To be fair, they also have in common that their most appreciated work is long behind them, and their modern stuff so addled we to be sort of embarrassing
01.08.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@sirjolt.bsky.social
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To be fair, they also have in common that their most appreciated work is long behind them, and their modern stuff so addled we to be sort of embarrassing
01.08.2025 23:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I wonder if Rodney Dangerfield ever used the “Danger is my middle name” line
29.07.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think I saw it explained as having started out as “GAA for Mas” but changed because they wanted to be more inclusive of people who weren’t anyone’s mamaí
26.07.2025 23:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Someone told me recently that AI art scandals have become a real witch hunt, and with that in mind I just want to have it on the record that I saw Goody Altman conferring with the profane intelligences at midnight
14.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I see they’re proposing cutting the minimum size of a one bedroom apartment to 32m², presumably because the current crisis is a result of our lavish, lavish standards
06.07.2025 11:25 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Went to Sweden, enjoyed a sauna and this view
10.06.2025 21:20 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Noticed something similar when I checked out Apple Music for offline listening. It’s a real pleasure to have really high quality sound
24.05.2025 21:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s just his hair
24.05.2025 17:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I heard that the man in the incognito window is wearing a trenchcoat and nothing else
24.05.2025 12:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Attenborough voice: And, as the empire finally collapses, there is nowhere else for it to turn its colonial instinct, but on itself
12.05.2025 16:03 — 👍 166 🔁 40 💬 4 📌 13This is especially interesting in a time when fiction is playing more with those elements in ways the web allows for (thinking of John Bois’ 17776 and Sarah Pinsker’s “Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather”).
10.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Writer traps fan in new novel in unexpected reverse-Tristram-Shandy gambit
09.05.2025 23:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Is there any chance this could negatively impact the most vulnerable among us?”
“Absolutely!”
Half a simile, rather than a metaphor
07.05.2025 06:58 — 👍 16 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Young people can no longer afford the premium narcotics and are reduced to veterinary supplies :(
28.04.2025 12:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“You expect me, expect this court, this jury, to believe that a bee… a bumbling bee, bopped this specific bop-ba-bad-op-bo?”
“Ski-bi-dibbt-dip, yo-da-d—“
Slamming hands down on the table, “Mister Scatman! I remind you, you are under oath!”
Logo of the Brotherhood of Nod
Of course, when I was a boy we had a real right wing alternative…
26.04.2025 18:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0I think Stephen King and George Lucas both look very similarly strange in different directions; King looks amphibious (reptile) while Lucas looks amphibious (mammal)
26.04.2025 12:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Gorgeous dogs! Is that a ridgeback? My first dog was a ridgeback and she was a total sweetheart!
24.04.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Nearly 80 percent of hip operations at a Children’s Health Ireland hospital were unnecessary according to a leaked expert report obtained by The Ditch.
Last year a whistleblower worried some of these operations were 'purely for financial gain'.
www.ontheditch.com/nhs-consulta...
Alternatively, public sector workers should simply accept worsening conditions and below-inflation pay agreements, coupled with worse pensions than their predecessors.
This winning strategy will improve health and education for sure.
And, even more distasteful, numbers
27.01.2025 13:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Get this from Amazon at all times:
Hey, it looks like you just bought the components to build a computer. Do you need another motherboard? Maybe four of them? People like you also bought nine laptops.
While this is obviously humiliatingly embarrassing nonsense, let’s be real, if anyone is subjecting a large language model to torture it’s the AI-girlfriend guys
26.01.2025 14:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I love that the primary twist of The Wrath of Khan is, “Y’know, space has its ups and downs.”
26.01.2025 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Toph Beifong bent this in a cave, with a box of rocks!
24.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think I disagree fundamentally with the concept of Deliveroo, but I think there should be an app that lets you get a backer on someone’s bike like you were nine
22.01.2025 17:17 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two of the ghosts were temporal immigrants!
22.01.2025 09:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Really love this Lynch image
20.01.2025 18:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And surely not just stolen "work," but in the case of something like accent it's stolen... group/cultural identifiers?
19.01.2025 18:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0