Ben
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love is the plan the plan is death
I'm playing a lot of chess this year and one of the reasons why - other than just being a nerd who doesn't know when he's beat, what with how I'm fucking terrible at chess - is that it's instructive to get into a field that has been "solved" by AI for more than a generation.
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm playing a lot of chess this year and one of the reasons why - other than just being a nerd who doesn't know when he's beat, what with how I'm fucking terrible at chess - is that it's instructive to get into a field that has been "solved" by AI for more than a generation.
not sam fucking kriss doing the "psych, that paragraph was written by AI" in the new york fucking times
December 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
not sam fucking kriss doing the "psych, that paragraph was written by AI" in the new york fucking times
is it your listeners, joe
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
is it your listeners, joe
warhammer lore is really complex and literary, actually, it's a lot like Milton
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
warhammer lore is really complex and literary, actually, it's a lot like Milton
that's fucked up, why was the pope praying there when it blew up
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
that's fucked up, why was the pope praying there when it blew up
the annoying thing about saying you work in publishing is that the question you get is "so do you ever want to write a book yourself?" and the reason is annoying is that for 95% of people in publishing the answer is "deep sigh]...yes"
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
the annoying thing about saying you work in publishing is that the question you get is "so do you ever want to write a book yourself?" and the reason is annoying is that for 95% of people in publishing the answer is "deep sigh]...yes"
extremely monkey's paw. we stopped speculating about the budget's contents but instead we get two months of "should the head of the OBR be ritually disembowelled on live television?" and "did Rachel Reeves bamboozle the simple folk of the nation with her shadowy witchcraft?"
it may not feel that way. it may feel like we are fated to dwell in this morass forever. but, by my blade, i swear to you that one day we shall actually see the Budget released and not have to speculate about it for six weeks solid jesus fucking christ i'm so fucking bored
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
extremely monkey's paw. we stopped speculating about the budget's contents but instead we get two months of "should the head of the OBR be ritually disembowelled on live television?" and "did Rachel Reeves bamboozle the simple folk of the nation with her shadowy witchcraft?"
the blizzard of year-end lists hitting on Dec 1st is too much. save it for the 15th, lads
December 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
the blizzard of year-end lists hitting on Dec 1st is too much. save it for the 15th, lads
What use have We for an odd elephant?
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What use have We for an odd elephant?
becoming one of those guys who used to smuggle bibles into the Eastern Bloc, but for getting a suitcase full of Sally Rooney novels past the patrols on the Dublin-Holyhead ferry
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
becoming one of those guys who used to smuggle bibles into the Eastern Bloc, but for getting a suitcase full of Sally Rooney novels past the patrols on the Dublin-Holyhead ferry
Reposted by Ben
What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
What the white whale was to Ahab, has been hinted; what, at times, he was to me, as yet remains unsaid.
"Kemi Badenoch reorients the Tory party to Christian anarcho-primitivism"
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Kemi Badenoch reorients the Tory party to Christian anarcho-primitivism"
it's pretty funny that keir starmer
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 PM
it's pretty funny that keir starmer
the thing where you click on a thing but then you realise it's a misclick so you do the thing where you hold and keep clicking while you drag off the thing. that thing
November 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
the thing where you click on a thing but then you realise it's a misclick so you do the thing where you hold and keep clicking while you drag off the thing. that thing
honestly i know we hate the government but look at the polling on the two-child cap and remind yourself that it is also important to hate the electorate
% who say each 2025 Budget policy was the 'right thing to do' (1/3)
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
Increase gambling taxes: 82%
Freeze rail fares: 82%
Reducing energy bills by £150 a year by reducing green levies: 75%
Increasing minimum wage: 71%
Mansion tax: 67%
Decreasing biz rates for retail/hospitality/leisure: 64%
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 AM
honestly i know we hate the government but look at the polling on the two-child cap and remind yourself that it is also important to hate the electorate
both laughing at and fucking terrified of the website that sells various monstrously unethical animal research devices and uses AI images of the animals in question with the "cuteness" slider set to 100 for its marketing
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
both laughing at and fucking terrified of the website that sells various monstrously unethical animal research devices and uses AI images of the animals in question with the "cuteness" slider set to 100 for its marketing
i guess what i don't get about these doomer posts is, like, how in fact do fake pictures of non-existent influencers make things bad
this image was generated with google's latest nana banana pro tool. we have no idea how bad it is about to get.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
i guess what i don't get about these doomer posts is, like, how in fact do fake pictures of non-existent influencers make things bad
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO becoming pyschologically dependant on one particular 10-minute pasta dish
November 27, 2025 at 6:04 PM
YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO becoming pyschologically dependant on one particular 10-minute pasta dish
what is the fucking point anymore
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers on.ft.com/48B0g1U
Labour retreats on ‘day one’ rights for workers
Government has softened its package of measures to boost employment rights
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
what is the fucking point anymore
"an extraordinary discovery? at this time of year, in this part of the country, on the Ness of Brodgar?"
"yes!"
"...may we see it?"
"...no."
"yes!"
"...may we see it?"
"...no."
'Extraordinary discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic site
Archaeologists are to resume digging at the site after 3D radar technology uncovered a mystery find.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"an extraordinary discovery? at this time of year, in this part of the country, on the Ness of Brodgar?"
"yes!"
"...may we see it?"
"...no."
"yes!"
"...may we see it?"
"...no."
time is subjective but i'm fairly sure i last watched Stranger Things 40 years ago and it was simply set in the present day
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
time is subjective but i'm fairly sure i last watched Stranger Things 40 years ago and it was simply set in the present day
do you really expect any youths to volunteer when the uniform is this
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
do you really expect any youths to volunteer when the uniform is this