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AI Pioneer Noel Cluett recalls he needed to sign a summer camp permission slip. Cluett consulted EmpathGPT where he keeps family details, and the AI informed him it was Oliver’s school that required the slip. Daughter Bec Cluett says “Dad’s fuckin cooked, he’s been calling us all Oliver for weeks”

The investigative tale of a hunt for the origin of the term Mullet to refer to a hairstyle is a wild ride. The Mullet, Hockey hair, The ape drape, Cultural memory, The Beastie Boys, the OED, Reddit, Photoshop, Street Machine Magazine and Willa Paskin all in one. slate.com/podcasts/dec...

A spoon is just a very tiny bowl with a reeeeally long handle.

Sent by my bestie. Whoa.

Bugs would approve! 🥕

Today is #IntersexAwarenessDay and the 30th anniversary of the first major public intersex demonstration in North America.

#Wiktionary #WOTD for 26 October 2026: “intersex”—“of an individual: having any of a variety of inherent conditions in which one’s sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male or female; (uncountable) the condition of being intersex; (countable) one with such a condition; […]” w.wiki/ewwh

Fender 601 Power Bass.

I am doing less today than most of the previous days post-infection. But the excellent thing is I’m not fatigued or drained or lacking energy or hurting. I just wanna sit and scratch my belly. It’s really fucking nice folks to choose to do fuck all, and a lot of it in a row.

This MCA terminal server card has a connector so absurd I thought it was a @nanoraptor.danamania.com special

little-known fact: the worst video game ever, E.T., was even more difficult to play on the HP LaserJet.

may you live long enough to see your childhood's packaging aesthetic fall back into favor

Wait, wait, hold up a second. I just found out that lemons are not a natural fruit but a deliberately cultivated hybrid between citron and a bitter orange. Guys! Life didn't give us lemons we made them ourselves!

Ford Ranger WildMac

Echidna!

Trans femmes on estrogen: if you feel you are having "a really bad period" every month, that may be a hormonal fluctuation like menstruation, but it's also possible you are developing endometriosis, which high estrogen levels worsen. Get that checked out, endometriosis likes to destroy your organs.

Who among us didn't have a Giger style phase? Attachment I

Is this car creepy or wet? Yes

“Look yeah there’s a problem… my new car’s been making a sort of whining noise, sometimes a low moaning and there’s the sound of sloshing” “That can be gears bedding in and just air in the coolant moving. What speeds does it mostly happen at?” “Mostly In the garage, motionless. at 3am”

Do not attempt to puncture or feed, or make eye contact with, the Supplemental Restraint Organ.

I’d definitely not crash because I’m not sure what might deploy instead of the airbag.

the Lancia Trevi was getting there on that front

More cars should have had interiors designed by HR Giger.

Imagine the UIs if vehicles in the 1990s had large colourful LCDs Kai’s Power Stroke Turbo Diesel.

Nice try, but this is what it actually looked like.

Ford Ranger WildMac

Something about existing in the world as a trans woman. *Anything* we do can be interpreted by *someone* as some kind of Weird Sexual Thing. Clothes, hair, hobbies, bodily functions, ordinary pleasures.

Macintosh Quadra 605

Chibi cenobites of the order of the Plush. We have such comforts to show you.

Morning people things. 5:22am: no birds. 5:34am: that one bird 5:50am: DAWN CHORUS OP. 1 ALLEGRO CON SHOUTING