Kempy 👾

grok says elon would beat thanos in a fight, ffs

the nerds are gonna be so mad (it’s me i’m the nerds)

Speaking truth to power*.

* Unless that would make things awkward when I hit power up for money and favors, or when my parents and power's parents bump into eachother at the exclusive country club they're all legacy members of.

I always like Pascal’s “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

People who happen to like doing that (like me) might just not be able to understand the majority of people who really don’t.

King Midas bukake

THIS 👇

If you want to *do* something with your skepticism, listen to the main segment on this episode of Skeptics with a K. @mrmmarsh.bsky.social does a brilliant job of highlighting how we can all get involved.

www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/ske...

This applies to so much about this government

Just don’t buy second hand. There’s a good reason the resell value is so low

Ah Robin, you’re a legend! It was my girlfriend’s first QED and you were definitely one of her highlights. Your work in all its forms is excellent and beautifully humane. Also these days it’s just so vital to see a passionately decent person raising their voice.

A dance as old as time

Devastating news for those like me who were sure Taylor could fix them.

For balance, I should remind you that Obama once wore a tan suit

Whenever I’ve heard them given the time and space to flesh out their “ideas”, it’s a real Wizard of Oz moment. Every time I find myself thinking, “Wait, is that it?” It’s always the sort of drivel that would embarrass an unprecocious undergrad.

Glad I wasn’t the only one who heard that

Behead those who say Trump doesn’t deserve the Nobel Prize!!

The more you hear thiel talk the more you realise that his intellectual reach (and reputation) waaaaaay exceeds his grasp. Just like Musk. I guess once you achieve a certain level of wealth you’re liable to get sucked into a bubble of obsequious yes-men.

It was an absolute banger. My takeaway is that I reckon Engels would quite enjoy this episode, but that Marx would leave a 1 star review on apple podcasts accompanied by a 10,000 word essay on dialectic materialism structured around an explanation of why you are a pair of disgraceful bourgeois fools

Is the error that he’s not a terrorist?

Wait til you're begging Japan for satellite data for weather forecasts. Begging India for pharmaceuticals. When your kids have to learn Chinese for engineering jobs. We had it all, and we're throwing it away. There's so much going on that science is overlooked - but it will die without your help. 3/

"Maybe if we're dismissive enough of trans rights John McCain will rise from the dead and debate us on the optimal way to structure an earned income tax credit uwu..."

Wikipedia is what the internet was meant to be and one of the few online places that hasn’t got worse. It’s a miracle

A screengrab shows "ChatGPT 5 Thinking". The user has typed "you're checking the wrong reference". The chatbot response is "stopped thinking"

Chatbot interactions for the ages.

Doomers are effectively enablers. Shut up and get out of the way

Jesus. Unbeatable

A graphic with the panel title: Skepticism: looking back, moving forward and a photo of a woman looking through a pair of binoculars

A graphic with the workshop title: How to draw anything. There is a photo of coloured pencils.

Announcing the first of our panels and workshops!

Skepticism: Looking back, moving forward with @richardwiseman.bsky.social, @profchrisfrench.bsky.social, @mrmmarsh.bsky.social and @aliceemmalouise.bsky.social.

How to draw anything with @kempchi.bsky.social.

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We're less than a year in.

How expensive is it to have peacekeeping troops (in perpetuity?) on the ground in Ukraine vs arming Zelenskyy’s army properly now to defeat & humiliate Putin?

"I think we should deploy genetically engineered racist killer wasps to every Democratic city in America to fight crime."

"No! That's insane."

"Oh, so you think crime isn't a problem then?!? I was in New York last month and saw a MUGGING! At least the wasps would be TAKING ACTION."

We laugh at the naïveté of old timey audiences (allegedly) jumping out of the way of footage of a train coming towards the screen. I bet we’re going to look back on this sort of thing in a similar way