Mark Norman Francis

🏆Sloppelganger🏆⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

this isn't just "why can't you be normal" it's "why do you have to find the most silly contrarian take on every single thing that doesn't even matter"

"Kemi Badenoch's spokesman denies she is ashamed of British animals" is an amazing sentence I will come back to for the rest of my life.

80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"

The 3 genders

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

Is it important to you that you saw how easily/eagerly people are fooled?

I was being serious about this.

Now you have a chance to beat your PB streak.

"conversations with their kids they weren’t ready for" -- asshole, it is your fucking *job* as a parent to have whatever conversations your kids need, in order to help them fully understand the world around them.

And that often goes ESPECIALLY for the ones you're uncomfortable over.

Once again: if you’re using Substack to warn us about fascism—while also cashing Substack checks!—you’re asking us to do something you’re too chickenshit to do yourself.

How Pixar’s Open Sexism Ruined My Dream Job (Guest Column) A former Pixar employee writes that after John Lasseter's departure, the company still has a lot of work to do to fix its sexist culture.

If you're wondering how bad things were at Pixar for women, the answer is pretty horrifyingly bad.

I have no art to post ‘cause I can’t draw for shit but I do want to bring more attention to this fabulous Medusa.

I keep thinking about things and acting independently even when no-one does an HTTP POST to my API to ask me to do something.

So more of an evergreen post at this point.

I think you need to narrow down to which of the punchable men you refer, or are they all at it?

Has he tried just clearing the context? Has he tried saying “be less anxious” before asking it questions?

Screenshot of a Polymarket post to X: “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Anthropic CEO may or may not be full of shit, may or may not be huffing what he’s selling, may or may not be trying to remain relevant, may or may not be trying to impress his mates in the pub after work.

a. piece. of. software. is. not. the. type. of. entity. that. can. gain. consciousness.

That would presumably be this www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

Bandcamp Friday PST

Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

Saw the "OMG why are 40 & 50 year old people even ON social media?" post & my first thought was, "What do you think *should* happen, kid? Should we all just do a Logan's Run?" & then I realized this child has never once in their life heard of Logan's Run & I turned to dust & my ghost is typing this.

The actor who turns up in a procedural and you instantly know is the criminal they’re trying to catch that week because they’re too recognisable to just turn up for a bit part.

and to explain, print() accepts a list, and prints each with a space between; meanwhile print() also returns None

so print() and print() evaluates to None and None, and since the first None is falsy, the second part is not evaluated

print(“Star Trek”, i)

I cannot wait for the insights on this! He's going to:

1. Sample some local street food.
2. Ride a train.
3. Visit a temple.
4. Not mention the pogroms that the serving Prime Minister presided over.
5. Smile at some elephants.
6. Top up his kids' private school fees.
7. Say "India is changing".

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

You don’t need to ‘balance’ between Farage and the Greens’ view of immigration. You don’t need to be a little bit Fascist. You need not to be Fascist at all.

Also, what, you can’t amend it later if it’s obviously in need of tightening as situations change?

Bridge over Troubled Water, takes me back to my grandad’s funeral where it was played as it was his favourite song.