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There's no point to these online spaces anymore. X is just filled with bots and Nazis, Instagram is mainly AI slop, narcissists, and entertainers pushing their brand. Facebook is unusable and BlueSky just about forbids any type of interaction. Maybe it's time I relearned how to read books/be bored.

I fucking hate all journal websites. Taxpayers funded most of the work published in these journals, yet accessing Springer Nature is like trying to hack into the Secret Service. "Login via your institution" 15 times, followed by 10k verification checks, FOR EVERY ARTICLE YOU WANT TO READ. WHY?

Lord help me, but I'm happy for him.

Listen, someone get the original negative and bury it in a field with three cowries, black soap and a goats horn. This is how we save the world!

JFC the centrist dads on here are the fucking worst.

My key takeaway from this is that his wife might be about to fire him...

drilling for more gas then telling us to stockpile because of the climate crisis is like digging a deeper and deeper hole because you know a guy who sells long ladders

Emery would last ten games.

That's so ludicrous. As far as I'm concerned that's like saying you've never heard of HTML.

You know the job that AI should really replace? Fucking project managers/scrum masters.

Petition to save Radio 4 Extra nears 2,500 signatures

Keep pushing this guys. The people who love this station the most probably aren't chronically online like we are so we need to spread this about a bit you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Given the prevalence if school shootings how come anyone can just walk into a school in the US? All of the schools I know have intercom access only.

Londoners! I've made a website that discovers everything going on in the physical world of London (talks, exhibitions, gigs, plays, etc.) and finds stuff it thinks you'll like. You teach it your interests by swiping events left or right. Decent recs after ~100 swipes. Check out realworld.events!

Omg. One of the things that absolutely infuriated me about Cal Newport's Deep Work book was the way he just casually blew off all collegiate activities. "I don't agree to be on committees, attend admin meetings or have corridor conversations". Cool story.

Microsoft Outlook is so shit. Why do we put up with it? For example, why can't I simply copy and paste a list of all my appointments/activities in my calendar? Why can't I just generate a list of free spots and send it to someone? What the fuck is that?

Is it a deliberate "Bread and Circuses" approach? Like, are they consciously trying to emulate governance from Ancient Rome? First the promise of $5000, now public executions and violence. They hold complete contempt for the electorate and humanity in general.

Hegseth says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be a public event

You know what's so fucking infuriating about this bullshit about the Greens "making themselves unelectable"? The idea that they were ever going to get a sniff of power anyway. Like, what delusional game are we playing? From the moment they emerged as a threat, the media went batshit smearing them.

The Chi. Seasons 1 and 2 are great. Season 3 is so-so, and by Season 4 it was unwatchable. Just had to give up.

I'm so confused. Doesn't this also apply to Zionism itself?

Comedy wildlife photography award finalists 2026 – in pictures

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The implicitly racist responses to this are quite something.

I see this video of a war-mongering, bloodthirsty sociopath shittalking while smiling that shit-eating grin and I'm, reminded of Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld and how absolutely nothing whatsoever happened to them. This guy talks like this because he knows he will never be punished.

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

Every single element of that Daily Mail front page is fucking repellant. From the concern trolling crap about Cindy Crawford son, to the intentional juxtaposition of the small boats story next to pictures of stoned faced Nadiya making Ed Sheeran cry. Absolutely appalling stuff.

The media decided to hype up Arsenal and talk about an invincible season just so they could write the first sentence in this article and crow about the loss. Just fuck off. Brighton demolish champions Arsenal 3-0 to mark anniversary in style www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...

I wrote this quickly at a bus stop and didn't realize it would go viral, or else I would have worded it better. But the point is that the media is too credulous about AI killing everyone in 10 years (how?) when climate change is killing people now and will only get worse (we know exactly how).

When these fellas talk about an extinction level threat from AI, they're not really talking about all of humanity are they? Like, outside of nukes, what are we really talking about? An existential threat to tech bros and the nerd oligarchy. That's who is in danger. The rest of us will be fine.

Fair play to Gustavo Dudamel, I don’t know any other conductors who could get to the final of a tennis grand slam #TheTennis

The "stop the boats" movement is being driven by the type of English suburban racist who thinks that one black family living in their street is one too many. Yes, it really is as simple as that, and it has been for decades. There is no intellectual depth to this stuff. It is pure, distilled hate.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Truly repellent shit from Emma Brockes in @theguardian.com. One imagines she distinguishes herself from some of the more spiteful columnists in The Times, Telegraph and Daily Mirror. But she's just as bad. Awful, compassion-free guff.

"Oh look, it's whatsherface from the 3rd floor. Gosh, she seemed so lovely and like she would be someone to hide me in her attic when the time came. Oh well". It is now my deep fear that one day soon I will recognise one of these people as a "corridor colleague" and I'll just have to resign.

When I was growing up there were kids who were so deeply stigmatised by racial hatred they'd say anything to distance themselves from their ethnicity. Braverman definitely told kids in the playground she didn't eat curry at home and that she had a white aunty. "We had bread and dripping for tea".

This is the key point. These "protesters" are effectively demonstrating their support for government policies. It's a rally not a protest. You don't arrest your supporters. In contrast, the government does oppose the views of pro-Palestinian protestors and people wanting to reduce GHG emissions.

It's the birthday of my 2nd book today. It's one year old! 🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/hist...

He shouldn't have cut his hair. Strong bald Drogba vibes here..

"We just don't have British resident donors, British entities, that would support us." Everything you need to know about Reform.