What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
What if they not letting Trump speak because he had a Reverse Fetterman Stroke and hes woke now
When an Irish person makes the mistake of ordering lasagna in a nice restaurant
"As soon as it was out of my sight on our family trip earlier this year, it disappeared forever. As someone who loves both big things and shiny things, I am distraught. I'm one of those babies who really thought I could make a life for myself there, but now it's gone."
There's an absolutely brain melting moment in Spy where Jason Statham -- doing his regular accent, obviously, the only one he can do -- pronounces one of the most inherently Cockney words in the English language... the American way what train of decisions led to this worst of all possible worlds
Great things happen when you read with your baby. Thread đ§”
"Adult" anything kind of has that connotation. Think "adult movies" or "adult photography"; it's a euphemism. It usually implies not that something is aimed at adults, or that kids will have a hard time with it, but that kids *should not be allowed it*, usually on the grounds of sexual content.
Punchable online branding twat on Radio 4 explaining how the monoculture is dead and TikTok has won and I would welcome anyone who spouts this sort of bilge pointing to a moment where this brave new world threw up anything as actually, you know, *good* as the boring old monoculture used to.
I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without wishing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best. -âAn Ethical Grookâ by Piet Hein
Meanwhile I'm loving this video youtu.be/LpHFcylNGqg?...
It finally happened.
If sufficient "shelter, healthcare and substance use services" exist, they're perfectly capable of "connecting with individuals" on their own; that's literally the easiest part of their (my) job. If they don't exist, put the task force's budget into making them exist.
"Must"? Not "are encouraged to", not "are ensured a safe environment where they can't be materially harmed by", they *must* speak to people they disagree with? ...Who? Do I have to talk to Gary specifically, or does the college curate a list of obnoxious cunts and I have to meet a quota of them?
Oh, so that's why he's called that. I had a more prosaic interpretation of his name as a naive child
Except I still put my hand in my pocket every time to panic-check that my key is there because I'm anxious about precisely this scenario And then half the time I slot it into the dashboard for peace of mind, thus negating literally every aspect of keyless start
Are you trying to tell me someone made a car that has keyless ignition but not keyless entry
Dueling archaeologists taking it in turns to steal it back from each other. A miraculously-engineered ancient temple complex degrades into a crumbling ruin while a history museum is upgraded with modern security into Fort Knox. The trickster god at the centre of it all watches on in delight.
I'm certain we already have people using AI to write their emails that the recipient is summarising with AI. Protocol Droids wasting untold resources confecting polite small talk that only they will ever see.
Ever just picture yourself as a 4-dimensional worm creature that simultaneously exists in all points in spacetime that you have ever or will ever occupy, this one point lying side by side with these hundreds of other worms who before and after go off in their own directions?
....Wait why have I never seen a story about adventurers trying to break into an ancient temple complex to return a holy relic that's been causing disasters ever since it was removed
It happened to youuu
Is FM Mangal still there, I can still remember the first time I ate their flatbread đ€€ Fuck now I'm getting nostalgic and looking up my old flat on street view
*silently making this face at you for four and a half minutes* đ
They should really call them unfoldable phones, that's the killer app
There's some good linguistics-focused YouTube Shorts content, that platform seems more forgiving of creators making informative videos for people interested in the subject instead of relentlessly trying to grab casual passers-by by the eyeballs
Again: Faith leaders *themselves* have long also criticized "thoughts and prayers" rhetoric â including leader's Leavitt's own Catholic tradition. Here are some examples from the past 24 hours, including a statement from Sisters of Mercy of the Americas (Catholic nuns) on the shooting.
First person to make a QR-code t-shirt that fries these things on sight gets all of my money
The "Labour say/do right wing stuff because they believe it" points have merit, but it seems more accurate that they believe in *nothing*, while having a comms team that's been cooked by papers and websites into believing that all voters, everywhere, are completely insane far-right freaks.
Almost certainly the best photo I will ever take from an Iron Age Hill fort of the sun setting over an estuary as summer segues majestically into autumn.
