@pablum
your most annoying friend. he / him, trans, lurker (serial liker & reposter) 90% of the time. if i randomly followed you it was bc you said something cool. https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/pablum https://letterboxd.com/pablum/
One of the most captivating little turns of phrase in Gravity's Rainbow goes "barrage balloons to populate fat and friendly the daybreak." I think about its construction all the time, whenever I want to write a better sentence.
I fear "riding in a golf cart fatly" is now forever its twin.
Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."
what the fuck are we doing
www.wsj.com/business/med...
SIMULATE NUGGS (This is the label on a box of what i assume are fake meat chicken nuggets) Below these words a hand extends one of the nuggets to an illustrated green t rex whose mouth is open
“Computer,
let eat
Would love to hear a Microsoft designer explain how they decided that if you try to follow up on your own email in an email thread in Outlook, it should have you just send that email to yourself
Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters
Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.
This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.
Every day I see multiple messages to “boycott this company because they’re Nazis“ and at some point it will be worth reckoning with the fact that the entirety of the capitalist class are Nazis
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
Rule number one of being incredibly lazy at work is that if you find a way to automate your tasks you never say that in a place your boss can see or hear which is why, even by their own terms, people that won't shut up about LLM coding are dumb as rocks. "Yeah, that was all me man" is what you say.
i dont even like vampires
in reality it's a mix between the two, and a big factor is how current publishing trends don't really serve me on a trope level as well as an accessibility level. which is why it's so great when something contemporary comes out and really blows my mind.
the principal skinner meme but instead it says "am I not trying hard enough to overcome a literal disability" and "no, it's the books who are bad"
having a brain that struggles to parse the written word but loving to read is basically constantly ping-ponging between the two panels of this meme
a chart that shows how much i've read over the last month. most days barely crest 10 pages, but the last three days show 128 pages, 50 pages and 40 pages, respectively.
sometimes i struggle for months to read more than 10 pages a day and i get mad at myself for not overcoming my learning disabilities and then i find a book that is so well written & fun & smart that the pages just fly by
I got paid lol. Its not 7k a post but i def get paid for every Israel mention. Even the troll posts are paid....
There you go. First person I’ve seen confirm firsthand they have been paid to do social media hasbara for Israel.
“Even the troll posts are paid.”
Nancy 3/4/26 💅
This is like if Gollum got to be part of the Fellowship of the Ring
1980, The Clash play the Santa Monica Civic on the 16 Tons Tour. Pictured here with Mickey Dread. Photo by Paul Slattery.
Shutting this down is quite possibly the most urgent task of our lifetime and I don’t know who would do that but it needs to happen soon
Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.
Hey, remember how we let a nazi near-trillionaire annihilate the US state capacity? I know it was a whole year ago, but it turns out that this has consequences beyond "murdering 14 million people by ending USAID" (which apparently no one cared about).
When people say “Kamala Harris wouldn’t do this” what they mean is she wouldn’t do it in the middle of the night, she’d get dressed up and give an Oval Office address and then we’d blow up 8yo Iranian girls
netgalley approved my request for THE RED SACRAMENT by @boneysoups.bsky.social i havent been able to put it down since. the prose is gorgeous and the way it sketches scenes & characters is so effortlessly fluid. you gotta read this when it comes out. it's gonna blow everything else out of the water
Screenshot of text: First, it’s a mistake to say that Trump got America into war on Saturday. What he did was respond to a war that Iran has been waging against the United States since 1979.
Cool hey did anything happen *before* 1979 between the United States and Iran
the beginning of a diss tweet from representative ilhan omar in the style of the pokemon pokopia logo. it says 'i hope you aren't drunk and took your staff's advice,'
ok pokopia!
Platner spends more time with nazis than a lot of "real" nazis do. Curious stuff! Probably just half a dozen identical coincidences
