Years of Lead Poisoning
Added 2025-01-03 22:10:59 +0000 UTCFor our first TF episode of 2025 (recorded in 2025, that is), we're talking about recent events in the United States, plus Elon Musk's decision to weigh in on British politics and its downstream effects: ruining Keir Starmer's toboggan ride, among other things. We very much hope you enjoy.
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Whisper libidinal to me, stroke me with your golden arm
Luke
2025-01-11 19:27:58 +0000 UTCYou missed a very easy Ethan Frome punchline
Miles
2025-01-10 00:43:25 +0000 UTCAlso regret to inform that Adrian Dittmann is real, Maia Crimew posted an article about it
Marjorie Zeager
2025-01-08 14:29:49 +0000 UTCDo I have to pick which ball I kick my boss in?
Marjorie Zeager
2025-01-08 14:29:21 +0000 UTCI also have no idea what scrobbling is, but the Gen Zs in my discord servers are obsessed with it.
Marjorie Zeager
2025-01-08 14:28:55 +0000 UTCSeeking funding for my new start up SQUABLR which will turn squibbled novels into very disconcerting audiobooks.
Kenny Allums
2025-01-08 13:56:52 +0000 UTCI picked up my British passport today and am now a dual citizen. It really feels like a choice between original and extra crispy crazy.
Man, I Got Nothing
2025-01-08 00:15:29 +0000 UTCVivek is clearly wrong: we yanks have always been like this and we used to rule the world,
Horse Badorties
2025-01-07 19:58:45 +0000 UTCThis is a Jack Vance book, right?
Horse Badorties
2025-01-07 19:53:17 +0000 UTCAm very intrigued by Henry Kissinger as Robin.
Horse Badorties
2025-01-07 19:51:46 +0000 UTC"I thought all writers drank to excess and beat their wives... You know, at one time I think I secretly wanted to be a writer."
WankerPants
2025-01-07 14:26:16 +0000 UTCKeeping a nonce gang around so you can press the racist outrage button is the political racism evolution no one asked for. I cant wait to write a philosophical book on scribble about it.
Elek Tolman
2025-01-07 02:34:30 +0000 UTCThe marathon example for an AI slop book really hit a nerve with me. Like, the robot trying to take away all effort and will and enjoyment of activity away from me also wants to sell me a book about the paradigmatic activity one does just to get good at a thing for the sake of the process and self improvement.
Miriam Hitchcock
2025-01-06 23:26:40 +0000 UTCMisheard that as "UCAS personal statements," like Unmanned Combat Aerial Systems. Very different motivational book
-Kris-
2025-01-06 19:20:56 +0000 UTCconsidering America's literacy rates just came out and they are CRATERING, with Half of the population having a literacy rate below a 6th grade reading level, the "calling Americans idiots" thing is just gonna keep getting worse
silvergazer31
2025-01-06 17:55:26 +0000 UTCLuton Mentioned !!!!!!
Steph Bingham
2025-01-06 15:56:55 +0000 UTCOk, searching Fort Bragg Meth Mafia now thanks
Mark Schwagner
2025-01-06 13:21:04 +0000 UTCHand-sewn Etsy Isis flag
Pilfering Kibble
2025-01-06 04:14:10 +0000 UTCIf he ever finishes a sentence the podcast is over. That’s the deal.
Uriah Wilson
2025-01-06 03:21:09 +0000 UTCbartl.by
Karl Childers
2025-01-05 23:25:02 +0000 UTCExcellent title
Isaac Taylor
2025-01-05 22:08:54 +0000 UTCBartleGPT. is this anything
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2025-01-05 19:50:05 +0000 UTCyeah, i'm trying to get back into copywriting after graduating but have found that in the last couple of years, all of the garbage 3-cents-per-word freelance gigs that I used to take have been replaced by garbage "AI" training gigs. depressing
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2025-01-05 19:47:56 +0000 UTCme: so I have this swedish guy here squwibbler: what if he was italian
etienne
2025-01-05 18:52:05 +0000 UTCdepressing
etienne
2025-01-05 16:28:18 +0000 UTCthere is a kind of logic to it, but it only works if you don't consider that there is already an endless flood of low-grade eBook slop deluging the marketplace. yearly book sales, both digital and physical, are growing in the US year by year. getting into physical books is a no-go if you care about profits because hard copy sales are more and more concentrated in the hands of Big 5 publishers and it's increasingly difficult for indies to simply break even on production and distribution costs, but eBooks cost relatively little to produce, and if you cut out author advances, editorial and publicity salaries, proofreader payments, and all other costs associated with producing a book other than a subscription to Scribbly Bibbly and maybe a social media budget, you're getting a lot closer to the promise of money for nothing. most eBooks make very little--if any--money, but if you pump them out en masse, you can theoretically rake in a profit by going wide. of course, if the number of eBooks for sale increases exponentially compared to the number of eBook readers and the amount of time they have to read, the possibility of turning a profit exponentially decreases (and it was already a pretty ephemeral possibility even pre-"AI" due to the sheer number of people trying to peddle their half-baked bullshit on the eBook market).