Is YOUR child Poesting? Know the signs: LMAO = Lacrimose Melancholy And Ornithology BRB = Bird Remains Bothersome PMSL = Primate Murderer, Sleuth Learns
one thing that makes my blood boil is ascending too quickly while scuba diving
How could Broken Sword, my source of all information about the Templars, have kept this from me
"Warning: wrong orifice detected. This is a health and safety risk not condoned by the Oral B company and constitutes a breach of warranty"
Levity before your day has a chance to become insufferable
Of course! Once you've paid for the uninstall (engineers are fully booked for the next 3 months) you can simply pay out the remainder of the year, or a one-off early cancellation charge. (...& naturally there's a noncompete clause saying you can't use a bed from another supplier for 12 months)
Jesus after coming back to Earth:
I'm sure we'll get to the point where all appliances have to be hardwired into the wall by a registered engineer For Safety ("can you believe they used to let regular people just stick metal prongs into a live circuit??") and to end your subscription you have to book someone to come and repossess it
We're living in a Douglas Adams novel. Always have been.
Pomegranate's whole vibe is that it needs another 20-40 thousand years of selective cultivation before it's a viable food for humans.
I assume the app just provides an interface (apparently the ONLY interface) to control heating & cooling settings. So he's not a cold [unheated] bed, he's in a cold [refrigerated] bed. (Why he can't simply pull the plug, on the other hand, is beyond me.)
Give people physical controls and they start asking awkward questions about what exactly they need the app for
Honestly an aquarium projection against the dark windows doesn't seem beyond the wit of man and would make the whole thing a bit of fun. Throw in some easter eggs from time to time, like sunken galleons and mermaids.
you could absolutely force every student from an art degree into a plumbing qualification and their salary would go up, but youâd also end up with a lot of very avant garde pipe work installation
Ice agent struck by sandwich seeks counseling, says he can't even walk through deli without fearing for his life and has been diagnosed with BLTSD
So I buy one book and hate it, and the author tracks me down three years later and says "here's the rest of the heptalogy you implicitly agreed to purchase", do I have any legal recourse or am I forced to honour the unspoken contract?
âgo in without knowing anything about itâ are the magic words to convince me to watch a movie
Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers
...is the answer "English with a Spanish accent"? Because if not I don't follow your point
I'd challenge him to count to 7
wandavision (2021):
That must be the place that coyote keeps stepping off cliffs and not immediately falling down, because they've exported too much of it.
What they can't imagine is another country being *subtly* different to the US. They have no frame of reference for what's a reasonable amount of variation to expect, so they flip from one extreme to the other. "Wait, it's legal for 18yos to drink?? ...do you still have like, gravity and stuff?"
I am a *lawyer who practices federal law.* Several times a week I see a headline that makes me think "there's no way the President can do that, right?" and I look into it and it turns out that maybe he can because Congress ceded some of its power in the What's the Worst That Could Happen Act of 1983
It is only sentimental American exceptionalism that makes what Trump is doing any different from "increasingly dictatorial president uses military to assert power in capital city".
another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.
Reporter: Hereâs that article, chief! Editor: Great! Weâre gonna slap a clickbait headline on this baby that is *insane.* People are gonna want to *kill* you! Reporter: (sigh) Well, I guess itâs worth it if they read it. Editor: Haha, donât worry, they wonât. Here, let me throw that away for you.
You just have to use Paste
Pilot found out the aliens had eaten his AI girlfriend and just ditched
Probably not news to you but I'll take any excuse to evangelise it:
According to the Canal and River Trust, which replaced British Waterways, BW âtried to put a positive spin on eventsâ by issuing a statement saying: âFor years there has been a history of leaks on this section of canal. Now we know where the water has been goingâ
Government: you need to arrest people with ~ninja weapons~ Police: Right well this guy has an inconspicuous bladed implement that, if discovered, could be plausibly denied as being a gardening tool Govt: Not like that!
