Kris Straub (كريس)
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ＬＯＣＡＬ５８ＴＶ, Candle Cove, All Houses Matter. Cartoonist, presenter, humor scientist. K’thriss on #acqinc. He/him 🇪🇬
i have a lot of thoughts about starfleet academy episode 5 but i will save them for the return to the podcast. but also, the only discourse about it on youtube seems to be that it was bad not bc it was bad, but bc woke and the actors are not sexy enough
February 9, 2026 at 9:17 PM
i have a lot of thoughts about starfleet academy episode 5 but i will save them for the return to the podcast. but also, the only discourse about it on youtube seems to be that it was bad not bc it was bad, but bc woke and the actors are not sexy enough
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Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS
Writers Who Use AI Are Not Real Writers
Dorothy Parker famously (but probably not really) said, “I hate to write, but I love having written,” which is a sentiment I don’t largely understand or agree with in the broader …
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February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Read that article about the """writer""" generating 200 books a year with AI and needless to say, I had THOUGHTS
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all my hot friends love going to chrome://flags and deactivating every. single. gemini or ai function within, and then going to cmd prompt and using group editor to disable copilot
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 AM
all my hot friends love going to chrome://flags and deactivating every. single. gemini or ai function within, and then going to cmd prompt and using group editor to disable copilot
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I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
February 8, 2026 at 10:23 PM
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
February 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
You're laughing? The team that lends their plane for deportation flights and whose owner is best pals with Trump got utterly humiliated in front of a hundred million viewers, and you're laughing?
@regretagarbo.rip karoline leavitt says “go patriots” any thoughts?
February 8, 2026 at 11:16 PM
@regretagarbo.rip karoline leavitt says “go patriots” any thoughts?
i’m rooting for the football. get thrown, get caught, full ball, can’t lose
February 8, 2026 at 6:56 PM
i’m rooting for the football. get thrown, get caught, full ball, can’t lose
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Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Taxing billionaires out of existence may be the most critical domestic policy fight of our lifetimes.
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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
February 4, 2026 at 4:44 PM
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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[jason statham voice] they’re colled skeets mate. nawt tweets. tweets are frum the offa websoite
February 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
[jason statham voice] they’re colled skeets mate. nawt tweets. tweets are frum the offa websoite
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SCREAM 7 using A.I. and sports betting in the advertising shows you just how washed that movie is. I urge people who love horror to just stay home and not support that drek with your hard-earned $$.
February 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
SCREAM 7 using A.I. and sports betting in the advertising shows you just how washed that movie is. I urge people who love horror to just stay home and not support that drek with your hard-earned $$.
i haven’t watched the latest starfleet academy out of fear that i will dislike whatever they did with ds9
February 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
i haven’t watched the latest starfleet academy out of fear that i will dislike whatever they did with ds9
good news! it is very easy to suddenly not have money anymore. it’s actually never been easier
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
good news! it is very easy to suddenly not have money anymore. it’s actually never been easier
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it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
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Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko
February 4, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Algorithms have failed artists, so once again I am appealing to the wealthy to go back to the practice of patronising artists so you can brag that your sicko is better than your rival’s sicko
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For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
February 4, 2026 at 5:10 PM
For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at skillingswo2@bloomberg.net
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Grand Revel is a day of dancing, music, and the eating of sweet treats of all sorts, from chocolate to red "firemint" candies. But even during such an unparalleled day of joy there are quests to be done.
Check out all the details of Grand Revel here: codenameentertainment.com?page=idle_ch...
Check out all the details of Grand Revel here: codenameentertainment.com?page=idle_ch...
February 4, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Grand Revel is a day of dancing, music, and the eating of sweet treats of all sorts, from chocolate to red "firemint" candies. But even during such an unparalleled day of joy there are quests to be done.
Check out all the details of Grand Revel here: codenameentertainment.com?page=idle_ch...
Check out all the details of Grand Revel here: codenameentertainment.com?page=idle_ch...
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this is about billionaires
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
this is about billionaires
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Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
May 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest
there has been a recent trend in design where barred Is are used everywhere (not monospace type) and it drives me insane
Handy guide from @blambot.bsky.social on how to handle the crossbar I.
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
there has been a recent trend in design where barred Is are used everywhere (not monospace type) and it drives me insane
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UPDATE: hey, would you look at that. Adobe Animate is staying, and no longer being discontinued.
This shows that bullying corporations can always work.
This shows that bullying corporations can always work.
February 3, 2026 at 11:24 PM
UPDATE: hey, would you look at that. Adobe Animate is staying, and no longer being discontinued.
This shows that bullying corporations can always work.
This shows that bullying corporations can always work.
this is about billionaires
February 3, 2026 at 11:28 PM
this is about billionaires
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hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
The Epstein files reveal what powerful people see in video games: profit, coercion, and control
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February 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
hey remember when I got shit on for years for trying to warn people that GamerGate was just Nazis and not just about harassing women and not just about some “consumer revolt”
BREAKING: ea-nāṣir corresponded with epstein weeks before trade scandal
February 3, 2026 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: ea-nāṣir corresponded with epstein weeks before trade scandal