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Pictures of Matchstick Men is a banger because it sounds like The Kinks

I also think GenAI summaries of conversations and personal emails are fucking wack and disrespectful Either you have time to genuinely engage with what someone said or you don’t

Very true of Granada, and even more so of other places in Andalucia. Kingdoms come and go, human settlements endure: Prehistoric settlement, Phoenician colony or Iberian oppidum, Roman then Moorish then Castilian town, finally Spanish.

being in the Society of Depreciation Professionals sounds so fun. you can just point at assets and say shit like "it's over," "bro's washed," "you're cooked" and make some menacing scribbles on a clipboard www.cnbc.com/2025/11/14/a...

I think Star Trek endures because it encompasses all of the fundamental storytelling archetypes: Man vs man. Man vs self. Man vs computer. Man vs sexy lady. Man vs cave. Man vs God. Man vs lizard. Man vs tribunal. Man vs Abraham Lincoln. Man vs ghost. Man vs boss. Man vs doctor. Man vs rock. Man vs

*taps sign*

In positive news the annual death risk dropped for all ages last 27 years but if you're 0-4 (none of my followers) or 40-74 (90% of my followers) it dropped by more than 40%

Right now we're hearing about increased phishing attempts that go like this: Attackers pretend to be Signal or Signal Support, then message people and try to get them to hand over their verification code or Signal PIN. Information that can let the attacker take over the victim's Signal account. 2/

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

But his emails

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I used to like whimsy. Not so keen now. Seems... annoying

Quelques Feuilles / Some Leaves New thing - this is a part of a much larger work. Each square comprises 4 of the colours of an actual leaf collected over a series of walks, and then photographed, uploaded, compiled and arranged in chronological order. The entire work has 144 leaves and 576 colours.

A running theme throughout the Bible—Hebrew and Christian—is "Don't fall into the trap of thinking you're *better* than your neighbor just because you're *better off* than your neighbor." It's incredible how universal that error is, and how universally ignored the corrective tends to be.

I have just watched this for the first time, it was wonderful

1) This is correct 2) IMO, the most reliable tell of how old someone is online is are they part of basically, the one ten-year cohort not to think Fleetwood Mac are a great band.

The Louvre heist is the uplifting story of 2025, a joyous gift that just keeps on giving

*Man*, were the Assyrians judgmental! "Šumma sin-ništu kinsaša ba-‘-la" "if a woman's calves are abnormally large" "Šumma ka bun-su ba-‘-la" "if his nostrils are abnormally large"

Bloody hell www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it

But ,then again, the US mortgage market is already just wild from my perspective. “Capitalism, red in tooth and claw…oh, except how households fund their major asset. *That* we’ll distort till it becomes a massive problem for effective central bank demand management.”

only fitting as corn mazes are made up anyway. they're from 1993. you can tell they're not a weird old pagan thing because there's no lore to them. what are we meant to do in there? are we being pursued? is there a prize? no one knows because there's no there there

If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it

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I wonder if people are ready to admit Lily Allen was always Quite Good

on facebook everyone is fighting a battle they won’t fucking shut up about

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

This is quite the graph and reinforces my view that Bluesky is actually quite revolutionary.

Can someone point me to a rational analysis of data centre/compute economics not authored by someone who is heavily conflicted?

Apropos of nothing, when Boris Johnson and Michael Gove had power, journalists did good service in reminding us all that they are both journalists by trade. Regularly. Which is often useful to remember in their lives post being democratically elected too.

Two Women in a Balcony Box - 1885 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/13840

John looks like he’s just said something cheeky while Yoko is giving him one of her “i love you but…” looks

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

#90sTop30 23 🗣️ Boards Of Canada 🎶 Aquarius 🗓️ April 1998 Electronic geniuses BoC's debut album is chock-full of excellent and eery tracks. Roygbiv is the obvious choice, but Aquarius feels like a close cousin, and at almost thrice the length, is even better in so many ways.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

New York is a cool breeze coming over from Staten Island. New York is the rhythm of the litter in Times Square. New York is a guy pulling open his store front in Queens. New York is a teacher telling the class to turn to a work by William Carlos Williams. New York is the poem of America.

Petty thieves pulling off a big score? I bet they’ve got great backstories we’re going to learn about through flashbacks

I know I seem like so autonomous but I'm actually partnered with refraction of light so let me run it by the old prism first. Hey bendy straw sucking the crazy light outta me, more like dispersing my will amirite

Bertha, lovely Bertha Sometimes I think you're a dream AND YOU CAN WIN THAT DREAM IN THIS MONTHS OMAZE DRAW. ENTER NOW. TEXTS COST A LOT.

and a lot of the remainder is “this is bad because women like it”

Update: AI is still flawed.

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

A movie you have seen more than 7 times with a gif

Did #parkrun today in the wet

Lai articulates how money is not a unit of success. Sure, basic stuff. But I find his bravery profoundly moving.