If I learned one thing in English class about non sequiturs, it’s that money doesn’t grow on trees.

It was towards the end of my second year of uni and probably the first moment i realised:

"Fuck it. People will still like me if i'm myself."

Lifelong friendship came out of that. And though my memory is generally terrible, that pub chat is forever crisp in my mind. Weird how that works.

25 years ago i was sat in a pub in Twickenham, with uni friends.

They all decided to head off to Kingston, clubbing. I had a moment of clarity and said:

"I'm good. You go."

One guy, i didn't really know, said to everyone:

"He's staying? Me too."

We have been best friends ever since that moment

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Use Claude Code they said. The most advanced model they said.

Timeline cleanse!

The fawn lilies just exploded ❤️

Yeah, that’s the hilarious part. “I wasn”t able to figure it out, therefore she’s either very dumb or acting in bad faith. It’s impossible that the problem lies with me.”

This would be horrific no matter what it was referring to. But "cleaning up the risk pool" by eliminating vaccines just means you kill a bunch of people WHILE ALSO creating a whole new "risk pool" of people with post-viral issues.

Fussing over typesetting? That’s EVIL DEAD KERN.

SS YPIRINGA

OTD 1914 The bubble that has been the #TampicoAffair bursts…

… three hundred miles to the south, in Vera Cruz.

On a 2am phone call with SecNav Daniels, and SecState Bryan, Woodrow Wilson is informed that the German merchant ship YPIRINGA, carrying a shipment of machine guns and ammunition...
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the art of war: “you - yes, you, dipshit - need to feed your men and make sure they don’t get sick. no you are not exempt on the basis of being a very special boy. oh my god, why am I surrounded by idiots.”

If people would keep their corruption to lifting some office supplies or occasionally using the company car, …

Picking the right lens really shows the bridge’s full potential!

Beautiful shot of a rainy Austin over the Pennybacker Bridge❤️

It's so bad. She's not dumb and she's not religious and she is an empowered woman with agency. Just pure fanaticism for capitalism and status.

She's got 2 fucking copies of Gatsby on her bookshelf. Turned into Daisy.

this rain is too much rain

this rain is suspicious af

does this rain know we are in San Antonio?

this rain is TOO much rain

*points a gun at the sky*

WHO SENT YOU?!??!

Plenty of water for the refineries in Nueces County -- which are driving all the shortages -- but residents are being told to shower less and farmers are "planting crops that may never grow."

Simple solution to funding Corpus Christi water infrastructure: Right now, residential customers subsidize low rates for industrial users. Make industrial rates the same as residential and there'd be >$40 million extra revenue per year.

"The Incarnation of the Ideal: Language, Imagery, and the Theory of Forms in PEARL"

I always thought Sun Tzu's "Art of War" was a little simplistic and obvious but it turns out yes, you do literally need to tell the Secretary of War "you need to feed your troops and keep them from being wiped out by preventable diseases"

George Washington required soldiers to get mandatory smallpox inoculations during the revolution, but what did he know about running an army?...

Idiot man loves virus yum yum yum

“Just call it biosecurity”

My mom had the Pontiac (I think) version of this a decade earlier, and it somehow looked pretty much the same. A very useful car.

Exactly! Like being shot at isn't particularly pleasant for an individual either but the whole point of a military is for the leadership to make decisions that individuals don't personally like for strategic advantage. And now the whole company gets the flu because some soldiers don't want vaccines?

... the whole point of the military is that your body belongs to the war machine

Back on my blue shit

Playing plastic trumpet with Hell’s Kitchen Lab Orchestra, an orchestra made up of NYC musicians/Broadway people on their secondary instruments.

Beethoven Fidelio Overture and Brahms 4

Best part was not having to stress about the horn solos lol

Her housing is sponsored by our district, which *she just moved into.* Now she needs to find a job and move.

I know the Dilbert creator was a MAGA a******, but some days it feels like we're living in that cartoon.

The inefficiency and lack of loyalty to employees is shocking.

AI has already killed people, caused divorces, and I am guessing has and is ending large numbers of friendships. I'm an anthropologist and I am sensitive to cultural trends. I noticing this in person and reading about it. Men seem more susceptible (gullible) than women.

I mean, he is a piece of shit for bowing to Trump. But the latter part flat isn’t true. AirPods have been a massive success. The iPhone is more popular than ever. They just released the MacBook Neo, which is selling out left and right and has the potential to overtake Chromebooks in schools.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

I still can’t believe I get to do this. I met an endangered lion species cub today. Just you know. Casual.