~daniel_barker~

Dear men: all my novels are tactical.

Oh yeah I live there

Chelsea should fuck off imo

I hope whoever's annotating my nudes doesn't have to rush to meet their nude KPIs. Just seems wasteful.

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair?”

Aussiemandias

Alex: Yes, but the task...

Odysseus: The task clearly said that nobody could help me.

Greg: That's one in the eye for you, Alex

Alex: Another one.

everyone has invisible struggles, like for example, I don't like the way my shirt feels

It would have been so easy, and probably expected, for Radcliffe to become a monster, or just another washed up and abandonded child star, but he really seems like one of the best people on the planet.

By the way that "Windows 12" article you've all seen? It's an awful clickbait website known for posting absolute bollocks and literally nobody else is reporting it. You can probably breath easy (or as easy as you can with Windows 11, suckers!)

1/ Experts issued some pretty dire warnings about Trumpian tariffs and Brexit, and the result was not nearly as bad as it could have been.

Now they're issuing dire warnings about Iran.

A much smarter friend asked me how I was thinking about the difference.

My short answer: control.

I was in the US last month and the relentless AI ads on TV there were beyond ridiculous. An absolutely constant bombardment, I didn't realise capitalism could look that desperate.

IPSO adjudicates, the correction/apology was inadequate, and somehow the Telegraph has still got away with failing to explain how it published this made-up story! 🙄

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

Greg: What was the wording on the task?

Alex: Make Achilles invulnerable by dipping him in the Styx. Most invulnerable Achilles wins.

Greg: Dip the baby. The whole baby. They’re not going to hang onto a heel or anything stupid like that.

Alex: First, let’s see Thetis’ attempt.

Sign saying ‘our bartenders are so light fingered they could be concert pianists’ Why, are they going to rob me?

I feel they have misunderstood this expression:

Icarus: Can I fly near the sun?

Alex Horne: All the information is on the task.

Do you remember when the American right talked incessantly about "Benghazi" for several years and it was meant to be extremely important for some reason. Anyway.

Christ

BBC News: Horse in stable condition after river rescue.

I see what they did there.

Sexism in space How should we represent humankind to aliens? With Pioneer 10 and 11, Nasa fell short. Next time, we must do better

More info here. (Post redone to correct typo). newhumanist.org.uk/articles/646...

At the time there was a massive argument about a tiny line on the picture of the woman. Depicting a "pudendal cleft" to possible aliens was deemed obscene and the single labial line Linda had drawn between the legs was eventually removed.

Twin Peaks logo, but it says TWON POOKS

Crabtree out of Allo Allo

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Made with real ingredients

Big if true

In which I reply to someone with a blacked out name that they are missing the joke and they inform me that in-jokes are virtue signals “used often by the far right.” Kinda want to frame it.

And they keep saying Bluesky doesn’t have the juice…

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

And this is obviously the nobler state, compared to posting at Musk Frequency or dabbling in Reply-Guymanship. But then the rest of us are doomed to nervously exist somewhere between those extremes, never quite posting the exact right amount. I find it stressful.

Evening