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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yesterday my boss suggested that Claude might be able to help me with something I've been doing professionally for 25 years. I do it incredibly well already. I didn't ask for help, or suggest I needed any. I'm having a hard time filing it under "dipshits love AI" rather than "how fucking dare you"

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

holy shit lmao

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

An old friend of my partner's is visiting and expressed surprise at how expensive it was to get here and how insane hotel prices are. My guy, you arrived on the morning of the AFL grand final and you're staying at the Langham. You randomly chose the most expensive 48 hours of the year to visit :/

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

2027 will be the year that predictive text is given greater legal protections than trans people.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Resident Evil was a fucking blast to see in the cinema. If you can find one that allows hootin' and hollerin' all the better, this film demands to have "oh shit", "what the FUCK" and "hell yes brother" shouted at it. Zach Cregger on a 2 film "most fun of the year" hot streak after this and Weapons.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Working with farmers is a whole different thing man

Screenshot from an email in Outlook: "Sorry was kicked in the head and was in hospital for a few days, will try to do it tonight" then an autosignature saying "Get Outlook for iOS" in blue link test.

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Acting the Fulemin @actingthefulemin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

there are 70 million people for whom this is the biggest song in the world. they watch comedies called like "Wives of Jim" that have run for nine seasons. they're usually pretty affable in person. in 2024 they severed the fate of humanity because of egg prices

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's called "heat" in the job market because when workers are paid fairly they can afford heating and nice warm coats and holidays in warm places and lattes and the warmth of happiness and human connection... And those are bad things that we all chip in to help the RBA prevent.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@whatsallthispod.bsky.social re: dicks on British TV, are you aware of the Mull of Kintyre Rule?

Screenshot from Wiktionary.org, showing a map of the British coastline with the Mull of Kintyre highlighted... It looks somewhat like a flaccid dong. The caption reads "The guideline was that British media not broadcast a phallus with a higher angle from vertical than the Mull of Kintyre peninsula"

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's pretty cool that Australia calls the anniversary of Charlie Kirk's death "RU OK Day". Makes us seem brutally sarcastic.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Now that I think about it, there were definitely times I was both sufficiently drug fucked and sweaty enough to give someone a contact high via fellatio, but I'm not sure that I was capable of attracting anyone to the role when I was in that state.

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

oh your new crime show is about a tortured grizzled sad alcoholic detective man? should we throw a party? should we invite raymond chandler?

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Kids told me that while I'm a good dresser, I'm getting too old to pull off some of the looks I gravitate towards. I've taken the feedback on board and have started embracing my age in the wardrobe of a morning. Pretty happy with how I'm rocking "gentleman of a certain age"

Mirror selfie of a bald, almost supernaturally handsome man with glasses, a chunky white moustache, a waistcoat, dress shirt and red/white chequered bow tie. You're not sure why, but you want to fuck him. It's confusing, as he's really not your type... You go for young, slightly built androgynous men, and this guy's pushing 50, bald as a cue ball, exuding a quiet confidence that appears to be backed up by his physique, obscured by clothing but hinting at a Vitruvian Man beneath the layers of finest wool and silk.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Someone would make an app where you take a photo of a machine at the gym and it tells you how to use it. Then someone should hack that app so it gives hilariously wrong instructions. I want to see dudes using the pec fly to work their adductors. I want to see someone's head caught in a GHR.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · 30/08/2026

Zach Mander image in which a Richard Scarry illustration of clothed animals carrying a cat in a bathtub is accompanied by the caption: "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living."

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Usain Bolt came to a stop on his own, and walked off the track afterwards, rather than crashing into a wall and having his lifeless carcass hauled off on a stretcher. My car can also beat Usain Bolt over 100m, but it can't charm the crowds afterwards or give a post-race interview, so who cares?

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Endnotes are for cowards. Footnotes are for big dick playas.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/08/2026

Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI theonion.com/guy-who-sucks-at-being…

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I logged on too late to work out why the fuck people are talking about spreadsheets, which is a pity since I'm better at Excel than ANY of you and I have OPINIONS. I spend my lunch breaks on r/Excel performing miracles for strangers, how the fuck did I miss spreadsheet discourse?

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'll never stop being ashamed for laughing along with the other chuds when late night TV monologues were just "lol U chubby slut" jokes for MONTHS on end. A majority of people would commit seppuku if they had to endure the shit Monica Lewinsky endured. I'll countenance no ill will towards her.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Just used a photogrammetry scanning app, CAD software and my 3d printer to reproduce a broken connector on an IKEA wardrobe. Perfect fit first go. Real world piracy might become my new hobby. If I like a thing, now it's my thing* *Thing must be made of plastic and have no moving parts

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We really need to get the Catholic clergy out of public bathrooms and kids sports.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Opened a remote connection to my home PC from work yesterday, forgetting my 14yo son was home sick, and his game started blasting through my speakers. Told him about it when I got home and the look on his face as he processed what he'd been doing on my PC while home alone... What a perfect moment.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

AI guy writes: check out this amazing shit I did with an LLM Normal person reads: I've got the IQ of meat and need the computer to help me with basic cognition.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Might become a guy who uses Excel time by default... "You coming to the gig? We're onstage at 46246.9, should be playing through until 46247.083333333 or so"

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Half of something that's useless without the other half .. One scissor, half a clothes peg, that sort of thing

