Lauren Ashpole

ladies, is your programming - a field dominated by rich white men - driven by fashion trends - practiced as a demonstration of status - funded by vanity projects for failsons - filled with queers trying and failing to break even that's art, sorry

Sarah on Love is Blind is doing the Lord’s work patiently explaining toxic masculinity and vaccines and abortion to these men

try this handy mnemonic, it’s so simple

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Ludwig is back

If I got voted out of the Traitors as a faithful I’d be so bitter. My speech would be mean and petty. I’d keep it going on socials after the season.

Me, talking about Cursor at a work drinks event and realizing it’s time to cut myself off

If the White Sox win the World Series, I will be forced the concede that Catholicism is correct. I’m not one of those Game of Thrones characters that watches a red priestess do magic and keeps worshipping the Seven.

That Traitors cast reveal knew exactly what it was doing starting with some pretty meh choices but then ending with THE HOBBIT FROM LOST!!

The Mets should try to get Pete Alonso back. Do some groveling. Offer him way more money than if they’d just re-signed him to begin with.

“Chinga la migra, which for the non-Spanish speakers in the audience, means ‘we find ICE’s activities to be problematic’”

It brings me no pleasure to report that doing your physical therapy home exercises will actually make your knee hurt less

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I was already loving Slow Horses and now Gaius Baltar is there too

Watching the Odyssey and imagining Jason Mantzoukas reading the line “Who is that bird?! I will throttle it!”

I was made to sit at home for a full year solving mysteries with amateur genealogy and the 90s internet

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

Was just listening to Temptation and had to find this to repost it.

Baseball teams shouldn’t be allowed to trade guys during the season

Obama Era Law & Order is the worst era of Law & Order

Great performance by new Mets pitcher young Peter Gallagher

One weird thing about flying lately is the flight attendant will announce: “We are going through severe turbulence. It is very dangerous. You must remain in your seat for your own safety” and half a dozen other passengers are like “Time to take a fucking walk."

After a week of doctors’ appointments, I can report that non-software people do not seem too impressed with AI. My physical therapist compared it to a slot machine and the nurse at my allergist’s office is loudly listening to Better Offline.

Trump: "There are no autistic people over seventy." Me: "The first Nero Wolfe novel came out in 1934."

I like that Charlotte Brontë was basically telling a soapy saga about how the world is a hard and complicated place and sometimes Shit Happens, and Jane Austen is just like, “I’ve met the worst and simultaneously most boring people you can imagine. Hunker down, let me tell you all about them.”

I demand updates on the comptroller race

Little Bosses Everywhere is such a great read. Plus, there’s a surprising chapter where Bill Ackman is almost the good guy before it gets too hard and he gives up.

I’ve been obsessed with the reflecting pool story as a break from all the higher stakes, extremely depressing news and these photos of the guy who owns the contracting company are *chef’s kiss*

It’s boring to think about whether you could make The Office today. The answer is too obviously yes. I want to know if you could make Superstore today or would the bosses shut it down?

guy who's really into scaffolding logging on to bluesky for the first time tonight: holy shit

As someone who doesn’t usually watch basketball, why do all the refs look like a cross between Joe Rogan and the observers from Fringe?

I’m not sure if YouTube is a positive force on the whole. On the one hand, I can find old episodes of the Critic. On the other hand, my mom is learning about the new quantum physics “they” don’t want you to know about.

I don’t care about the fallout, it’s always funny when bad things happen to Trump’s enablers. John Cornyn losing. James Comey’s legal harassment. It’s all very, very funny.

Maybe this is correlation and not causation but I’ll never forgive the AI for what it did to Code Nation

I’m a single issue voter and that issue is no taxpayer money for Supreme Court security

This is paywalled and I can’t read it so I’m just gonna assume the answer is yes

anyone who attended that WHCA dinner is an embarrassment, and current events have not changed this