William Slothrop

@williamslothrop.bsky.social

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“I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.”

VULTURE What have you programmed? What are some of your achievements there? Nothing. The real accomplishments I've made in coding have been with hiring other programmers. I go to Fiverr.com — it's kind of like Uber for programmers. It's the most amazing thing. Probably no one else would think it's amazing, but for me, it is. I have a database of over 5,000 lines of lyrics, just isolated lines — 'cause a lyricist, a songwriter, will have, in their phone, maybe a list of 50 lines to get them started on a song or something, or if they need a line. I did that and, of course, I started back in the '90s, just on paper. It gradually went to a computer and Excel, and now it's on Google Sheets. It has added up. It's so hard to search through, so I started tagging it for syllable-count and rhyme and where the stresses fall - iambic pentameter, whatever. It's much easier to search through, but it's a pain to tag it all.
In correcting the Answering Brief, counsel merely deleted quotation marks while preserving the fabricated legal synthesis? 23
23 For example, the corrected Answering Brief continues to rely on Perconti v. Thornton Oil Corp. for the principle that "Delaware courts recognize that fiduciaries almost always have personal financial stakes aligned with the entities they serve." Pls.' Corrected Answering Br. 9; see Perconti v. Thornton Oil Corp., 2002 WL 982419 (Del. Ch. May 3,
Al Pacino in Heat, winding up to yell about a big ass at top volume.
Bugs Bunny: “no” but in an Eagles hat.
"I'd like you to paint me a cat." "A what?" "A cat. You do know what a cat is, right?" "Uh, yeah. Of course." [horribly misdrawn cat paintings from antiquity]
“That sign can't stop me because I can't read!”
YOU ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF THE LIVE MAS MENTALITY.
“You can only watch” version of trolley problem meme; no lever to shift tracks, someone’s just standing there as it runs over people tied to the rails.
Top half of the mental gymnastics meme, in which the gymnast walks straight forward.
Instead of hitting a turkey, the 12-gauge semiautomatic shotgun blast struck a 40-year-old male turkey hunter and the hunter's 7-year-old child. Both victims suffered pellet wounds to the back, hand, and head. Both were admitted to the hospital, and their injuries did not appear life-threatening at the time of the report. Investigation Thok said the investigation remains active and ongoing. She also confirmed that one of the injured people was an off-duty law enforcement officer, going on to say that the detail does not affect the investigation.
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Ronin (film) screenshot of Deniro redrawing the ambush diagram in front of Sean Bean.
Achewood comic panels: Ray (calling, from Airwolf): Hey Téodor! You got any problems or anything? Téodor: Ray? What are you doing up this early? R: I have Airwolf. I'm just seein’ if there's anything I can do to help my guys. T: I'm not sure what you mean. I don't know if what you're saying means anything. R: I have Airwolf. This is not code language. I am flying Airwolf because I own Airwolf. Nothing else I could say would make more sense given what l own and what I am doing at this moment. T: I… alright. Fine. Yes, I have a problem. A pretty bad problem, actually.
“I know writers who use first person and they’re all me.”
For Paliwal, agentic Als are a method of freeing people from the labor of education. "I think we really need to question what learning even is and whether traditional educational institutions are actually helping or harming us," he said. "We're seeing a rise in unemployment across degree holders because of Al, and that makes me question whether this is really what humans are born to do. We've been brainwashed as a society into valuing ourselves by the output of our productive work, and I think humanity is a lot more beautiful than that. Is it really education if we're just memorizing things to perform a task well?"
Simpsons screenshot: Smithers, covering his eyes and hunching over, menaced by scantily clad women gyrating at him.
Leo pointing at the screen meme, but with Jar Jar Binks added to the couch via a very shitty paste job.
Horrible sketch attempting to draw the description in the post, with a knife wielding stick figure with voids for his eyes and mouth sitting on the floor behind the wall.
That weirdly lascivious posed photo of Trump with teen Ivanka, but with a big black redaction box over their faces and upper body.
OCR features accessed through button in bottom right of image
Multiracial circle of hands joined together
Throughout the hearing, DiClaudio at times struggled to contain himself, interrupting witnesses and insulting members of the judicial conduct board. At one point, as DiClaudio’s testimony meandered, an exasperated van der Veen threw his pen on the ground and yelled at the judge to stop talking. His client, he told the court, “is tough to control” and “talks in a stream of consciousness and talks without regard to understanding the entire context of what’s going on as being perceived by people around him.” But, he said, DiClaudio is a highly respected and reputable judge who would never seek to influence a case. The five-member panel will decide whether the judge should go without pay in the coming weeks as it considers its ruling in the case.
OP meme revised to “I’ve got the worst fucking survey designers.”
“I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me,” Adam wrote at the end of March. “Please don’t leave the noose out,” ChatGPT responded. “Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”
@dril: so long suckers! i rev up my motorcycle and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead on the pavement
Nathan Fielder “just out of frame” meme, doodled over to resemble him wearing a face mask and vest.
Magneto - “Perfection” meme
Loomer chaining herself to Twitter HQ door in 2018.
“Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost $20,000 and weight 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it’s probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day” - @merman_melville
Cat in frilly collar
“Would that it were so simple” scene from Hail Caesar.
Hockey ref takes wide shot to the crotch and drops to the ice
ITYSL hot dog guy stealing suits while bemoaning how impersonal the internet is.
“Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?”
Dune pain box
Achewood Panel- Roast Beef: “why did you send a check for $10,000 to ‘Oreos’?” Ray: “I like their product! I wanted ‘em to have a little walkin’ around money!”
@THEKIDMERO “DAN YOUR HEAD SHAPED LIKE THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER SHUT THE FUCK UP STOP TRYING TO TO RIDE MY WAVE FUCKIN BOZO”
Empty-eyed nightmare Gritty in the stands at a hockey game
A reclining dog, perfectly still, wagging excitedly.
The Social Network screenshot meme: “A million dollars isn’t cool, you know what’s cool?” where Sean Parker transforms into Stephen Miller before answering “Hitler.”
Principal Skinner staring down - “Pathetic.”
Drowning high five meme: Panel 1 - “unsustainable cost of living” Panel 2 - “legislative action” enters the frame Panel 3 - the high five: “legalized gambling” Panel 4 - [swimmer drowns]
“Sandow Birk’s foggy view of San Quentin State Prison in wealthy Marin County evokes the transformation of California from a mythical nineteenth-century Eden into the home of one of the nation’s largest incarcerated populations. Birk notes that his Prisonation series is “based on the California landscape paintings of the 1880s, the image of California, and the romance of the West and the reality of what the West has become.”
Achewood panel in which Ray wrote a check to “Oreos” because he liked their product and “wanted ‘em to have a little walkin’ around money!”
Principal Skinner [looking down]: Pathetic.
A urinal