Jon Lumb

I need to watch Reacher, but this sounds like the sort of space Banshee occupies in my head.

The old British insult "He has a face for radio"

I've had this done - have they left a load of wadding up your nose with instructions to keep it moist? If so, really don't skimp on the keeping it moist part!

Their headline yesterday was far too wishy-washy. It's slightly better today, but it really still falls short of conveying the deliberately false nature of the report. "Unproven" still gives far too much wiggle room.

I'm in note limbo - it feels like writing with pen/paper is better for my memory retention, but then finding notes afterwards becomes a nightmare. I'd love a search function for paper notes 😆

While my rice pudding was cooling down, a colony of ants stole the top layer - it made my skin crawl.

Cartoon. A doctor speaking to a heavily pregnant woman: "Well, Mrs Heath Robinson, it seems the contraptions have started"

Also, actual debate is often a great thing, but what the vast majority of these people call "debate" is just a platform for them to lie through their teeth. It has very little to do with actual debate.

No they did not - but it did go into the blind trust. It was only sold after he had finished his time in office.

I feel like the word "familiar" is doing some very heavy lifting in that original post!

Even leaving aside the mis-gendering
fuckery, you're over 18, so they shouldn't be using that term either way. Very bizarre.

Please stop saying invasion when referring to immigrants. An invasion is what Britain did in India or what Britain did in The West Indies or what Britain did in large parts of Africa or what Britain did in…

If you see a bunch of people celebrating a man’s death today and wonder “why are people so happy about someone dying”, just know many of us wish this would’ve happened 50 years ago so he couldnt have taught our parents how to uniquely traumatize us and keep us closeted and subservient

TERFS are not feminists. Never have been.

I'd be fascinated to know whether this is a case of sloppy legislation, or just that writing competent legislation on this issue is just impossible (the old "if you see it, you know it's porn, but it's almost impossible to actually define it" issue perhaps?)

having recently encountered a couple of real "I was spanked and I turned out alright" types in the wild, just a reminder that if you're advocating for spanking you didn't "turn out alright"

I’m just waiting for the @dieworkwear.bsky.social critique of what he’s wearing there.

Can’t even sleep anymore because woke

It feels like the appointment of RFK as Secretary of Health in the USA has also undermined a lot of the basis for that trust. Of course, the problem of not believing the government on vaccines predates that, but now, generally smart people have to be careful about what comes out of his department.

At an airport I once saw a bunch of transcendentalists boarding a flight they’d chartered. At least I assumed they were transcendentalists because they were on a hire plane thank you please enjoy the weekend ahead.

I mean it's pretty simple: they do not respect other people enough to value them over their own childish prerogative to say whatever they like to without thinking. bsky.app/profile/zach...

A lot of people who are like “you shouldn’t eat this, you shouldn’t eat that” couldn’t even point to Potato on a map

as a cis dude who can be tremendously oblivious: this shit is not hard

“these are my pronouns”

okay, great, I’ll use those, the end

"COMPREHEND"??

they think words like "meticulous" and "comprehend" mean text is AI-generated ?!

christ on a cracker

I’m not quite sure what point I was trying to make there!

I guess at least it’s not like the valuations given to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral etc that seems to be entirely speculative given their very limited revenues

I’m not saying it’s not an overvaluation (almost certainly driven by AI demands, so definitely shaky), but at least nVidia has tangible products and appreciable turnover/profit.

Well that’s definitely “a vibe”

you should turn this on because it's the right thing to do

but also because if you are anything like me, you constantly see characters that you can't quite place and it's incredibly helpful to be able to click on a picture and find out what the reference is so you can judge if it's funny or not

I feel like this one is a fine balancing act on Hanlon's Razor