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robscurantist.bsky.social
Unconscionably self-centred bit-player. Not 100% neurotypical. Just out of shot, at the back and to the left. Pronouns: your choice. https://ngl.link/robscurantist
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Breaking: sometimes, after university, graduates get a non-graduate job. (I did.) Is the argument that these jobs in social care…don’t need doing?

They keep misspelling impaling

Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple. Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that. A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

this guy is a world class asshole

I swore just the other day in response to pain, acceptable, in front of my kids, unacceptable. Luckily my children routinely screen me out, so not 20 minutes later, when it came up separately in conversation, they expressed shock at the very notion I might ever swear.

Yes writing emails is a pain so instead of hiding behind an AI to do it for you like a coward you need to simply have the courage of your convictions and stand up for what matters and simply not reply to them like the rest of us

Fuck off you disgusting little snake!

“is my calculator horny?“ our tech columnist asks. “i entered 5318008 into it and turned it upside down. what i saw surprised me”

Vote for Pedro

I’ve rethought that last retweet and undone it. Not sure that it was wrong, just that I haven’t thought it through enough to say it’s right.

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

The UK has got to be the only country in the world that is politically held hostage by like 15 newspaper columnists that basically nobody reads

TIL Katy Perry has financially manipulated so many old people out of their homes for her own benefit that she's got a law named after her www.forbes.com/sites/hughmc...

I am a woman who contains multitudes

My own humanoid robots have also been delayed by this.

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In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

so they're mycoblogging

I grew up ~10 miles from St. Coletta’s, the institution where his aunt, Rosemary, lived out the majority of her life after her father gave up on her and had her lobotomized. She was 23 at the time. Unreal.

Starmer needs to just fuck off now. Spineless bigoted fash prick. No redeeming features about him at all.

Unbelievable

genuinely funny but also they should have had a Signal icon visible with like a thousand notifications showing

I’m sure I’ve noted before that there is only one good answer to these kinds of questions.

Happy Birthday to one of my favorite people to ever grace the planet. And may he have many more, because the World is made better by his energy, and all he's blessed us with. 🖤 Happy Birthday, John Waters! 🖤

FWIW I too will respond very positively to you if you give me a peanut M&M every time you see me.

I feel like Johnny Depp set a trend here and I’m never forgiving the people who cheered him on and smeared Amber Heard just because they really like Jack Sparrow.

Quitting twitter for bluesky

is there something in a certain kind of person's brain that makes them just not realize that computer code isn't alive. like i know men would and have tried to fuck literally everything but good god

A new study models the impact of the implosion of U.S.-funded disease treatment and prevention in the developing world — and suggests that Elon Musk and Marco Rubio will go down as among history’s greatest monsters if funding and effective administration are not restored.

You can’t be a real catholic and murder the pope. Just saying.

Man, murdering a Pope just because you don’t feel respected seems petty even for that Vance guy.

Every time you see the word “hallucinate” replace it with “is wrong.” … then tell me how much sense it makes to be integrating this technology into critical systems and services. www.theleftshift.com/openai-admit...

Jay Rayner, one of the last reasons to even glance at a discarded copy of the Observer, is now at the FT, so instead they're running restaurant reviews by people who don't like to eat

I quite liked the Daredevil tv show, in the end. I thought it was pretty good.

Even though it’s cooler to solve them quicker, it is also pleasing to slowly fill the boxes from one end. Wordle 1,401 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

it is quite impressive to be a member of parliament for the last six months who has not seen a) Starmer b) Trump c) an opinion poll. are they like drunk 24/7 in the many subsidized bars?

oh COME THE FUCK ON

I am rereading it after, maybe, 30 years (but multiple reads before that). It is still a very vital, very special work imo. I’ve said it before, but encountering it at 14 reshaped me as a reader, as someone engaged with stories across other media and possibly even as a person.