It’s that JSR

They decided to import LNG instead.

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

For real though, Chris Fleming is the best and funniest comedian I have seen in recent years. If you don't already know his work, check it out, I implore you.

Burger King Called Out Over Dystopian New AI Program That Tracks If Workers Sound 'Friendly' Enough Who asked for this?

I would genuinely rather every Burger King employee begin their interaction with me by saying "What the hell do you want?!" and end it by shoving a tray at me and saying "Here's your burger, fucko" than those employees having to put up with this shit.

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A reminder that while this is very much a dark timeline, it's still the case that the TV show "Glee" was over and done before "Hamilton: An American Musical" hit the culture. Things could have been worse.

The tell will be when he mentions to the press that a lot of people don't realise they're two guys

What do you think the odds are that Donald Trump thinks that Ayatollah Khamenei (very recently assassinated during Operation Epstein Distraction) is the same guy as Ayatollah Khomeini (died because hella old, hilarious funeral involving involuntary corpse crowd-surfing)?

I just did a minor household chore, and after completing it, my back doesn’t hurt and my heart rate seems normal. Amazing what seems like a victory to me these days.

I am, of course, going to have a rest before attempting a second minor household chore, I'm not a FOOL.

The book I'm reading is well written, but uses "smirk" to mean "small smile". The author is American, where maybe "smile" means "I can see all of your teeth including molars plus both sets of gums" but my dude, no. A smirk is knowing. A smirk is a bit malevolent. The word smirk carries some baggage.

The idiom “Don’t judge a book by its cover” clearly predates the invention of LLM-based image generation.

"Sound check! ... Mic so deep..."

Deadly fungus that will 'eat you from the inside out' is quickly spreading around the world Aspergillus fungus thrives because its genome bends easily to new pressures. It lives on soil, grains, animal feathers, even coral skeletons.

"Deadly fungus that will 'eat you from the inside out' is quickly spreading around the world"

You know what? Fine.

www.earth.com/news/deadly-...

I have just created a new music playlist called "Nostalgia Time!" Now to populate it with music that makes me feel a way.

Also, you can do it while fat, and kinda goofy looking, and wearing a Sisters of Mercy t-shirt. It still works. Trust me on this.

These weird "mogging" dudes on the socials. "All I do is work out. I paid for surgery to make my scrobicular arch 1mm thinner. My inter-nostril distance is maxxed."

Bro. Have you tried just talking to women and also being funny? It really works, and is WAY less effort than what you're doing.

Very Much Same.

Despite this excellent anniversary date, I am still kinda down over my current medical situation. Might try to cheer myself up by the tried and true solution of watching the 1995 movie "Hackers", or possibly the San Junipero episode of Black Mirror. Heck it, maybe both!

I would use Bluesky more if there was a desktop/mobile client that wasn't absolutely shit. Kinda hoping Tapbots drop their Phoenix client sometime soon.

It is our 17th wedding anniversary today. I continue to have exactly zero regrets about this situation, and m'colleague @annettle.bsky.social continues to be an absolute delight in every possible way.

“Kids, ask your parents who the Friends were.”

This seems like it cost Marvel Studios $1.7M, eight months of time, and several dozen committee meetings. Resources WELL SPENT, I think we can all agree.

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I can't explain, but "AI" model-generated art has the exact same vibes as this sort of music:

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Simply outrageous.

It is the day after my birthday, which means that it is now the birthday of the talented and lovely @ghet.bsky.social who, much like me, is now super fuckin' old and can see "Pensioner" from where she stands. How did this happen? Oh, "the linear nature of time?" Well, fuck THAT, then.

Touching grass isn’t enough. I need to evolve into a crab.

I am of an age where a birthday is to be slightly dreaded rather than enjoyed. However, it's nice to wake up on the day to a gift from your wife of a plethora of really weird snack foods and a card from your child containing some of the nicest words ever said to you.

I’m not really going to gigs right now, cos my health is poor and Covid still exists, but The Human League are touring, and unnnghhh damn, that’s tempting as fuuuuuck.

"I never see you at the club."

Yeah, well, I never see you at the ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86

Law enforcement agencies do be triumphantly announcing that they have shut down pirate media sites that neither I nor anyone I know has ever heard of or used.

I mean, congrats on shutting down TorrentSauce. I guess ScrungeFLIX no longer has it for you. I guess it's literally no longer on YarrPoob.

I watched Tron: Ares and it was much better than I was expecting. The "classic" Tron server scenes were fan service, but I am a fan, so... fine, service me. Also you can't beat a Depeche Mode shoutout. Jared Leto, however, continues his unbroken streak of being the Shia LeBeouf of actors.