you know when you feel like coverage of something undermines the reality of what someone had to go through? yeah www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Describing music like a recipe is such a noxious cliché that it should be punishable with a million pound fine. 2 million if you use the word "soupçon".

"Lots of good jobs in those bomb factories" isn't just a Labour thing.

New numbers station alert! Dunno what it is about these things that makes them so otherwordly. I mean, it's literally just a dude reading out a bunch of numbers so his spy friends can spy. And yet, somehow they always feel somehow supernatural. theiceman.substack.com/p/a-new-spy-...

If only your boyfriend loved you as much as he loves saying 'playbook' on social media.

The John Wick films pose a fascinating question: what if 20% of the world's population were employed in the hitman industry?

Last night's film www.imdb.com/title/tt6146...

Girlfriend Changes Man Into Someone She's Not Interested In https://theonion.com/girlfriend-changes-man-into-someone-shes-not-interested-1819565990/

I'm going to be saying "hump plumping" out loud all day.

I really hate how much politics and media coverage is just journalists pretending to not understand what's actually being said and done by people in power.

congressional democrats didn't give a fuck that we double tapped an elementary school last week with tomahawk missles and killed almost 200 little kids but they're about to express the purest outrage today because Line Go Down

NATO is not a "defense" alliance. It is a platform for the projection of US imperial power into Asia and Africa. This is fundamentally *not* in the interests of the European people, not in the interests of the rest of the world, and should not be tolerated.

PhD-level version of Simon.

Wish this were true but I used to work in a dole office in Glasgow where a woman colleague read The Sun from cover to cover every day and believed every single word printed in it.

Last night's film www.imdb.com/title/tt2406...

Last night's film m.imdb.com/title/tt8043...

Madge: [whispers sweet nothings into Antonio's ear] Jimmy: She's lyin'!

There’s an Indian journalist in Israel right now reporting in Hindi about how bomb shelters in Israel will allow even the pets of Jews in but will not open its doors to the Indian workers our shithole government sent in droves to make up for genocided Palestinian labor. Apartheid regime.

Smoked a joint there many years ago, in what must be my most Julian Cope moment.

"You can't make stuff with complex characters because stupid people might not get it".

Last night's film www.imdb.com/title/tt5439...

Horseshoe horseshit.

There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons. North Korea and Israel. One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide. It isn't North Korea.

The Krankies. Glad that's sorted.

Philip Cross says otherwise.

Come and pick up your Dad, he's just said "far left entryists" lol

Didn't know Libya was ruled by The Dance Commander.

Hillary Clinton promising to attack Iran on israel's behalf in 2008. There is no magical other presidential candidate who doesn't want war with Iran.

They’re calling him “the least Googleable man of all time”

Reasons I block: - Replies or quotes that one-up the post without adding anything. - Misusing demographic categories for clout. - Parroting media clichés and argot unironically. - Kindergarten-level sarcasm. - Shit reaction gifs

I click through to the next slide of my presentation. "The first thing to know is that everybody who votes for us is scum," I say. "The only real people are the ones who hate everything in our manifesto." The audience whoops and cheers. Someone calls me a genius

Farage has a surprisingly thin skin and is easy to wind up. If our politicians ever stopped kissing his arse he'd be quite easy to take down.

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to: 1. Sample some local street food. 2. Ride a train. 3. Visit a temple. 4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over. 5. Smile at some elephants. 6. Top up his kids' private school fees. 7. Say "India is changing".

Last night's film m.imdb.com/title/tt0181...

This is what actually happens to the guy who stands up in the Norman Rockwell painting.

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

CNN Under Fire For Failing To Disclose Pro-Iran War Panelist Actually Raytheon DeepStrike Missile https://theonion.com/cnn-under-fire-for-failing-to-disclose-pro-iran-war-pan-1836887896/

Weirdest car accident ever.

Nashiro (mascot of Hita City) is an alien with a see-through cranium, showing its brain, which is a pear.

Labour PM can't even be bothered to finish abolishing *feudalism*, they're never gonna get around to capitalism

good morning everyone project your personal imposter syndrome onto this gif ur welcome

Either I keep using ever shittier versions of Windows, or I switch to Linux and completely give up making music. Bollocks.

Last night's film www.imdb.com/title/tt2186...

I can see where this is coming from, but there was in fact once an internet that wasn't just six monopoly companies herding you to shout at each other for clout. There was a time when google search took you to pages built by real people pursuing their real, personal interests. That happened.

LLM makers makers do not want you to be able to understand. It's about turning the means of understanding and sensemaking into externalized products to rent.

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Thing is, the fact he was a hypnotherapist at all makes me think less of him but the current Home Secretary is bragging about how many people they'll deport so it's a bit of a second-order issue if I'm honest.