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Check out the new Star I made for the top of our Christmas tree
December 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Check out the new Star I made for the top of our Christmas tree
Fog, lurking down in the valley on this morning's dog walk.
December 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Fog, lurking down in the valley on this morning's dog walk.
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The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The questioun ys "Are we ther yet?" Thys questioun ys divided ynto three partes...
Executives have always fetishized "ideas" because they can't _do_ anything! So they spew their mediocre brain-drool all over captive underlings, and we get the soulless glitzy results.
With AI, now you can be a relative nobody and still produce highly polished turds to inflict on unwilling people!
With AI, now you can be a relative nobody and still produce highly polished turds to inflict on unwilling people!
I said it before, will say it again -- generative AI fetishizes "ideas" while sneering at effort, execution, and education. That, despite Gen-AI being built on and out of other people's effort, execution and education.
A.I. and the Fetishization Of Ideas
In writing and in dispensing my (very dubious, probably shady) writing advice, I am often keen to note that ideas are bullshit. Most writers treat them like precious gems when really, ideas are lik…
terribleminds.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Executives have always fetishized "ideas" because they can't _do_ anything! So they spew their mediocre brain-drool all over captive underlings, and we get the soulless glitzy results.
With AI, now you can be a relative nobody and still produce highly polished turds to inflict on unwilling people!
With AI, now you can be a relative nobody and still produce highly polished turds to inflict on unwilling people!
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Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saw this adorable French animation ad and I had to share it over here! The style looks familiar but I can’t my finger on what group it is. Any ideas?
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One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
Everything else aside, the idea that this is a model for many men of *masculinity* is so wild. This? This is "manly"? This is how people think it's cool to act?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-wG...
Dave Portnoy Demands NFL Investigate Pete Carroll & Raiders For Rigging
YouTube video by Clasher Sports
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.
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can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
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More Don Bluth-esque 2D animation work for commercials please
Christmas commercial for Infinitum (recycling company, Norway).
Animation : Brikk & Dept studios.
Inspiration : Don Bluth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twI...
Animation : Brikk & Dept studios.
Inspiration : Don Bluth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2twI...
December 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
More Don Bluth-esque 2D animation work for commercials please
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Leaders were reasonably concerned that responding to good-faith concern with authority and threats would lead to loss of trust and pointless resistance, but they did not foresee that responding to bad-faith concern with honest engagement and flexibility would cause the same thing.
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Leaders were reasonably concerned that responding to good-faith concern with authority and threats would lead to loss of trust and pointless resistance, but they did not foresee that responding to bad-faith concern with honest engagement and flexibility would cause the same thing.
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Thirty years ago today, the scientist Clair Patterson passed away. He campaigned tirelessly and effectively to remove lead from gasoline, paint, pipes, and food cans. The drop in violent crime that correlates with this change? Massive.
Science hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...
Science hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...
Clair Patterson - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Thirty years ago today, the scientist Clair Patterson passed away. He campaigned tirelessly and effectively to remove lead from gasoline, paint, pipes, and food cans. The drop in violent crime that correlates with this change? Massive.
Science hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...
Science hero.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_P...
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Merge all the studios whose names are just broad cosmic concepts.
UNIVERSAL TIME DISCOVERY
UNIVERSAL TIME DISCOVERY
December 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Merge all the studios whose names are just broad cosmic concepts.
UNIVERSAL TIME DISCOVERY
UNIVERSAL TIME DISCOVERY
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Oh my god, say it louder. LOUDERRRRR.
Note to publishers/online booksellers/etc.: If your online preview of a work doesn't make it through the introduction, you may be doing it wrong.
It is rare that the introduction is the part we want to sample.
It is rare that the introduction is the part we want to sample.
December 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Oh my god, say it louder. LOUDERRRRR.
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Who up widening they gyre
anybody else’s gyre feel wider lately
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Who up widening they gyre
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One of my favorite parts of TikTok these days are all of the ballet dancers being goofy in their Nutcracker costumes, bc when else do you get to dress up like an incredibly fabulous dapper rat
December 12, 2024 at 9:34 PM
One of my favorite parts of TikTok these days are all of the ballet dancers being goofy in their Nutcracker costumes, bc when else do you get to dress up like an incredibly fabulous dapper rat
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This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.
This is the best plan I've heard in a while.
what if instead of stepping out of my comfort zone I step into an even comfier zone. perhaps take a nap in a large fluffy dinner roll.
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This is the best plan I've heard in a while.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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Hey, can my deleted BlueSky post get re-posted?
December 3, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Hey, can my deleted BlueSky post get re-posted?
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I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
December 3, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I've had a rough day, and I think I've earned this.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
GOAT PAJAMA PARTY.
Goats are from @sunflowerfarm.bsky.social in Cumberland, Maine (via their YT). Bless their chaotic little hearts and tiny pink noses.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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This is why foreplay is important
Last week in our student reading group we read the portion of Wealth of Nations in which Smith comments on the way generally unedifying ways that young men spend their gap year/ study abroad/ grand tour time.
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
www.nbcnews.com/news/world/a...
American Student Ends Up Trapped in Giant Vagina Sculpture
Firefighters embarked on an "extraordinary rescue mission" when an American exchange student got his leg trapped inside a giant vagina sculpture.
www.nbcnews.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is why foreplay is important