2025's final gift youtube.com/watch?v=VVB6...

fuck

I'm gonna keep on glancing at the pink platypus pink platypus

forgot to mention it at the time but a couple weeks ago was the anniversary of me coming out. so 2025 was my first year as me. that's something I guess

happy new year to all my extremely online friends

Outlook for the new year ...

I keep getting an advert on YouTube for Audible that uses Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of the audiobooks on offer. it has an incredibly stupid voiceover that goes "Comrades! This is Big Brother. I am always watching." so nobody at Amazon or their ad agency has actually read the book then

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" @crashfan03.bsky.social and I are responsible for making this clip

Oh, we do. Since her appointment Mary-Ann Stephenson has declined to recognise that trans women are women, has affirmed the hideous guidance drawn up by her predecessor, and has proven correct the two Select Committees who rejected her appointment because she was hopelessly out of her depth.

I said chatgpt doesn't have a soul and got put on this list

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

soundtrack to a dream I'm having while my cat tries to wake me up to get breakfast

still accurate

A lot of the more apocalyptic AI fearmongering stories elide the fact that the specific products in question don't do anything at all unless you prompt them to. Like, ChatGPT and Claude are not sitting around "thinking" when you're not prompting them.

One of the best to ever do it

oh no rip to a real one

"tungsten cubes" has the same rhythm as "jingle bells", just saying

Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:... The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.

bought a bamboo roller blind from Gina Yashere on eBay (only noticed when I collected it in person)

I love that a common thread throughout the history of textual transmission is how often a piece will survive because someone did the equivalent of screenshotting it to hatepost on it

The strategic road network is managed by a charity and relies on the goodwill of land owners for access. Some motorways will be muddy and flooded each winter. Also The strategic road network stops randomly at council boundaries and investment is where councils are willing. (UK edition).

I think we need to wipe out describing watching films, reading books, listening to music etc as "consuming content" before any kind of healing can begin

Cinco™ ahh commercial

Sometimes my phone is somewhere else and I'm on my laptop. Sometimes I have spoons for one kind of interaction but not another. Sometimes my brain just does that because it is broken.

Remember, Totalitarianism is when you target people with more power than you

1. There is no conspiracy. This is all publicly available information that has been up for months. 2. "Trans mob"? "Militant group"? "Gender Warriors"? We are FLATTERED 3. This you @dailymail.co.uk?

Nobody: Not a soul: Every AIBro's "girlfriend" when Sam Altman's rent is due:

begging everyone who insists on posting about this person Will Stancil to type out the whole name "Will Stancil" so that my mute for posts which contain "Will Stancil" continues to prevent me from ever seeing posts about this person Will Stancil

alright I went hard mode for a bunch of them on mine lol

In 1989, French newspaper Libération asked 700+ filmmakers from around to answer just one question: "Why do you film?", the answers they received varied from several pages long to just a few words, here's some of them.

and tiny tim, who survived in the flesh but suffered the spiritual death of excommunication for his adherence to the emperor and the antipope in the matter of investiture, being stricken by the sword of anathema entrusted to us by st peter, of whom our lord said, 'thou art peter, and upon this ro

here's a list of readings on the myth of job replacement by AI. i might turn this into a blog post as a sort of lesson plan for anyone who wants to use it, but it's just a reminder that every time we see "self-driving" cars or delivery robots, invisibilized workers are always behind the scenes.

And Tiny Sim, who DID die

FRITZI RITZ BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER December 25,1937

so tell me, have you been nice... or naughty?

*gasps and clutches laptop screen* GIVE IT ME

what's the most b-side-coded carol? i'm going for 'i saw three ships'

Treat yourself today to this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvU...

mimbo chrimbo

this is very bad for artists and also sex workers. I have a few close friends who are SWs and still post there to a followership of thousands as it's an important source of income. video will be next for this. if anyone can slop them into anything, why would they bother paying for the real thing?

Along with #duvetknowitschrismas, time for a new yearly tradition: #ITschristmas, where we share IT support horror stories from helping family over Christmas. Here's mine to start:

Please. My labubu is very sick.

Wanna feel old? The Trex from Jurassic Park is now 65million and 32 years old

I've been looking at Firefox forks which strip out garbage and set better security defaults since the AI rot is setting in at Mozilla. it looks like I'm going with IronFox, but I did try Fennec. it got uninstalled for sending me this. notification abuse = I'm instantly uninterested in using your app

Here's me for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social arguing that the only way to forestall a Reform government is to make a more decisive break with neoliberalism than Starmer is ever going to, or most of the parliamentary 'soft left' still seem capable of imagining. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

It's that time of year again — if you're headed to your parents house and they have a Samsung tv, just know that Samsung has renamed motion smoothing to "Picture Clarity" because technology must change for the sake of nothing Settings > Picture > Expert Settings > Picture Clarity

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

it is funny. but then again I'm one of the 2,500 people that Andrew posits in the thread who would watch a prestige reissue of Biggles: Adventures in Time, so I'm part of the problem

every wiki article about classic UK comedy like "Father and Sons was a comedy duo comprised of Reg Father and Tommy Sons, who appeared on a record breaking 18,450 episodes of The Light Applause Hour. Reg Father died in 1988 of Cigarette Fever. Tommy Sons remains alive in prison since 1997"