Underrated accurate take Personally I didn’t do law at uni because a career guidance counsellor saw my projected school leaver score and said ‘oh you’ll do law’ Ha 98.4/100, and did an arts degree with an entry level of 65 because fuck all of you* *not you, obviously, you’re a cool bean

Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11h ago

Demand avoidance is funny because it means some random portion of your population will be *literally* unable to take authority, of any kind, seriously. Like you've got a *guaranteed* random portion of any group that is hardwired to go fuck you I won't do what you tell me

I fully believe taste is heading this way as a direct reaction to generative AI. Sincerely-performed incompetence, less-than-perfect anatomy and color theory, jittery hand-drawn animation, unusual and unoptimized stylistic choices. It'll become the new standard of meaningful art.

Emily@cat-appreciator.bsky.social · 12h ago

Heck, clip art and comic sans would have a charming naïveté these days.

I think this is... correct It's a thought I've been mulling over, all the 'myth busting' out there might have had a stronger bullet/foot ratio than we thought Related, 'Autistic people are productive members of society' was The Nazi take. Dr Asperger > 'don't kill these ones they're useful'

Anthony Moser@anthonymoser.com · last yr.

i made a helpful reference

Wait is today, like, a good day? In world politics? Dare we enthuse?

Very pointed, historically-informed piece from the infosec team at Akamai on handling vulnerability disclosure www.akamai.com/blog/securit...

Friends don’t let friends support Mad Fucking Witches. They are scumbags not ratbags. Pads it on.

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 7d ago

Scumbag group Mad Fucking Witches has published a lengthy post about the attack on Helen Haines and asking its followers for money mumbrella.com.au/mfw-leverage...

Or - hear me out - the canonical Thornhill en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornhi... (They’re really great, light dusting of nu but mostly solid metal)

Thornhill (band) - Wikipedia

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Hey look, my two interests! You can get out of here with your Tom Ford, you oud, and ESPECIALLY your Tom Ford oud. Otherwise some solid choices! Good to see the paper perfume getting a shot. I also have grudging (technical) respect for ‘not a perfume, which is straight fake ambergris.

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2w ago

first time seeing one of these four-quadrant charts that i actually enjoyed. not sure if it's a "bisexual perfume," but i really enjoy carlen parfums's "butch femme," which smells like pho (the vietnamese soup) substack.com/home/post/p-...

Hardest of hard agrees Why is this impossible?!? See also: sandwiches. God I miss Pret a manger

Asher Wolf@asherwolf.bsky.social · 2w ago

Give me a place that makes a salad that is just vegetables please. Currently looking at half a bowl of onion and yellow shredded cheese after picking the greens out to eat

Mm yes I hate it, thanks. I'm not averse to the odd janky mobile game, but at least mine are cheap and crappy (RIP Two Dots, you were the OG until they added a billion addiction features)

Morgan Johnson@poormojo.bsky.social · 2w ago

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

@clairewillett.bsky.social Hey Claire! You've recommended PDF conversion service before - what was it please? I need one!

Gang - You may hear more about the ‘grandparents’ rights movement. It might sound reasonable at first. Be assured: everyone in this movement (and it is a movement) is a perpetrator of child abuse. There are no exceptions: grandparents with legitimate problems who really care leave immediately.

Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4w ago

Gov. nominee Byron Donalds promises a Florida Republican voter "his word" that he will work on a 'grandparents' rights' law so her daughter stops estranging her

New way to horrify the youngs just dropped: Say you’re a fan of ‘the Nirvana’. That gem courtesy of my 13 yo who now has no one to blame but himself.

@trufelman.bsky.social hey hey! Absolutely loved the second hand clothes episode. You gotta be collecting impact metrics, right? If yes please tell the real real that they sure as hell achieved brand awareness with me, I’m slap bang in the middle of their target market and I’m an all but guaranteed/

A hero to us all @rossfloate.bsky.social

JP@jpbrammer.bsky.social · last mo.

Slavoj Žižek has my dream job. I watched him speak in front of a crowd for 45 minutes uninterrupted about whatever he felt like while the host watched helplessly. when he finally finished she said "wise words" and he said "I HATE WISDOM" then started talking again

Cheap peanut butter is infinitely superior to expensive peanut butter.

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this discourse bores me, lets do hotly held low stakes opinions. Tabasco sauce is overrated and if you enjoy it on anything other than fries youre a bad person

In which we work at the arboretum

Yup

SwiftOnSecurity@swiftonsecurity.com · 2mo ago

The coming shape of a post-literate society is something oft-verboten from serious engagement by those who define themselves by education in and consumption of it.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Engineer: it depends on the starting state of the cup Me: listen, you fools, this is a question with a literal answer, a real one, IT LITERALLY DEPENDS ON THE STARTING STATE OF THE CUP

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2y ago

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat

*am newspaper columnist* *am classic sci fi enjoyer* Uh

Mark O’Neill 🐻@radiobeartime.com · 2mo ago

All of those newspaper columnists think that they are special people, the smart ones, the Eloi. They would do well to remember what happened to the Eloi.

45 minutes post my second shingles vax and I’m here to say so far so fine! The shingles vax takes 2 shots, a few months apart. It costs $600 which is 😬 but - better than shingles. Back me up on this one @squigglyrick.bsky.social

People: You can't just post one line from a song and expect everyone to know the song. Me: it’s been

Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine. (I am a literal Christian, he did die for my sins, but you can't fault the poetry *or* imho the theology.)

Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 3mo ago

[Mum has just told me about one neighbour I know who died, and one I didn't who was murdered] Mum: 'Oh and there's another piece of news-' Me: 'Don't tell me - another person died!' That was in fact the news. Another person I knew had also died. Life update, never making a dark little joke again

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Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you need to understand Britain and reform, you need to understand how poor the majority of Brits have become between the Austerity policy that followed 2008 crisis & Brexit. #Auspol #UKpolitics 🎁 link? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Bro -

Agatha Chocolats@agathachocolats.bsky.social · 4mo ago

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo. #sixwordstory #WritingCommunity

I legit think binface can win it btw

GUYS My delivery of coathangers is arriving TODAY I am going to become a new kind of person. A better kind of person. A person with MATCHING COAT HANGERS

Well I for one have had my trust in the NACC fully restored. No questions left for me, not a one. Seriously though - for real - do the folk at the NACC not understand how public trust works? It's not an unknown area, we have a pretty solid idea of how building trust is done and this isn't it

Crikey@crikey.com.au · 4mo ago

The inspector of the NACC has announced it will stop its investigation into complaints about former commissioner Paul Brereton. This and more in today's instalment of The Snoop: www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/08/n...

You should try listening to some ELO it's actually way weirder than you remember. This song has mariachi trumpets? And a synth? I guess? music.youtube.com/watch?v=0zuR...

Electric Light Orchestra - Across The Border (Audio)

YouTube video by ELOVEVO

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