Walt Rizzney

Walt Rizzney

@cullobsidian.bsky.social

You all know why we’re here. @thecullobsidian over at the bad place. Addiction psychologist, assistant psychologist and therapist on an addiction ward. Just like you imagined.

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FAT BEAR WEEK FAT BEAR WEEK

Flake Food@flakefood.bsky.social

‘Backpack’ wins Fat Bear Week at Alaska’s Katmai National Park https://www.flakefood.com/922665/backpack-wins-fat-bear-week-at-alaskas-katmai-national-park-6/ (TNND) — Maybe it was beginner’s luck or family genes, but Fat Bear Week has a new champion: 89 Backpack. The competition rookie and son …

The state of someone being technologically savvy and online enough to write in to *checks notes* fesshole and yet hasn’t set up a one button enable VPN.

fesshole 🧻@fesshole.bsky.social

Although I'm a perfectly legal adult in my 30s, I used my brother's identity to verify my age on Pornhub. I don't want the government or the data companies knowing my weird kinks.

So just so we’re on the same page: Does Belgium battering the USA go any way to wiping their ledger clean of the whole “let’s keep African people in human zoo exhibit until 1958” (yes you read that right, 1958) Either way I think it’s going to take more than a football tournament for Rwanda.

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#CatsNotNigelFarage This is Zulu, she is available for adoption at Devon Cat Centre. She feels our pain, clearly

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The equivalent of a congressional district has just elected a candidate from a party roughly comparable to the DSA. Does that really qualify as “insane” versus, y’know, the events on any given day in US politics right now?

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social

Honest question: why are UK politics so insane? Obvious glass houses situation, so, yes, stipulated but what gives?

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They all thought we were a small-minded racist little backwater who'd bow down to their hateful rhetoric with little effort on their part. They expect a fight in Brighton Pavilion, they never thought they'd have to fight in Gorton. They were so wrong.

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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

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‘We left with all of my children’ is a hell of a sentence, whilst giving evidence about the president’s mate, isn’t it.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island? LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children

McSweeny resigning is the best thing that could happen to this country right now. I don’t care if Starmer becomes a lame duck, at least we won’t get policies that will hand Reform the election

Like, what's frustrating about Morgan McSweeney more than anything is he is just really, really obviously a massive prick. If you had a workmate like him, you'd hate him. If he was your relative, you'd hate him. If you saw him in a pub, you'd hate him instantly. He just absolutely radiates it.

As much as I don’t like Corbyn, McSweeny was the architect of his ousting, the whole antisemitism witch hunt against him and stacking the party against anyone to the left of Blair that isn’t on the backest of backbenches. He has been, from the start, a detriment to society. Just go and be a Tory.

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I'm gonna have a big ol bag of chips and I don't look and sound like a desiccated meatball trying desperately to speak human English so whose diet is really working here?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."

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Apple Music pays around $50 million annually to sponsor the Super Bowl Halftime Show. The NFL pays the performers $1,246 for the performance, the minimum allowable SAG rate for theatrical performances. I love how that's considered peak success in the music industry. 🫠

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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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It is ALWAYS a mechanical turk, it is ALWAYS human beings being pressured to do more work for less wages. Every single goddamn time.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

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Gonna stop looking at the Epstein Files in a second because I'm frankly way too skeeved out to keep going but I will say this: the CSAM isn't blacked out nearly enough while the faces of guys in ties are obscured by vanta black rectangles the size of the sun.

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Almost a year into this presidency, Trump voters have gotten nothing except the Big Beautiful Bill, which was usual Republican politics of giving tax cuts to the rich and slashing social spending for the poor. Housing remains unaffordable, cost of living is rising, and manufacturing jobs fell.

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At 1pm Trump is going to run an informercial about Trump approved pharmaceuticals being sold at a discounted price to you his adoring public, hint: it'll all be shit his sponsors are creating and they'll be rigging the system to force you to purchase them.

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING. How he lasted longer than Brand is beyond me. (It’s not, he had super-injunctions) couldn’t have happened to a more odious man and literally the worst kept secret in creative media

Interesting the section on how he used to have a routine on the Little Britain tour that involved sexually assaulting teenage boys picked from the crowd has been scrubbed from Wikipedia now. #DavidWalliams

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"[Workers at major companies] are asking, why do I have to use something that doesn't work? Well it's because capitalism demands eternal growth. Milton Friedman's ghost haunts every trader, Ronald Reagan pops out of the toilet every so often, this is what we do here." Love the mental imagery.

Ed Zitron@edzitron.com

Spoke with Times Radio about the AI bubble, and how I think it might be bigger and uglier than the dotcom bubble (though the after-effects will be...different) youtu.be/C35bMFVDrlo

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JFC all these guys are megalomaniacal weirdos…we need to remove billionaires from the planet like we would termites or roaches from a building.

Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social

Factory farming humans — one more reason there should be no billionaires “Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them” www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...

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You don't have to blame antisemitism on the pronouncements of Zionists. You really don't. It doesn't make you seem politically attuned to the plight of Palestinians. It just makes Jews question whether you actually care about antisemitism at all outside of being labelled an antisemite.

This isn’t just a Bad Idea, it’s a mutilation of the human condition. Putting aside the fact that it isn’t your grandmother, the fact we are impermanent is what makes our lives worth living. You’re not only not accepting your loss and moving through grief, you’re wallowing in it perpetually.

The Independent@the-independent.com

IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?

To quote Yoda ‘Death is a natural part of life’. Although ironically, your dead relative is still alive. Everyone and everything is. Einstein’s block diagram of the universe requires it, and that model is the thing that makes relativity work. The past is out there. Physically. We just can’t see it

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I can't wait for the new movie of Kafka's Metamorphosis starring the cast of A Bug's Life.

Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social

First trailer for Andy Serkis’ ‘ANIMAL FARM’ has dropped. In theaters May 1. #AnimalFarm #AndySerkis