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That time Collins was being interviewed at a party conference type thing by tv journos, on camera, about some scandal or other and she decided to deflect by trying to tip them a yarn about a journalist who they should really be investigating
January 28, 2026 at 5:34 AM
That time Collins was being interviewed at a party conference type thing by tv journos, on camera, about some scandal or other and she decided to deflect by trying to tip them a yarn about a journalist who they should really be investigating
That’s more like it, Wellington! Doesn’t need to be any hotter than this: 21°C with light winds and clear skies is just perfect.
January 28, 2026 at 5:01 AM
That’s more like it, Wellington! Doesn’t need to be any hotter than this: 21°C with light winds and clear skies is just perfect.
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If you'd asked me about the role of 3D printing in the revolution, I would never have come up with this
Megyn Kelly after hearing Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” for the one millionth time in 2006
January 28, 2026 at 12:32 AM
If you'd asked me about the role of 3D printing in the revolution, I would never have come up with this
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The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:22 PM
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
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I'm gonna make a database of people who are kind, generous, and good in bed and make sure everyone knows.
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 9:39 PM
I'm gonna make a database of people who are kind, generous, and good in bed and make sure everyone knows.
We don’t need to make an effort to hear right wing views. We get them from our relatives, from newspaper headlines, from Government Policy Statements.
"getting outside your bubble" is an admirable thing when it means trying a new hobby or introducing yourself to your neighbor or watching an art film but people only want to apply it to "being a little more racist just to see how it feels"
these people seem like idiots
January 27, 2026 at 9:55 PM
We don’t need to make an effort to hear right wing views. We get them from our relatives, from newspaper headlines, from Government Policy Statements.
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Among all the hype and bullshit it's nice to see the occasional "oh that's useful" story about machine learning.
Honestly "AI" is a category error and we should bring back discrete terms like "machine vision".
Honestly "AI" is a category error and we should bring back discrete terms like "machine vision".
Auckland Council turns to AI to cut cost of residents' recycling errors
Auckland Council turns to AI to cut cost of residents' recycling errors
Almost a third of Auckland's recycling now ends up in landfill, costing ratepayers millions of dollars annually.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 27, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Among all the hype and bullshit it's nice to see the occasional "oh that's useful" story about machine learning.
Honestly "AI" is a category error and we should bring back discrete terms like "machine vision".
Honestly "AI" is a category error and we should bring back discrete terms like "machine vision".
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They've updated the Community Roadwatch Report form so your car registration is a required field, meaning pedestrians are no longer able to lodge complaints 🫠
Community Roadwatch Report | Webforms
webforms.police.govt.nz
January 27, 2026 at 7:53 PM
They've updated the Community Roadwatch Report form so your car registration is a required field, meaning pedestrians are no longer able to lodge complaints 🫠
New eggcorn just dropped.
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 AM
New eggcorn just dropped.
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Actually, this is famously a thing you can do with eggs
January 27, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Actually, this is famously a thing you can do with eggs
I just got a stab of cognitive dissonance between the thoughtful, melancholy nature of my dinner-time reading and the self-indulgent nature of my actual dinner.
January 27, 2026 at 7:39 AM
I just got a stab of cognitive dissonance between the thoughtful, melancholy nature of my dinner-time reading and the self-indulgent nature of my actual dinner.
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This is very slick.
webRios is live. #rstats on your iPhone and iPad.
I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.
apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
I showed native R compilation on #iOS last week. Shipping it is another story (thanks, GPL). This version uses #webR 's #WebAssembly build instead. Different tradeoffs, but this one clears App Review.
apps.apple.com/us/app/webri...
January 27, 2026 at 5:48 AM
This is very slick.
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the NYT opinion pages
January 26, 2026 at 10:59 PM
the NYT opinion pages
This particular stretch of SH1 has been redesignated as SH 1T.
