which I would not mind it being stolen again (assuming it would go to a more deserving, safe place).

"Parking is such sweet sorrow"

Art theft: "Which piece was it? Obvious? Niche? How big is it? Did they make off with something to fit a coat pocket, or a van? Who are they? What drives them, literally and figuratively? 🥸" Jewellery theft: "ok they like bling 🙄"

Art theft: Scandalous, exciting. Jewellery theft: mid.

Potatober #18: POTETO. I read this morning that today, St. Luke's day, is or was apparently "dog-whipping day", after a dog ate a communion wafer (or drank some holy water). I am not in favour. Neither is my potato-shaped (really!) dog, who MUST be drawn in crayon, just like this. It's tradition.

I'm very glad that I have no good reason to use the psychosis machine, but goodness, the convos an LLM could have with my dog, an experienced champion snorer...

Potatober #17: It's okay to start small.

“Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had used an LLM designed for linguistic fluency to generate military strategy. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode th

Potatober #16: It's sauna day. Note that neither spud is wearing swimwear, because potatoes are not disgusting.

"We’ve talked a lot about how X will bring about the end of the world, and it might. I just worry we should talk more about the way the internet is systematically stripping us of our capacity to feel empathy, too." Written about how we all need to be nicer to each other (especially me)

Potatober #15: The subsistence on celery.