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The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Sanremo festival watchers have had a head start on getting to know this guy.

If he’d won and become 🇮🇹’s presumptive #Eurovision rep, would have been very interesting, albeit less likely for the foreseeable.

swear to god, not even a sink leak is going to bring me down this hallowed and summery week (bad bunny + lisa kleypas week)

Unpaid Debts In the midst of a battle against a dying industry, a Kentucky judge said Oakland owes hundreds of millions of dollars to a bankrupt corporation that exists only on paper. What do cities owe to whom as...

If you've ever wondered how a Kentucky judge could threaten to bankrupt Oakland for the crime of bankrupting a coal company, have we got the long read for you: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/unpaid-debts/

a jogger along the lake had one of the Game Changers audiobooks ON SPEAKER which, okay!

in just the past few years, the bay area has welcomed three fantastic new outlets: @oaklandside.org @oaklandreviewofbooks.org AND @bayareacurrent.bsky.social

they are wonderful and we should support them !!

I was just wondering this morning if there were any screenings expressly for Bad Bunny Bowl…

EARTHQUAKE

Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov (so many medals on his coat) in Death of Stalin. Simon Russell Beale (Lavrentiy Beria) and Steve Buscemi (Nikita Khrushchev) are looking at him.

This AI training thing. I mean, I'm smiling, but I am very fucking furious.

idk the context but you are right

millennial generation positives

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millennials griffyndors

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401k how

marshawn posted "Oakland Seahawks goin stupid in da supa bowl!!!!"

legitimately thrilled that marshawn lynch could have a live microphone in front of him for most of the next two weeks

Haven't checked out the #Sinners syllabus yet? Well, w/ a record of 16 Oscar nominations, it's high time to do so! bsky.app/profile/disc...

new york city is Real America. los angeles is Real America. chicago is Real America. minneapolis is Real America. seattle, portland, detroit etc etc. sick of this framing that it's otherwise. shut the fuck up

We need a Fanning Sisters stoner comedy.

it’s possible that i’m tired of feeling pessimistic and cynical at end of the year, as i have been the last 8 or 9 decembers

Manchester renaissance 2016

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

A true genius

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

RIP “michael” by franz ferdinand or “andy you’re a star” by the killers, you would’ve loved Heated Rivalry

"I find that LLMs produce sentences that are smooth, glib, poreless, smiling, somewhat like a beluga whale. But every busted sentence written by a human is busted in its own way. Each of these sentences is unwittingly an act of resistance against the onrushing techno-homogenization of language."

I’ve been so sleepy from finishing up holiday knitting that I missed every earthquake this week

I tell you what, that Santa Claus has got real presence about him

I wrote about the genuinely galling Oakland City Council meeting I attended yesterday, where our the councilmembers almost unanimously voted to continue a dangerous countract with FLOCK surveillance.

Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.

avoiding online or big corp purchases for holiday shopping sometimes means DMing your friend’s fave taqueria past midnight to ask if they sell gift cards

Captcha type image quiz, but you have to click squares containing Greg’s wife or estranged daughter from the cast lineup

it felt like the floor dropped a little bit :(

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

a combination urgent care and taco bell

I'm at the combination

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.