I appreciate that we are now being blamed for not wanting AI. It's apparently our fault that tech companies couldn't make a useful product.

On the other hand, this is the view from my attic right now. So something is nice.

Democrats have got to stop responding to Republicans and just embrace good things. Welfare? Good! Cities? Good! Immigration? Good! Why try to impress people who will never vote for you?

The blueberries are eyeballs. I have way more eyeballs than people think.

My new @nebula.tv subscription is already paying for itself. My 3 month old refused to sleep last night, so I watched an entire season of Jet Lag: the Game, which is about perfect for those sleep deprived hours.

The Good Place in 2018 might have been the first fictional show to depict Elon Musk as a creep. (I’m not exaggerating…he was a character on Rick & Morty in 2019!)

DS9 has a former anti-colonial terrorist as a main, sympathetic character, but Miller thinks it just became woke.

Fun fact: France has nuclear weapons. Turning this whole mess into a possible standoff between nuclear powers.

This is important. NO ONE has a device that can cause "Havana Syndrome", because it is most likely not caused by a device. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/hava...

Don't worry, the shoe will be returned once her demands are met.

As far as I recall, the computers in Star Trek weren't racist. And could do math.

So, I just read "Life After Cars" by @thewaroncars.bsky.social. Great book, the section on care noise really struck me. I don't think we really realise how loud cars are. I recently had my second kids, so our stroller is now a twofer, with the infant near me, and my 2 year old out in front. 1/

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We owned a VHS tape rewinder, a device that only rewound VHS tapes. I remember running tales through it before we returned them to Blockbuster.

Posting a nice, catchy song with no context whatsoever (amazing to think this album came out in 2011): youtu.be/kSQ8tZ35t4U?...

Women’s Aid ends use of X, as it ‘can no longer tolerate’ hate and child abuse online

Sweet potato fries are not as good as regular fries. They just never have the right texture.

Can't wait for archeology of our decorating trends: "Despite mastering climate control, many homes continued to contain a place for fire. We believe this was to appease a fire deity or allow for domestic sacrifices to the gods".

If I have learned nothing else from @rifftrax.com, I have at least learned you can put any word in front of "cop" and have a viable movie (for a given value of viable) (currently watching Samurai Cop on the stream, which I briefly thought was Karate Cop).

Hey, it's been a minute since our last CIA coup in Latin America. It's like getting the band back together.

Giving my 2 year old dessert, and I just realised: the chocolate frogs in Harry Potter are just based on Freddo, aren't they?

BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee just released — on New Year's Eve — the 255-page transcript of Jack Smith's closed door deposition. House Republicans continue their attempts to bury Smith's testimony. Read it all here: tinyurl.com/cndtn3ez

The first person to "Master the automobile" was arguably Bertha Benz, who was the first person to drive a car with an internal combustion engine a long distance, and was never American. (even the first to die in a car accident wasn't American. It was the Irish Naturalist Mary Ward).

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

My new app BALROG helps companies do deep dives into industry research, woth no unintended consequences!

Trick question. The manliest dog is a cat, because it shows you don't need a pet who likes you. The fluffier the cat, the manlier the man, because it shows you aren't trying to be manly.

Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.

If Tiny Tim did not die, does that mean Scrooge's redemption somehow rendered him immortal?

Me, watching Dinosaur Train: King Cryolophosaurus wrote the song Dinosaur Train a long time ago, then vanished. But the song is about the birth of Buddy, so is it a prophecy or- My husband: You have got to stop thinking about this so much.

Why is she napping in such an odd position? Because she actually fell asleep while begging.

Not only did women used to have big pockets, we used to have chatelaines, like janitor's keys but fancy. And all of this was taken away.

I have used calibre exactly once: When I was moving from Kindle to Kobo and needed to de-DRM/batch convert my ebooks. The process was only slightly nightmarish, and that wasn't entirely calibre's fault, github also had a hand in it. Still, 95% of my books made it.

Maybe he was manifesting

Pretty crazy that Musk willfully killed 100,000's of people *earlier this year* yet Corporate Media still regularly talks about him without mentioning that.

"Social cohesion" is a horrible combination of words to be rolling out against a minority group. Makes my skin crawl

Okay, it rain constantly in Ireland, but you do also get some amazing rainbows.

My favorite part of this whole conversation so far is how many people say that people who don't drive/don't like cars shouldn't have a say in car policies. Pedestrians and cyclists are still affected by cars and should definitely get a ssy in how they are used.

Not just the UK, last election in Ireland, far right parties had signs up saying "No Open Borders" and I am excited to hear their plan for closing the Irish border. You can't just import US ideas, find some stupid and hateful ideas of your own.

The discourse every time this comes up has mostly taught me that some people can only feel joy if they are breaking the speed limit, and I would humbly suggest these people find a new interest in life.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

Fewer video games about how awesome war is. More video games about the importance of effective public health. It's the only solution.

SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power. In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.” www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...

Can someone create a browser extension that replaces all mentions of the bad AI with this AI? It'll be the first step to a better world.

So far, this doesn't affect US citizens living abroad, but I'm starting to wonder how long I'll be able to visit family, if things keep going in this direction.

the legendary Reverse Cerebus, very high difficulty

Currently, most of my podcast listening is done while trying to stay awake during infant night feeds. I'm not sure how this will affect my already precarious sleep.

And yet they have yet to market a combination razor, lighter and pen. Some companies just lack vision.