*boop*

I need the biggest climate emergency metaphor you have *the COP climate conference goes on literal fire* No that’s too big

Now this is why we need science! (No seriously 😏)

You may not know this, but Zebra aren't just stripey horses. They're quadrupedal satans in dazzle camouflage. Six thousand years of agriculture hasn't been able to make a dent in their *notoriously murderous* attitudes. They chase and kill their own predators.

No, really, read the Hippo Thread™️

HIPPO THREAD YOU HAVE TO READ RIGHT NOW

Watch the clip - his guy is fantastic and hilarious !!

The US is boycotting this weekend’s G20 summit in Johannesburg- but it has warned South Africa not to issue a joint G20 statement. This is next level arrogance and disrespect!!!

Who made this? 🤣🤣🤣

This is Scotty. He is not chasing his own tail's shadow. If you'll notice, he actually has it cornered. 13/10 (TT: lifewithscotty)

Two pats even.

Computer people: I keep wondering whether LLMs are especially vulnerable to hallucinations (or whether I am especially aware of them, because I spend my life writing), or whether this is an AI vulnerability across applications - coding, science research, wherever else it is used?

Japp! Det verkar stämma:

The same elites who lament that "woke" is just symbolic politics, all about representation rather than "real" class issues, will of course *lose their ever-loving shit* if a politician comes and actually centers class issues. (cf Mamdani)

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

AI is like this giant fucking boat we all were forced to get on, and it's a boat they stole, and also it barely floats, and also it's not going anywhere good. So it either takes us somewhere we hate, or it fucking sinks, so either way, fuck AI.

New holiday gift idea, iPhone case that makes the back look like a Samsung.

Also, all the evidence - the actual decades of proper academic evidence - shows this is bollocks anyway. Ape the far right, people will vote for the far right.

Existential angst.

uh wha how why This does not make sense, make it make sense.

Another win for Android, you Apple tarts.

Everything is terrible, but this little guy, who was abandoned in the woods in August, is now safe.

If there was ever a night for snowy plover sex on the timeline, that night is tonight. Taken from 100s of feet away on a very hot beach, thus the heat distortion. 🪶

South Africans - recommendations for a passport service in Cape Town that gets around the queues?

South Africans - recommendation for an agency that helps with DHA?

TikTok is a delight sometimes! (🔊 sound on🔊)

1/3 Caixin: "For the first time since record-keeping began in 2011, secondhand home prices fell across all 70 of China’s major cities for two consecutive months — a sweeping downturn that underscores the persistent strain in the country’s property market... www.caixinglobal.com/2025-11-15/c...

2024: hahaha suck it troglodytes, this thing's gonna be replacing your job and dating your girlfriend 2026: we continue to see modest gains at the edges of our applications. we believe 14% of consumers may be ready to spend up to three dollars a month on this by end of Q4

oh. well that's that, then! www.theverge.com/column/82066...

Duh

This pic 😂

you'll never guess which side

...and rightly and courageously put global imbalances at the heart of its G7 presidency next year. I also strongly agree with the FT that the defence sector is far too narrow to arrest German industrial decline single-handedly. The defence ramp-up is necessary but it ain't no miracle. 8/

The Trump administration locked horns with China on tech, tariffs, rare earths. So it will fall to German and EU diplomats to press China to rebalance its wider economy and revalue its currency - unfamiliar terrain for them. France has more experience with that kind of diplomacy... 7/

"what began as a way to increase the pace of deportations has come to look like a national police force, answerable to the president, that is at least as focused on bullying the residents of Democrat-run cities as it is on deporting undocumented migrants" www.economist.com/interactive/...

Guys! You guys!!

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

The last annual review concluded the SS Richard Montgomery was perfectly safe! And as a demonstration of exactly how safe it is it also banned aircraft from flying anywhere near it in case, y'know, the wreck spontaneously makes itself a lot safer in a manner incompatible with continued aviation...

The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall

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On a completely different note: Something to calm us all down again. Maybe ;) 👇

Knows the cost of everything, takes a chainsaw to it anyway.

OMG

10/10 take. No notes.

Tricked the kittens into being weighed with a box on top of the scale and it has worked Too Well. He's just sitting in here purring

Large fires burning on the Heuningberg Mountain above Bredasdorp in the Southern Cape. A #SAAF Oryx of 22 Squadron has just departed AFB Ysterplaat to assist with aerial firefighting efforts.

Bed is so awesome, man. Like, a big comfy soft slab to lay down on, with blankets and stuff to keep you warm? A+ invention, no notes.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire