Like... why? They're so insipid and empty as politicians and as public figures, surely the only people who have strong positive feelings about them are the few rich people they're making richer
12.11.2025 12:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@nichsmith.bsky.social
Human liminal space, A&E doctor, professional autist London No TERFs, no SWERFs, no antivaxxers He/him ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Like... why? They're so insipid and empty as politicians and as public figures, surely the only people who have strong positive feelings about them are the few rich people they're making richer
12.11.2025 12:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I keep beating this drum: the kind of people one thinks of as Silicon Valley "techbro" are so often finance people with an engineering cosplay habit, not actual technologists
Elon Musk was famously *never* a good coder and I can't believe he ever scienced a rocket either. But he craves that respect
Jules Lรฉotard posing in a leotard.
166 years ago, on the 12th of November 1859, Jules Lรฉotard performed the first flying trapeze routine. The one-piece garment he invented was named after him. Lรฉotard had passed law exams at age 18 before becoming a professional gymnast and died at age 32, presumably due to smallpox. #otd #history ๐๏ธ
12.11.2025 08:12 โ ๐ 81 ๐ 21 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 4Rockefeller founded multiple universities
12.11.2025 11:18 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0All possessed by Thatcher's ghost
12.11.2025 10:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0the entirety of the british press talked themselves into believing this woman is trans based almost entirely on JK Rowling's judgement of the athlete's appearance.
11.11.2025 16:39 โ ๐ 3417 ๐ 883 ๐ฌ 29 ๐ 9Musk right now
11.11.2025 15:16 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This
11.11.2025 13:50 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all
11.11.2025 06:31 โ ๐ 8363 ๐ 2001 ๐ฌ 70 ๐ 58It worked for the Witcher
11.11.2025 13:03 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Lily Allen:
11.11.2025 12:36 โ ๐ 119 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0HEADLINE: CREATIVE WORKS CAN NO LONGER BE MINED BY AI WITHOUT CONSENT IN AUSTRALIA NEW REGULATIONS PROTECT ARTISTS' RIGHTS IN THE AGE OF AI
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
Quote with an iconic fictional band
11.11.2025 12:32 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0There are no trade unions in the fully automated communist utopia? Elon, there's no *trades* there, in the Culture, everything is a hobby
11.11.2025 11:34 โ ๐ 28 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Real men read Wilfred Owen and Oscar Wilde, confirmed
11.11.2025 11:30 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Kim Davis: Have you seen Battlefield Earth?
Her barber: Say no more
The fact that Elon completely snapped because JCO said he's a weird little guy with no human interests is so funny.
It's like if someone posted "Peter Thiel will never serve cunt" and he spent the next week unconvincingly replying "slay" to drag queens
A woman standing in her kitchen. She is taking a photo of herself and her boyfriend who is just a circulatory system. The text reads: It is November 10th now. Your circulatory system boyfriend stands by your pan in the kitchen. Unattended cooking is the number one cause of home fires. There are more home fires on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. Always stand by your pan.
Today.
10.11.2025 16:12 โ ๐ 1950 ๐ 586 ๐ฌ 35 ๐ 43He doesn't even do the sex, he just wants to see the number rise
10.11.2025 19:13 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
John Travolta in Battlefield Earth
Kim Davis: Have you ever seen Battlefield Earth
Barber: Say no more
all my core arguments in one case:
1. the modern far right has international ambitions
2. concessions don't pacify the far right, they embolden it
3. you can't be neutral (as the bbc tried to be)
4. they attack where resistance is weakest
5. right now, that's the uk
it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
10.11.2025 14:55 โ ๐ 562 ๐ 108 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 1A lot of money to pay for a Spirit Hallowe'en mask
10.11.2025 14:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A lot of money to pay for a Spirit Hallowe'en mask
10.11.2025 14:58 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Mama mia!
10.11.2025 14:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Finally, private equity did something good
10.11.2025 14:10 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Funko is dying
Repost to make it die faster