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wait till you see how low the bar is for childless men

"At home, a lot of girls dress the same way. It's boring. I pretty much dress like this all the time. People always get a shock when I turn up to their door to fix something. I work with lots of fortysomething men and they probably just think I'm a bit weird."

Trope doing rounds in Reform circles that Hannah Spencer is a "fake plumber" because those people can't imagine that a Green politician might be anything other than the sum of their horrid prejudices.

If it were a lie she'd have been playing the longest of long games... because here she is in 2013.

Absolute fucked situation when you're pulling for Netflix's monopolistic buyout to win over the Ellison's.

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

Éliane Radigue RIP

💔

Why does the argument have to be about reducing crime? Why not aboit the amount of joy they bring or the positive experience in poorer areas?

Criterion releasing K Pop Demon Hunters is a net benefit for everyone - those who like the movie will get a really good home release of it, those who don’t care about the movie will benefit from Criterion having a certified money maker that they can use to help fund more obscure/niche releases

Today’s Pastafarian Holy Day is Celebrate Vaccines Day (Polio in particular) 💉

(Told you this was a good one to follow)

Now do one for US confirming a plan for healthcare.

that’s what you call putting a hat on a hat

We lost Vietnam because we were too P.C. with our Agent Orange, carpet-bombing Cambodia and at My Lai.

This is because a statistical model of word frequency is not a useful tool for modeling the complex interactions of the human body

Or let's talk about the Author leading this piece who published 200 AI novels last year, selling 50,000 copies which is only ~250 each.

Reader, these are terrible numbers. Proof that quality over quantity still holds true and AI has to be concealed to do any business, if it does business at all.

Hang it in the Louvre

They certainly share the pathetic air of “lack of empathy is a superpower” tech-bro-adjacent bullshit

A cybertruck parked by a dumpster and people threw garbage in the dumpster

Turns out I’m not the only one who can’t tell Cybertrucks from dumpsters.

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

If they make a sequel to Muppets Take Manhattan I hope they do it while he’s mayor and put him in it.

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert "There's Nothing I Enjoy More Than Acting In The Theater" - Ian McKellen EXTENDED INTERVIEW

This 26 minute chat is wonderful, but I implore you to scroll to 22 minutes to see something truly *astonishing*

Shakespeare’s poetry is ageless, and perhaps it is the power of the arts which might save us all from our current nightmare

youtu.be/2l2RqzVG4ag?...

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Kinda wished you’d been wrong about Spotify, mind.

WUT

I want Stick Man, I want Stick Man, says the toddler, and the world weeps

It’ll be fine, did you see what magic they could do with Kyle Maclachlan in the flashbacks in Fallout maybe they don’t even need real children any more frrrrrt frttt

Pitchfork is out here telling us how to reckon with "AI Music is here to stay".

Here's how to live with it: don't listen to it, don't patronize it, don't pay money for it, don't share it.

Text from Logic Pro update: New in Logic Pro 12.0 New features and enhancements • Al Session Players • Transform your tracks with the all-new Synth Player, and create keyboard and bass performances with intuitive controls.

This is awesome for people like me who are too busy to hold down one key with my finger on the synthesizer.

Make working class people resent education so it’s easier to further block working class people from education.

They need to it a shitty guitar and start a band or something

Possibly apocryphal, but I’ve heard a tale about MS support engineers having some issues figuring how the MS Copilot development platform handles certain security settings, and asking MS Copilot how this was done. And guess what…