Thomas Kealy

olivia reeves now has a 500# back squat. does the bar bend like that when it’s on your back? no it does not

Honestly, everyone is overthinking James Bond. He's a cool spy who goes on missions in exotic places and there is a lady he has sex with who dies and a lady he has sex with who doesn't die. The 'continuity' is maybe Jaws is in a few films because it's cool to have a big guy who bites people.

The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall

Genuinely I don't know why they'd do it? This just makes no political sense at all.

Does anyone ever wonder if there’s anything behind this endless flow of sensory perceptions?

when we moved into our family home 38 years ago, we were the first people to have:

1. Central heating.
2. An indoor toilet.

I don't understand: the Republicans don't even need the Democrats for anything. They have majorities everywhere. What's the story here?

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Philosophers are basically the op-ed section of academia. Take that as you will.

Totally off topic, but is this guy getting his plastic surgery done in China now? He looks more and more Asian.

An Irishman went for a job interview on a building site. The foreman asked him "Do you know the difference between a joist and a girder?"

The Irishman replied, "Goethe wrote Faust and Joyce wrote Ulysses."

The thing about Helen Andrews that is particularly irritating is that it is only because society is not organized in the way that she wants it to be that anyone knows who she is

how is this real

felt a wave of utter nausea at the palantir MOD news.

Oh! I'm in Berlin! Where is this happening!?

Design is the most important part of any project and the thing we breeze past immediately. It is also the step that AI is really bad at doing.

Feels like there's a fairly straightforward remedy to the problem of offering uncompetitive salaries.

yeah - I find substack is just full of Nazis all the time.

Saw Bugonia this evening.

Lanthimos' most tense film to date, but let down by the ending (even though the final montage is 10/10).

Suddenly when puberty blockers are given to cis kids, the Daily Mail (the same newspaper which backed Hitler btw) finally admits that "their effects are not permanent, and once a child lets their blocking treatment lapse, puberty will just continue as normal."

Which is true for trans kids too.

Every Halloween since 2020, I see people walking around dressed up and I think to myself, there are a lot of people right now who absolutely refused to wear a mask for 15 minutes to save my grandmother's life because of plague, who are drunk dancing in a Michael Myers mask for six consecutive hours

No

Turn it off.

This has made me question everything you've ever said.

How are you even alive!?

stepping into a river: not even twice

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye Mighty, and don't forget to turn out the lights on the way out!

“Bonferonni correction”, an invaluable method in #statistics, refers to the act of repeatedly correcting misspellings of the word Bonferroni at multiple places in a draft manuscript.
#science #academia

Businesses have noticed this is a leftwing government. Farmers have noticed. The globally mobile rich have noticed. Basically the only people who don’t think this is a leftwing government are the people who want one.