This was a fun one for me to write. It's the Angine de Poitrine argument for universal basic income. We could have more weird, awesome, truly human stuff like this if we all had UBI. We could have more Einsteins too. And because those things are true, the cost of NOT doing UBI isn't worth it.
Illustration: a dour looking pig. Speech bubble reads “Look at this absurd joke. It is a well meaning but ultimately doomed construct designed to distract us from our inevitable journey into nothingness I shall not be complicit in its foolishness.” Caption: Werner Herz-hog
Werner Herzhog.
#art
Somewhat ludicrous BBC headline: "staggering" I was not told Mandelson failed vetting, says PM
[climbing out of my car which is now embedded in my neighbours' front room, turning to them hands on hips] honestly I'm as mad about this as you are
Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet
TV and vhs tapes
This is what going on the internet used to feel like
Post by read-and-be-merry: "List of Books to Read Before You Die 1. Any book you want 2. Don't read books you don't want to read 3. That's it 4. Congratulations you did it" Reply by iammewhooaryou: "I really like this list. All my favorite books are on it." Reply by read-and-be-merry: "Thanks I worked really hard on it"
(enteignet wegen fehlendem Alt-Text)
Still undecided? Would 25% off shirts and up to 40% off elsewhere sweeten the deal? Good, cos it’s happening RIGHT NOW!!
This is rather brilliant - Having Super Mario Kart Racing in your own home, the live-action version.
This course features collectible LEGO figures of Mario, Luigi and the gang.
The creation is part of a Rube Goldberg-style machine featured by Joseph's Machines.
#mario #lego #racing #fun
The quality of photos from Artemis II of the moon surface is incredible to witness in real time.
Suspects in the police line read from a sheet of paper Suspect 1 (Kevin Pollak) "Open the fuckin' strait you crazy bastards" Suspect 2 (Stephen Baldwin) "Open the strait you crazy bastard motehrfucka praise allallllalllah" Suspect 3 (Benicio del Toro) "Open the fuckin' strait you crazy bastards" - What the fuck?"
The Usual Suspects (1995)
I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions
You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.
Pilgrim I literally never read a prologue on principle alone. If it's that important, it should be in the book.
Doyle789 I agree completely. The epilogues and prologues aren't part of the story. If they were important they would be part of the story. People write forwards for books, that's just another person writing about what they thought about the book or author... I assume that's what author is doing in the prologue and epilogues
Erin I agree. I feel like it's stuff that wasn't good enough to be in the book 20h Reply 100
dude epilogues and prolouges to me are equivalent to dvd bonus features and are therefore skippable unless you're really into it 8h Reply • 255
I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”???????
Yeah they’re far worse than the media reports eyyoo
Also John this is your agent we advise you to keep posting through it king
wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it
'I'm pleased to have this opportunity to update you on our longstanding position.' is fucking baller
subway ad that says "your idea could be live by the time you reach your stop"
as a culture we have really given "ideas" way too much credit. ideas are a dime a dozen. they happen all the time. the magic is way more in the doing, and the doing's diminished stature is linked to lack of respect for labor and, more recently, skill and expertise.
A new town named after a beloved and popular Briton? Look no further than Lemmyton Spa.
Screenshot from a BBC educational website. The expanded section reads: "10. How to be polite and show respect In the old days of feudal Japan, a samurai warrior would shout You are trying to view Flash content, but you have no Flash plugin installed."
Remembering the ancient ways
They steal your work, they dumb you down, they make your electricity more expensive, they take your water and your livelihood.
But at least you’ll get opportunity of a lifetime: information that according to one BBC study is likely to be wrong 51% of the time!
Incredible“progress” 💀
Allow me to convey my hateness for this likeness shit. You wanna see the dead actor? Go watch all the movies they acted in when they were alive. You want new movies? Give new actors paid acting jobs to make new movies. Stop this shit.
Legendary Irish beat-cop, Jim Malone
Happy St Patrick's Day ☘️
They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
So relieved there's no bigger issues to worry about right now. Thanks, Ed.
Andrew Tate's twatty video only starts making any sense when you use different music
just heard a guy on youtube say "in the grand scream of things"
It will take more than one post to list all the ways in which the right have no media literacy whatsoever. They love the noise & sound films & TV make without understanding what any of it means. So anyway, let's go through some of the clips they used in support of their illegal and immoral war. 1/7
pan of cute biscuits decorated to look like faces
same pan baked, a horrific fucked up mass of evil
how it started/how it's going
We could just call them 'Woody Allen glasses' and everyone would get the idea to stay away immediately.
