An AI chatbot does not have PERSONHOOD. It has no agency. It cannot meaningfully apologise. It cannot speak on behalf of another. It cannot speak for itself; it has no self. Stop asking it for quotes for articles. Stop printing its quotes.

Apparently, I was really reaffirming my masculinity with last year's film viewing

Do you thing, dictionary magic.

decades of infrastructure neglect and institutional rot means MUSEUM AND BANK ROBBERIES ARE BACK BABY

This is the thing I'm most excited for in January, a month that also contains my birthday

Who the hell was posting about this video, I fucking love it, I'm obsessed, who caused this youtu.be/ef568d0CrRY?...

People can be so beautiful, and it has nothing to do with whether they’re attractive or not.

To me, my X-Mas!

Flight home's been delayed two hours so I had to make something important

Santa told us that people that don’t add alt text are getting coal in their stocking this year.

DON DRAPER: Magic isn't just about being a wizard - It's about being a magician. It's a performance. Every card should delight the player ... and their opponent. PETE: Here's an idea - no blue cards. Only fruits play blue anyway. LANE: back at exeter it was quite common to splash blue PETE: See?

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

There are 3 kinds of Bluesky user: 1. Was just kicked in the head by a horse 2. Raised in Plato's cave where they were only shown 2010s tumblr posts 3. Normal

Think of AI instead of cigarettes here. Nothing is inevitable.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

Back in stock on Etsy are the ever-popular Skull Hankies and Tentacle Hankies, as well as the Baggage and Swag tote bags! Do try to order before the end of Thursday to give yourself the best chance of receiving your orders in time for Christmas. Best witches, everyone! Miserymakesshop.etsy.com

Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games

# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost

We can’t afford a $1M trailer slot 😔 But reposts on Bluesky cost $0 - and they really help tiny teams like ours ❤️ If cozy medieval creativity is your thing, here’s our Scriptorium trailer!

I’ve yet to see any indication that all of humanity *didn’t* speak Simlish up until the Tower of Babel

Local man receives free extra taco at taco stand: regains faith in humanity

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Migrant Mother (portrait of Florence Owens Thompson), photographed by Dorothea Lange.

Doing the opposite of whatever Dave Stewart suggests is a solid principle to base your life choices around.

A glass of papaya juice and back to work. My heart is in my pocket, it is Poems by Pierre Reverdy.

Oh man. Rest in peace to one of the greatest to ever do it. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa elevated every role he took with his astonishing charisma and screen presence. deadline.com/2025/12/cary...

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

The famous cone on the Duke Of Wellington statue has been replaced with a pigeon reading a newspaper - and the pigeon has a tiny cone hat. 📸 by @the.rebel.bear Story by Secret Glasgow Read it here: bit.ly/duke-of-wellington-cone-replaced

This week, I get to put my stamp on the Sequelisers Star Wars Prequels, and I promise absolutely no Paul WS Anderson.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

This week's listening

Millennials haven’t had easy lives but at least we’ll always have this beat drop at 3:07

Lupita Nyong'o Jodie Turner-Smith DeWanda Wise Wunmi Mosaku Jurnee Smollett Cameo: Regina King

Holy shit McCarthyism

this is the face of a man who is about to tell me about a progressive upset in the mayors’ race in Dogshit, KS but first he needs to spend approximately one and a half minutes talking about the virtues of Squarespace

likes to charge, reblogs to cast etc

now the real work begins

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

i think the mayor of new york and the mayor of london should become good work friends and make all the worst people soooo mad

let's go mets new york baby love da mets