Does it make gemini half as useful as assistant? No. Does it reduce my frustration when it can't do any of the basic things I had come to take for granted while wasting energy and water in the failed attempt? A little.

A good day to get into a good podcast that is good, it's @jordanjessego.bsky.social with @themountaingoats.bsky.social

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[present day Back to the Future] “Fred, it’s Marvin. Your cousin, Marvin Durst!… You know that new sound you been looking for? Well, listen to this…”

And they said you couldn't make a worse version of We Didn't Start the Fire

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · last mo.

There’s explosive diarrhea lettuce Screwworm in the beef Blueberries that will kill you Measles cases at a record high Now there’s fibreglass in IV saline. De-regulation kills. And it kills the disabled and elderly the fastest. This was always the plan. Wake up.

I wish I could take the same pride in any one of my achievements that my washer and dryer take in completing a load.

Some people believe academia should inform politics and other people think politics should inform academia. The second group always lies about which group is which.

Which controversial topics? Oh, you know the ones 😉

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · last mo.

Taylor Lorenz listed out all the generative AI apps she uses for Substack, including Elon Musk’s Grok, and is shocked her followers are mad. She wants to have it both ways: to present herself as critical and progressive while still getting to take the same immoral actions as people who don’t.

If Bluesky was really as dead as they say, could I do THIS?? (okay I am going to need this to do big numbers)

The price of chocolate alone should be enough for impeachment and conviction.

soon...

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Folks you can think whatever you want about Spencer Pratt but he came within 3 points of making it to the runoff as a registered R in deep blue LA w/ no political experience which is far better than any analyst I spoke to expected. Happy Friday ✌🏻

Does anybody know, if you watch Star Trek in chronological order, how to handle time travel episodes? Same question, but Back to the Future

It brings me no pleasure to have learned that the great men of history were really the barely competent men of history who took advantage of the pathetic dipshits of history who inherited everything from their dad.

TIL: if you click on the name and COMPLETE address of a business in the address line of a google calendar invite to open google maps, maps will show you ads for businesses with similar names and not the explicit address you clicked on without scrolling down. Utter contempt for the user. Unusable.

"It's woke's fault that ladies are repulsed by me!!"

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A retired professor shares how political polarization is impacting his dating life in modern America.

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How many Luigis do you think it will take to teach billionaires that a functioning social safety net provides two layers of protection, one to catch people falling down and another to prevent them rising up?

I just think if we're gonna have cops, they shouldn't all be future serial killers. Or even mostly. Or even a few.

Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Routine reminder that US cops kill 10,000-25,000 dogs every year. Almost always with zero reason or justification. That is 27-68 dogs shot and killed by police every day.

Morrissey just proves my theory that all people have only a finite amount of coolness they can expend before turning into a racist boor. This is why I refuse to risk being cool at all, in even tiny amounts

Me: They said Narcissus meets Dorian Gray couldn't be done, I give you, The Reflecting Pool. Everybody: We said it shouldn't be done.

This is bound to do Sega Numbers

Pavel@spavel.bsky.social · last yr.

The Sega Genesis implies the existence of a Sega Revelations

Look, if you're not buckling in your carryout dinner, don't even bother eating it.

New from NYT Games: Peek-a-Boo! The game that tests whether you can remember what happened 3 seconds ago!

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4mo ago

President Trump claimed over the weekend that he was on the brink of a peace deal with Iran. Then the U.S. carried out new strikes against Iran on Monday. What happened? Listen to "The Daily."

Just finished reading "This One Bard Has Unlimited Mana" by @anthropomo.bsky.social. An fun (and spicy) isekai story with a lot of interesting characters and a unique take on the whole "rebirth into a fantasy world" trope. My only real "complaint": I want a sequel so I know what happens next!

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Welcome to Tryavna, the city that gets a new reincarnated hero every few minutes. They are overpowered, they can see their own stats, and every one of them is miserable. It's a magical world of dra...

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That time I almost fumbled my future spouse getting distracted by a bird on our first date...

beetle moses@beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5mo ago

When we were warned about big brother, I never would have guessed they meant the kind that grabs your arm and hits you with it repeatedly while shouting, "stop hitting yourself!"

Grudgie the Wail@grudgie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

If black voters didn’t want to suffer additional discrimination, according to the Robert Court, their only recourse is voting for those doing the discriminating. This is law you see. Balls. Strikes.

I recall when a friend of mine back during the BLM movement told me that if people reject the cause then the logical conclusion is that No Lives Matter & I thought I understood what he meant philosophically but living through the explosion of global suffering since I see now that he meant materially

When I heard "bow down before the one you serve" blasting from the car next to us today, I first identified it as Depeche Mode. I have decided this says more about Nine Inch Nails than me.

After I for-eached everything in the fridge, my queues were so messed up I FIFOed and LIFOed at the same time

Sideshow Bob: No, that's German for "The Republicans." Juror: No one who speaks German could be an evil man.

Mel Aura@melaura.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ja.