Agree to disagree 🍊🍊🍊

… and then the agent says, “wow that’s quite an act, but what do you call it?”

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

"Much of this material consisted of outright falsehoods – e.g. the widely circulated animation alleging that Hamas operated a command centre beneath Al-Shifa Hospital. No such facility was found, but it was used to destroy almost the entire healthcare system in Gaza" www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

Don't worry guys, we can push bluesky left after it wins the election

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Yousef Munayyer: "People are hoping this is the end of the genocide.. the world is relying on a convicted felon in the White House to ensure that an indited war criminal that leads the Israeli govt is going to do the right thing.. I'm sceptical that it moves beyond the first phase"

So much of the "OMG young uns don't party anymore" discourse never really grapples with how much more expensive it is for young uns to party than it was a decade ago

Psychoanalysing your dreams by looking up the recurring motifs on TV Tropes.

I write full time largely because of one thread about getting high with the Irish president. As cringe as it is to admit, my entire life has been massively enhanced by Twitter and ketamine over precisely the same time that those two things have proven less beneficial for Elon Musk.

Genocide supporter lecturing people on morality

You have been aiding and abetting a genocide for two years, you gray-scale printout of a human being.

You get to lecture precisely *nobody* on what's morally right or wrong. Double fuck you.

Ad hominem is a specific type of informal logical fallacy. Namely attempting to refute an argument on the basis that the person is, say, stupid or untrustworthy.

Being called "a fucking dunce" is a personal insult. Direct insults are not examples of ad hominem fallacies you fucking dunce

just ad hominem’d your dad

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money. https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491 Quote Corey Walker @CoreyWriting · 16h The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

yes my horse’s name is “grab an officer’s service weapon” and yes i do intend to enter him into the kentucky derby

As fucking atrocious as western coverage of the genocide in Gaza has been, the accompanying ecocide in both Gaza and the West Bank has gone almost totally unacknowledged. Palestinians have cultivated these trees for generations. The oldest tree in Palestine could be up to 5,000 years old.

The Bluesky user base would rather read David Graeber than read Jay Graber.

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

This is fantastic news for Irish artists. The key thing now is that the scheme remains randomly allocated, rather than decided by some committee of govt-appointed gatekeepers.
It also begs the question, if Basic Income works for artists, why not extend it to everyone?
www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

screencap of Groundskeeper Willie in the Simpsons yelling ‘MY RETIREMENT PARASITISM!!

‘left’ commentators when you suggest phasing out private landlords

The auto companies are going about this all wrong. I don’t want to haul shit around. I want a tiny little one seat car with a horn that goes honk honk beep beep, I want it to run off a nine volt battery, and I want it to come with a fez

Courageous political leadership means telling an audience what they don't want to hear. Zack Polanski will never do that.

Or is it that I'm saying things the Telegraph doesn't want to hear?

I suggest they might want to avoid our Party Broadcast this evening!

As a big fan of revenge and holding grudges I have thoroughly enjoyed the last two days. 16 years and then ending somebody's presidential hopes. Delicious

Correct

I am hearing that on her deathbed Jay Graber received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Has he ever been wrong? No!

Bluesky in a nutshell

Greta Thunberg in Greece:

I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me, but that is not the story.

“My government has a relentless focus on looking after British citizens. Unless you’re kidnapped at sea, in which case good fucking luck I guess LOL”

Microsoft has taken a gradual approach to adding Al elements to Excel, particularly because the data it handles powers some of the most important parts of businesses worldwide. "[Agent Mode] lets you build sheets that are auditable, refreshable, and verifiable," Chauhan says. "We have spent a ton of time making sure that the validation loop on all of these sub-agents is pretty tight." Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an Al model's ability to edit real world spreadsheets. This result places Agent Mode above Shortcut.ai, ChatGPT agent with xIsx support, and Claude Files Opus 4.1. It's still behind the human accuracy of 71.3 percent, though.

there’s only like two sentences between “excel is incredibly important to worldwide business” and “we have a 57% accuracy rate”! What are we doing!

Just in case it’s helpful: Here’s Trevor’s response to the huge far right march the other month, which he did not at all consider to be intimidating or illegitimate. Quite the opposite.