Tim Ford

The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

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Dressed to kill 💀🔪👗

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Naming my latest Baldur's Gate 3 save file "A Thorm in my side" and feeling very pleased with myself

How much of it is sincere? How much of it is a weird type of clout chasing? How much of it is bots?

I really don't know. But I hope the rest of us are mass-blocking these weird, insular, micro-groups of bad-faith nutters. They feel like a cancer that needs to be excised before it grows too large.

Right Wingers would gleefully call it "cancel culture" but these people are an insignificant minority. It's no mobbing, per se, cause there's no numbers. Very tiny, very niche groups, cultivated around one particular pet "cause." And they try to use that like a mallet against big names on the Left.

I don't know @parkermolloy.com , but the obsession some people have with trying to discredit or attack her is WILD.

It's always from people on "the left" and it's always massively disingenuous. They hurl accusations of ableism or kink shaming or whatever fucking buzzwords, and it's just hollow.

Yoga pics and wellness references are red flags now.

You're not doctors. You're not scientists. And even if you were, you don't know every person's medical history, issues, or circumstances.

Wildly tossing out diagnoses and tying everything to a single disease is perverse and disgusting.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

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Also the anxiety of not wanting to piss off editors by following up on pitches that were met with silence, particularly silence from editors you worked with before.

If you burn that connection, that's it for you. But you also have this crazy need to eat and stuff.

The spooky vibes have persisted. The street after about 150m is merely theoretical.

Bailey, a pitbull-corgi, lying asleep on a couch beside me

Look at this perfect precious nugget with her paws all tucked together and her face all squidged up and her head all cosy on a pillow 😭

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Definitely nothing harrowing

Virtually indistinguishable from Daffy Duck's worst meltdowns

People are focusing on the Rowling part, but the bigger part is the guy posting the bad takes is IN the Epstein files, WORKED for him, sent & received packages for him, facilitated Ghislaine & Prince Andrew, & wrote a glowing letter of praise to Epstein himself. AND he helps make LA Comic Con happen

Walter White screams NOOOO YOU CAN DO THIS IT'S ALMOST SPRING I SWEAR

Every year, I tell my plants

Lovely spooky vibes in Vic today

#yyj

Anyone talking up the prospect of multiple new LNG projects in BC needs to read this report.

The demand growth they're counting on from coal to gas switching only happens at prices where Canadian projects will lose money.

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Jeffrey Epstein a financé le projet d’un Québécois d’extrême droite Jean-François Gariépy se dit «très fier» de figurer dans des documents parmi les dossiers publiés fin janvier.

Oh cool he also is in the Epstein files begging the billionaire for money and receiving it.

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Thanks (?) to this article I learned about Jean-François Gariépy, a Canadian far-right stochastic terrorist who almost definitely murdered his partner, and now cracks jokes about it to adoring fans who think it's hilarious to kill women and get away with it.

So that's fun.

Well, it is also, I mean, it's a weird story that has come at a time with, you know, like this increasingly populist politics. But I'm just, you know, I'm wondering if there was like a productive version of engagement with this that was possible that would have, you know, like tried to, I guess I don't know exactly what that looks like. I mean, one of the things is clearly there's a lot of people who circa 2014 should have asked themselves more questions about Jeffrey Epstein and whether it was, you know, appropriate and moral to be associating with him and do we really is he really that interesting on all the science stuff that we need him around and so I well I mean but that's what it was right I mean it's like people are like well if they if they weren't you know if it wasn't a pedophile ring why did people you know why were they getting on the plane and going to the island like it's obvious why they're going to the island he was a rich guy with a with a fancy private island and lots of other interesting, you know, powerful friends. And it's sort of normal that people would want to be around that. And yeah, they should have been like, you know, hey, didn't I read this thing about this guy in the paper once? They should have thought about it more. It's not that surprising that they different.

"Rich people are just DIFFERENT you guys, it's normal for them to drag girls not old enough to buy beer to a private island where they can be repeatedly assaulted, anyone would want to be around that."

You couldn't torture me into saying shit like this.

This is insane, revisionist apologia.

