Jarrod Baker

greatest headline of my adult life

Three panel comic. Panel 1: baby monkeys in overalls jumping on a bed, having fun. Panel 2: one of the monkeys falls over the edge of the bed, reaching out as he falls. Panel 3: one of the other monkeys, now looking super buff and badass, grabs him by the arm to save him heroically. “Monkey Stronger Together.”

I know you’re not supposed to feed kākā nuts and seeds but how do we feel about hot chips. Asking for a feathered friend

my conspiracy theory: some of the people advocating for youth social media bans just want a legal defence for sliding into a young person’s DMs

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

weirdly the gas lines company in my area doesn’t have any information on their website about how to ask them to stop supplying gas to a property. plenty of info about how to get electricity decommissioned though. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

i think it would be sad when rutger hauer dies in blade runner even if he hadn't seen cool stuff

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

Nah, they’re still bad: www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

well, being detectable on a scan means that it can potentially be treated, so I guess it’s a partial yay?

my bloods this week suggest my own unwelcome passenger may now be detectable on a scan. yay?

all I’m saying is that if famous people my age could please stop dying of cancer it would do a lot for my cancer-related existential dread

It really is funny watching AI people talk about AI as intelligence. Like Jim Henson telling everyone on Sesame Street how scared he is of "the thing that lives in the can."

Isabella Wranå won gold for curling, but should've for this video

I mean hopefully they can release these things outside the US, but it’s hard not to see this stuff as basically tantamount to murder

this reminds me of the first year philosophy lecturer I had who talked to us at length about “torts”, making us wonder if we’d accidentally turned up to a law class. when he finally wrote it on the board it became clear he was referring to “thoughts”

When someone tells me how old their child is I say "that's such a fun age" even if it's 37

my phlebotomist told me that I should avoid doing any heavy lifting for two hours. didn’t tell her this but I intend to avoid doing any heavy lifting basically indefinitely

A switch labelled “COOKER”. It’s in the ‘on’ position

found the problem. this switch should never have been turned on

sorry but unless you’re hauling your dog in like it’s an anchor on an old-timey sailing ship then you’re doing it wrong

see also: hot corn chips vs cold corn chips with nachos (yes, some obviously wrong people do prefer the latter)

I assume people who prefer cold toast also prefer hot ice cream

Mongolia Olympic Team opening ceremony uniform by Goyol: slogan “What we carried through winter, we carry to the world”

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

the original Torment Nexus post didn’t specify the author but my money is increasingly on it being Margaret Atwood

in retrospect I kind of admire NFTs. they were the fine art market without the unnecessary abstraction of a physical object

but the fine art market is definitely not money laundering for the ultra-rich

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

more than a few people are going to rocking a fishnet tan for the next several weeks

if you also went to Laneway please know that no-one needs to see photos or video of the bands you saw. the real measure of what sort of time you had is a photo of your festival sunburn

sure am glad I decided to allow a generous amount of time to get to the airport via public transport, only to discover enroute that my flight is delayed

anyway due to this I have been forced to sit directly opposite the end of an escalator and am managing to make awkward eye contact with at least 50% of the people coming up it