"i've got eight slugs in me, one's lead and the rest are bourbon" is one of the all-time greatest noir lines in history

This is something I've wondered about self-driving cars. Even *if* they were safer per-vehicle, each human is only responsible for their own accidents; the company that programs and sells self-driving cars would surely be responsible for every single accident any of their vehicles caused?

Rama Duwaji and her date, I think his name is Zohran? Also @jumaane.bsky.social!

Ah but it's not for you; it's for the funeral.

She knew what she was at...

Trump may be extreme in all sorts of ways, but looking at the last 30 years of US politics, there’s no reason to think of Trump as an anomaly.

No wonder he's terrified of stairs

I've seen yanks boasting about taking their decorations down on boxing day (someone said they started after Christmas dinner but that mayyy have been a joke?)

I don't understand why you'd want to take them down before NYD at the earliest

Willing to bet they'd take "this place that Google tells me is a daycare has actually been closed for years" as positive proof of a conspiracy

Look I don't want to give these creeps ideas but these places have set times of day when the parents come to collect their kids at the door; even their own stated reason for wanting access to the building doesn't make sense.

Cut out the middleman, just write a story that's the antithesis of a specific classic novel.

What is the AI contributing to this task. You can do exactly what you just said with an existing work.

Just look at anything that gets described as "X's take on/response to/deconstruction of Y" - and that's not even counting the writers who were more subtle about it!

I've had nurses compliment my veins before. Felt oddly proud of that.

If you think about it, the entire world is a puzzle they're constantly working to figure out. What does that sentence mean, what happens if I kick the furry thing that lives in our house, how can I open this, I wonder if I repeat what I just did will dad make the same loud noise again...

The JP parallels just keep coming

🎶 A street kid gets arrested
Gonna do some time
He'll get out ten years from now just to commit more crime
A businessman is caught
With 52 lb 14 9/16 oz
He's out on bail and out of jail
And that's the way it goes! 🎶

The conversational equivalent of emailing someone back to "clarify"* something they just said** over the phone

*get in writing
**perfectly clearly

I reckon an entire Christmas of wall-to-wall 6-7 themed gifts would have done the trick. "What? You never stop saying it, we all thought it was your favourite thing? Now try on your T-shirt and deelyboppers so I can put a picture up on Facebook."

Haven't got to the finale yet but the first episode that focused on Manousos I loved the immediate feeling of "Oh these two are going to be so mad at each other..."

Why is she being called those things if they're racial slurs for a race she isn't part of

Also is she, like... unaware that classism is a thing? Because that seems to be the concept she's groping for