Ed Stern

Ed update: HeroicWife still astounds, SmolDottir teaches us new things every day. My dear old mum is exiting slowly. My health hasn’t been magnificent but all in all I have very little to complain about. Oh, and the state of the games industry being what it is, I’m retraining as a podiatry nurse.

Would book them immediately.

QWOP but it's every continuous parameter in an sdf randomly mapped to some buttons

This is just the maddest argument. These people would trap us in poverty to keep a decade old commitment, which no one ever actually made, to an electorate which no longer exists.

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

Exactly right. It's why the idea of "UK PLC" was so grotesque - as if a nation was just a limited company, that could be wound up, taken over, merged or dissolved, with no roots in the past and no responsibility to the future.

Claude, why do I like my kid?

This is not a "you didn't KNOW?" post because I truly envy and respect anyone unaware of Linehan's output BUT he's been EXTREMELY racist for years now. Attacking black actors on his wife's show Motherland as diversity hires; podcast screeds about muslims in Ireland; delighting in Palestinian deaths.

I took this after walking the bridge during the No Kings protest back in March. The patina on the bronze is regal, speaks to their history, dedicated in '51. The original estimate for this gaudy gilding was $2.4m. It actually cost $5.1m in a no-bid contract.

you know, i think this guy might be bad at the law bsky.app/profile/atru...

I have so much rage right now toward the fact that in this capitalist hellscape we live in, vulnerable people who need psychiatric care the most cannot afford it.

We were too spineless to regulate these billionaire freaks, so now one of them gets to decide whether Ukrainian drones can catch the missiles aimed at Ukrainian kids. We have failed spectacularly.

RTing this because it’s so damn good.

Guillermo Del Toro dropping another one liner that’s exactly how I feel about AI slop, the “punishment” is built in

We have CANCER VACCINES. Fucking CANCER VACCINES. We have AIDS TREATMENTS. AIDS IS NO LONGER A DEATH SENTENCE. IN MY LIIFETIME. FUCK.

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

Check out how easy this is.

Trump and Musk have given the best reason why not to buy American. Customers - governmental and private alike - around the globe will take note of this and act accordingly, and I wouldn't be surprised if this won't be limited to US military products only. Alternatives are now national security!

“the serene confidence of someone who has never doubted a podcast.” This is Ferocious and Excellent.

The New Racism is just as serious in its potential impact as the old, but it is far, far, far, FAR more stupid. 'The calibre of racist has gone sharply downhill' sounds like it should be the start of a joke, but it is also: just demonstrably true!

A weird change that has taken place in my lifetime is that in the past, British racists were aware of what mixed-race people were and were furious about it, as opposed to the New Racism, which frequently seems actively confused by the birds and the bees.

I remember many yrs ago one of my regular customers asked another of my regular customers "I seen you in Shields th other day with a couple of [racial slur] teenagers, what was that about that?" And the other guy replied "Do you mean my fucking grandchildren?" Never seen a man visibly shrink so fast

Ohhh I’m stealing that distinction.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

I'm guessing it has almost no effect on diesel prices because the quantities involved are so small, but if anything a small negative effect [supply increased for a given demand]. But it is a small subsidy for the Russian war effort.

“I meant any questions about the job.”

Who else is going to raise her two children to become future grifters? Apparently, the doc and many people discussing her now seem to forget the guy she drove to suicide and the patients who received false diagnoses from the bullshit machine. Collateral damage exists outside of a movie screen.

i think people seriously overcomplicate chili. it really only involves three ingredients: water, beans and msg. if there are any foods you’re allergic to, throw some of that in for some added zing. don’t heat the pot. don’t be performative

did this for the first time last fall—I moved some of my perennial containers where I raked the leaves under a tree (not too close to the trunk), insulating them. not only did we get some forgotten bulbs popping up under in early spring, we had no aphids this year and lots more moths and fireflies.

Thank you. Here's an example of one of the correct versions: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

marine corps boards crossing out their instructions "expel trans marines" and writing in "we keep this trans marine" is, frankly, a great example of what it means that a society is more than just its government

The true LGBTQ+ agenda.