This is just to say I have murdered the suitors that were in my palace and which you were probably shagging in my absence Forgive me they were annoying so loud and so young
There are two wolves. One always lies. One controls the lever of trolley track. They're in a state of superposition inside a box. On the trolley are infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters going to an infinite hotel. The trolley must first travel halfway, but before that a quarterway, and so on...
"I fear our Age of Bronze is collapsing" I loved it, it was delightfully old school sword and sandalsy nonsense, it was a line Victor Mature could have delivered
I got a job as a stripper but I couldn't pull it off
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 2w agoI got a job as a train driver but I went off the rails.
I no longer feel bad about merely skimming articles, since it's more and more the case that I'm not reading it in less depth and with less attention than the author put into writing it.
In a world where two roads diverged One Man must choose the one less travelled by
Just saw a hummingbird chase away a hawk. And I mean really chase it away, rocketing across the treetops, hummingbird barely four feet behind. They really are amazing little creatures.
Google's AI generated responses making an interesting distinction here. Useful to know that it wasn't settled by Bonobos or extraterrestrials.
The @nytimes.com won’t use the word “lie” when Trmp blatantly lies because, they say, they “can’t know what is in his head,” & therefore don’t know if he knows what he says is untrue. But they can report that he is grieving because 2 people said he looked that way 🙄 NYT is a joke
Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social · 2w agoOnce again, the New York Times imputes emotions to Trump. How do they know he was “grieving”? The evidence: “Mr Trump, who is not known to show emotion, appeared upset by the loss, two people said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/u...
I got a job as a skydiving instructor but I was pushed out
Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra@fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 2w agoI got a job as a train driver but I went off the rails.
WARREN: Do you still work for Capital One today? JOHNSON: I do. I'm here today in my personal capacity W: Ok. But they're paying you to get confirmed for this job. I also understand they're letting you keep a bonus you haven't yet earned. They must be really excited about getting you confirmed.
10. Hard to even know where to start in commenting on this report because it's such a jumble of grievances, lies, and accelerationist fever dreams. But this paragraph floors me. Not only is it talking about AI agents doing the science, it's utterly ignorant of the information economics of science.
So, that explosive diarrhea lettuce-borne food parasite outbreak? Turns out Trump did that too.
public health guy@publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 2w agomatthew always brings the receipts
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Even Thoreau unconsciously identified with them when he said "My head is hands and feet."
s. e. smith@sesmith.lol · 2w agoI for one welcome our cephalopod overlords.
So I'm looking at various translations of the #Odyssey, deciding which one has an appealing tone, and the well-thought-of 2018 Emily Wilson translation begins: Tell me about a complicated man. And I'm not sure I need the Theme From Shaft going through my head for the rest of the book.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Oligarchs close to Orbán are fleeing to Dubai, smuggling millions of euros into the Gulf states or loading their private jets with jewelry and valuables to fly them out to the world's tax havens. The country's investigative media report a "panic mood". 3/
‘Senator Bob was known for his feisty attitude* and charm**’ *used slurs in every sentence **had to be physically restrained from assaulting women on the senate floor
every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act
Isn't it interesting how the same news outlets that call lefties 'joyless', BoJo 'a character', Brexit 'rebellious', Farage 'a laugh', calling for arson 'free speech', and their right to offend inalienable, suddenly experience a humour failure *when they're not in control of the joke*. #GetInTheBin
Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."
Speaking of enshittification, I notice that Bluesky still lets you freely browse the site without logging in. Unlike Tumblr or Instagram or Threads or Facebook or X/Twitter or Discord, all of which I refuse to use now.
Trump demolished the entire East Wing of the White House
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Pirro: "Today is about accountability for damaging a national resource, a national treasure, and that is the reflecting pool ... today a grand jury has returned a felony indictment"