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waking up zzz-w-what?! where am i? you're in the trolley problem! i thought i would be the one operating the lever... no, that's someone else @alexkrokus

Yep

Wait, Britain has politics as well?? Christ, when will it end

“You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have...”
“We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe.”
“Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust...”

John Davidson Gives First Interview and Explains Tourette’s Tics After Shouting N-Word and Other Slurs at BAFTAs: ‘I Felt a Wave of Shame’ (EXCLUSIVE) John Davidson's explains Tourette's tics and the BAFTA N-word incident in his first exclusive interview with Variety.

Okay please read this, it basically says everything I have been trying to explain but in the words of the man who is actually at the center of all of this

A cartoon of a rather menacing Dublin seagull. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art

There seems to be some sort of psychological warfare going on between Dubs and their seagull neighbours. Was waiting for a Luas over the weekend where a huge gull was pacing up and down the tracks and a woman beside me hissed at her young daughter "Whatever you do, do NOT make eye contact with him."

Until we have publicly owned and/or deeply regulated social media platforms this is going to keep on happening. Global information systems disrupted and corrupted due to the self-interest and capriciousness of narcissistic billionaires.

Such social media companies are not, and have never been, a “public forum”. They are privately owned networks that have a single priority: harvesting profits. Primarily from selling their users’ information to those who which to target them. Everything else is secondary.

If you’re verified or thinking of getting verified on LinkedIn please read this. LinkedIn is a VLOP.

HT @simonelinke.com

I fall into category a & b

A namebadge reading ‘Marc’ with the Blackboard Jungle logo.

A further discovery when clearing stuff.

I’m willing to bet that a high enough proportion of #spéirghorm users are a.) the right age and b.) quiz nerds that they may also have had one of these.

A comic of a bird singing about somebody eating their babies, and a crow responding that they did and they'd do it again. And below them, it is a man listening to a cd of their conversation entitled "relaxing bird sounds"

When I hear lovely birdsong in the morning, I remember this comic and laugh

A single panel cartoon. Moominpapa leans over a newspaper on a table, holding an empty glass. Snufkin is seated on the opposite side of the table, head in hands, puffing on his pipe disconsolately. Moomonpapa says to Snufkin: 'Tell us all that'a happening out in the world!' Snufkin replies: 'Fuss and misery..'

Mood

“The definition of homeless as extended to people born here is completely different than what we have for asylum-seekers,” says Daly. For asylum seekers, the law only accepts them as homeless if they have no roof at all over their heads – no matter what the kind of accommodation – and the government has never offered them any, he says. How the government defines homelessness – and who it counts as homeless – among those who live in Ireland and aren’t seeking asylum is also problematic. But in a different way. The Housing Act 1988 says that a person is considered homeless if, in the council’s opinion, there is no accommodation they can reasonably be expected to live in. If they live in a hospital or emergency shelter, for example, they are considered homeless, it says, and if they can’t provide for themselves out of their own resources. Housing-rights charities have said that gives councils ultimate discretion to judge whether someone is homeless or not, and they can judge wrongly or push back against providing accommodation. Daly also says that another difference between asylum seekers and others is that turning down an offer of accommodation is not an option for those who want to challenge the government in court over homelessness.

Sharing this again from a story I did a few years ago as a new court ruling has unleashed a torrent of false narratives about asylum-seekers being treated better than Irish citizens on the right to accommodation:

Me: I don't like American exceptionalism.

Americans: HOW DARE YOU. WE ARE VERY EXCEPTIONAL.

I'm not in the UK but horrified by this story

Gallup reported in February 1965 that, when asked about the Civil Rights Act specifically, 42% overall believed the federal government was moving too fast in guaranteeing "Negro" voting rights and the right of "Negroes" (the term used in the question) to be served in public places such as restaurants, hotels and theaters, while just 25% thought it was not moving fast enough.

ah the always noble voters www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

"From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Joscha Bach
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016
re taboo , maybe climate change is a good way of dealing with overpopulation. the earths forest fire. potentailly a
good thing for the species".. 1/2

BBC News screenshot with the subtitle "Welcome to the year of the whores. People around the globe celebrate..."

Happy 12-year anniversary to my favourite broadcast subtitle mistake

And a happy year of the whores to you all

No need to apologise to me. I found it very funny but realise they wouldn't make some of those jokes now

Sky looking south west with dawn sun lighting up the stratocumulus clouds from below

Quite the sky this morning. Even better it’s not raining (yet …)

Watched Murder by Death recently & enjoyed it but definitely not politically correct by today's standards!

A large Regency house. Two sisters named Emilia and Charlotte talk on an upper floor. "Mister Blackwell has come to call again." says Emilia as she looks out of the window "Oh, how I despise his uncouth manners and electric bicycle!" Charlotte says "Sister, you will end up a spinster if you insist on a historically accurate suitor." and continues "The romance novel has changed, Emilia, and so must we." Emilia replies "Easy for you to say. You are engaged to the richest werewolf in the county!" They are walking through the house. Charlotte says "Look at Cousin Lucy: She is quite plain, yet made a most advantageous match with the dragon queen of nalthrax." "True." says Emilia opening the door. The tall, solid figure of Miuster Blackwell stands at the door wearing a top hat and tailcoat: "Ladies, I triumphed In my ice hockey match and won ten thousand a year in sponsorship! Miss Emilia, will you be my bride?" he is holding a hockey stick. Emilia swoons into Charlotte's arms.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

Oh my god! I knew the teacher article but had never seen the child porn one. Heartily depressing

always so funny to me when people are like “how am I supposed to explain Gay to my kids?” my kid asks me way harder shit all the time. “why did they build the road this way? why are some people bad?” I don’t know. please ask me about Gay

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Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Not being able to afford bitcoin has turned out to be even more profitable than not being able to afford an apartment in Bulgaria. Any publishers interested in Investment Strategies for Poets?

"We would have lost so much if we'd driven him away" is the justification.

But we lost all those girls. We lost the women they would have become. We lost the work they would have done. Why was his future work so much more valuable than theirs?

Can we talk about the software industry's weird refusal to use the word "no"?

DELETE EVERY FILE YOU'VE EVER CREATED? "YES / NOT NOW"

DO YOU WANT US TO SEND RUDE EMAILS TO YOUR MUM? "YES / MAYBE LATER"

THERE'S A MAN BEHIND YOU WITH A RED-HOT POKER "GOT IT"