"We no longer have a couch. Thereâs no room for any furniture in our apartment except the bed."
I imagine for his predecessors his entire tenure has been a series of
I *think* (but may be wrong myself, don't wanna get "incorrectly correcting people"d here) that the US system has defense attorneys and prosecutors as separate jobs, so someone who gets all their law knowledge from TV might just assume the same is true of barristers in the UK
I dare someone to reply to these guys with a deliberate misinterpretation of their argument and see how long it takes them to complain about the importance of reading comprehension
I will nobly be pissed off on peopleâs behalf. If you are selling A.I. images on kickstarter, you have removed yourself from the artistic gene pool. Creatively you are an evolutionary dead end. Youâre much worse than anyone who has an idea for art and does *nothing.* Youâre a net loss for culture.
Took me far too long to wrestle with "but why would a kid born this year be a teenager in 2041, that can't be ri--
This is one of those historical misconceptions that make it very difficult not to stray into "our ancestors were morons" hindsight bias territory "Where do the birds go???" "Well where did you see them last" "Flying south" "Ok, have you looked... south?"
"Is your cat adopted?" *Looking forlorn* My husband and I weren't able to conceive a cat naturally.
A lot of the time in fantasy when they say "direct descendant" it's pretty clear they're assuming that Magic and Destiny are for some reason inherited according to male-preference primogeniture, but even that excuse doesn't work when you're talking about literal fucking ADAM
I'm sorry is Google Translate lying to me or does that say "a direct descendent of Adam" Like... Adam Father of the entire human race Adam
If some Cockney music-hall performer didn't at some point do a satirical song titled "cat meat again" then my opinion of the Blitz Spirit has just declined
No, wait, I get it. Adolescence is all about safely practicing adulthood while still being a child; you get just *one* year with an insignificant birthday, in between two proper ones, to innoculate you against the sense of anticlimax you will later experience for whole decades at a time
Dare we ask what happened to you on your 14th birthday
This week, we tackle potty training, and our daughter tackles us right back, showing us what true will really looks like. observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Holding my face up to the camera to prove I should be allowed a ninja sword, realising too late I have failed the most basic test of the ninja
hey i just met you and youâre a white whale so hereâs my number and call me ishmail
Just signed up for anaerobics class
I love imagining a world in which Trump illegally takes power for a third term but follows the law in every other respect.
The idea that snakes were the enormous reptiles that ruled the world for millions of years, but they got turned into little slithery things as a punishment from God for their rebellion in Eden, is amazing. Also makes me picture a Tyrannosaurus tempting Eve. Just peeking slyly around a tree.
Like calling the cops for mental health crises, some people who've had broadly-positive life experiences with authority figures can genuinely think they're helping by getting them involved.
I think there's another thing that can happen that skirts somewhere between the two: Supervisor: any issues with the team? Worker: I think X and I have different working styles that can clash a bit [subtext: you're a manager; help us manage this.] S: Mhmm *writes down "X is A Problem"*
Christopher Nolan Plastic Man origin story
Perhaps it's a trite example but these people need to watch Inside Out. Yes it's a very blunt message pitched for children, but if your media literacy and emotional intelligence are *that* undeveloped, maybe that's your level?
I found the worst part of depression to be the suppression of emotion; things that made me feel actively sad, even burst out crying, helped to shake that up and remind me I was alive. Things that guide you through sadness and out the other side - ie most "depressing" fiction - are even better.
This is one of the best ideas I've heard in ages.
panic at nabisco
In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:
*Noir Private Detective Voiceover* I knew she was trouble as soon as she limboed into my office. She has legs for days, her right one stepped out of my life on Monday night and the left one didn't leave until Thursday lunchtime. bsky.app/profile/dyna...
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia write to your MPs.
Same thing happened with the Iraq War! So many savvy Responsible Adults later admitted it was a huge tragic mistake, but that somehow they were still right for supporting it when they did. Who did they still think WAS wrong, though? Those dumb filthy hippies who opposed it too early!
