The Devouring Mother
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The End of BlueSky is Nigh. Are you prepared?
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All I know is if and when I “put together a team,” at least one person is going to be French
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
“It’s very surprising because they stole 450 kilos of snail meat.”
Thieves take €90,000 of snails meant for Michelin-starred restaurants
French police are on the trail of ‘experienced’ criminals who stole a whole year’s worth of produce from Jean-Mathieu Dauvergne’s L’Escargot des Grands Crus
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November 28, 2025 at 5:12 AM
All I know is if and when I “put together a team,” at least one person is going to be French
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A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy
November 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A theory: all Warren Zevon songs are Thanksgiving songs because Warren Zevon has big Uncle Making A Scene energy
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Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Guys, as a ex call center employee, this is fucking DESPERATION BEHAVIOR.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
Pizza and ice cream once may be an entire year's planned discretionary budget for a team, they do NOT value them enough to provide common comfort. If their doing this? Their not just scared, their TERRIFIED.
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 PM
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.
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Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...
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It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
My rule of thumb is if the company is named after something in Lord of the Rings, it’s almost certainly evil.
Since its founding in 2017, Anduril Industries has become one of the hottest companies in a crowded field of defense-tech startup.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
Its fast-moving approach comes with its share of setbacks.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.
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TRANSPHOBE: Archaeologists in the future will know you were a BIOLOGICAL MALE.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN THE FUTURE: oh hell yeah a fully intact skeleton from the "what the fuck" era. haha what the fuck. look it's got crystallized caffeine in the interstices
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN THE FUTURE: oh hell yeah a fully intact skeleton from the "what the fuck" era. haha what the fuck. look it's got crystallized caffeine in the interstices
November 23, 2025 at 6:42 PM
TRANSPHOBE: Archaeologists in the future will know you were a BIOLOGICAL MALE.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN THE FUTURE: oh hell yeah a fully intact skeleton from the "what the fuck" era. haha what the fuck. look it's got crystallized caffeine in the interstices
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN THE FUTURE: oh hell yeah a fully intact skeleton from the "what the fuck" era. haha what the fuck. look it's got crystallized caffeine in the interstices
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WE. DON'T. HAVE. ANY. FUCKING. MONEY.
YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY PAY US IF YOU WANT US BUYING USELESS SHIT.
YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY PAY US IF YOU WANT US BUYING USELESS SHIT.
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
WE. DON'T. HAVE. ANY. FUCKING. MONEY.
YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY PAY US IF YOU WANT US BUYING USELESS SHIT.
YOU NEED TO ACTUALLY PAY US IF YOU WANT US BUYING USELESS SHIT.
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See! When people say “why doesn’t Batman use his billions to fight crime?” they don’t realize he’s still the most responsible and genuinely heroic non-duck billionaire in history
Why is it billionaires waste all their time and effort on fascist bullshit when they could genuinely afford to be Batman? Fuckwits.
November 28, 2025 at 2:44 AM
See! When people say “why doesn’t Batman use his billions to fight crime?” they don’t realize he’s still the most responsible and genuinely heroic non-duck billionaire in history
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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
FREE Shipping is GO!
Get your paws on some excellent books with free delivery 28 Nov-1 Dec. Support independent bookshops, indie booksellers (and their cats.) Bookshop.org
[Site-wide | UK only | Standard shipping]
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Turning my TV round so Sadako clonks her head against the wall
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Turning my TV round so Sadako clonks her head against the wall
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The reason why our media class think £2 million isn’t much for a house is that half of them went to private schools and grew up in houses now worth £2million. Bet they’re serving mum and dad funny tasting cups of tea
November 27, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The reason why our media class think £2 million isn’t much for a house is that half of them went to private schools and grew up in houses now worth £2million. Bet they’re serving mum and dad funny tasting cups of tea
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Tech decided that killing off the web as an information ecosystem was an economically expedient way to bootstrap their vision of a fully-automated future thinking they could figure out the “full automation” bit on the fly without understanding any of what they’re automating
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Tech decided that killing off the web as an information ecosystem was an economically expedient way to bootstrap their vision of a fully-automated future thinking they could figure out the “full automation” bit on the fly without understanding any of what they’re automating
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Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
Long COVID takes $1 trillion global economic toll each year, analysis suggests
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Right.
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
I see.
And they said disease control was expensive.
How many buildings could we have fixed with this kind of money? Hmmm?
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/lon...
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
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begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
begging people to learn to separate “i like it” with “it’s good.”
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
i like some things that are objectively crap. you can admit that you do too. it’s fine
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question: Chatbots have a habit of grovelling when they're caught making stuff up. Who actually wants the chatbot to grovel? How did this become the standard behaviour? Who asked for this?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 AM
question: Chatbots have a habit of grovelling when they're caught making stuff up. Who actually wants the chatbot to grovel? How did this become the standard behaviour? Who asked for this?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
I mean, I could hypothesise and so could you. But how did this actually become standard across the chatbots?
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This is my personal favourite piece I’ve written in a very long time. *puts on “personally attacked” t shirt under velvet coat
Alma Montague, 37, who exclusively wears luxurious fabrics, deep jewel tones and a permanent knowing twinkle in her eye, reportedly didn’t set out for a career as Merlin with tits, but has admitted that her eccentric dress sense could be “trying to tell me something”.
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www.patreon.com/posts/143761...
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This is my personal favourite piece I’ve written in a very long time. *puts on “personally attacked” t shirt under velvet coat
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For this "Black Friday" I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount.
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The ‘Everything Bundle’
You can get all four ebooks, in both EPUB and PDF formats, in a single bundle, at a 60% discount off the combined price.It includes:Out of the Software Crisis: Systems-Thinking for Software Projects, ...
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November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
For this "Black Friday" I'm bringing the "everything bundle" back out of retirement one last time, which lets you buy all four of my ebooks at a 60% discount.
payhip.baldurbjarnason.com/b/UwFnP
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Arguably more important this year than any other. Bezos won't miss your money, but independents *will*
Remember - if you're financially in a position to do so, skip the #BlackFriday deals online from big companies and shop instead from small and local businesses.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
The big guns don't need your money, but for small traders it can be what keeps them going into 2026, so support your community instead.
November 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Arguably more important this year than any other. Bezos won't miss your money, but independents *will*
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Ladies, gents, and corporeal souls I would like to announce that Mr. Persimmon Fig has finally pooped after around 36 hours. And feels loads better. His hydration has come way up and he’s being very much more active and kitten-ish. He’s not spicy despite finding him outside and is SO SWEET.
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Ladies, gents, and corporeal souls I would like to announce that Mr. Persimmon Fig has finally pooped after around 36 hours. And feels loads better. His hydration has come way up and he’s being very much more active and kitten-ish. He’s not spicy despite finding him outside and is SO SWEET.
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You know, I never see anyone talking about UKians.
November 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You know, I never see anyone talking about UKians.
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so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:11 AM
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
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Nothing to see here: Just a CIA trained killer from an elite unit travels from Washington State to DC to shoot random National Guard troops at a random train station on Thanksgiving Eve. Even MAGA has to know this smells rotten.
November 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nothing to see here: Just a CIA trained killer from an elite unit travels from Washington State to DC to shoot random National Guard troops at a random train station on Thanksgiving Eve. Even MAGA has to know this smells rotten.