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your account has been flagged after we detected a poem in your prompt. the authorities are on their way.

When your relatives ask you what good that English degree is....

Just city after city where they roll in expecting to be greeted as liberators. On the day of Dick Cheney's funeral let's just remember that that never works.

Tired: niche beef

Inspired: niche doom

I don’t know how and I don’t know when, but I do know my inability to remember the ISO-639-1 code for “Korean” is “ko” and not “kr” is going to be my demise, my downfall, and my destruction.

Herakles the Archer cast, by Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, 1909, 📸 by @schmidtyphoto

Morning.

this week's @sayswhopodcast.com is a full-throttle psychic assault (complementary)

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

An oral history of Tom Holland's sensational 'Lip Sync Battle' performance The producers, choreographers, and dancers behind the "Umbrella" and "Singin' in the Rain" mashup explain how it came to be.

The backstory to the Tom Holland lip sync is such a repudiation of slop. So much human effort and skill and *rights clearing* went into creating something so many people love.

www.businessinsider.com/tom-holland-...

it's so weird, just so weird, how joy and thought and care make creative work hit harder.

SO. WEIRD.

first time running Bambu Studio on Ubuntu.

i haven't felt this uncertain about a desktop application since the days of XP.

HANDSHAKE MEME the hands are "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" and "ME" shaking over "Doing PSAs about Atrial Fibrillation"

Weird heart pounding? Lightheaded? Heart skipping beats, especially when you lay down at night? Don't let a careless doctor overlook it, insist on some monitoring and treatment, this is one of those things they know how to look for and diagnose (but not really cure, so....)

it's not relevant to tracking but still worth pointing out, too, the page loaded ~15MB of assets by the time the actual video began playing.

the 42 tracking scripts does not include the tracking that occurs by clicking the link from an email.

the email link has only one hop to the actual story, but that hop does set two ad-tracking cookies for the Sailthru platform.

Video for Wired’s “Incognito Mode.” Title, “Has the US become a surveillance state?”

Privacy center modal window. Basically, if you don’t live in the EU or specific but unlisted US states, you cannot opt out of tracking.

Wired loads at least 42 tracking scripts on this video.

If you want to opt out of tracking, this is what you get.

🤷🏼‍♂️

Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth. In an interview lasting for more than an hour, classicist Mary Beard shares her knowledge & experience about how the picture of Rome we might have in our heads, inherited from Hollywood movies like Gladiator, is incomp

Mary Beard: Hollywood Lied to You About Ancient Rome. Here’s the Truth. “We’ve inherited the history of Ancient Rome through movies, ruins, and shallow stories. The truth is far messier.” [kottke.org]

if you're trying to sell me a product and it doesn't include or at least integrate with a flamethrower, save your pitch for someone else.

HF employee approaching my front porch with a giant bag of kibble, fully unaware i've got them in the scope of a t-shirt cannon filled with king-size candy bars and $20 bills.

Amazon same-day delivery? unnecessary. ridiculous. burdensome. only exists for the benefit of billionaires. not even once.

Hollywood Feed same-day delivery? a godsend. miraculous. charge me double. the world is better with you in it.

"Show people the right way to do it."

We would, but we don't own every turkey fryer. You've got to follow the instructions that come with your turkey fryer.

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

ICYMI: The Heritage Foundation was founded by Joseph Coors and is still majorly funded by his family’s not-for-profit: The Adolph Coors Foundation, which is directly funded by Molson Coors via family ownership trusts.

So, if you hate nazis please do not bring any of these beers this holiday season.

The year is 2025.
All websites are down.
Only one website remains.

www.cpsc.gov/Recalls

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

I edited out everything but the bamboo paragraphs.

i would like to be sedated, please.

why would i hate people for being of a different race, ethnicity, sexuality or gender than me when i can instead hate SHITTY SOFTWARE and the LAZY SHITASSES WHO MAKE IT