That feeling when you're being slowly buried in corporate bullshit and desperately looking for an exit strategy only to discover a never ending sea of corporate bullshit behind every fucking door. Yeah, that one.
Stephen Thorne's reading of The Myth Makers really is a thing of beauty.
Career objectives, FFS.
I’m having to think of a personal project that’ll advance my career.
I’m 53 and have a degenerative brain condition, the only project I’m interested in is making it to retirement!
My fatalistic prediction is that at some point Iranian forces score a sucker punch to something prestigious and American, and the thin-skinned imbecile proves what a hard man he is by nuking Tehran.
Yeah, sure, the cops'll get them in the end, but you'll never be in doubt as to who the heroes actually are.
You've got the middle management guru who lost his job to AI, the parent that lost their child to a AI bot's misdiagnosis, the author whose work was stolen, and the neighbour just driven mad by the data centre's constant hum.
Surely just a matter of time before we get a 21st century luddite movement, with people planting bombs at data centres and the like?
And if not, bloody hell people, that's a whole movie right there.
Story time, y'all, about the time I witnessed nearly this exact scenario play out in real time.
It's 2003 or 2004. Serena, Venus, Anna Kournikova, and Brenda Shultz-McCarthy played an indoor exhibition event at Rupp Arena.
Both Williams sisters had won majors at this point. 🧵/x
Yeah, that's the streamer I watch via the work account, not one I pay for.
Other than that it’s soapy cowboy dramas from Taylor Sheridan, basically.
The soapy cowboy dramas tend to be okay for what they are, but I can’t imagine them really working for anyone I know!
Maybe “School Spirits “, although I’ve not watched that to be sure what it’s like. “The Flat Share” is nice if romantic comedy is your thing. There’s the odd UK short run crime drama - e.g. “Girl Taken” - that’s ok - again, if you have a tolerance for that stuff.
Promising to vote for any political
Party that makes idle chat on a commuter train punishable by death.
I’m proofreading a document on advertising markets, I want to know what CPM stands for, not what a fucking cop is. FFS, I’m 53, and have been familiar with the concept of police for quite some time!
Aptly timed repost, as I was just about to rant about how the way google is deciding to search for the thing it thinks I’m typing rather than *the thing I’m actually typing* is really starting to piss me off.
Anyone checked yet if Andrew was wearing his seatbelt in the back of that car?
The history of the last generation has been right wing parties scraping a technical victory by the thinnest possible margin, then ruling like tyrants, then centre-left parties winning decisively and deciding the nation can only heal if they enact right wing policies.
For goodness sakes, people, stop outsourcing your entire human existence.
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In other (more positive) news, Liverpool are starting to play better, I enjoyed "Predator: Badlands", had a nice country walk yesterday in the dry, and started watching "Bridgerton" with the missus.
Feels like that last one - along with the MCU - is the key text to unlocking the RTD2 era.
They're already telling you that the midterms won't achieve anything beyond being the tipping point where it gets real bad.
"Trump will be gone in three years"
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Guys, at this point it's just naive to still think democracy is going to save you. That all of this is just a 'blip' in the system, rather than it's natural end result.
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And I was looking up all the DW wannabes I could think of a few weeks ago.
We would have done an evaluation at the time, and I’m now going to have to look it up and check if I wrote it!
I have absolutely no recollection of this at all. Which, given what I do for a living, is a bit odd.
Given time I might find a better word, but there’s only so much effort screaming into the void warrants.
Fair point. Unhinged capitalism and a media that are servile to it, maybe.
The capitalism and media aren’t quite as bad in the UK, but they’re plenty bad enough.
For all his ills (and they are many), it’s unhinged capitalism and a servile media that have given us Trump.
If you look at politics on both sides of the Atlantic, we seem to be obsessed with treating the symptom and not the disease.
You don't like the NHS? Capitalist scum!
