Chuck Benoit

I brush my teeth with a barbed wire toothbrush.

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@PALillie I've never seen that GIF used except for engagement-baiting by third worlders

[HowlingMutant @Howlingmutant0]

The Spotify AI dj is really an impressive piece of software because it will randomly mispronounce relatively easy words, making you feel like you’re having a conversation with an actual black guy

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@TradMaldOwl @favelaoverlord It depends on how "science" is being used, of course.
Science can't have an opinion on anything while "science" involves people stating their opinions as fact.
"we thought we were right, but we were wrong" is the honest answer for the second option

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@TradMaldOwl @favelaoverlord You place a bet based on your belief before the event happens. Once the result is decided, the perspective changes and we have perfect knowledge of the correct choice. So you made what you thought was the right choice, but it was, in fact, wrong.

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@TradMaldOwl @favelaoverlord Yes, obviously? That's why you would lose money on the bet and not win it

[РЯЕМОDЕЯИ @PaleoMarxism]

🤯

[Cockus Flightball 𓅘 @CQCKVS]

“Rape Charge? Oh no officer I do it for free”

[David Betz @DavidBe31099196]

I couldn’t care less about the King’s Speech, Kier Starmer’s fate, or who takes over the helm in No 10 next. It’s low theatre at this point because none of them can, or show any sign of wishing, to steer the ship away from violent collision with reality.

Britain was decisively and obviously off course from anything functionally democratic or economically viable long before Gordon Brown snuck the Lisbon Treaty through Parliament in the dead of night.

By then the rot was already advanced, but that act of constitutional sleight-of-hand crystallised it: sovereignty quietly auctioned off to Brussels while the public was told to look the other way.

The 2008 crash slammed a lid on real wage growth for anyone not already in the asset-owning class; the military, hollowed out by endless expeditionary wars and procurement disasters, was in a shit state fifteen years ago and has only atrophied further.

By 2012 the writing was on the wall with mass migration—its demographic, cultural and economic effects plain to anyone not paid to ignore them.

Police quality has been systematically trashed by Theresa May’s reforms and the deliberate evisceration of Special Branch, turning what was once a recognisably British constabulary into something closer to a politically compliant and social-work bureaucracy, parts of which played a vile and still unpunished role in the rape gangs

The 2016 Brexit referendum was not some xenophobic spasm; it was a national demand for a government that would finally put the interests of the people of these islands first.

Instead the political establishment and the permanent bureaucracy launched a decade-long campaign of sabotage and rearguard action, determined that nothing fundamental would change.

Keir Starmer is not a good man and he is certainly not a good Prime Minister, but the brutal truth is that none of them will be better. The system cannot fix itself. It is too incompetent, too captured, and too corrupt.

The local election results last week confirmed precisely the political and social dynamics I have been diagnosing for years.

Voters in traditional Labour and Conservative heartlands delivered a stinging rebuke to the establishment parties that presided over high migration, cultural displacement and stagnant living standards.

Reform UK became the vehicle for native discontent, its gains in working-class northern and Midlands seats signalling exactly the cross-class, regional backlash I have described: a tripartite divide between those who still believe in the nation and those who do not.

Polarisation, fragmentation, the splintering of the old two-party cartel, all of it illustrates the breakdown of democratic consent and the rise of identity-driven politics that are the classic preconditions for deeper conflict.

One could pretend this is healthy democratic pressure relief. It is not. Electoral revolt is an early symptom, not a cure.

The structural drivers, including mass migration, elite refusal to acknowledge cultural incompatibility, economic decline, are too deeply embedded for conventional politics to address.

Reform may win seats, but the unelected bureaucracy, the courts, the media and the NGOs will obstruct, delay and dilute any real change.

The establishment’s preferred candidate is now the one-time “controlled opposition” because the system is that desperate. Meanwhile the problems metastasise faster than any promised reform can catch up.

