Legit why I do this

“Dustin why don’t you try acting my boy?” After learning what Hoffman had gone through to prep for Marathon Man

Fucking love Sakurajima and Kagoshima so much (last visited in 2023)

But it is ludicrously hot

BBC News explain that because of Brexit, Brits will be photographed and have their fingerprints taken when going into the EU, as the UK now is a third country

BBC News forget to explain that the UK helped create these rules when we were part of the EU because we wanted stronger border control

Don’t threaten us with a good time. It’s a predatory industry and a blight on British society

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

High on his own supply, tragic

He’s not been the same since Henrietta left him for Noo Noo

None of these people were actually interested in doing the work of running local government. They just like being Licensed Public Racists.

It was fine in 97, cultural zietgeist and all that and at least other bands tempered the damage, but they have been doing the same routine since then and it’s just time to move on

Time to wipe out more of Canadas cod stocks

Oh wait carry on.

Th Dutch get this which is why they make going into the centre of places like Bruges a nightmare by car

A policy replicated in Birmingham only by mistake and only just about attempted in London

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

yeah I built an AI that hangs out on your porch and drinks a six pack for you so you can write regexes at work

Ok so there’s a battle I guess, let’s get that out of the way, but also now for 20 pages on how to do surgery and stop the captain eating rare wildlife (you cannot)

I love them.

It’s a material reality that right now the AI tech bubble is holding up the empire. It increasingly powers all commerce, and is central to the most invasive surveillance apparatus the world has ever seen. Predictive analytics trained on our data have allowed billionaires to track us like wildlife.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

The railways are never going to break even. At best London and the SE plus two main lines might subsidise the rest. But there will always be some subsidy.

A reminder this man cannot physically pay for petrol with a contactless card

Last day in Kumamoto

I have bought a shit ton of textiles and pottery and had a fantastic Warabumochi drink so its been a good day

I need this more than anything I have ever needed anything else in my life

I really don't know what to do about a situation where a plurality of the group that (rightly!) takes up most government spending thinks that it is unrepresented in politics.

Enshoritification is a terrible terrible word.

Call it demographic collapse

(Also I am available to move here if they’ll have me doing anything but teaching English (they will not))

Wife rented a car to visit Mt Aso and we tootled around the caldera all day

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