But if you crave choc-minty goodness, I can recommend these!

I’m a Tim Tam traditionalist. I don’t really approve of the mint/coffee/caramel/whatever-filled variations. (See also Kit-Kats.). 🙂

I gotta admit, I resent all these LLMs stealing my em dashes

I WAS USING THOSE

MORE OR LESS CORRECTLY

Ceiling, Sagrada Familia

Not unlike some critter from the Burgess Shale.

Wow!

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

Friday essay: it’s time for a new museum dedicated to the fighters of the frontier wars The widespread conflict that accompanied Australian life for 140 years was arguably our most important war. We need a museum telling this story, funded on a par with The Australian War Memorial.

“This right to Australia is a sore subject with many of the British settlers”, a Victorian pioneer noted in the 1840s, “and they strive to satisfy their consciences in various ways”.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality.

2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. Congress has not authorized the use of military force.

Kid’s not wrong.

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

I think it’s useful to be able to distinguish “give as a gift” from giving in any other context. Language evolving, etc.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think

“Fuck them kids”

Hey guys I think I found the Trump Era’s catchphrase

🍊🤡 spreading joy and laughter as only he can

Counter-opinion: it’s a f***ing tragedy that corporate greed has broken the medium which facilitated Tahrir Square etc and is now doing its best to break the rest of the Internet.

Stephen Miller is an excellent example of when I quickly shift from “You are not a nice person” to “Oh, for the love of God, get some help, you deeply damaged, despicable ghoul.”

Jane Fonda Relaunches Committee for the First Amendment With Support of 550 Celebrities Including Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and More Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment with the support of Pedro Pascal, Viola Davis and more.

Go, Jane, go! She's rounded up hundreds of Hollywood figures to revive the First Amendment organization her father championed. Fonda, in her late eighties, is in her prime as a climate champion and a powerful voice for justice.

Finally something which could lift Starmer’s personal rating with the British public

The creators of AI "actress" Tilly Norwood release a statment defending their creation to Variety.

1) She'll be a replacement for a human being when the studios buy her clones.
2) She's not a creative work. She's a cynical cash grab made of ones, zeroes, and the libidos of awful men.
3) "She sparks conversation." So does shit on a dining table, but it's still not a good idea.

This paper cannot be salvaged

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com