this kind of untargeted spam is really on the rise

imagine if it was customary after a bad date to send a clown with flowers and an apology note

“We shouldn’t have to tolerate critical speech from these people. They aren’t even citizens, who we also shouldn’t have to tolerate critical speech from.”

look man Pete just can’t work without a dressing room to drink and fall asleep in

the cruelty is the point

thank you for the wonderful post, jeff. i appreciate reading it almost as much as i appreciate not having to think about elon musk’s sperms two days in a row, oh fuck oh goddamn it

What a powerful essay. Thank you for sharing it again.

A CSX-livery freight train car with “DO NOT HUMP” stenciled onto the side of the carriage above the wheel. The stencil work is professional, not graffiti.

I think they started printing this warning on trains to keep @samfromwendover.bsky.social from getting overexcited

Golly those are incredible. You’re doing amazing work. I hope this batch behaves!

Trump to Chair Force: “get wrecked”

GenAI doesn't help disabled people make art. People, disabled and not, help genAI make monetizable garbage content for fascist megacorporations to boost their unsustainable, toxic dehumanization machines.

@thewheatgerm.bsky.social i’m starting to suspect that at the end of this season Tom Scott will simply refuse to leave the show

ironically yes

it’s important to remember during an anxiety episode that literally everything you’re worrying about is going to be worse than you can imagine

@gruber.foo Your mention that organizing the Home Screen sucks on iOS came the same day I learned, by frustrated accident, that it’s possible to drag an app icon out of Spotlight’s search results and place it wherever you want. Takes almost all the sting out. Talk about a badly publicized feature!

man i am not excited about anything i am reading about #civ7

i’m sorry you have so much material to work with these days

What I keep hearing is that the “law and order” party uses law and order as a proxy for white supremacy because so much of our legal system penalizes minorities, and they don’t really care about the rule of law. But what I keep actually thinking is that I’m too depressed to move

fun fact: being uninteresting is indistinguishable from being shadowbanned

reddit being pillaged for permanent corporate utility is still my least favorite development of 2023, unless we’re counting the widespread destruction of creative jobs as a 2023 problem which arguably we should

ugh hot milfs sound like too much work

yeah it was pretty unrestful!

one time i fell asleep on the sofa while playing guitar and had a terribly vivid dream about trying not to break the headstock while the rest of the dream happened

kind of snowy out there

Also Anne Boyer:

shut it all down, the war on Christmas is over and against all odds Thanksgiving stole the win

Spotify's decision to stop paying royalties on less popular tracks is "discriminatory and exploitative", says competition law expert By Matt Mullen Others have suggested that the move indicates Spotify may eventually begin charging artists to host their music on the platform Last week, Music Business Worldwide reported that Spotify is planning to make some drastic changes to its royalty model in 2024.

The most controversial of these is the decision to stop paying royalties to the artists and rightsholders behind tracks that are streamed less than 1000 times annually, a move that will effectively demonetize more than two-thirds of its entire catalogue.

I'm sorry isn't this.... theft???

PSA for everyone (not just the internet): “but they were an asshole to me first” is not the defense you think it is

“1979 wasn’t 44 years ago, dude” -> “oh”

anyway congratulations on keeping people laughing, fellow traveler

…fictions which agree completely with the consumer’s priors. it is a discouraging time to create.