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Now, I barely use Spotify these days, it’s just expensive and crap, and most of the time I now listen to audiobooks over music

But it still makes so much sense that this was apparently my most popular song of the year

There isn't a single young Jewish kid protesting for Palestine who doesn't know which river and what sea...and I can't decide if she is really that ignorant and doesn't know this (which means she doesn't know any Jewish kids) or if she is straight up lying on a public stage

Judge rebukes Enoch Burke's 'Alice in Wonderland language' after he refuses to purge contempt Burke asked for the “court to be truthful”, which the judge said was “a bit rich with all the lies you’ve told”.

Burke asked for the “court to be truthful”, which the judge said was “a bit rich with all the lies you’ve told”. www.thejournal.ie/judge-rebuke...

#Spéirghorm

My annual Christmas trivia: Frank Capra was a Caltech graduate and lifelong science guy who told a biographer that had he not gone into film, he might have wanted to be an astronomer. When Capra was Academy president in 1937, he invited Edwin and Grace Hubble to be special guests at the Oscars.

This statuette is remarkable for its synthesis of Hellenistic immediacy and Classical composure. The figure can be identified as an artisan by his dress (a short tunic, ending just above his knee) and muscular build. Particularly telling is the pair of wax tablets tucked in his belt—the equivalent of a note pad—on which he would have written or drawn with a pointed stylus. His left arm is laid across his torso, his hand gripping his right side, and his bald head is pulled down towards his right shoulder. He's missing his right arm and leg. The bronze has a deep brown patina, with rich light highlights. The portrait is imbued with great psychological power and may represent a famous, even mythological, figure. For example, he may portray the Homeric hero Epeios, who with Athena's help carved the Trojan horse. It has also been proposed that he is the legendary master craftsman Daidalos, who built the labyrinth at Knossos, or even the famous 5th century BCE Athenian sculptor Phidias, creator of the chryselephantine cult statue of Zeus at Olympia and master craftsman of the sculptures of the Parthenon on the Athenian Akropolis. Greek, Late Hellenistic, ca. mid-1st century BCE. Bronze with silver eyes. Said to have been found in the sea off the North African coast, probably at Cherchell, Algeria. Met Museum, New York (1972.11.1)

This Hellenistic bronze statuette depicts a thickly-muscled craftsman, identified by his short tunic and by the wax tablets tucked into his belt. He may represent a famous or mythological figure - Daidalos, who built the labyrinth at Knossos, or the sculptor-architect Phidias. 🏺 1/

#MetMuseum 📸 me

The Gays™️ are responsible for the mustache return, but the Mullet is I believe Australia's fault.

The iconic one is “why do all these homosexuals keep sucking my cock?” But the two that summarize America are “all of family’s neurosis projected onto dog” and “Admit it, you want to see how far this will go”

It gave me this too!

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries: “Strong floor, no ceiling”

Colombian President Gustavo Petro: “A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy.”

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Looking great!

A close-up of two iron lances with gold decoration

A new discovery has revealed gold-decorated iron lances that were sacrificed at a sacred spring in modern-day Boeslunde approximately 2800 years ago.
Iron weapons with similar gold decoration from this period are unusual and without parallel in all of Northern Europe.

vestmuseum.dk/en/nyt-fund-...

Last time this happened, it ended with bodies at a bunker in a ruined city followed by trials resulting in 12 sentences to death by hanging.

Hope you're ok!

What stage of capitalism is this

This is the entirety of his bio on the official Vandy roster

Screenshot from Tumblr, user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.

Seems more promising than "there was an em dash it must be fake!"

And yeah, I might not be able to remember every detail about the stuff I've written, owing to my moth-brained memory, but you risk me launching into a loving 6 hour presentation if you ask me questions about a scene or character.

Hillary Clinton thinks you are stupid.

She thinks that people have concluded that Israel committed genocide because of TikTok.

A politician who voted for the Iraq war because of a pack of lies thinks young people are being brainwashed by disinformation.

Incredible.

Number of ‘unsafe’ publications by psychologist Hans Eysenck could be ‘high and far reaching’ Hans Eysenck A “high and far reaching” number of papers and books by Hans Eysenck could be “unsafe,” according to an updated statement from King’s College London, where the psychologist was a profe…

Diederik Stapel was a massive watershed moment in psychology.

However, he was -- and let's be slightly glib here -- some guy from The Netherlands who wrote social psychology papers.

The full accounting of the Eysenck case is approx, at minimum, TWO STAPELS.

retractionwatch.com/2025/12/03/n...

Israel has continued its drone strikes in Gaza, killing Palestinian photojournalist Mahmoud Wadi in Khan Younis. This is his father, Issam Wadi. “As a father, I received the news with shock. It was like an earthquake at home.

The way in which these people are so transparently evil, and so transparent in their desire to enact violence and reinforce existing oppressions, will never cease to be astonishing. The only thing more astonishing than that is the average person’s willingness to tolerate it.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

It's more than a little astonishing how many in the replies to this take it to mean that I listen to spotify.

it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value

Tweet by Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker. "Let's make the Scouts boys onlye." Tweeted 7.49am, Dec 2, 2025. 888 likes at time of screenshot

Kellie Jay Keen is the defacto leader of the "gender critical" movement, someone whom JK Rowling has described as a "genius," and here she is, in the wake of the decision to ban trans girls from Girl Guides, advocating for banning girls from Scouts.

They're a conservative cult. Plain as day. 1/

Once again trying to watch Saltburn and once again I can't make it past the thirty minutes (ish) mark.

Unless the film ends with all those upper class soulless weirdos getting hit by a meteorite I don't think I'll be able to give it another go.

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury