"There's an old saying-I know it's in Uqbar, probably in Babylon-That says: Mirrors and copulation are abominable, for they both... They both... Because there are lots of guys."
his chief of staff said, "There's no cameras where Tom is."
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2mo agoSaturday marked 100 days since Rep. Thomas Kean Jr.’s last public act. The congressman has missed 135 House votes during his absence. During that time his office has released statements, attributed to Kean, indicating he is under medical care for an undisclosed health condition.
It’s interesting how few people make an affirmative case for political violence or how it would solve a given problem, but they are very insistent on attacking your character if you point out that it’s a bad idea because of how important it is for online brand signaling.
I think we took something of a 'wrong turn' as a society when we made our intellectual ideal the young 'best and brightest' and put all of the value on *intelligence* as an inborn trait rather than on *learning* as an earned value. Learning is, frankly, far more important.
there are guys whose whole job is to watch a few candles from each manufacturing batch burn to completion and if anything goes wonky with them they crush the whole batch into a cube and throw it out. those guys only last a few months at the job bc staring at fire too much makes you go insane
documentary in which the Minions reenact their past atrocities in Indonesia.
Tag yourself I’m “I don’t have feelings or consciousness” next to a smiley face
Lindsey B@lindsey.codes · 4mo agoHelp I found this journal on amazon and the prompts in the image were clearly filled out by AI
Technically you don't "teleport to Waffle House" when you teleport to Waffle House. You destroy all matter in the universe except for yourself and recreate a perfect copy of the world displaced by a few miles
I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can
when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.gov · 5mo agoI spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up. youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0?...
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Materialist Gnostic@walmsley.bsky.social · 5mo agoPost a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
Doctor: You're not Pagliacci are you? Patient: Yes I am Doctor: FUCK there goes my idea
Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night
A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.
So it used to be that the big pu'er factories would make their teas and then they'd have to be aged at least 10 or 15 years into get to a drinkable state. Then these little boutique operations started making cakes blended to be drunk young and people started buying those, because they're impatient.
Isabel J. Kim@isabel.kim · 7mo agou heard sharon, everyone post about their esoteric interests right fucking now. for the good of the community, we need to be hyperfixationmaxxing.