Nick 🐙

This works for these scum because all the big firms who are pushing staff to use chatGPT etc for everything just handwave the environmental impact and pretend it doesn't exist. At [megacorp], I listen to execs lining up to waffle that it's basically zero impact "because of energy savings elsewhere"

You, a slack jawed Neanderthal: Duhh my tik tok where I make a weird face just made a million dollars. I'm going to eat a gold crusted steak to celebrate

Me, a modern philosopher: I've crafted a magnificent sentence on a website where my only reward is getting yelled at. I live for this shit

Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...

Gravel showing off his texture

B u m p y 🐸

dudes rock

aaaaaaaahahahahha

also, there are a couple of very obvious fuckups in this that kinda embarass me but it was long enough that fuck re-recording obvs :-D

impressed now, but really it'll just be relief when it finally rolls round after nearly three hours of nonsense

There is a Spray track in there! (spoiler alert: it is at the end)

the Scooter->Sparks bit is genuinely great though and I'd love to catch a DJ do that somewhere that I was IRL because I think it would absolute go OFF

I mean, if your crowd likes Scooter and Sparks, which I assume everyone does really

If you're already rolling your eyes a minute into this, then I should warn you that it is NOT going to get any more serious and/or better.

Anyway, this year's Infest is coming soon (albeit in Manchester) so let's gooooooo

Back in 2021 during the pandemic lockdown era, I was really missing music festivals/gigs/clubs and particularly the annual pilgrimage to Infest for chaotic fun.

This nearly 3 hour mix of EBM, 80s, synthpop and eurodance I recorded at that time was inspired by that. www.mixcloud.com/Danger_Octop...

I guess if you don't like Vincent Cassel grimacing, icy paranoia, death and consuming obsession there's maybe less to like.

Sending back all the Tory retirees in France and Spain as soon as they get a parking ticket would be top comedy tbh

The Shrouds had a lot to like (if you enjoy David Cronenberg's coldness and paranoia) but the protagonist being called KARSH RELIKH was just a ridiculously Cronenberg touch.

I don't know _why_ he sometimes has such notable names for protagonists but damn if that's not a great one

One of my favourite tropes is a pair of hired goons/thugs/muscle for hire who refer to each other as Mister [Surname] without fail. Like the eloquent goons in Sin City.

All "What do we have here, Mr Wicket?"

"Appears to be a ne'er do well, Mr Stump"

"Dear oh dear, Mr Wicket"

Can't get enough.

I think it's required that EITHER they are near-identical (but not twins or even related in any way) OR they are comically different to each other in appearance. No middle ground

Can report that I met an excellent cat who was sitting in the middle of the pavement, swiping a paw at all passers-by to keep them away (even if they just walking past and didn't try to stroke them). BUT! The cat decided I was alright and consented to head scritches. Clearly I have Good Vibes

A gray cat is slumped over a scratching throne

just barely made it through the week

God, same

hello yes please

the only thing ruined here was my typing EVIDENTLY, that's what I get for drunkcommenting

Joke's on you, I'm reading this evening the evening to ruin my night

horrifying flashbacks to a number of people I knew when I was a teenager who would have taken a deep breath at that before going into a very lengthy explanation of the differences, possibly with references to wall scrolls

when a ninja effortlessly infiltrates my fortress-like compound, silently moving through the shadows and dispatching my well-trained guards with ease, I will simply ask them to stop so that I can measure their bladed weapons in order to determine whether or not they're breaking the law

Starmer down on his knees in the Wetherspoons piss dungeon* toilet, urine soaking through his suit trousers, screaming "WHERE'S YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE?" at the piss-fiend

*in this analogy I guess Britain is the Wetherspoons piss dungeon, and the Wetherspoons piss dungeon is Britain

happened to me recently when I met a friend at a gig. tried to cover it by doing similar deliberately at the end of the night and making a joke out of it. made it so much worse tbh

I don't think I even _have_ mine! I think my parents gave me a photocopy of it when I went away to university at 18, and I think one of them still has the original

let's hope I don't get unpersoned (not to make light of this horrible situation for trans people, obviously)

It is just so patently obvious that this is shit from bigots who Can Always Tell because I can count the number of cis people I know who might have a birth certificate with them if challenged on the fingers of zero hands

Presumably an uncanny similarity to messages that @pietersender.bsky.social receives from @anatomicalcat.bsky.social