Further evidence, alongside the shoebill and potoo, that Jim Henson's Creature Shop branched out into genetic manipulation some time ago.

there are a lot of legal things you can say about what should happen. there are a lot of legal means by which they could.

Repeal the Hague Invasion Act and send every member of the Trump administration

bye 2025👋

Hopefully today will finally be the last day of 2020.

Hello #portfolioday I'm Tara, I'm a freelance artist, and I love dark, surreal, dreamy art. 👩‍🎨 You can get in touch here: ✉️ [email protected] linktr.ee/tarabushart

Cheat code for roast beef sandwiches: Horseradish greens.

i do not need the measuring swords i do not need the measuring swords i do not need the measuring swords

Make a Bond film about eggs: The World is Not un Œuf

Happy Christmas. 💜 youtu.be/NmxDIGjuC-E?...

who up forging they chains

Karpatka!

This year's wrapping theme is, "I have a ton of pink cellophane in the gift wrap box that needs using up." 😅

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

From Partiful's "your year in review" stats. I am simultaneously dubious and insistent that the rest of you need to do better.

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣

Adding references to Reagan is often illuminating, but it's rarely good.

The ceiling at the Fox remains a show into itself.

Behold, an AI!

I got visited by three ghosts last night, who were all experts in English grammar.

I particularly enjoyed* the clip of the interview with Bendetsen where he argued that it was unfair to compare him in any way to Adolf Eichmann because he was just following orders.

The Holy 'dile wishes you all a fantastic December and a glorious Holiday~.

Two months of recovery and PT and patience down, four to go before I can return to activities that seriously load my sternum. Lotta walkin'. But it's lovely to be able to start ramping up the heartrate and ramping down the bradycardia-inducing drugs.

Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes" But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger" Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

"Found In Translation" 490 pcs., 15"x15"x1", 2 layers, D: 9.8/10 - this was the trickiest puzzle commission of the year, hands down. I am pretty good at cutting weird tiny shapes but doing 200+ hieroglyph drop-outs and keeping all the surrounding pieces nice and connected was a real challenge.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

Found when sorting an old drive. I still, very occasionally, say 'not many badgers in the House of Lords' and this is why:

Salad niçoise! ... -ish. 😅

Every warning label is written in blood.

Ah, rats. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's gone.

They should market with wristbands. Oo! Or headbands! Headbands'd be cool. Put a little NFC debit card in 'em, you could use it like a wallet!

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

If you walk without rhythm, you won't attract the whale.

Computer, please summarize everything PG Wodehouse ever wrote in ten seconds

Well, that's probably not good.™️ www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

The "DOGE is gone" articles are clickbait but this one gets it closer to the truth: DOGE is not gone, it just claims to have "no centralized leadership" anymore -- in other words, its leadership is hiding in an attempt to avoid blame.

When someone exhorts you to, "shut your pie hole," this is the worst case scenario.

Oh, so we're expecting /that/ level of recession.

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.

The smallest hill I'm willing to die on: "Out of pocket," refers to an expense that you incurred on behalf of another entity and paid for with your own money.

Are you fucking kidding me it’s like we are living in a cartoon

Historically speaking, anytime an excellent folk singer emerges, shit's gotten real bad. Still holds so far.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.