Will Grant

meme: two books left book: THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY right book (much fatter and split into blue and red, red is far longer than blue): THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY IF MERRY & PIPPIN HAD A GUN red: defeating Sauron blue: taking the gun away from Merry and Pippin

i'm sorry for posting facts:

the beheading of the Sperm Whale is a scientific anatomical feat, upon which experienced whale surgeons very much pride themselves

Fifth cousin four times removed

Oh you're right, I'm just being hyperbolic.

I'm sorry but quantitative research is really stupid sometimes

<makes devils horn fingers all the way through cooking>

No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.

i absolutely love your work pears, but jesus how is it possible to be both underripe and rotten at the same time

To have this asserted in The Atlantic makes the little Gareth Evans in me happy

Quote from the novel Dune: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

I am 100% down with the new paper saying ChatGPT stops students learning, but starting with this quote may be a bit of a give away of the researchers' biases: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

I guess the term would be deconstitutionalising?

is it possible to send chill out vibes internationally

shocked to find out the new lana del rey single is yet more genius from god's legitimate representative on earth

It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch

Wasn't expecting the sword would be made that way

Wieland cuts through Ämilias' helmet with his sword Mimung (illustration by Wilhelm von Kaulbach, 1848).

absolutely love the eyes in this drawing

My guess is Trump abolishes all federal taxes

Some cool ass French Revolution era sunglasses there M. Lavoisier

Stylised painting of a lakeside with hills and woodland area perfectly reflected in still lake water

Georgia O'Keeffe, Lake George Reflection, 1921, the painter's connection to the natural world is always apparent in her work #WomensArt

We have a preferential voting system, and this effort by Adam Bandt to try say a vote is tainted because of where it went first is gross. Argue for a first past the post system if you really want, see how well that works for you.

If I was charting my path back to power I would of course consult the absolute voice of struggle street middle Australia that is gina rinehart

Who was the last opposition leader to lose their seat?

I love when academic language hits a bump in the road

great news for old English speakers out there, your language has the most words for the concept of misery!

America has the most bougeoir revolutions tho

Salute to the trivia group name ‘JD Vance killed the pope’

So one theory is that Trump works by ratchet, just one worse step every day out to the horizon

Have people no loyalty to their sides of the culture war?

I know 'vigilante' is basically a synonym for 'fucking idiot' but Jesus Christ