And I called him thinking he's in a car accident or something, and he said... You're in the Epstein files, man. And I was like, the what? And he's got some tweets, some tweets you pretend sent some joke tweets. You're right in there. I was like, I got to go. I got to click. I then thought, I've got the golden ticket. I've got the golden tick. I'm now going to write a story today, maybe about this podcast that begins. I am in the Epstein files. Yeah. Here's what you need to know. And so the rest of us are on the Epstein files, but in less illustrious ways. There's like an algorithm that selected some tweets of mine and sent them in a digest to Jeffrey Epstein a couple of times. Like Twitter thinks you may be interested in these tweets. And Megan and Ross, you're both in there. There's some like one of these guys who before newsletters were a thing was just like sending around a thing that was BCC'd to a lot of people with a lot of all caps and highlighting at various points chose to highlight some of your columns. Although Ross, only once you have the lightest Epstein footprint of the four of us. But I'm in. I'm in. You're telling me this for the first time. I didn't realize this. So you're a pedophile.

How can anybody be so fucking blase discussing the elite billionaire class literally trading in human flesh? We're not idiots. No, simply being in these docs doesn't "make you a pedophile." Norm Finkelstein is in them, wishing Epstein death.

But this podcast says "eh, no biggie, that's normal."

It does seem like a major hole. I mean, I think the most plausible story is that you have, you know, scenarios involving Epstein in which rich and powerful men had sex with women, not as part of a pedophile cult, but as part of like in their own minds. Right. Right. Let's be clear who were, you know, who were who were teenagers, basically. Right. That Epstein. I still I still think that is very likely. And I think it is it seems unlikely to me, given what I know about human nature. that Epstein was well known for sort of recruiting girls in a zone of like underage to, you know, late teens ambiguity that he sort of, you know, use them for sex and massages and so on, invited them to parties, had him on his island, had lots of oversexed rich men at the island. And none of those men were, ever had sex with someone who was underage. I think that's unlikely. That seems unlikely. But that's different from a grand pedophile cult. And it's, I mean, one takeaway from these emails that, you know, you saw in the Larry Summers emails earlier that were such a debacle for him is, you know, there were lots of men, rich, powerful men who like to email Jeffrey Epstein and talk about sex. Right. Like that. That's clearly like he was the friend who you talk to about sex. And you can get that, you know, a guy can get that reputation for a lot of reasons. But the fact that he invited people to his island and, you know, had a lot of women, again, in a sort of zone between underage and of age prostitutes, not prostitutes and so on.

Think about how many rock stars did that in the 60s and 70s, right? I mean, the way men behaved was not viewed entirely In the same kind of like that is a social death penalty offense if you commit it. And so, yeah, I think it is not improbable that someone else thought, well, this isn't really that bad. She's 16. It's not like she's four. And we have now really shifted on how we think about that, I think, in a good way. Right. Right. I do not think that 50 year old men should be having sex with 16 year old girls. But I think that you're not going to find the evidence of a pedophile ring where he is actively trafficking these girls because until Me Too... It's not like a pedophile, right? There are 16-year-old girls around who are vulnerable and can be exploited, but not in this, like, there is a mastermind who is going on the dark web and selling these girls to you. They're just around, and they're close enough to the age of consent that a lot of people probably felt like it was okay to hit on them.

How many people understood that the girls were paid rather than hanging around because there was a lot of money there, right? Yeah, I think the assumption would be that not that all of Epstein's rich friends went to his house and he was like, go get a massage from my 15-year-old employee with a happy ending. It was more like... Epstein himself sort of had, you know, essentially predated upon and through predation sort of bought himself a circle of exploitable young women. And then those women also were sort of hanging around generally in Florida and on the island. But everyone around him was, you know, chaste and pure. But it seems more likely that... That they were not, but that they weren't having sex with the young women in this explicit, like, you know, this is prostitution.

I'm nearly 40. When I was 15, a teacher at my middle school was credibly accused of committing statutory rape. Nobody, and I mean nobody, was talking about like this.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

When they canned me they told me I was a bad writer.

I believed for years they were right. It still gives me anxiety and doubt.

But really, after seeing the drek put out by the guy they hired EXPLICITLY for his "good writing" I now know that was horseshit. They didn't like that I wasn't hustling.

Oof this is too real. As a weekend Digital Editor at CHEK I was told "you're basically also a producer" because it was just me and the weekend anchor and maybe a VJ if we were lucky.

I was constantly thrown into stories completely unprepared and then scolded if I didn't get "the right voices."

I'm not shocked.

Honestly, it's a form of copaganda for the media to present police corruption and violence, which happens everywhere, as unusual and shocking.

The details change, the level of violence and corruption changes, but it's always there.

I also just thought "Galway" but I literally cannot articulate why besides just really feeling comfy there