I keep thinking that Mr Kellogg would not be pleased.

this is Kix erasure

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

mister police you could have saved her I added a flirty tone

nothing like busting one's ass to meet a deadline only to have the deadline pushed back two weeks five minutes after you submit your paperwork

cataloging in the 21st century

This is absolutely insane framing for an article about a guy who was killed because his tank fell into the Euphrates

84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised

Just watched a YouTube video about the sets from The Bob Newhart Show and it literally never occurred to me before how *weird* it is that Carol's desk is facing away from the elevators

to say nothing of the old guy saying "I heard it when I wore a younger man's clothes," which now becomes an adorable rom com post-hookup mix-up rather than an unbearably twee way of talking about aging

Have always avoided notoriously bad Pacino/De Niro cop thriller Righteous Kill, but stuck it on tonight and am amazed that no one has ever memed this, one of the most Naked Gun sequences ever to feature in a purportedly serious movie.

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[The sketchbook of a Victorian girl, Emily M. Madden, featuring the adventures of her cat, Mouton.] wellcomecollection.org/works/rzwecsjy

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

somewhere George Boole is crying, although Art Garfunkel is probably okay

Understatement alert

New on my blog today, an article about the time Dennis Potter tried to get into writing for Doctor Who in the 1960s, what his story would have been about, and the other times he crossed paths with the series. Hopefully this will interest a few of you. thehiddenplanet.substack.com/p/when-denni...

I don't even know anymore

Callers to Washington state’s driver’s license agency who select automated service in Spanish are instead hearing an AI voice speaking English with a strong Spanish accent.

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Happy birthday to @scottythered.bsky.social ! I am cooler for knowing you, fellow Fish.

Newark Mayor Condemns ICE After Pursuit Ends in Crash With Children Inside "ICE has no business engaging in chases at any time, anywhere – but especially in densely populated areas, and on roads still being cleared from a significant snowstorm. ICE cannot come into our city and recklessly put…

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I had somehow forgotten how early in the movie we get this exchange: "You speak treason!" "Fluently."

!!!!!

really digging Raffi in his “prophet warning of judgment” mode

I opened one news article about an animal in a British zoo and now my entire Google feed is zoo animal obituaries

"The corruption must end!," I shout as I wind down my speech at just under two hours, winning all my Kalshi bets.

Are we calm yet?

Flopsy Mopsy Cottontail Peter

male romantic leads should be all shapes and sizes, just like romantic leads of other genders

Sir, that Mondrian sweater is aces and I would like to have one

instantly assumed this was a kaiju situation

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks.

I played squaredle.com 02/24: 22/22 words (+5 bonus words) 📖 Top player by bonus words 🔥 Solve streak: 394

HIM: I used to be a seal HER: what kind, ball-on-nose or Navy HIM: Navy HER: I'm a lawyer HIM: what kind HER: the only kind HIM: oh HER: btw I'm pregnant HIM: that is a surprise, we haven't had sex yet HER: we can still have a one-night stand, I'm not due until July HIM: I love you

AAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH

I understand Klaus

You will be shocked to learn that Schanck was also the “chief learning officer” of Trump University.

Au hasard Balthazar (People are like, oh, the hardest movies to sit through are the worst movies, and that's not so. I could watch Plan 9 From Outer Space multiple times and just be kind of bored. It's the great movies that get you.)

This headline makes it sound like an op-ed my dog wrote.

being so bad at posting you get internet clowned by Chuck Schumer should be grounds for expulsion from office

The thing that really tripped them up was having to pick up the receiver *before* dialing the number.

Yep, the sufferers of acute Pundit Brain cannot seem to understand that. Like, dude, I am a silent movie account. How much do you think "relevant" applies to me?