Ben Helford

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

Hell yeah!

I think we need to stop callilng LLM's AI. They aren't artificial intelligence, they are a brute force method of solving the Turing Test.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

Good time, but two mistakes.

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Drop someone MASKED

To be fair, I liked the H.R. Giger-esque design of the Borg queen.

"Today it's mocking us as weak little crybabies because we're afraid of snowballs, tomorrow it's probably nuclear missiles or something!"

went to the store

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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Jon B. posted that he is going to the stove – perhaps to "cook up" another hot, hot radio single. Frogs and toads, which are the same, can live on the Sun and often choose to.

"But first some ground rules. Number one, we get bathroom breaks every half hour."

"Agreed. Number two, the jury will be chosen by me."

"Agreed. No wait."

Every now and then, I remember that JD Vance smashed the "like" button after reading this tweet, then went back and unliked it five years later when he ran for the Senate.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

You know it!

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Two panel comic. Panel 1: a museum display of a megalodon jaw fossil, with some museum goers standing around it. There is a graphic on the information tablet next to the fossil, depicting the approximation of the megalodon’s full size compared to a human. Panel 2: “3.6 million years ago:” we see the true megalodon as it existed, a small shark with ludicrously large, juicy lips.

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

Teddy Roosevelt won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Remember when Rey lost control of her powers and killed Chewbacca and you were like "Oh my god, what a shock, how will she and the movie deal with the implications of . . . oh wait they already revealed Chewbacca is alive and Rey destroyed a second identical ship that you hadn't seen before."

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

The Tuskens was the best part of the show.

I was so excited about the live action reveal of Cad Bane, but he was kinda boring.

50 years ago is 1976. This would remove "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" from books anyone should read.

Jim Ratcliffe and the art of shamelessness Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though

Immigrant billionaire owner of Manchester United condemns immigrants – just the poor ones, though | Nazish Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social

Same guy who decided to save money by stop providing staff with lunches, while spending hundreds of millions of pounds to go through 3 managers in a year.

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You deserve it Willie!

HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*

ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin

DETECTIVE:

ME: are you getting apricot notes

YouTube video by Elliott Smith - Topic Waltz #2 (XO)

Waltz #2 (XO)

When I called to cancel my Xfinity, I looked up the customer service line on Google and nearly got scammed because I inadvertently clicked on an ad. I moved past several red flags because I was like "I looked up the number on google, so it must be the right one."

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.”

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

YouTube video by Cory Noonan Hooray for Everything! Simpsons

I just think about how the Western Hemisphere is the dancingest hemisphere of them all.