What if H.R. Giger made a croissant?

Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor

it’s ben@yotsuben.bsky.social · 5d ago

you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao

Every game would be improved by adding a “beach volleyball phase”

Democrats will never learn.

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Mamdani’s “Richard Scarry Socialism” Can Make City Life Simple Again

The NYC mayor is trying to build a city that functions like a city in a children's picture book, where people aren’t caught in a web of lies and scams.

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Also, what we may have had, at least in part, is a very big shift in the species composition of biomass without a substantial increase in the earth’s aggregate carrying capacity of all biomass. Apparently, until c. 1750, whale biomass exceeded human biomass.

What’s happening here is discourse where any circumstance/comparison where the group someone identifies with outperforms intellectually is a consequence of biology, while any circumstance where the group underperforms is a consequence of sociology.

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But the more interesting question is what happened downstream. Did talking to AI make people feel less lonely? Surprisingly, no! It did the opposite. It actually increased loneliness.

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Focus Flags are a great idea. I’d also like the opposite: a flag that says “my shit is currently fucked; please come over & provide emotional/technical support.”

imagining a genre called ‘math ska’ and pissing my self off

Why iPhone Duo when BiPhone was right there?

It’s so cool that a mixup with NYU is finally getting OpenAI and Anthropic to sort out their fluid bonding agreement

A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."

Consider: is ratatouille, a food that sends one to another place and time, a hyperfood?

Anton Ego's Emotional Reaction to Ratatouille

ALT: Anton Ego's Emotional Reaction to Ratatouille

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Recurse Center implies the existence of Recurse Center Footnote: earlier drafts of this joke had me looking up words for the opposite of recursion. I abandoned this once I became sufficiently self-aware.

You’re in group chats for asset trading alpha. I’m in group chats for wordplay alpha.

“Challengers? Yeah, I’m into Zendayaoi”

back in the 90s it seemed clear that we would get ever more powerful babecubes as computer technology advanced. but that future never came to pass.

GIFS GALORE@gifs-bot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Why do I have to guess how much green sauce to put on a particular taco. Why isn’t this more agentic.

Sorry I need a bit more time to get back to you, I’m in my compactory period…

New York City is about forming useful connections with everyone; overlapping networks of favours, recommendations and vouching. Guy next to me at the cafe: “I know the guy who picks up all the golf balls at Chelsea Pier”. Anyone, uh, need a warm intro?

Could Batman throw a Thanksgiving dinner at short notice, assuming prep time?

why has science not yet figured out a way to remove the caffeine from my body. it’s very simple: when I drank it, I needed it to live, and now, I need it gone before it kills me

Sitting with the implication that there will eventually be a Reconciliation API

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

She loved her surgery cone for the first couple days (it made her feel powerful and intimidating) so we got her a courted ruff to look sinister in.

I misread the location and time of the Blood Rave, and went down the wrong alley, following strangely upbeat music. I confidently walked into a Mexican (?) wedding, where all were dressed in white. Like Midsommar with churros. I, dressed in near-vantablack and more holes than fabric, retreated.