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"Keep Smiling, never mind the bills" — Jacques Browne, 1904

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

Computer, generate me a corridor

"snowpiercer is trying to say that class societ-" WRONG, snowpiercer is saying that it even in the worst circumstances that it kicks ass to be on a train

Almost two years since my genius mind got myself locked out of my discord account. At least they'll delete it soon and I can start again

*Sitting down backward on chair* Now, we have a lot of fun on bluesky dot social *stops* *thinks for a minute* w Wait, actually I'm not sure that's true

Kicking off my holiday by immediately losing a bag. Living the high life over here, seething like nobody's business

Cannot say I'm a fan of the UKs weekly mass gatherings of racists. The temperature is constantly being raised and it cannot end well

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

Watched sunset boulevard and now the only thing I want to do is the hammy Hollywood voice darling!

🚨🆕 @wearequeeraf.com and @whatthetrans.com can reveal that the NHS has cancelled all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of the Welsh Gender Service Some trans patients received the news just days or even hours before they were due to take place 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/nhs-cancels-...

this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Some Roman kid dunking on his Christian classmate, 1-3c "Alexamenos worshipping his god"

the British press hounds people to their death on a semi regular basis and i think perhaps we should stop them doing that

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

very early 1900s colonialism as a way to annex Greenland, plus Dr. Phil is involved too for some reason? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

sorry this is pretty funny in a bleak gallows humor sort of way

FIFA is short for Final Fantasy

Have you noticed an opaqueness to the blue sky this morning? Wildfire smoke from North America is drifting south across the UK, meaning the clear skies may not be as blue as you might expect 🌤️

A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org

The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.

the thing about llms is that they copy old work and have no ability to intentionally pursue lateral leaps of creative insight, so a world ruled by ai is a world of endless recycling of the past. imagine that. culture eating itself. imagine that. totalitarian nostalgia. imagine

Myself and @vongnome.bsky.social are working on a project and we're looking for zines that were made around 2014 (or the mid 2010s) that were in response to or reference gamergate, or mention the concept of "the gamer" in some way. Let me know if you have any leads on this!

Nothing like starting a bit of poetry, checking the testimonials and realising most of it is going over my head. Big fool hours over here

John Lanchester reviewed George Cottrell’s book, 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘰 𝘓𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺: 𝘈 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘓𝘢𝘸 𝘌𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳𝘴,in the 𝘓𝘙𝘉 in May. Read here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

Day 3: Gashed leg on language laboratory console podium.

On my way to my first ever cycling event and just witnessed a couple trying to fit their tandem bike into a tiny ScotRail train. 10/10 so far

reading an academic paper

Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.

via "jester"

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

"Security through obscurity" I mutter after producing yet another unrecognisable sketch

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

I will say one advantage of genAI phenomenon is that it's made it easier to tell which people I know are Evil.

Whiz is not a french villiage and cheese whiz is not a cheese.

‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU