Three way! Four way!!!

if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to

Bruce Springsteen has no fucks to give. 👏

A reminder that not everyone wants to have their own kids! Some of us are luring other people's offspring into confectionery-based cottages in woodland clearings to cook and eat them and that's just as valid

I used to know someone who was an Ant God. When I lived with him they’d all show up to pay fealty. And then when he moved out I never saw ants again, until a couple years later he house sat for me. He said he battled ants the entire time he was there. They left when he left.

AI will never eat half a case of mini chocolate chip muffins and that's why it will never write good

all this odyssey-posting has got me thinking about this again

i love you grain weevil

the net negative for US politics was Elon buying twitter and turning it into an explicit right wing propaganda site at that point there was simply nowhere for the online left to maintain any influence with pols and institutions, at least in the (shrinking) text-based social media sense

Happy Birthday to Margaret Calvert today. 90 years old and what an impact! Her work is in every local town. A Margaret thread 🧵1/11

Fundamentally, a lot of the problems in British politics comes from a political generation being forced to do something they think is a bad idea, to appease voters they think are wrong with beliefs they don't really understand.

The basic issue is that the UK economy, not very dynamic at the best of times, has been shown not to function for growth outside the single market. Nobody has a solution for this and every government since Brexit has collapsed whilst pretending there are other solutions.

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

I think I’m traumatized by technology I don’t control and that force things I don’t want into my life. And a VCR never made me spend ten minutes on updates. A VCR never let a stranger steal my personal information.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

remember your photo ID if you're voting in the UK loki lecs today pals

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

First glimpse of the Cyclops from Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey.”

😧 Hungarian public opinion is consumed by last night’s interview with this oligarch, who broke down in tears multiple times. We watched in disbelief as one of the richest men in the country, collapsing on live TV, tried to defend the indefensible… 3/1

Job hunting in a hostile environment. ✨

Having all the cards is, famously, not the goal in Uno.

Mary this is literally how vaccines are supposed to work.

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

weird, this is almost word for word the note my wife handed me just before I stood up to make a speech at our wedding

My actual take on these NYT ‘here’s some morons’ things is that people are basically calling out for mediating insitutions to make politics comprehensible to them, because most people are not weird freaks like you probably are if you’re reading this, that like paying attention to this shit.

presented without comment bc she already got murdered

Me: I'm going to get out more, socialise, meet new people. Also me, whenever I leave the house:

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

“One of the many issues with a political strategy based on deliberately alienating your own supporters for being soft on migrants/working at universities/on the wrong side of the culture wars is that none of them are going to make the argument for supporting you.” This great by Jonn on Starmer…

I love this article - it sums up so well some of the dissonance of encountering someone telling you with great excitement their new discovery while you roll your eyes or are left confused they've missed some of the legwork...

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

I hated serial killers until I got that first rush of my hands squeezing tighter and tighter around a helpless delicate neck

Saw all these guys in Hackney Wick last night.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Oh look. The thing that was predicted is happening, with a huge thick underline under my assertion about the hubris of devs believing they could code around the fundamentals of Garbage In, Garbage Out. The models are ingesting AI garbage, and spitting out more AI garbage. bsky.app/profile/hype...

Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.

Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.

£204 from my target. Yes, £2000 is a arbitrary goal. But still, we're talking about £204 worth of hospice care for people going through hell. So please give if you can. Plus, the more you give the faster I'll run, that's just science. www.justgiving.com/page/richard...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

It’s fucking bizarre how people are acting like something from 2022 is something they can’t live without. Like dudes, the emotional dependence on a sycophantic machine regurgitating nonsense to encourage you to stop engaging in critical thought and trust the slop is truly depressing to witness.

ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.

great work everyone keep it up they are pigs and fascists and they should be reminded of it every day forever