A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

Chat, I'm not sure if a system that endlessly rewards being a cruel, dishonest, soulless hack and endlessly punishes doing something useful or good is a system that will survive, or a system that we want to survive.

This shirt will continue to be made until it reads "This is going on my gravestone"

The way that businesses treat manual workers should give everyone pause when they think about the world the tech billionaires want tbh

Like a lot of people in that generation, my grandparents worked extremely hard so my parents could avoid going down the mines at 15 like they did. They were extremely proud of me when I graduated with my Art degree.

Oh no..I just looked at someone's account media looking for the original version of something reblogged by someone else, scrolled a bit, forgot myself and liked a relatable one about a cat. That I now realise was 4 months old. 🫣 I'll. Uh. Just stand over here.

I think this person is onto something🤔

It's worth noting that the social contract on automation in the economy was that it was supposed to reduce the amount of humans doing dangerous/difficult/unhealthy jobs and this would be the very opposite of that!

What's it like inside your head?

I honestly think it's because the dull and dangerous jobs are actually really hard from a motion, mechanical, and material standpoint, plus unlike creative jobs you can't really sort of be "good enough" and get by.

Couple of things to highlight: I've often said much the same as this, ie that we don't know what human intelligence actually is, never mind understanding what human consciousness is, so we're a very, very long way from building any kind of machine that can achieve either of those things

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Of course it could just be that Andrew is a jerk and Charles has just been itching for an opportunity to kick him to the curb for most of their lives

I feel like the ending of Crooked Little Vein is what is waiting to come out in the Epstein files. It just feels like Royalty doesn't have Consequences without something ... pretty bad? Like worse than normal bad?

Honestly it feels to me somewhat ... heartening that Power in the US has fallen over itself to fall into line, but all the places where this meets US citizenry at large they absolutely haven't. Turns out myths do have power after all.

At this point I'm strongly considering building a little shrine to Microsoft SREs and making small offerings of cans of Red Bull

This government continues to show no regard for the lives of vulnerable people seeking safety. Using dilapidated bases has been shown, repeatedly, to be massively harmful, and create real risks of severe mental and physical health impacts for those trapped in them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You know, whenever people roll out "legitimate concerns" I'll just point to this and go "oh so you agree with this guy?"

I see it's "let's make a magic piece of paper that enshrines all of our rights, which will just work because magic piece of paper" time again

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families

Not just me that can see a giant furry squid/guinea pig thing right?

We were lost in Spain and my wife asked for directions at a gas station. A trucker said, "In life, my love, we are all lost" and then had us follow him to the exit we needed. I think of it when I take a wrong turn. (Sounds better in the original Spanish "En la vida mi amor todos estamos perdidos.")

I entirely forgot that I made this anti-ASMR video (Sound warning headphones users)

It's impressive how every single one of these things looks exactly like a nightmare vision included in a piece of media from the last 30 years

Very nice

Nice

Oh fuck, oh no, this was the 2010 election. This is truly a cursed object. A harbinger of Bad Times that kept getting worse.

I'm told women don't like the Cybertruck, which is sensible as clearly they all wish for this

Clearing out an old storage box that contained this fascinating relic of a bygone age. I have no clue why I kept it or when exactly it's from (there's no year, but it must have been after 2010 based on the address)

The decline of third spaces and hangouts, such as malls, video rental places, arcades & skate parks has been a direct result of the rise of convenience and has also been objectively bad for society as a whole. Its not that everyone HAS to socialize, but having no option to without bars is a failing.

Looking forward to a future where I have to go into a computer and physically disconnect any microphones so it can't hear me telling it to "fuck right off you piece of shit" and report me for a hate crime

Spike Jonze: In my movie I invented the parasocial relationship with an AI as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Parasocial Relationship AI from the classic sci-fi movie Don't Create The Parasocial Relationship AI

There's really only two file formats

Direct link to the magic button itself www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

Bandcamp I believe is still good btw

Everything the Spectator publishes is essentially "step in me harder, Daddy" isn't it

Keir Starmer continuing to speed run the Blair Years by being thoroughly emasculated by an idiot.

It's just awesome that all of the most powerful people in the world openly acknowledge that "low skill workers" do all of the most important work while also continuing to maintain a system that ensures the overwhelming majority of people are perpetually poor, miserable and dying.

Using ChatGPT

Tron : Ares has made me consider what happens when you have a group of people trying to consider what makes humanity when they have rejected thousands of years of philosophy for being a bit girly

As temperatures drop, the question to the cats becomes: Are you looking for attention, trying to steal my food, or in need of my body heat?

It rocks that these people won, are in control, got what they supposedly wanted, and are still just as bitter as ever about everything, winning or losing makes no difference to filling the gaping holes in their souls

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism