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[tom crisp @tomjc09]

never own a home, never retire, never experience joy, all because the media class decided in 2019 that free broadband was the policy idea of a mad evil communist who had to be stopped at all costs

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@obvex @cwik_greg @hijaktaffairs Comma would be incorrect here because it’s a restrictive clause with an elided “that”. It isn’t saying, “they went so fast! sometimes he though they were on the edge of no-control”. It’s saying “they went so fast (that) sometimes he thought…”.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@cwfcreatives Completely shameful. Jamir’s story is AI as everyone has repeatedly pointed out. Just doubling down in your ignorance and celebrating your failure to actually get someone properly qualified to check this is a complete disgrace.

What’s annoying is these things CAN be checked.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@boreddeleuzian @the_mel_jar @moonsrabbit7 Sorry to intrude: this mechanism reminds me of something similar in Wittgenstein, Hegel, and certain Zen Koans. Where a kind of descent into immanence distethers reality/actions from a beyond or a purpose or a ‘towards-which’ and lets them stand on their own ground, as auto-telic

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@Be_like_legend Pretty sure everyone associates colours with numbers and other things. Look up ideasthesia — it’s like tbh neurotypical. Not being able to is more interesting lol. I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@chrrybbydoll @X_Bill_Gl @Be_like_legend Yeah this is the same for me.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@quietblueday @X_Bill_Gl @Be_like_legend 1 agree
2 could be, but also yellow
3 could be, but also light blue
4 agree
4 agree
6 agree
7 dark green
8 agree
9 agree, would say burgundy
10 fine

I thought synesthesia (ideasthesia) was meant to follow pretty strict patterns across individuals? Kiki bouba effect an example

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@Freyy_is Harold Brodkey, Woolf, Claude Simon, Antuñes, William Gaddis, later DFW, John Trefry, David Jones, Thomas Browne, Bennett Sims, Saer, Lispector, Nietzsche, Cioran, Barthes

obvs lots more common choices too like Joyce and Proust and McCarthy and Toni Morrison and George Eliot

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@cwfcreatives Do you understand how easy it is to forge timestamped documents?

The winning story is AI. Get an NLP researcher to do a thorough analysis of it. Get 50 of them if you want to be sure. Also, you can literally track the Fan Fictions it’s borrowed its phrases from…

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@ryanhasbadtaste which show are these from?

[Sam @SamCKx]

You are the absolute perfect example of the propaganda I was referring to.

1) The 12,000 figure is from 2023, when The Conservatives were in charge, not Labour.
2) It refers to all arrests under two long-standing UK laws: the Communications Act 2003 and the Malicious Communications Act 1988.
3) Arrests, not convictions or jail.
4) All harmful electronic communictions - could be someone sending a message threatening to kill their ex, could be an email, could be a whatsapp message. A small percentage were for online public posts.

So, now you know that beyond your comment being incredibly factually incorrect, it doesn't even refer to the current government that you have been indoctrinated into hating, do you feel like someone who has been brainwashed by propaganda?

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@CHRISF0GLE did you use a particular software for drawing out the diagram?

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

Love logging on to x and discovering that every single scene in every single film was unscripted but was kept in because the director just loved it so much.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@dreamsofbeing_ Is this from Brutt?

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@aliner This is stunning. Is his other work like this, or is this a particular mode he worked in from time to time? Absolutely magical.

[Thanos Angelopoulos @Th_Angelopoulos]

Call you old fashioned? Alright, old-fashioned, @PatrickChristys, let us go through the decades you prefer.

The 1960s: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five children, buried them on Saddleworth Moor, and recorded their screams on tape.

The 1970s: Peter Sutcliffe murdered 13 women with hammers and screwdrivers across Yorkshire.

Dennis Nilsen began strangling young men in his London flat, dismembering them, boiling their skulls on his stove, and flushing the remains down the drains.

The 1980s: Michael Ryan shot 16 people dead in Hungerford. Fred and Rose West were raping, torturing, and dismembering women and girls and burying them under their house in Gloucester. Their own daughter among them.

The 1990s: Two 10-year-old boys abducted a toddler from a shopping centre in Liverpool, tortured him, and bludgeoned him to death with bricks and an iron bar.

Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school in Dunblane and shot 16 five-year-olds and their teacher. Harold Shipman was murdering his patients by the hundred.

The 2000s: James Watt and his family enslaved a man for a decade, tortured him with baseball bats, air pistols, boiling water, and pit bull attacks, then decapitated him and dumped his body in a lake.

Mathew Hardman, 17, murdered a 90-year-old woman, cut out her heart, placed it on a silver platter, and drank her blood.

The 2010s: Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead across Cumbria.

Thomas Mair shot and stabbed an MP in the street while shouting "Britain first".

The 2020s: Jemma Mitchell decapitated her friend, stored the body for two weeks, and drove 200 miles to dump it.

Those are the decades you prefer. And for each decade there are 20 other equally horrific incidents.

And here is the thing, old fashioned Patrick. According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence, burglary, and car crime have fallen by close to 90% since the mid-1990s. The ONS confirms that violent crime is two-thirds lower now than in the 1990s.

The country you live in today is measurably, statistically, dramatically safer than the one you are nostalgic for. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.

And I am not even touching Glasgow and its past knife crime epidemic.

So, which decade was better, Patrick? Tell us.

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@WhatHoARat RE consonance and alliteration,
similarity on the level of the letter breeds contiguity on the level of the meaning. The distinct words blend into one another and their coronas of meaning harmonise with and colour one another. Phrase becomes unit of meaning, rather than the word

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s really something how billionaires have rigged the rules to let them vacuum up all of society’s wealth & then fund think tanks and buy media properties that blame poverty and homelessness and despair on literally everything other than billionaires vacuuming up all the wealth

[nick_rowley @nickrowley20]

@incastellated Imagine asking them to read Claude Simon