Hard to get excited, then, about whatever announcements limp out of the King’s Speech. They will not survive contact with reality if we ever get an actually British government staffed by competent, responsible people accountable to the country and to duty rather than to supranational ideology or personal advancement. If we do not get that government, the country will not survive in any recognisable form.

[Lukas (computer) (In SF) 🔺 @SCHIZO_FREQ]

Your girlfriend has been stomping around the house, slamming doors, sighing and groaning for no apparent reason

It's too soon to tell, but you start suspecting that she could be mad about something

She storms into the kitchen with you and just glares menacingly

You greet her - "Hello!"

She rolls her eyes and scowls. Another classic sign she may be angry

You decide to make a move and get ahead of this, before it's too late

"Are you mad about something?"

Another eyeroll

Bingo. Looks like you've diagnosed the problem

From here, you know it's like reeling in a fish. You just have to keep asking "are you mad" while she repeatedly denies it

Eventually you'll have asked enough times that she becomes convinced you actually care about her feelings and reveals the secret to you

Approximately 2 hours later, she's been worn out. You get your answer

"I know you're in love with Ashley."

What? Who is Ashley

You wrack your brain, but nothing comes up

"Ashley??"

"Oh, don't play dumb. It's written all over your face. I've known you loved her ever since that night I introduced you."

Introduced us? Wait... was this that quiet girl from her office she brought to dinner last month?

"The girl from work?"

"Yes. 'The girl from work.' I saw the way you were looking at her all night. I know you've been upset since I gained weight, I know you like blondes, I know she's exactly your type. Both of you are always on your phones around me now, I wonder why? But we all know what's happening. There's no point pretending any longer, I'm not s-"

As your girlfriend continues on for the next three hours, you start to wonder - could she be correct?

Is it possible you ARE in love with Ashley?

It would be totally insane for her to just imagine all this, right?

Ashley must be extremely beautiful for your girlfriend to feel this mogged by her

Now that you reflect on it, yeah. Ashley WAS gorgeous. She looked like she was from a really good family, too. Ashley is definitely too classy to have a breakdown like this also, so a marriage to her would surely be less irritating than this current situation you're in

You interject to cut off your girlfriend and respond. It's quite difficult, as she's loudly sobbing by this point, completely catatonic, barely reachable

Eventually you succeed in getting her to quiet down long enough for a response

"You've convinced me. Ashley is the woman of my dreams. As of this instant, my relationship with you should be considered null and void. I will henceforth be pursuing Ashley, with the goal of marriage."

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@andtwofortea @RugerDobe @HistoricLines @OccamsBraiser That debt will be paid with marital funds

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

Grok had a good attempt, but it's hardly a screenshot when the entire phone is visible

[sonch @soncharm]

In honor of Star Wars Day. Note you can just use AI to generate ‘a screenshot of a tweet in the style of dril that went viral’ on any topic you want, and most of them will actually work, they’ll be pretty funny

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@molmutius Never had to worry about respiratory pandemics with a pack of them on hand to clear the sinuses

[Marcus💎 @Marcus_cel]

“Nice you captured B!”

“B for banana”

“Let’s go and capture C”

“C… see banana”

“Oh now they captured A!”

“A… a banana”

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

Two icons together at last

[Netflix @netflix]

Filmmaker and wrestling fan Werner Herzog in HULK HOGAN: REAL AMERICAN

Now playing.

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@17cShyteposter In a similar vein, Brigsby Bear has a lot of heart. Most films can't be 'spoiled' but this one rewards blind watching. Still great on rewatch but that first viewing is magical

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@17cShyteposter Film: One Cut of the Dead (JP). Don't watch the trailer, don't give up after 5 minutes, and you will be richly rewarded with an incredible film

[Magnetic Norse @MagneticNorse]

Werner Herzog on language and his refusal to speak French

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@bnzchr In Athens it was sometimes hard to tell what was ancient history and what was modern but ignored to the point of falling apart

[Chuck Benoit @DrChuckBenoit]

@SmokeandIncense @royallprickk @gortenheim @0xAlaric Written and directed by a Welshman