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A scam caller just called me a Karen because I told her how bad her script was. I then proceeded to correct her on the meaning of Karen as an insult, which was actually very Karen of me. I don't blame her for hanging up on me 😂 I hope she flagged me as an annoying time waster in that database ✅

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

if ya'll think you're full of micro plastics now just wait a decade or two for the shitloads of plastic waste from consumer 3D printers to make its way through the environment. those things are giant plastic waste machines: struts, failed prints, garbage to sell on etsy all ending up in landfill.

submitted 11 days ago • 52 comments

Oh my god, if this works it would redeem the whole damn week.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

It must feel a bit weird if you've put the hours in

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

“How the fuck have these highly-driven ghouls become so ubiquitous in our scene? Who gave them a pass? They have no idea of how writing works, and what they preach is just banal tripe, so who actually benefits from their grift?” Read Sdrigotti’s righteous rant. open.substack.com/pub/fernando...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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Working on my latest non-fiction translation & cursing the bastards who sued Internet Archive, thereby (among many other bad things) reducing my usefulness to both author and publisher by blocking access to books that I need for fact-checking & that will mostly b impossible 2 get hold of in Norway.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

A revered and trailblazing indie publisher, more than worthy of a follow. What are you waiting for?

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Rachel Ferguson was a great writer, the first woman to write a coumn for Punch, and a terrific snob. Her novel The Brontes Went To Woolworths is remarkable. Here she is on the suffragette Emily Davidson.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I'm announcing my own strategic partnership with OpenAI, and my strategy consists of never using their stupid product

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

“The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies . . .” 1/2 (‘Eugenics and Other Evils’)

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If you can’t see the direction in which he’s going it’s because you’re choosing not to.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Possibly of note: @wwborders.bsky.social is currently hiring... wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Local politics can radicalize you beyond your wildest imaginings

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries—uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."

submitted 25 days ago • 289 comments

Good news for once!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

He's done it! Hannan has found a way to unite the Middle East!

submitted 28 days ago • 28 comments

Crockett: "If feels as if y'all have just decided that y'all are gonna castrate your constitutional duty & hand it over to someone who was unelected. It doesn't matter how many cheerleaders he had on the field campaigning for him. That doesn't mean he gets to go in and sit atop any of our agencies"

submitted 28 days ago • 1755 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 29 days ago • 98 comments

Oh so now they want to take Gaza, because the whole planet is real estate and rich people get to own whatever they like, and never mind the people living there.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Daily Beast coming out swinging like this means something beautiful and real for this country's independent media. www.thedailybeast.com/yes-its-a-co...

submitted 29 days ago • 43 comments

Netanyahu looking like all his genocidal Christmases have come at once thanks to Satsuma Claus. What a fucking horrifying repeat of the last century this is.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

Wow. Interesting categories in today’s Connections.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 29 days ago • 211 comments

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

submitted 29 days ago • 83 comments

see this is what happens when you pretend to be religious but don't actually know how the story ends

submitted 30 days ago • 107 comments

English PEN has announced the PEN Translates awards winners for 2025, including the first-ever PEN Translates award for a title from Somaliland 👇 #BookSky

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I fear that poll might end up as a zombie statistic. Keep this in your back pocket when you see it in the wild. A stick to beat the youth.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Read this. It is hilarious and splendidly, eloquently, righteously indignant about the State of Things AI.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment