The Amelioration of Symptoms.

I now firmly believe Trump’s handlers are constantly showing him AI slop content - created to support those handlers own individual, often-clashing agendas. GenAI companies have created Grima Wormtongue as a service.

The Exorcist, mostly because I can’t take demonic possession seriously. Satan decides that the best use of his time would be to make a random kid shout a lot, then god sends a couple of lackeys to shout at the devil. Whoever shouts loudest wins.

The ICE murderer is called Jonathan Ross. It took me a while to figure out why people were apparently mad at Wossy.

My blood sugar seems a bit high. Need a bit more insulin to get it back in range. *45 min later* It’s gone up? I must need more. *45 min later* Up again? Just the tiniest extra dose. *10 sec later* *Alarm blares, blood sugar is dangerously low. Graph looks like Keir Starmer’s approval rating*

i firmly believe — like you would have to give me hard evidence to convince me otherwise — that they feed trump a steady diet of AI slop

I am excited to see what the final, inevitably anticlimactic ending to this bizarre treasure hunt is. youtu.be/G5Xk9g55IXM?...

The Dark Lord Xarthraxia prepares to cast the final forbidden spell that will usher in a new age of eternal torment. Me: I wish Xarthraxia would focus on ushering in a new age of eternal slightly lower egg prices. The Dark Lord Xarthraxia starts dreaming up new, worse forms of eternal torment.

More “AI” code review fun. I just got told that a function contains too many nested if/else statements. It contained one if/else statement that was not nested within anything, that is the minimum level of nestingness.

The workers leaving the Lumière factory in Lyon will return to the Lumière factory in Lyon in Avengers: Doomsday.

When Elon changed the name of Twitter to X everyone was like "what the fuck, that sounds like the name of a website for extremely illegal pornography made by and for nazis" And behold what it became. Nominative determinism go ew

Remember when Musk bought Twitter and all his fanboys were saying he’d invented an automated system to get rid of all the CSAM that was apparently plaguing the site? They could do with that round about now.

If they had asked if lizardmen should rule Venezuela they would have scored about the same. Starmer still sides with the 6% though.

i remember when creating CSAM would mean your website was shutdown immediately and people not only wouldn't choose to hang out there but literally couldn't because again it was shutdown immediately

are we actually 100% sure that Gemini and ChatGPT can't do this or is this purely about how Grok, being a twitter account, disgorges the things it does directly into twitter (and thus is used as a form of harassment).

once again i want to point out that as soon as the OSA came into effect, posts reporting news from palestine were immediately restricted with no recourse to appeal. so far none of these genAI CSAM images have even touched the filter. effectively the 'for you' tab has become a minefield.

The parts of Good Omens that were written by abusive arsehole Neil Gaiman.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Pete Hegseth: [lurching drunkenly into office] Mr President, we need to bomb caracas to secure the future of the white race Hegseth: America has bombed korea, Iraq and Afghanistan Hegseth: and by gum it put them on the map! Hegseth: [violently vomits]

Note to Trump: Starmer will not oppose you kidnapping him and replacing him with a slightly different puppet leader.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

UK Sensible Centrists in 2019: "It is the absolute duty of the Labour leader to condemn every single bad Facebook post." UK Sensible Centrists in 2026: "Not only is it very good the Labour leader isn't condemning flagrant breaches of international law it's also extremely smart."

Open fascists are genuinely less annoying than Starmerrhoid arseholes. “Technically he didn’t state in fully unambiguous terms that he agrees with what Trump did but if you squint just right the non-specific references to international law can be read as a non-binding condemnation.” Fuck off.

Hey, so remember when the shit hit the fan in Ukraine and all the shitlibs were being self-righteous and asking why the Russian people didn't simply rise up and topple Putin from power? Those folks are AWFULLY quiet this morning.

a lot of you morons keep saying the US is behaving like russia and i want to beat you with tire irons until you understand that the united states is the ONLY country that behaves with complete impunity. russia is a near total pariah and it banked on its BRICS alliances to stay afloat.

24 hours ago, journalists were wondering aloud what "deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty" could possibly mean

The Sensibles are now claiming we have fucking Rumplestiltskin as PM.

Keir Starmer just wants the chance to take a photo in military fatigues pretending to murder Venuzuelans, saying anything negative about Trump might jeopardise that.

Same as how Russian war crimes are immediately called out (correctly), but Israeli war crimes are actually very complicated and they can't comment and anyway what is "international law" anyway?

Over the past 25 years the US and their client states have marched into Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya + Palestine in the name of "freedom" + naked imperialism. Every single time they have left behind a wasteland where a proud civilisation once stood. Now they're doing it to Venezuela.

As you read the news today, watch who phrases the news as an "illegal invasion and regime change" versus "bringing democracy". It'll tell you everything you need to know about the news source you're reading, and frankly should decide whether you ever read them seriously again.

this, but it’s Trump/Venezuela and there’s no middle panel

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

Kind of weird how the Castlevania Dominus Collection lists the games in reverse release order.

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

This will be true again when I update it next year.

Getting ready to celebrate the death of 2025 in Southport's inexplicable Top Gun-themed novelty bar.

My birthstone is kryptonite.

Come on Aquaman, no one would ever mock you again.

One time a very drunk young woman stumbled out of a pub, saw me and said "look, it's Harry Potter's dad, you rock!" The bouncer had no idea what she was talking about either.

I think I started my traditional New Year's meme on NYE 2016. I have never been wrong before and I'm pretty confident about this year.

lol man it feels weird learning a guy just died and spending the next hour laughing

This is possibly the first time ever that I got both Framed and Guess the Game in one shot. I haven’t even seen the movie from Framed.

If you aren't going to be riding a horse into battle wearing plate armour, you weren't actually knighted. You just indulged a senile inbred guy in his fantasy of being a fairy tale king.

The second episode of Percy Jackson is about him achieving JK Rowling's greatest ambition.