Alex Hern

The clunking fist is five years younger than the president of the United States.

I know last time didn’t end great but it wasn’t his fault mostly

lmao just copping a retweet for the laziest post ever

Has anyone actually asked him

Hear me out: can we have Gordon back

Ffs David I didn’t even make a joke

Something something trump sharting something year of the depend adult undergarment

I very much do not want that shit

I basically think about 95% of the rage directed at AI should be pointed at shortform video instead

It’s so bad, pals

contrast with the Parisian prosecutors office, which used the same tweet to announce a raid on X as it did to announce that it would no longer be posting on X

that's fine. bluesky doesn't need to win. twitter needs to lose.

this is obviously a bit self-important i guess but — it is such a bizarre quirk of world history that Brexit was both so incredibly influential in getting us to this shit place, and also so _incredibly_ avoidable.

You cannot kill it in any way that matters

The extent to which Labour has doubled down on a transphobia policy that it didn’t run on, and was bounced into by a Supreme Court ruling that woefully misunderstood the intent of the law, is genuinely shocking to me. I know there will be an “I told you so” but I don’t think this was foreseeable.

Fucking hell

my (36m) agents (0.1nb, 0.1nb, 0.1nb) have unionized

other than the final clause i still bank you to pull this off

Look inside yourself: have you truly been denied an opportunity to dress up as Lara Croft just because you missed an email

I took a total of eleven papers over the whole three years and none of them had interesting titles

The ”five classes you took in college” thing is a very funny look at the insane grab bag that counts as an American degree

I claimed a 79p single far on Riyadh’s metro AND I’LL DO IT AGAIN

still don't have one

Why’d we do that then?

Brexit was mad weren’t it

yeah, and emigrants definitely carry on paying their student loans back 😉

luckily we just had a massive bout of inflation so it's just getting shrunk by fiscal drag. £12.5k in 2025 pounds is only £9k in 2015 pounds when it was last increased.

yeah one of the slow burner destructive policies of the 2010-2015 government was "lifting the poorest out of tax" (by making the first £12.5k earned by _everyone_ tax free, a giveaway that definitionally gave more money to people earning over £12.5k than those earning less than it)

something worth remembering: graduates already pay a tax on the benefits of going to university. it's called "income tax". the government takes 20-45% of the increased earnings resulting from your university education.

I've genuinely never posted my birthday on the internet, out of a sort of mild paranoia. I'm sure a dedicated enough stalker could piece it together. I wonder if Claude Cowork could.