I assume this is because their tops are made out of rubber their bottoms are made out of springs

I was upgrading the quality of a WW1 image and came across this. 🗃️

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

“It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.” — Mayor of Pontevedra, Spain (re-elected 6 times)

🚨NEW POLICY ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 All Evri executives to have their Christmas presents delivered by Evri, to see how they like it. Love Christmas. Vote Binface.

So I’m presuming that pointing out how the Trump Regime are completely corrupt, cowardly, and narcissistic fascists, racists, criminals and pathological liars is the kind of activity that Trump’s proposed new 5 year invasion of tourist’s social media accounts wouldn’t like to see. What a shame.

Yes, it's astonishing that you and others are still on X and seemingly fine with propping up the site as though it were a normal information distribution mechanism.

Timeline cleanse: Antarctic sun dogs/halo version. January 2024, RAICA ice core project at Canisteo Peninsula, West Antarctica supported by Korea Polar Research Institute and US National Science Foundation. 🌞 ❄️

Every ad for AI is like Person: FUCK!! I don’t know what to get my loved one for Christmas!!!!!! I love them so much!!! Tell me what to do, AI!! AI: get sock Title Card: You are literally the smartest person for doing this

Can we think of any reasons why Boris Johnson in particular might have cause to believe that people could be grasping selfish bastards who are only ever out to grab as much as they can for themselves, by legal means or otherwise.

End of term. Students: get your washing done! #laundry #education #edchat #HigherEd

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On Aug 24, 1869, Ohio Rep. John Bingham, principal framer of the 14th amendment, gave a remarkable speech on “Equal Rights-Impartial Suffrage,” in which he said of those who sought to reject the principal of birthright citizenship, “no greater political atrocity than this can possibly be committed.”

It’s weird that news organizations like the BBC are covering this as if it’s a real thing with a real process behind it—and not clearly some nakedly invented “participation trophy” by a corrupt organization to curry favor with a corrupt and easily manipulated man-child. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

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This chart is about tactical voting, but looking at it from the perspective of ‘would it be easier for labour to get voters back from Reform, or from literally anyone else’ is quite revealing

Nigel Farage was a racist bully at school but Rachel Reeves won the wrong chess championship so who can say who is worse?

If the government is serious about wanting higher growth, at least a glance in the direction of the disintegrating HE sector might be warranted.

It's almost as if these out-of-work Tories are just opportunists chancing their arm with Reform to try and revive their careers...

Absolutely not. Never disregarded a sign quicker. My corporeal form has nothing in common with the person or fey creature who thinks this is possible.

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

The fact that AI will pretty much never tell you that you are an idiot is both a fatal flaw and probably a reason for it being popular with a great many people.

This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology. Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

The Pope has a word with the man in 27E who is listening to an action movie on his iPad's speakers.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

Perfecto. I just googled “reap what you sow” and the top result (feeling lucky ?) was Amazon selling “Low price reap what you sow”.

Watch carefully and you can see right through her eyes into the headrest. #WorldBollardAssociation

What a great headline

At this pivotal moment for 🇺🇦 it’s important to remember that corruption in next door Russia is equally endemic - except there is no independent anti-corruption agency. Putin himself is the ultimate ring leader. Everybody within this corrupt circle is beholden onto him. A position of unrivaled power.

Also not all welfare spending is the same. Eliminating child poverty is to an extent not just redistribution but an investment in their education, employment, future earnings, tax payments, and propensity to be involved in crime.

In other shocking news, adjascent apples in same barrel also appear brownish. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... PS I know it shouldn't surprise me, but OF COURSE he lives in France.

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

Well, that ramped up quickly. #Thanksgiving

“WASHINGTON—Citing that a majority of Americans are irresponsible, easily distracted people who have little regard for other human beings, a new Dept of Transportation report revealed that it’s ‘actually kind of crazy’ that U.S. citizens are allowed to drive automobiles.” The Onion strikes again.

People don’t hate datacenters being built near them, they hate *anything* being built near them. The median position is never build anything

Yes, things suck, but consider that some hairless monkeys living on a tiny rock with a soap-bubble atmosphere have manages to look back almost 2/3rds of the way back to the beginning of the whole fucking universe to take this picture.

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Well that’s sunk what little might have been left of Chris Mason’s repution.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.