Nasty stuff, this.
Transgender folk exist. They always have & always will. Their existence harms nothing & nobody.
We ought to support them to live with pride & dignity.
Jonathan I’m so sorry to hear it. My deepest condolences x
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!
What a message to resign with:
“Obviously [these Iranian soccer players are] coming from a region where there was tyranny and we want to make sure that they don't bring any of those values to Australia….”
Good riddance, mate.
Should be David Moreashamed IMO
And Littleproud has just resigned. Good
Not that the Nats have any talent, but Littleproud has been a terrible leader.
The far right’s bullshitting heroes: Before there was Trump, there was Bo Gritz
One of the central figures of the 1990s Patriot/militia movement passed away last week, but his toxic legacy lives on in MAGA and Trump
If they wanted just desserts to be bad they shouldn’t have given them such a delicious-sounding name IMO
A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.
Every time someone fucks up even slightly on social media everyone rushes to get on their back like they’re the first person in human history to ever fuck up, and then the person who fucked up naturally gets defensive because they’re under attack. It’s very bad! You’re a good egg though x
As part of the Snow gum summit we will be co-hosting a planting afternoon on 16 March 2026 in Perisher Valley in the Snowy Mountains.
If you'll be in the area please join us.
Full details > www.melbournefoe.org.au/adopt_a_snow...
My “the accomodation will be safe and secure” press release has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my press release
Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.
The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.
a picture of a huge, low, heavy cloud of black oil over Tehran
This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2
It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”
The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.
A slightly grainy black-and-white night time photo of a rat-sized mammal clinging to the trunk of a rough-barked tree. The animal has a black, brushy tail.
Another night, another phascogale
idk I’ve seen a bajillion kids movies where the kids parents die & let me tell you, having a convo with my kid about how anyone can die at any time & it doesn’t matter if they’re someone’s mom or dad is way harder than having a convo about how sometimes someone has two dads or whatever. And yet
THE EYES DON’T LIE ROB
Send me in to NRL 360, coach, I’m ready
Canberra Raiders rookie halfback Ethan Sanders in a training shirt, giving something off camera a steely glare
Canberra Raiders five-eighth and all-time great player Laurie Daley, mid game, running the ball and giving an opponent off-camera a steely glare
Good news Canberra Raiders fans, I’ve applied detailed analytics to all available data and my predictive model is telling me that Ethan Sanders is going to be a great player on the very scientific basis that he has Laurie Daley Eyes
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just to state the obvious, there are Iranians who welcome the war and there are Iranians who want freedom and not war. same in the Chinese diaspora, there are people who hope the US could "liberate" China and there are people who don't. there are all sorts of people.
I called the ANU and they had the folks at the Furner School confirm it for me
The same photo of Laurie Daley as described in the previous post
Laurie Daley, now much older and wearing a NSW State of Origin t-shirt in his capacity as coach of that team, speaking at a press conference. His eyes are wide. Mentally he looks as though he’s drowning, thought-wise.
This may seem facetious but compare: Laurie Daley, player - commanding, in control, one of the best to ever do it, a calm and resolute determination in his eyes vs Laurie Daley, coach - panicked, unsure, enemies everywhere, wide-eyed in barely concealed terror
@luke-buckmaster.bsky.social @thesportress.bsky.social don’t worry gents, we’re gonna win the comp
Canberra Raiders rookie halfback Ethan Sanders in a training shirt, giving something off camera a steely glare
Canberra Raiders five-eighth and all-time great player Laurie Daley, mid game, running the ball and giving an opponent off-camera a steely glare
Good news Canberra Raiders fans, I’ve applied detailed analytics to all available data and my predictive model is telling me that Ethan Sanders is going to be a great player on the very scientific basis that he has Laurie Daley Eyes
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