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2025-01-05 16:23:11 +0000 UTCACTUALLY, you can't stream songs on LastFM a la Spotify. i can't tell you exactly what a "scrobble" is because I never opened LastFM again after I discovered that it isn't a streaming service (for I am little more than a squealing pig and my appetite is only for Content) but it isn't equivalent to a "play" on Spotify. sick of these leftist podcasters just pulling shit out of their ass instead of basing their claims on FACT.
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2025-01-05 15:56:28 +0000 UTCI hate it when my bomb disposal robot comes in contact with my robot disposal bomb
Jermy
2025-01-05 12:31:57 +0000 UTCya hate to be in there
Shivvy
2025-01-05 09:51:11 +0000 UTCwhich? if you mean removing bollards, well yes; it was meant to be temporary and was well taken advantage of
Shivvy
2025-01-05 09:27:40 +0000 UTCjonathan friendzone lol
etienne
2025-01-05 04:30:17 +0000 UTCRandom thought for TF: not numbering the episodes makes it difficult to go through the back catalogue. I have to scroll through dates from the latest or first episodes every time I want to find an episode I haven't heard
Сейдж
2025-01-05 03:34:28 +0000 UTCExplaining domestic terrorism to an American: "Okay, imagine a Livelsberger..."
Carley They/Themsen
2025-01-04 19:16:23 +0000 UTCI'm thinking like ca. 2005 when Johnathan Franzone got name-dropped multiple times on The Simpsons. I smell what you're stepping in there.
The Project Project
2025-01-04 17:54:03 +0000 UTCpicking marathon running as an example is so funny, talking about their marathon training is most coworker yapping at me thing you can imagine
etienne
2025-01-04 17:00:13 +0000 UTCI don't understand where the money is in book startups when the average person has a distraction even every 3 phrases. they want to make *more* full length books?
etienne
2025-01-04 16:55:56 +0000 UTCAs a writer-American I find your commentary about us at the end deeply offensive.
Jordan Clementi
2025-01-04 16:55:40 +0000 UTCI didn't know Richard Nixon was Batman
shadowcb
2025-01-04 15:58:17 +0000 UTCI regret to inform you that writer identity politics is A Thing. It seems to rise in cycles and I haven’t seen a ton of it personally lately. But it definitely exists.
Heather
2025-01-04 15:35:02 +0000 UTCThe AI stuff is so depressing. Even before AI it was an incredibly difficult thing to make a living doing creative writing and now apps like this are actively making it impossible. I know friends who left their copywriting jobs because they were being forced to edit AI outputs. I know plenty of people who write and whose work is getting drowned out by the AI spam. As funny as this all seems, to people who write as a job, a hobby or a passion, this is devastating. Some writers are even hesitating promoting their work because AI grifters are scraping socials. A lot of us are feeling hopeless. If AI continues this will end a lot of careers and dreams.
Tuur Verheyde
2025-01-04 14:08:19 +0000 UTCSquibler merch when (maybe spell it differently to avoid trademark stuff lol)
Tuur Verheyde
2025-01-04 13:53:35 +0000 UTCThe Proust, sometimes it makes the scrobble squib
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-04 13:50:34 +0000 UTCI'm imagining the guy ordered his ISIS flag from the same very nice Turkish Canadian man I got my Anarcho-Comunist Trans Pride Flag from. He was very accommodating, and even gave me a second flag for free.
Ava Usagi
2025-01-04 12:42:27 +0000 UTCspecial bonus episode of him just reciting Terms & Conditions in that successively higher pitched, Jerry Seinfeld-like cadence
MI
2025-01-04 12:07:07 +0000 UTCPM Ethan Frome
MI
2025-01-04 11:39:56 +0000 UTC2025 should be the year of letting Riley finish a sentence
Pigeon Queen ?
2025-01-04 05:42:28 +0000 UTCThe thing Elon doesn't understand in this was is timing. You don't claw back your campaign promises until after Trump is actually president. That's when Trump starts "owning the Libs" at CNN which libidinally excites his feral base of racist voters, but only as a phantasm. The "Libs" acting like Trump is a larger than life threat makes his base feel like he is doing something when he is mostly just talking shit. When the Media and Trump start jangling keys nobody would even bring up H-1B.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-01-04 03:43:06 +0000 UTCAlfred: Inaudible.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-01-04 03:34:31 +0000 UTCno matter what i prompt it with the Scrivener AI just keeps outputting "i would prefer not to," is this a glitch?
Karl Childers
2025-01-04 02:59:37 +0000 UTC‘I’ve scrobbled quibs you’ll never believe’ sounds like a discarded 90’s Oasis lyric
H
2025-01-04 02:58:13 +0000 UTCBatman and Nixon are dangerously close together
Man2quilla
2025-01-04 02:53:08 +0000 UTCWhat's worse is they have solidarity with the united sisterhood of bullet proof sock darning. You do not know what horror they can wreak with five minutes and their wooden mushroom.
spaced_out_armour
2025-01-04 02:25:25 +0000 UTCbury my heart and wounded tungsten knee?
spaced_out_armour
2025-01-04 02:23:51 +0000 UTCIt would be better to give ACTUAL trump to a pack of XL Bullies, but the toy could be considered a training tool, perhaps....
spaced_out_armour
2025-01-04 02:22:47 +0000 UTCMy ass watching the chud infighting like "just open the borders dickheads"
Man2quilla
2025-01-04 02:15:10 +0000 UTCBad*
Josephine
2025-01-04 02:12:11 +0000 UTCI'm not an explosives person but isn't that also bar?
