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Good gods, absolutely fucking not

Screenshot of an interview on NPR's website with writer David Simon. SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think AI can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

This is the only correct response.

Creatives who use AI to replace the work of other creatives are class traitors without souls. You are not entitled to have things just because you want them, especially when those things you want put other people in the poorhouse. I'd rather die.

Micheál Martin to declare: "we may not like it, but we NEED pedophile billionaires to INVEST in the market."

I will say it is kind of weird how high profile transphobes who are Just Very Concerned About The Safety Of Children universally tend to have at most 2 degrees of separation from Jeffrey Epstein

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

The AI dorks have no ideas. They don't understand or appreciate art. They have nothing to say.

$30,000. Imagine what any of your favorite creative minds on Bsky who struggle to sell enough things to make rent every month could do with $30k given to them to make something from their hearts.

Gods, I used to do brunch with friends so much back in the city. Well, sometimes we called it "drunk at breakfast" but either way it was a great way to pass time.

Yeah. I don't do magical thinking. Someone on my comments on the LinkedIn was like "I don't understand the doomers". And I just thought, it's not speculative doom, it's the actual present harms. If there weren't so many actual material harms to point to, I'd be like sure FAFO.

trump looking like he had a stroke that paralyzed part of his face

there's a very good chance that when trump dies, you won't find out through the news but through an imgflip meme or a dark joke.

so, make em count when it happens because your MS Paint png of the president dying on the toilet will be the walter kronkite interrupting the program of someone's life.

In case you missed Neilly and I's livestream, we're MOVING! To Cork! We're ridiculously excited, its a new start in a place that will be hopefully more forgiving than our very rural (and apparently very transphobic) area. We are trying to raise enough money to help with moving expenses.

"Blocking me for harassing you on your site is criminal activity and I've reported you" is such a This Moment in America post. Really an all-timer.

This kind of talk will only result in Mom & Pop landlords fleeing the market.

To be fair, the government made no secret of it being intensely comfortable with economically motivated JRs from developers.

For example the likes of daa plc, cairn and Glenveagh are serial litigants but never once criticised

I guess I shouldn't be surprised that his gross little paedophile circle would be involved in the housing crisis.

I wonder what excuses the government figures of the time will try.

Poster from when Ireland played Israel in 2005

Remember, BlueSky's own data shows that 100% of rude labels are manually applied so it's only polite to manually turn off the label so you can see the best posters again

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org Many so-called GC feminists just don't care. I had drinks last summer - with someone very prominent - and I told her of those trans kids who *to my knowledge* had killed themselves and she said, casually, 'well, I'm not surprised, they are all mentally ill.' This is not a movement of kindness. /7 17:55 • 16 May 2025

GCs are psychopathic.

i’ve gotten the rude label multiple times for telling aggressive transphobes things like “fuck off.”

you have @jay.bsky.team gleefully mocking people, stancil saying he’ll end people, jesse pedophile guy threatening people, and bsky rolls out the “rude,” label *only* for snarky trans girls

Why is that family famous, guys?

WHAT IS THAT FAMILY FAMOUS FOR MOTHERFUCKERS

oh NOW they want a two-tier marriage system

HELLO I WAS A QUEER TEEN IN THE 1990s AND THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST SOCIAL TRANSITION NOW ARE INDISTINGUISHABLE FROM THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST "LETTING" US BE (at the time, for me) GAY OR LESBIAN THEN.

They all rest on the belief that it's inherently better to be straight (then)/cis (now) and that's BS.

Oh, of course it's the paedophile family

One of the most concise and straightforward explanations of neoliberalism I've seen. Described in a UK context, but anyone in Ireland will recognise the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael playbook here too #spéirgorm

Toby the Tram from Thomas the Tank Engine

trams people

FedEx deletes Jeffrey Epstein account records The Ditch revealed last week that it gained access to the account.

FedEx has deleted invoices from Jeffrey Epstein’s shipping account showing it was used long after his death. 

The account was used as recently as summer 2024 – despite Epstein’s death in 2019.

www.ontheditch.com/fedex-delete...

Way to instantly negate your "Empowering education & training across Longford and Westmeath. Supporting students, staff, & communities to thrive. 🌟" mission statement lads. Smooth.

Another course called "Enhancing Productivity with AI For Business"

Oh they went all in. "What better way to help people than to teach them to sign away all their critincal thinking to the plagiarism slop machine that will absolutely end in multiple lawsuits"