The Liz Truss of performative religion if you like.

I wonder what the shortest amount of time is between someone being baptized Catholic and excommunicated because we may be looking at a new record here shortly

was not expecting libs to get the catholic church in the national divorce

"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

A chicken in a butchers labelled "Diaper Poultry"

Software industry: We're launching a $25m project to rebrand the company.
Farmers: Hold my beer...

🧵->

"He who can destroy a thing controls a thing" - Paul Muad'Dib

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116346131673146392

"the compiler is unable to type-check this expression without violating P!=NP. Proceed Y/N?"

Image of distinctive 70s/80s Pernod bottle.

Found a 50 year old bottle of Pernod at my mum's. Should I drink it?

"So let it be written; so let it be done"

"Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. En-demic. Lots of boys are playing soldier now. The men who run the world aren't, and neither are the boys most effectively bent on running it next. Or the ones who're actually having to be soldiers, of course. But many of the rest have gone gear-queer, to one extent or another." "'Gear-queer?" Bigend's teeth showed. "We had a team of cultural anthropologists interview American soldiers returning from Iraq. That's where we first heard it. It's not wholly derogatory, mind you. There are actual professionals who genuinely require these things—some of them, anyway. Though they generally seem to be far less fascinated with them. But it's that fascination that interests us, of course." "It is?" "It's an obsession with the idea not just of the right stuff, but of the special stuff. Equipment fetishism. The costume and semiotics of achingly elite police and military units. Intense desire to possess same, of course, and in turn to be associated with that world. With its compe-tence, its cocksure exclusivity." "Sounds like fashion, to me." «Exactly. Pants, but only just the right ones. We could never have engineered so powerful a locus of consumer desire. It's like sex in a bottle."

anyway here’s @greatdismal.bsky.social in 2011 in Zero History describing the obsession with tactical clothing as a fetishized pursuit in a way that perfectly nails the combat cosplay of modern day ICE and BPD

A young person typing on a ZX Spectrum connected to a TV.

How it started / how it's going...

Video: https://hachyderm.io/@tarkasteve/116308218943769268

Jetpac by Langford Productions A remake of the classic ZX Spectrum game

Ooooo...

https://lvideo4867.itch.io/jetpac

it’s like he’s got a skeleton key to where everyone stores their ego death.

This is far worse than it sounds; pilot & copilot killed.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A lot of times you can go back through history and find similarities with current events, sometimes those historical events have valuable lessons to apply today. For me this Strait of Hormuz business reminds me an awful lot of fucking up the tutorial of Hearts of Iron 4

www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-c...

Beef stock packaged in a beer can

Truly we live in an age of wonders!

RE: https://journa.host/@timkmak/116257243838442718

Well done Donny, absolute top notch work there.

the world does not need anymore videos of people holding a clip on mic in their fingers and giving their incoherent take on a news item they half understood

A sign in a popular food district of Singapore: "TO ALL FOOD INFLUENCERS REVIEWERS In our pursuit of serving you, we we look to the character of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) for guidance. It is narrated in the Hadith: "The Prophet (PBUH) never found fault with food. If he liked it, he ate it; if he disliked it, he left it." We pour our hearts into every dish, but we know tastes are personal. If a dish isn't to your liking today, we kindly ask that you follow the Sunnah-spare the public critique and speak to us privately. This allows us to fix the mistake and maintain the spirit of Barakah Thank you for being a guest who brings light into our home. To Our Valued Guests & Reviewers Food is more than a meal; it is a blessing from the Almighty. When sharing your experience with the world, we invite you to remember the beauty of Husn al- Khuluq (Good Character). The Prophet (PBUH) taught us: "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him speak good or remain silent." If you enjoyed your meal: Please share your joy! Your kind words support our livelihood. * If we missed the mark: Please tell us directly. Public criticism can hurt a small business, but a private word helps us grow. Let us keep our tongues moist with gratitude and our reviews filled with kindness. A Sunnah Reminder The Prophet (PBUH) showed us that food should be met with either appreciation or silence. He never shamed the cook or the provider."

tl;dr: "Fuck influencers"

Screenshot of a court document: Steve Smith (Deactivated) Sep 10, 2019 Seeing as the problem seems to be adopting non-local terminology, how about localisation?: en_AU: P3: Ankle Biter P4: Legend P5: Fuckn' Legend P6: Dead-Set Fuckn' Legend P7: Warnie P8: Boonie P9: Sir Donald Bradman, AC en_US: P3: Vice President of Engineering P4: Senior Vice President of Engineering P5: Senior Associate Vice President of Engineering Etc. I'll show myself out.

So I recently discovered that a shitpost I made about job titles on the company network is now evidence in a court case. This may be my finest hour.

The system has no comprehension of dual nationality.

I just absentmindedly munched on a spicy pickle after using mouthwash. So how's your day going?

"I am blind. Seeing people who think I'm not worth the effort fill my timeline with AltBot generated Al stuff that isn't even accurate in lots of cases. Human alt text is always better, because it doesn 't focus on ocular seeing. Seeing people think, and AltBot was designed around that notion, that blind people must compensate for missing "eye- seeing", but that's not the case. I am interested in the meaning of an image to you, its maker or publisher. Again, human alt text is better, also because it strengthens reciprocity between seeing and blind people. AltBot doesn't but it makes seeing people believe they have done their bit for accessibility. In actuality, the reverse is often true."

Right, show the"why" not the"what".

(I'm pretty sure you've seen this, but this was the post that clarified this for this for me...)

Google Gemini taking a photo of a handwritten shopping list and turning it a to-do list.

The resulting Keep list.

See, this is actually useful. If there's one benefit to the current AI goldrush it's that it's forced entrenched companies to start producing better integrations. But none of it requires the current "attentional" LLMs; Google's had the ability to do this for at least a decade but just didn't bother.

Kalsarikännit - thisisFINLAND The feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear – with no intention of going out. A drink. At home....

There need to be an Australian equivalent for the Finnish concept of kalsarikännit, except it's too fucking humid too even wear shorts so you get drunk in front of the fan.

https://finland.fi/emoji/kalsarikannit/

You're almost there, Donny.

booking.com is now fully enshittified. It used to be cheaper with "genius" discounts but now you'll generally get better rates direct from the hotels.

UK by-election results with the Greens beating Reform by 12 points.

Suck it Farage.

(I wonder how much of this is the Trump 'ick' effect. I definitely had that effect in Canada and Australia.)