Niall O'Sullivan

To be fair, it goes with the salutes.

Remember the days when the closest we got to a real episode of Black Mirror was the Prime Minister pig thing?

Recognised a cinema nemesis from 13 years ago at the parents evening. The tall woman who used to bunch her hair up at the top and sit in front of us at the bring your baby screenings. I was like, "She looks really familiar, wonder if she's on telly or something" and then I was like "YOU..."

Yep, and did they make good by apologising and sending a couple of laptops to a school in a deprived, multi ethnic area of London? Nope they said nothing and sent laptops to e-begging influencers on X.

And they recently closed the only thread on the Framework forum where people were allowed to talk about the issue. Add this to them binning their Discord after the moderators went on strike and only posting on X after the drama. Framework have shown who they are.

“Are you going to Nikolai Gogol to the bathroom?” Words I just said to my eldest.

I still have a PA1 and PA6 if anyone ever needs someone to poison their locality with industrial weedkiller.

One reason why I think that we won't get a decent poem from an LLM is that they probably scraped all of poemhunter and poetry dot com and there's no coming back from that.

Awww, I'd love to but I've got a bit of family stuff this weekend. Would be great to catch up at some point though.

Sounds like you picked a keeper there!

Agreed! Doom Bar Zero and Proper Job 0.1% aren't too shabby either. And congratulations for staying off the sauce too. It's a much better life for me.

The Ballad of Binge-Purge Binge-purge circa 2007 (image created from my own photo and the wonderful Retrospecs app) Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-...

Back in the early 00s, my friends coined a nickname for me: Binge-Purge.

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'I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived... all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child... one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination’ Ursula le Guin

i hate that i have to post this (and will likely delete after today), but please don't @ me with your spotify stats.

i appreciate the support & know it comes from a good place, but i really would like you to find another streaming service.

A malevolent entity turned them all into swans and they flew into the sun.

The Grauniad have spaffed out two overly credulous interviews in just as many days. The first allows an AI CEO to do the usual "This will change everything but could be really dangerous" sales pitch disguised as insight and today it's some lib friendly version of the same old manosphere bollocks.

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

I played Megaman 7, got lots of work done and now have carpal tunnel syndrome.

I think the voice thing might be why I've never been able to get into Disco Elysium and I've been meaning to do a voices off playthrough for ages.

I'm going to try a bit of pomodoro today to get through some work that I find to be a slog. I'm thinking of playing a retro, pico-8 or UFO 50 game in short bursts during the five minute breaks. Something that can be played in short bursts that isn't tetris (don't hate it but played it too much).

I recommend spending a moment checking out what the kids are up to on neocities.org/browse . It's basically a resurrected geocities for Gen Z, it's a bit of a love letter for the old web from people who never experienced it first hand but know it through digital archeology.

an ad for the new series “welcome to derry” with the tagline “go back to where IT all began“, except somehow, they highlighted the word “to“ instead of “it“

"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"

"no problem boss. i'm on it"

To be fair, I have subscribed to lists that block lots of far right accounts on my behalf. I'm guessing that this was all automated, like a bot scraping the likes and adding to a list?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our phones.

We are dealing with some threats to sue for defamation brought by Kate Clanchy against, it will surprise no one who has followed this unfortunate saga, a woman of colour.

I understand this isn't Ms Clanchy's first rodeo and if you've also received such a threat please do get in contact.

I the student goes on to become the next big thing you could use "elevated thug" as a blurb.

Just had a "Goblincore" suggested playlist pop up on the streaming app and didn't know what it was so I clicked on it and it was just lots of stuff that I've already been listening to.

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time Hacking the planet with florid verse.

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Bookmarking this for the next time a student asks about the value of poetry.

I sometimes find myself panicking that I might not be able to remember complicated instructions like "Press A to jump".