Sharon said I should do a Groundnut scheme thread So, in the spirit of Mr. @garius.bsky.social of this parish, I shall embark on a short history of THE TANGANYIKA GROUNDNUT SCHEME, or the time the Attlee government tried to turn the worst land in east Africa in the world's largest peanut farm.

I have never met anyone in my life who thinks like this who is AT ALL consistent in what they say

In which I go from pestering my friends for the umpteenth time to making it your problem by asking you to watch Project A-Ko, pretty please.

the thing is you aren't even, as a player, required to wear pride gear so they could have simply not worn pride gear and it would have been fine, rather than wearing it and intentionally defacing it to stir up shit and loudly proclaim their bigotry

I bought a dumpster fire for my lab several years ago. It's regularly moved to the desk of a person who made a ridiculous error by the last person who made a ridiculous error Or we go claim it ourselves when we fuck up! It's okay to fuck up; it's the cover-up that gets people in trouble

I will now follow this repost with several statements from myself…

love how every app has to periodically inform me that push notifications are disabled. damn bro who do you think did that!!! history's mysteries

"following popular opinion with no theory of popular opinion" is the exact kind of error that led to the great inflation, models with no theory of individual behavior that could not adjust in any way to deper parameters changing all of a sudden

... "Look, we've run the numbers, and we think the most we could make, barring a runaway hit and we can't count on that, is $10 million, And Warner Brothers is not in the business of making $10 million." I believe I choked out "... I ... I am in the business of making ten million dollars."

holy shit????? ICE is getting rid of seven of the 11 would-be concentration camp warehouses they purchased and sec. mullin indicates new mass detention centers are not priority. huge!

Many op-eds could be fixed with this simple question

Dear sound effect and music asset creators; Please stop using generative AI for your thumbnails. You're putting a giant label on your work that gives the impression it's low effort slop, even when the actual content might be excellent stuff!

The reason "pallettes of cash" became such a sticky anti-JCPOA talking point is because it's vivid - you can hold an image of it in your mind's eye. "$300 billion" sounds like a lot of money but doesn't connect with people the same way. Dems should consider this in crafting talking points

It seems to literally not matter how many fucking concessions the "legitimate concerns about immigration" group gets, they will simply pretend those don't exist and repeat the demand.

Thread worth reading in full.

Again, they don't have a plan for anything, they just break shit. They tried to repeal Obamacare and failed because they didn't have anything to replace it with. They successfully ripped up the JCPOA and now we're reduced to begging for it back because their "plan" to replace it wasn't one.

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

there's literally never been a better time to be gay and wrestle-curious

I made a joke about James Bond on Instagram the other day, and this is what AI has generated since then. Obviously, there’s literally nothing true about this, and it is fucking hilarious. As a certified AI hater, I LOVE when it gets it things so incredibly wrong.

Trump thinks that "gold leaf" is the spraypaint stuff they use at the White House, and "the real deal" is what we in consensus reality know as "gold leaf".

ridiculous that i have to think of tech companies as my enemy and view every new update as a possible attempt to inject "A.i." malware into my computer

I have fired clients who use AI to communicate/double check my work. But, my current bane are litigious pro se parties/codefendants using AI to paper you with Motions/filings that make little to no sense, arnt procedurally/substantively correct, but still require my clients to pay to me respond.

After Barbie Execs: Toys! More toy movies! Not more women directors & leads. TOYS After Kpop Demon Hunters Execs: Singers! More movies with singers! Not women of color directing & starring. SINGERS After Backrooms Execs: Reddit stories! More Reddit stories! Not young people with new ideas. REDDIT

we simply should not have gone to war with iran in the first place and once we did all the options for getting out of it were terrible “trump gets bored and frustrated and surrenders” is probably the least bad of those

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Him: The Scottish drank every bar in Boston dry. Me: That’s why you send the Scottish games to Wisconsin. This would never have happened in Milwaukee.

Companies are scraping social media pages & using other personal data to identify "financial vulnerability" and pay vulnerable people less.

I feel like "Doctor Doom vs. the Titanic" is one of those phrases that, once you read it, you think "Yes. Yes, how has this not been done before? Put the supervillain on the doomed ship please, I would like to watch it happen."

Transphobia has the greatest PR campaign going, carried out with great effort, to conceal the goals of a cruel bunch of obsessives from mainstream public, rather than showing them as they are; pathetic single-minded losers in the grips of genocidal mania.

One problem with trying to talk to cis people about transphobes is the things terfs say about us are so bug fuck crazy the cis do not believe it, even when given linked sources. Transphobia is too batshit to propagate without metric tons of euphemistic copy which ironically PROTECTS IT FURTHER.

I'm sorry, but if this happened in a satirical comedy we'd all be sitting there stony-faced because come on, you already did the algal bloom thing, now we find out the paint was crappy? Overkill on the joke, my dudes. bsky.app/profile/fact...

the thing about a post like this is that if you contend you never saw a copywriter do a thing that is now everywhere because of AI, you either just never noticed it or you're lying. where do you think the LLM learned to do that? it's imitating people.

Oh. 160 Airmen down. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Several hours later and this is still such an amazing visual

If he were a Columbia student and said this his citizenship would be revoked

Mexico is doing a sweeping labor reform with a rollout til 2030 that will shorten work weeks to 40 hours, limit after-hours employer contact, and guarantee no salary loss for working the fewer weekly hours. The critics of this think it doesn't go *far enough*. Lord, I see what you do for others...

Zelenskyy's statement on the drone attack on Moscow, or, as he puts it, "our long-range sanctions":

The moment a storage tank at the Moscow oil refinery was hit: the blast blew the tank's lid off.

Hexed does really look like The Owl House, and it has me wondering if we’re about to be in for a glut of shows that are just “Former popular show, but more straight”

I had been informed after this post that there would be one more episode, but nonetheless… Hey! There’s one more episode of Nakamura-kun out!

Who wants to bet POTUS and Kushner, Witkoff et al end up winning this Iran war, by profiting off the 300 billion?

Also this basically confirms my theory I talked about on @pastduepodcast.com and @halftheanswer.bsky.social — he decided to murder WaPo in 2023 because he couldn’t handle employees who organized. A sad little man. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Back at the first modern Army Warfighter Exercise (WFX), which was done by III Corps in 2012, the final inject complication was a massive earth facing coronal mass ejection. So if you don't think this is a natsec or military issue, think again & give this a read!!!

Starship Troopers might have one of the best IMDb Trivia pages I've ever read. It is loaded with gems, mostly about how Paul Verhoeven is an absolute wild man.

Who says there’s no good news around these days? 🥳🎉🍾

Well, great...

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

I'd lay money this is true for a lot of the names on this list. And like i said: at this point, people have to know that you don't join in with peter Thiel on ANYTHING, because he will use your name for PR and people will look at you Seriously askance

This is the second pitchfork question in my TL today. Which may not seem like a lot, but it’s considerably more than the usual 0 I don’t THINK they’re related

Exactly how are Musk's contributions to combatting global warming unquestioned? His contribution is scamming the government into funding his whacko idea that we have to flee the planet because humanity can't survive here rather than making the only planet where we can actually live livable.