…hmm

Three very real-looking spiders. Yet they're not.

The cyclosa spider - famed for their elaborate web decorations, which are barely understood - has been found in Peru & the Philippines to weave scarecrows of itself. They can be so elaborate that they initially fooled the biologists who study them. One called it 'a theatre of deception.'

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

how about koko’s basilisk and its everyone pretending a gorilla can actually use sign language because they’re afraid it will hit them

!!! In my head I’m still reliving the one Justice show I went to over 10 years ago

From Barbara Crooker's Selected Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9781938853708

#poem #books #writing

The political compass chart, with “technically, it’s ephebophilia” in the “libertarian / economic-right” quadrant.

Amazing how many criminals get together and decide the first order of business is emailing each other about the crimes every three minutes

David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation At seventy-three, the former front man of Talking Heads is still asking questions about what it means to be alive. But now he’s also offering ideas of hopefulness and service.

David Byrne, the former front man of Talking Heads, turned 73 this year, but he is still curious about what it means to be alive. “We really don’t know what it’s about,” he told Amanda Petrusich. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/tAeX9l

this is like someone getting mad when the party spends the whole D&D session shopping

people are always saying "ma'am this is a Wendy's" to me . but its not true. this isn't a wednys. this is a simulation of a wendy's inside of the matrix

Vonnegut poses at his front door, with a brass lion door-knocker.

Kurt Vonnegut by Ulf Andersen, 1988

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer & cold in the winter. It’s round & wet & crowded. At the outside, you’ve got about 100 years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies - 'God damn it, you’ve got to be kind'."

Tilda Swinton by Fabio Lovino, 1999.

Eating a sundae with a long spoon is the height of decadence. The longer the spoon the more decadent it is. Ideally you shouldn't even be in the same room as the sundae

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An Evening Commute
6”x6” oil

4 Screenshots from the movie "The Terminator" (1984): First, a desert landscape with sparse Joshua trees and open road under a clear sky, with the caption "Tape seven. November 10." Second, a red jeep driving down an empty desert road, as the voiceover says, "What's most difficult is deciding what to tell you and what not to." Third, a woman wearing a headband and sunglasses drives the jeep, holding a small tape recorder, saying, "But I guess I have a while before you’re old enough to understand." Fourth, the woman continues driving, recording her thoughts, adding, "They're more for me at this point, just so I can get it straight."

Nov 10th - Sarah Connor recorded a message for her unborn son, John Connor.

📽️📅 The Terminator (1984)

Speed dating is when you have to tell Keanu Reeves a little bit about yourself or this bus will explode

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

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A dream

“Your attempt to make truth beautiful has been noted and deplored. Further attempts will result in retraining seminars.”

Shell

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well this is one of the most depressing things I’ve ever seen

#TwinPeaks

I feel like they actually make things harder to open most of the time

Just lots of yoga right now. I would like to get back into lifting, but my knees always start to hate that after a while too

definitely true, and the cause of most of my injuries…my heart says go but my joints say fuck you