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Jessie and Jack are definitely siblings or at least cousins. #TheTraitors
January 7, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Jessie and Jack are definitely siblings or at least cousins. #TheTraitors
Great opportunity to share my favourite screenshot of all time:
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Great opportunity to share my favourite screenshot of all time:
a) The sentence 'flexible sigmoidoscopy identified innumerable pumpkin seeds' will live in my mind forever; b) I looked up a Roth net, figuring that what I was picturing (a little fishing net they stick up your bum) couldn't possibly be what it actually was. Well.
December 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
a) The sentence 'flexible sigmoidoscopy identified innumerable pumpkin seeds' will live in my mind forever; b) I looked up a Roth net, figuring that what I was picturing (a little fishing net they stick up your bum) couldn't possibly be what it actually was. Well.
Found this great leaflet online. I am always asking myself this: www.hey.nhs.uk/patient-leaf...
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Found this great leaflet online. I am always asking myself this: www.hey.nhs.uk/patient-leaf...
saw this image on one of @eruditorumpress.com's chapters and immediately knew that this was the distillation of my husband @flameswallower.bsky.social's aesthetic even before he confirmed that yes, he read it as a teenager, and yes, it had a deep and lasting impact on his psyche and aesthetic senses
October 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
saw this image on one of @eruditorumpress.com's chapters and immediately knew that this was the distillation of my husband @flameswallower.bsky.social's aesthetic even before he confirmed that yes, he read it as a teenager, and yes, it had a deep and lasting impact on his psyche and aesthetic senses
it's reviews like these that remind me why I love being Into Perfumes
October 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
it's reviews like these that remind me why I love being Into Perfumes
I simply cannot stop laughing at this Vinted listing that someone clearly used ChatGPT to compose.
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
I simply cannot stop laughing at this Vinted listing that someone clearly used ChatGPT to compose.
someone on Vinted listed this and put 'ideal as a decorative room divider' even though it's obviously 6 inches high 😭
September 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
someone on Vinted listed this and put 'ideal as a decorative room divider' even though it's obviously 6 inches high 😭
One of my edgiest opinions is that I think food served in a way that makes it seem grosser than it is, is great actually. I'm also a huge fan of those ceramic chef's mouths that a terrible Michelin-starred restaurant in Lecce used to serve citrus foam with no utensils (you had to lick it out).
September 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
One of my edgiest opinions is that I think food served in a way that makes it seem grosser than it is, is great actually. I'm also a huge fan of those ceramic chef's mouths that a terrible Michelin-starred restaurant in Lecce used to serve citrus foam with no utensils (you had to lick it out).
Can I interest you in the cover for this Kindle edition of 'The Good Soldier', which tragically is no longer for sale on Amazon? Might be the only time I've bought an ebook specifically for the cover; I laugh every time I see it.
September 16, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Can I interest you in the cover for this Kindle edition of 'The Good Soldier', which tragically is no longer for sale on Amazon? Might be the only time I've bought an ebook specifically for the cover; I laugh every time I see it.
You know that bullshit Jonathan Chait thing about how leftwing people don't have a sanctity/degradation axis? Wrong. My sanctity/degradation axis revolts at burying someone in a D-Tier Tesco bag for life design.
September 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
You know that bullshit Jonathan Chait thing about how leftwing people don't have a sanctity/degradation axis? Wrong. My sanctity/degradation axis revolts at burying someone in a D-Tier Tesco bag for life design.
This is apparently one of their most popular designs, and I'm going to need a new set of laws that prohibit burying someone in this.
September 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
This is apparently one of their most popular designs, and I'm going to need a new set of laws that prohibit burying someone in this.
Dressing my toddler up like a guy whose wife decorated their entire home in shades of white and grey and beige around him while he sat watching an endless loop of football, drinking a mediocre beer, eating pringles. Her nails are beige and four inches long and he lowkey thinks they grow that way.
August 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Dressing my toddler up like a guy whose wife decorated their entire home in shades of white and grey and beige around him while he sat watching an endless loop of football, drinking a mediocre beer, eating pringles. Her nails are beige and four inches long and he lowkey thinks they grow that way.
