the zaza got me speaking esperanto

I'm way more active on Tumblr

doing psychic damage to myself even logging back in

God this website got awful after the U.S. election

don't try to argue with a seppo about food, they think sharing a land border with Mexico means they know more about spices than anyone else

electricity is expensive, don't you know

"brits" here being "opportunistic food vendors at football stadiums with a captive audience"

[touches ground] something...happened here

I have written a completely normal Disco Elysium fanfic. Nothing unusual about it. Seriously.

Debunking AGI inevitability claims Have you heard these claims? "Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is imminent!" or "At current rate of progress, AGI is inevitable!" In a recent preprint, my co-authors and I explain why, and presen...

In contrast, we show that "any factual AI system ... is so astronomically unlikely to be anything like a human mind, or even a coherent ... part of that mind, that claims of ‘inevitability’ of AGI ... are revealed to be false & misleading. 7/n irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2023/09/17/d...

- Excluding trans people from being represented in court,

- Ignoring mountains of documentary evidence including Hansard,

- Misrepresenting the biological reality that sex is not binary,

- And now this.

The UK Supreme Court is a corrupt stain on democracy and not fit for purpose.

the last of the samurai wine

the only reason i've been able to get covid boosters is because technically i am on NHS records as having a "long-term health condition". everyone else is quite literally told to go fuck themselves.

btw this is what it has been like in the UK since 2022

I still stand by this:

thinking once again about The Most Wrong Tweet Ever

i'm bisexual. it was camp.

i have seen people genuinely say that speech was bad, so

My parents never really had the talk with me. It was offered, but we found out about sex and childbirth at school - we were shown graphic footage of a baby being born - and then I got given a book about puberty to read.

See, I disagree with takes like this. The show was very clearly showing that the Doctor's actions were wrong. In that scene I wasn't thinking "The Doctor punishing Kid is the right thing to do", I was thinking "He has gone too far". We were meant to be disturbed by it, not think he was being heroic.

I remember learning it from an educational book I read when I was 7 or 8 and being like "huh. that's how it works." i was literally spoilered on how sex works

It's like how as soon as James Somerton was outed as a plagiarist everyone decided that men wearing rollnecks somehow outed them as Insufferable and Scummy rather than just being some fucking fabric one asshole decided to put on his body. You're all so utterly fucking lame!

I watched Adam Ruins Everything at uni and I enjoyed it. It popularised scepticism for the layman. Now I'm seeing people who are, basically, superficial cunts acting like the show was always annoying and bad because Adam Conover has a QUIFF and GLASSES and a SILLY SMILE, the FIEND

I see all the most vacuous left-wing cunts have now left Twitter and joined Bluesky. This site really does have the juice.

Ah, I see people are doing to Adam Conover what they did to James Somerton which is to say "Oh, that guy? Yeah, I never liked him. And everyone who ever did like him is irredeemably annoying." Like he wasn't just some inoffensive CollegeHumor alum before you knew you could dunk on him

The new Neil Halloran documentary on Smallpox has completely changed how I see the RFK Jr. version of the world. Neil (softly) argues that realizing that disease isn't the fault of the sick /or/ the fault of the Gods ushered in a new future where we felt the authority to care for each other.

The advent of germ theory, vaccines, sanitation, and antibiotics, in this view, indirectly lead to an increase in social services, and a decrease in capital punishment, murder, slavery, and torture. In effect, it raised the value of human life in human eyes.

The RFK Jr. version of health, where health creates health and healthy people don't get sick and the thing that keeps you healthy is /living the right way/ is very seductive to a lot of people. It also places the burden of illness back on the ill, which decreases the value of human life.

The deeper meaning behind "almost no healthy children die of the measles" is that, when children do die of the measles, it's only ever because they were already ill. And the deeper meaning behind that is "well, we can't save 'em all." And that's just...17th century thinking.

YouTube video by Neil Halloran Defeating a Virus That Killed Half a Billion People – The Plea

What a horror show to have put that man in charge of anything. The documentary is very short and very good. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybVZ...

this should not be a controversial take. they hanged concentration camp commandants and collaborators 80 years ago. these people are unreformable