Actaeon Complex

@IonaItalia Pro Tip: acquire a collection of swear words in foreign languages… It allows you the emotional release of swearing while sparing the typically monolingual ears around you. PS & Fun Fact: that emotional release of swearing has a very sophisticated name…

I've stopped swearing as much because I don't want to delete the potency of my swear words when I do choose to use them (usually in positive contexts, actually, as major intensifiers). I make an exception for 'cunt' which is not a swear word here in Australia.

@alextoussss I can’t even remotely imagine some autist degen hacking this with face recognition and a needle of fetty to take out enemies.

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

@ChefGruel I’ll continue sit with my excruciating sciatica, because you asked me to.

PSA: They won’t let you off the plane any faster if you stand up in the aisle the second the plane lands.

@TSHamiltonAstro this is off topic but on subject since those here care about style and grammar, can we recruit an army and declare war on the post-internet feral autist techie kids who are giving up on on everything from capitalization to punctuation i cannot keep reading tweets like this one

Your periodic reminder that extra space between sentences has been the standard in English language typography for hundreds of years, pre-dating the typewriter. It’s there because it makes the text easier to read.

@owroot The irony that your evidence for brown was packaged every Thursday with this sweater…

Notice how much brown there is in this scene. Brown was a real 70s color though it was still strong to quite strong through the 80s (like here) because there is always a lag. But it was everywhere. Our world is more grey and less brown today.

@abc7newsbayarea $110m in the hands of Oakland “leaders”…

Oakland city leaders on Monday approved a proposal to sell the city's 50% ownership stake in the Oakland Coliseum complex, a deal supporters say could bring new economic opportunities and development to the city. The city will sell its ownership stake to the Oakland Acquisition Company for a lump-sum payment of $110 million along with 6% of future ticket sales from events held at the complex. More here: abc7news.com/19496299/

@zwitterati101 @MerriamWebster

@MerriamWebster So what is it called when someone who is considered “unattractive” is purposefully dating someone considered “unattractive”? 🤔

shrekking | noun | purposefully dating someone considered unattractive

@SusanDReynolds “Look into what?!?!” 🤷‍♂️

Look at Harami the socialist lowkey supporting a San Francisco city employee’s “anonymous” account praising Hamas. ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

@thinkingwest And then something else will need to be “safer.” And then more. And more. And more. Safe! Safety! Be safe! For yourself and others! I do not need to hear the word “safe” again in my life. It is only used by weak people aiming to manipulate.

It’s only a matter of time before full self driving becomes the safest option for all drivers. You’ll be a danger to others by not having it.

@incitafusio Is there such a thing as “sympathizing with terrorism”? If you side with the terrorists, wouldn’t it just be “being a terrorist”?

sympathizing with terrorism as a flight attendant is poor judgment for the airline to ignore; it’s like a cruise ship lifeguard wearing a titanic pin - tone deaf

@JoeOrrico Before every game, Skatt prays to a shrine of Junior Seau asking to receive the NFL’s best ever traumatic brain injury… Didn’t make it through even one season with his play style… But all of Fantasy Twitter still out here promoting him for a 17-game season.

5 League-Winners to Target in EVERY Fantasy Football Draft: (Don’t Leave Without Them) Up First…

@stoolpresidente Makes sense really. Kinda like fentanyl is a best selling pharmaceutical.

Ohio people make me laugh

@Coach_Yac @GiantHotTakes It’s racist and supremacist that the white people refused to participate in this.

There was a huge fight at the Giants - Rockies game last night via: @GiantHotTakes

@Rainmaker1973 One of those sites is the Westfield Mall in San Francisco, which never recovered from SF’s Covid/wokeness response, and is now completely vacated and seeking a buyer…

The only company that has succeeded in mass-producing practical spiral-moving escalators since 1985: Mitsubishi Electric.

@stoolpresidente Why is stupid “hilarious”? Why are we applauding and defending the ongoing decline of human behavior?

Its hilarious seeing the spelling police underneath this post. The pure arrogance of people thinking they have the right to chirp the current #1 NYT best selling author abut grammar. When you are the #1 best selling author you can talk about spelling. Until then don’t embarrass yourself. Everybody knows spelling and memorization are the 2 lowest forms of human intelligence

@MerriamWebster @qikipedia “Fee” doesn’t come from Latin. You know this.

@qikipedia Is there a fee?

In the Vatican Bank you can use an ATM in Latin. (📸: Seth Schoen)

@SFist Can anyone point to where Wong’s “rightward” “conservatism” is on the map?

The suspect in the April fire-bomb attack on Sam Altman's home was back in court today; murder charges have been filed in a June 14 shooting that killed a San Leandro father of four; and Alan Wong, D4 supervisor, has taken a noted rightward turn since joining the SF Board of Supervisors.buff.ly/KihuEDK

@benyogaking @itsolelehmann Yeah we’re kinda burying the lede here wayyyyy down in the comments…

@itsolelehmann What are the "dual-pivot cervical spine" and "premium services"?

so "companion humanoids" are starting to become a thing in China. one of them just pulled in 13,000 orders on its first day of sales. (for context Unitree, the biggest humanoid robot maker in the world, shipped around 5,500 humanoids in all of 2025. this robot just booked more than double that in 24 hours.) it's called the U1, built by UBTech in Shenzhen, the first humanoid robot company to ever go public. most humanoids are built for factories and warehouses, but this one was built for keeping people company. and the whole design follows from that job. it comes as a 6-foot man or a 5'6" woman. the skin is silicone, stretched over 88 motorized joints, enough to reproduce about 90% of human movement. the speed matters as much as the range. when you talk, the face reacts in under 20 milliseconds, faster than a blink. any slower and the reactions would start to feel fake. the AI underneath was trained to read emotion. UBTech says it recognizes more than 20 emotional states with over 90% accuracy, so it adjusts to how you're actually feeling. there's no wake word either. you talk, it answers, the same way a conversation with a person works. and it remembers. your routines, your stories, how your week went. the longer you live with it, the better it knows you. everything it learns stays stored on the robot, nothing gets sent to the cloud. the demand comes from a real problem. China has 118 million empty-nest seniors, parents whose kids grew up and moved away. another 90 million adults live completely alone. for a huge share of the country, there's nobody home to talk to. the U1 was built to fill exactly that gap. a presence in the house that talks back, reads your mood, remembers your life. and the custom orders push it further. UBTech will scan a real person's face, clone their voice, build the robot to match. so a family can order one that looks and sounds like someone who died (remember that black mirror episode btw??) however, none of it is fully there yet... > top models cost over $135,000. > the battery only runs 2 to 4 hours, which UBTech admits is just where full-size humanoids are today. they're also donating 100 units this year to seniors living alone and kids separated from their parents. loneliness is becoming a market. and the Chinese are buying like crazy. i'm curious to see if this would catch on as easily in the West?

@HeidiBriones @BeatinTheBookie Women are entitled to half, if not more, of everything any man has anywhere. Women are also correct about all things, and men are wrong. If you disagree, you hate women.

@BeatinTheBookie They're the same team. Also, no one gets anything until they qualify for 2027. Why do you hate women?

Wait a minute. The US Women’s team gets half of the men’s prize money? That is legitimately insane as they had nothing to do with them at all. Getting a handout.

@CaitlinPacific Name them. I don’t believe you. I don’t believe you could produce *one* male. Give us a picture of anyone. I would really like to see who these defenders claim are similar, comparable, no measurable difference whatsoever.

This is provincial at best. I could name ten men who have a similar presentation in life, dress, attitude. More power to them. But I stand strongly against biological males in girls and women’s private spaces.