The night is dark, and full of terrors; but sometimes a small soft animal trusts you enough to sit calmly in your hand and make quiet squeaks of enjoyment while eating a snack.

just flew in from the Michelin Man lookalike competition, and boy are my arms tyres

Why does Headline English so often use the construction "[cause] as [effect]", e.g. "Heatwave continues as four reported dead"? I don't think anyone would ever say that in natural usage, but the reverse - "Four reported dead as heatwave continues" - seems way more natural.

Ughh it should be illegal to a) release TV series all spread out and b) recommend a series to me without warning me it's all spread out so I can wait and watch it all at once, the way god intended.

Guy inventing capitalism - "The most efficient way to allocate resources would be if everyone was trying to trick each other all the time."

Nature is beautiful: here you can see the adult buses circling together to protect the baby buses from busivores that would otherwise prey on them

Got an appointment with an employment lawyer this morning to talk about the leaving work are making me sign and I'm full of anxiety.

[CN: suicide]

Instead of a government led by human rights lawyers, perhaps we need a government led by human rights defendants.

what the fuck

You know for a fact they're only doing this because juries are routinely finding anti-genocide and climate change protestors innocent.

No one at the rap battle will wait for me to type my prompts

Rather taken with this. It's by Shaun Tan, an Australian artist, from a book called The Rabbits. (All my favourite artists seem to be childrens' book illustrators).

Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors

Honestly, for clarity I should have just taken a screenshot of the exchange the first time I looked it up, but I usually try avoiding X The Everything App to begin with. Responding to "I am dumb?" with "Yes, sorry for the confusion" is very good imho

I was cycling to work this morning, thinking about how shit it is losing my job for being depressed and being asked to sign an NDA saying I can't tell my colleagues that's why I'm leaving, and I happened to glance up and notice this sign which I must have passed hundreds of times without seeing.

Our respectable media outlets are run by outright fascists and it's going to take physical violence to recover from this situation.

In reflection, these leaves fallen across a puddle, have found a way back into their parents’ arms.

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.

maybe i am going insane

I think we can all agree it's very sad to hear Cameron used to have cancer.

My brain is still making me feel super bad about being unproductive at work even though I'm losing this job in two weeks and feel absolutely zero sense of obligation to my employers. Wish I could somehow tell my brain "actually we don't live under communism yet so please react accordingly."

I don't know how you can look at, say, a train packed full of people commuting two hours a day to go to an office to send emails and think "ah, yes, society coordinating effort for the benefit of all."

The difference between anyone who has had a real job and your average "AI writer for the Economist" whose entire life is a net negative on the planet is that many of us realize that the authoritarian structures of your typical job don't actually further the productive goals of the organization.

I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw. ( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Once again the internet provides us with an immortal phrase that nobody will ever guess the context of.

it just didn't have the legs 😢

Budget? More like the BADget amirite

I felt like I was losing my mind watching this person's remarks and had to write about how disgusting they are.

If trial by jury is so inherently unjust then presumably we should reverse all criminal convictions which have resulted from one.

Obviously this is evil for other reasons, but interesting that it's apparently only Jewish children who should be protected from witnessing this horror.

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer

Americans say "all of the sudden" because of American Exceptionalism. In Britain we're able to accept that it might only be *a* sudden out of many.

mood

"testing"

This is just staggeringly offensive from the Home Secretary about careworkers, demeaning the work we all do and treating those who come to join us in that work as some kind of malignant rabble. It's even starker when compared with the words about NHS staff.

This is incredible

Weird experience being in meetings with colleagues who don't yet know that I'm losing my job in a couple of weeks. Talking about the stuff "we" will be working on next month.

Duck — Tlatilco workshop, ca. 1000 BCE

Just seen someone on TikTok refer to the Oliver Stone film "Natural Born Unalivers" and I think that's me done for the day

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..." https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Except they won't be shocked, because that would require them to accept that they were wrong. They're much more likely to just take the collapse of the NHS as evidence they weren't cruel *enough* to foreigners, rather than the opposite.

CSI: Cyber warned us! @mangmangmang.bsky.social

On at least a weekly basis, "well meaning" cis people who call themselves "allies" ask me why I'm so loud about being trans. I'm mostly cis passing, I'm a lawyer, why do I have to announce I'm trans, they ask? I could just be "normal." By being so loud, they say, I bring the transphobia on myself.

Just emailing the person organising our office Secret Santa to say "hey, I'm actually losing my job two days before the Christmas lunch so can you reassign my gift to someone else?" Which to be honest makes a better story than the average SS gift.