This toddler's only emotionally significant relationships are with 3-4 guys from uni, to whom he is homosocially and - let's face it - more than a little homoerotically bonded. he'll spend the next decade in increasing rage as they all peel away to form hetero couples. he gets too drunk at weddings.
August 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
This toddler's only emotionally significant relationships are with 3-4 guys from uni, to whom he is homosocially and - let's face it - more than a little homoerotically bonded. he'll spend the next decade in increasing rage as they all peel away to form hetero couples. he gets too drunk at weddings.
This toddler bought a disposable barbecue from Tesco and insists on calling it a 'barbie' which he puts on an Australian accent for. It's the only time this year he's cooked something that didn't come out of a jar.
August 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This toddler bought a disposable barbecue from Tesco and insists on calling it a 'barbie' which he puts on an Australian accent for. It's the only time this year he's cooked something that didn't come out of a jar.
I like it when my toddler looks like he wears a perfume that he calls 'cologne' and is 90% Ambroxan.
August 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I like it when my toddler looks like he wears a perfume that he calls 'cologne' and is 90% Ambroxan.
Why do so many people want to dress their toddlers like some guy who drives an Audi and uses the word 'mate' only when he is addressing a tradesman. Why is that a thing.
August 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Why do so many people want to dress their toddlers like some guy who drives an Audi and uses the word 'mate' only when he is addressing a tradesman. Why is that a thing.
Look I think everyone can do whatever they need to, but imo if you respond to someone's long, carefully argued thread about why the article they shared doesn't hold water by blocking that person? You are a cowardly little bitch. This is the article btw: aeon.co/essays/your-...
August 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Look I think everyone can do whatever they need to, but imo if you respond to someone's long, carefully argued thread about why the article they shared doesn't hold water by blocking that person? You are a cowardly little bitch. This is the article btw: aeon.co/essays/your-...
Again, to be clear I essentially agree with this! Though I think plopping social context at the end like an afterthought is bananas. But the article doesn't argue well for its conclusions, perhaps, if I'm allowed a little cattiness, unsurprisingly for a philosophy article written by a psychologist.
August 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Again, to be clear I essentially agree with this! Though I think plopping social context at the end like an afterthought is bananas. But the article doesn't argue well for its conclusions, perhaps, if I'm allowed a little cattiness, unsurprisingly for a philosophy article written by a psychologist.
It's easy to be generous and say this was written in 2016, when neural networks were not at the forefront of most people's minds, and so you could get away with acting like if computers didn't act like 70s era ones they at least acted like 90s era ones. But this guy was working in cognitive science.
August 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It's easy to be generous and say this was written in 2016, when neural networks were not at the forefront of most people's minds, and so you could get away with acting like if computers didn't act like 70s era ones they at least acted like 90s era ones. But this guy was working in cognitive science.
The thing that's driving me insane is that I can easily imagine - and perhaps it would be more likely, in today's climate - an article arguing the exact opposite, that humans 'literally process information' but computers do not because they are unable to comprehend what they process as information
August 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The thing that's driving me insane is that I can easily imagine - and perhaps it would be more likely, in today's climate - an article arguing the exact opposite, that humans 'literally process information' but computers do not because they are unable to comprehend what they process as information
The metaphor doesn't go in that direction! The phrase 'from memory' predates computers by hundreds of years. This is something I pulled pretty much at random from a text from 1710.
August 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The metaphor doesn't go in that direction! The phrase 'from memory' predates computers by hundreds of years. This is something I pulled pretty much at random from a text from 1710.
Author uses this comparison between a dollar bill drawn from memory and a dollar bill copied from an actual bill to argue that brains don't store 'symbolic representations' of objects. But this is what you'd expect to see if brains used lossy compression algorithms that prioritised meaningful detail
August 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Author uses this comparison between a dollar bill drawn from memory and a dollar bill copied from an actual bill to argue that brains don't store 'symbolic representations' of objects. But this is what you'd expect to see if brains used lossy compression algorithms that prioritised meaningful detail
These are the four most recent New Yorker caption contest cartoons. 'So you're telling me I read all that Deleuze for nothing?' is a suitable caption for every one of them.
July 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
These are the four most recent New Yorker caption contest cartoons. 'So you're telling me I read all that Deleuze for nothing?' is a suitable caption for every one of them.