500 litres of human waste spills onto SH1 near Geraldine
500 litres of human waste spills onto SH1 near Geraldine
SH1 near Geraldine is down to one lane after a truck carrying port-a-loos crashed, sending hundreds of litres of human waste across the road.
www.rnz.co.nz
January 26, 2026 at 3:51 AM
This particular stretch of SH1 has been redesignated as SH 1T.
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Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
January 26, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Twice this week when meeting a new person I've gotten an excited "Wow, it must be an exciting time to be a political scientist!" and both times I've answered "Not really. That's like telling someone it's an exciting to be a surgeon when there's a 63 car pileup on the highway."
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part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
I mostly just stay off Twitter altogether but after double checking that the Walter Hudson post was still up I ran across this and just had to share so the Romancelandians who bought hand warmers could hear about the PROFESSIONAL GRADE LOGISTICS.
January 26, 2026 at 12:14 AM
part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis
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Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles
Whistles are now WMDs, according to the "high IQ" crowd.
January 25, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Hello I’m the ubermensch, my one weakness is whistles
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Whether it’s a ‘business decision’ to use wire service copypasta, austerity, incompetence, or top-down direction, the information ecosystem pollution is the same result.
And it is a result that happened because of particular decisions by particular people who are accountable for the consequences.
And it is a result that happened because of particular decisions by particular people who are accountable for the consequences.
January 25, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Whether it’s a ‘business decision’ to use wire service copypasta, austerity, incompetence, or top-down direction, the information ecosystem pollution is the same result.
And it is a result that happened because of particular decisions by particular people who are accountable for the consequences.
And it is a result that happened because of particular decisions by particular people who are accountable for the consequences.
![Meme stolen from fb, originally from Xitter user @gwenckatz.
“Herpetology groups: Stop saying snek
Ornithology groups: Here is our official position on the difference between a birb and a borb”
Followed by a grid labelled “Birdwatcher's Handy Field Guide.”
Bird [small red passerine]
Birb [colourful budgie(?) lying back in someone’s hand, eating a cracker]
Borb [very round small bird, possibly a red-breasted robin]
Blorb [gigantic spheroid pigeon, but not a kererū]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vkreaspprmqpnhmjewcozztr/bafkreieq4ldwqk6cpajcjaip6635de52vdjegqgzje7cggl6yfxfhmzixe@jpeg)
Snapshots from a holiday.
January 24, 2026 at 6:52 AM
Snapshots from a holiday.
It took a while of digging through the inevitable U2, Eagles and Cat Stevens records at this bach, but I eventually found the good stuff.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 AM
It took a while of digging through the inevitable U2, Eagles and Cat Stevens records at this bach, but I eventually found the good stuff.
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It’s -25C in MSP and people are filling the light rail to attend a protest against ICE.
Public transport and resisting fascism bringing people together. 🥹
Public transport and resisting fascism bringing people together. 🥹
1. The light rail is never this busy
2. Minnesotans are, by and large, not a people who are inclined to whoop and woo in the middle of the day without there being a sports based reason.
Definitely a huge day in Minneapolis.
2. Minnesotans are, by and large, not a people who are inclined to whoop and woo in the middle of the day without there being a sports based reason.
Definitely a huge day in Minneapolis.
I'm on the Green Line towards downtown Minneapolis ICE OUT protest.
The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity.
People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.
The train filled immediately. Even 20 stops away from our destination we reached capacity.
People are cheering at every stop when they see people waiting to board because we are all starting to realize how big this is.
January 24, 2026 at 1:32 AM
It’s -25C in MSP and people are filling the light rail to attend a protest against ICE.
Public transport and resisting fascism bringing people together. 🥹
Public transport and resisting fascism bringing people together. 🥹
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In today’s episode of Dystopia Now…
Active rescue ambulance hits food delivery robot in Hollywood
Active rescue ambulance hits food delivery robot in Hollywood
An ambulance transporting a patient struck a food delivery robot in Hollywood late Friday morning, prompting a brief police investigation and the dispatch of a second rescue unit, officials confirm…
ktla.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:07 PM
In today’s episode of Dystopia Now…