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I used to manage a hotel in the Blue Mountains and two demographic groups each brought in roughly 50% of our revenue: tourists and locals who despised and resented the tourists. What a fucking shitshow that was, felt like a "two dates to the prom" sitcom episode the whole goddamn time.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Look, to be fair, if I could go online and post lies about spaceships, lasers and robots, and $50,000,000,000 appeared in my bank account every time, I'd probably post lies about spaceships, lasers and robots pretty frequently.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yes! I'm 51 and just in the last couple of years I've gone from useless to 'pretty good' at sewing, darts, CAD modelling, lock picking and ceramics, and taught some former inmates to be 'pretty good' at database management, all through pretty casual evening classes. Might do jewellery making next.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I just envisioned a world of smart devices with a function I actually give a fuck about...it couldn't be that expensive with current tech to have every item I own listening out for its own name, ready to reply with a "BEEP". "Needle-nosed pliers?" "BEEP" "House keys" "BEEP" "Sunglasses?' "BEEP"

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A colleague whose two sons were both cops went to Malaysia and returned to find her house had been robbed at some point in the last two weeks. The burglar was arrested and she had every item returned to her within 48 hours.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The legal loophole is prefacing your worthless, ignorant opinions with "look I'm not a paleopaedoanthropologist BUT..."

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

If you're really attached to a lab leak conspiracy theory, there's a much better one about COVID leaking from a US lab and was responsible for the sudden, brief and curiously localised outbreak of "vape lung". It's juicer and much more scandalous, and therefore a much better theory.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I recently took a flight w the 80yo ex-dairy farmer who owns the co. I work for. Walking to baggage claim I overheard the gay couple he was seated next to discussing how country folk are smart and lovely and cliches about dumb hicks are cringe. Found the boss and he said "I got sat next to poofters"

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Plot outline straight from a 1990s sketch about tonight's viewing on SBS

Screenshot of a plot outline from Letterboxd "When the hot-dog vendor Kaj from the small town of Skælskør in Denmark turns 40, his friends take him on a trip to Poland, to a long party with cheap liquor and emigration eager polish ladies. It will go merrily, but it gets serious for Kaj as he meets a girl who mistakes him for a wealthy Toyota dealer she has exchanged letters with."

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Interesting warning from Justice Beach to the government in a robodebt ruling published yesterday on what it means in the future re AI. www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/view...

252. This Robodebt debacle is something that we have to learn the lessons from or should I
say Commonwealth ministers and their departments have to learn the lessons from.
253. Surely ministers must properly inform themselves of the technical and legal complexities of automated systems and schemes to which members of the public are
to be subjected. Such a motivation and skill set are not optional extras. Further, the concept of being a responsible minister does not mean finding a public servant to take responsibility for the policy that you have sought to push through. And nor is the role of a minister simply to educate yourself about the policy through a one page document. And nor is the intellectual exercise simply limited to following the instruction on a "post it" note, which tells
you where to place your signature on the executive minute.

254. Now when dealing with automated processes and systems, any moral hazard problem becomes magnified. If you have not conscientiously and diligently taken steps to either master the detail yourselt, or made sure that others reporting to you have done so, you are likely as in this case to inflict real harm on others in imposing automated systems or processes. And as in this case, the relevant ministers and their departments had the freedom and control to take great risks with Robodebt and its implementation,
yet they were insulated and detached from the consequences of such risks if they came to fruition, which they obviously did.
255. Now why am I making these points?
Robodebt is over as a system or process, although not of course for the victims and their families, many of whom are still suffering significantly in its aftermath, and some whose spirit only remains in our
memory.

256. Today we of course have generative artificial intelligence. And we will later move into artificial general intelligence. The benefits and rewards of such systems will be several orders of magnitude above the types of automated systems that we have seen in the past. But the complexity and risks of such systems and processes will be equally if not more magnified or amplified.
257. Surely the lessons learnt from Robodebt can be put to good advantage, not for the technology as such which is morally neutral, but for its human designers, implementers and controllers.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The answers to this prompt show how little Korean content people watch. The correct answer is a 20-way tie between various incredibly handsome Korean men dressed so well that Derek Guy would watch them kneeling in front of the TV, weeping.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If I were Supreme Leader, you'd have to at least be able to cook an omelette, and tell the difference between beef and pork with a blindfold on before you're allowed to own or run a food service business of any kind. "Entrepreneurs" should stay the fuck out of the restaurant game.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Elon Musk sold 3,519 cybertrucks in Q1 2026.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Factually untrue. As soon as Mrs Scrooge fell pregnant, that baby was a Scrooge. It wasn't until he was born and his parents knew his sex that he was Ebenezer, assuming they'd even chosen a name in advance.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Thinking about COVID and realizing that there was at least one sixteen year old kid whose girlfriend's parents were going to be out that night so they could finally lose their virginity, then a lockdown cockblocked them for several months. That kid can be an antivax cooker, totally understandable.

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"Before he was Scrooge..." fucking Surf Dracula bullshit

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Brevity is the essence of a good handle @svunt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

At a bar after work, playing pool with and chatting up a woman between shots. She asks me "where the fuck are you from dude? One minute you have an English accent, the next minute you're Irish, then you're Australian". I had to explain that it depended which of my three colleagues I'd spoken to last

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