Josephine
2025-01-04 02:12:01 +0000 UTCNot ex-special forces, ACTIVE DUTY GREEN BERET.
Man2quilla
2025-01-04 02:07:54 +0000 UTCRrrrgh Alfred where are with the 'Riddler' situation
chronicles of girldick
2025-01-04 01:52:37 +0000 UTCAlfred: Inaudible.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-01-04 01:51:06 +0000 UTCThe thing about Empire is that eventually it learns that one of the greatest threats to it's self replication is Demobbed soldiers who enacted it's wars. They tend to be used to being organized, comfortable with violence, and used to direct action. The US learned this with the Bonus Army. In order to avoid Bonus Army 2: all Lt. Spears this time, the government felt it had to do a thing that the US government hates to do, giving things to working class people with the Montgomery GI Bill. Only if you're white of course. With sufficient prosperity most normal GIs lacked sufficient anxiety rise up like an American Organisation armée secrète.
Crispined Glover Potato Snacks
2025-01-04 01:49:31 +0000 UTCThis is easily a hundred dollar idea.
Andrew Davis
2025-01-04 01:29:19 +0000 UTCI think gravity would do it for you.
Louis Wilkins
2025-01-04 01:26:12 +0000 UTCH... Hewwo?? I wantewd to intwoduwuce youwu to my neww Awtificiaw Intewwigence based app subscwuiption sewvice fow pubwishing books cawwed Scwibbewweww.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-01-04 00:43:29 +0000 UTCYall know assmilk.mov but not who Stefan Urkel is and that’s why the west will fall
MCL
2025-01-04 00:36:31 +0000 UTCunfortunately in etsy's current state it's more likely to be a drop-shipped isis flag
Peter Paul Rubens' Muse
2025-01-04 00:23:55 +0000 UTCNew Orleans local government accidentally re-enacting the plot of Jaws.
Rory
2025-01-04 00:18:49 +0000 UTCBatman's starting to sound like Nixon
chronicles of girldick
2025-01-04 00:18:08 +0000 UTCWe lost ours in bath which is a shame because it's a vape shop now, and you can't buy Donald trump dog toys
Erin Taylor
2025-01-04 00:17:08 +0000 UTCI'd buy noided cluedo
Tristan Ryan
2025-01-04 00:02:46 +0000 UTCI will have everyone know that Scribbler unfortunately does still exist and there's one right outside the main shopping centre in Oxford
WhyDoIBother
2025-01-03 23:49:25 +0000 UTCBury me with my tungsten arm!
marilyn
2025-01-03 23:45:26 +0000 UTCClearly we need to fuse two good startups into a GREAT startup. May I present to you: SQuibi. Now we can delve into one gripping metallic arm story for every metal known to man, with the power of AI!
marilyn
2025-01-03 23:43:44 +0000 UTCYou guys are a bit misinformed. The flag kabal has a base of operations kinda like John Wick and if you snitch roughly 1200 trained flag makers/assassins immediately go for you if you're excommunicated.
Nicholas J Skradski
2025-01-03 23:34:50 +0000 UTCLead? Sweet.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-03 23:29:00 +0000 UTCThis podcast really makes me feel like Halo
Kapjak
2025-01-03 23:16:47 +0000 UTCApparently Peppa Pig is a Hasbro holding??? So maybe Esoteric Hasbro could do official versions of those YouTube Elsagate Peppa Pig snuff films where Peppa gets murdered or whatever!
marilyn
2025-01-03 23:04:38 +0000 UTCI do like the idea of Esoteric Hasbro. Cluedo where the murder weapon is a hired Tesla is merely the beginning, surely, of a HIGHLY profitable new direction for the conglomerate as a whole.
marilyn
2025-01-03 23:02:53 +0000 UTCCouple bombing notes: - bollards: some were removed from Bourbon St and replaced with human cops for NYE; removal was related to a years-long upgrade (with issues). more: https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/bollards-new-orleans-attack/ - Elon: when I watched Vegas news video it seemed EM stole his cyber brags beat-for-beat from what the LVPD said about the vehicle containing and forcing the explosion upwards etc? What a dork
Shivvy
2025-01-03 23:02:24 +0000 UTCnova is correct about the guy in dallas getting blown up by way of cop bot.
kaninchen ZERO
2025-01-03 22:58:45 +0000 UTCRamaswamy: "Remember when t' white race was 'ard?"
marilyn
2025-01-03 22:58:37 +0000 UTCNot enough Whip Lash... A movie that gives you a first-hand experience of what PTSD feels like.
Grumpy Bowlart
2025-01-03 22:46:44 +0000 UTCINCREDIBLE EPISODE TITLE 🫡
Joshua P. Kelly
2025-01-03 22:46:18 +0000 UTC
