“I too, am an infant”

I see exasperated Sensible Moderates complaining that this government has no project, no theory of what it’s doing and no good ideas. I suggest this is because we have for a very long time been hugely rewarding politicians whose key skill is telling *lobby journalists* what they wanted to hear.

Looks like I’ll be posting this over and over until the pixels wear out

You don't need evidence to accuse trans people of anything. Just make it up and the Times etc will print it for you

Whenever I see Bessent I think “Gary Oldman is a great actor, but this bit he’s doing is just stupid, not funny”

All those moments - lost, like onions in mustard

Point blank range means “a distance at which one can fire horizontally (i.e. not compensating for gravity) and still hit the desired target.” Willing to bet the sandwich had positive vertical velocity when it was thrown, so this description is bullshit. Along with the rest of the case.

Alan Carr on a wobbly bridge is exactly what I pay my TV licence for.

Remember when that academic journal article crowed about an effective method to find area under curves and “discovered” integration? 🤦‍♂️

I honestly think the Tolkien estate should be suing Palantir, Anduril and this latest company for defamation and brand damage

Wouldn’t be surprised if these were Midjourney renderings

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“You’re not making art, you’re making hotdogs” is a hell of a slogan. You could put that on a t shirt

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Moon-moons

I used to get so many emails. And letters. The letters crammed with absolutely frothing content, in tiny hand on multiple pages, both sides. And then added to in all four margins. And then added to on the envelope in a halo around the address. In green ink.

Grotesque

At last. The fact it takes two weeks of triangulation by a horde of consultants to get to this simple statement is worrying. We need leadership, not a bellwether. Fascism is knocking at the door for God’s sake

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This inner tension of “we are strong and winning” and “we’re just one step from crushing defeat” is an essential psychological component of fascism. You can see it at play repeatedly in Nazi Germany etc

Canonically Ellie Sattler and Alan Grant are time lords, and their TARDIS is bigger on the inside. Top is the outside of their trailer, bottom is a scene immediately after on the inside of the same trailer.

Can Tylenol sue this quack? Because it seems they should sue this quack

Farage is a 100% media creation by a bunch of important people who believe tax avoidance by the wealthy is great. Why would we ever expect this to be different?

Moon-moons

The HBO drama covering this week in politics will be barely comprehensible to anyone

It is damning that not a single person involved in training chatGPT will ever be held responsible for this

I could not more wholeheartedly agree but if the government won’t even say this stuff is wrong, wildly reckless and evil, then why would we expect the world’s most intentionally poisonous media outlets to step in and do it on their behalf

Sigh. sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

When (if) I write the next edition of Solving Fermi’s Paradox, I’ll be adding “Poster’s Madness” to the Catastrophic solutions

“One [Avi Loeb’s readers] wrote about their fatalism about the Dark Forest scenario he’s described, and how they’re choosing to spend their remaining time with loved ones, hoarding canned goods.” This is the kinda stuff where I think his claims about a spaceship move from the harmless to dangerous.

[XENOMORPH ALIEN SKITTERS AT FULL SPEED DOWN CORRIDOR CEILING] ME: (sighing) is this about sex or death [XENOMORPH STOPS, UNSURE HOW TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION]

This is verging on dangerous misinformation. For the sake of one man’s ego entire droves of scientists are having their careers mangled, and the public’s trust in science continues to be poisoned. The man needs to be censured

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

I see the first articles in the UK press giving space to the claim that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft. Briefly: It’s a comet that formed billions of years ago, passing through our Solar System. It’s behaving like a comet. There is no evidence it’s artificial.

First they came for the plums And I said nothing because the gyre was widening Yes YES The tiger is out

You know, if enough of us say on the internet that it's important to wash your cybertruck with saltwater and lemon juice to preserve the finish, eventually ChatGPT will start telling cybertruck owners that.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

We’re so, so chuffed for Dave on this win! He’s part of the ESFF mod team and staff, and now we get to call him “award-winning author David Goodman” — how cool is that? Massive congrats from everyone at ESFF! #writingcommunity #edinburgh

Watching movies in which heroes stand up for the little guy, do the unpopular brave thing simply because it is right, help those in need, are kind to people different from them, and grinding my teeth in frenzied rage at this political bias that is personally attacking me, a massive piece of shit.

‘Party given endless airtime and never held to account influencing politics,’ says member of the media who gives that party endless airtime and never holds them to account

The irony of all this is that these people are saying the most frothingly Communist things and their base don’t realise. I mean this is just crazy half digested Maoism

“Why do you want this job” is such a basic interview question and so many candidates fail to have an answer beyond “Because I am rich and sixty.”

Snagged from the @edinburghsff.com discord because it is too damn real

Reform Party Conference

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should

The fact that the definition of net zero has become so fundamentally corrupted in public discourse is the climate change deniers’ greatest victory