Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

You may not know @taskmaster.tv. It's hilarious & joyful. I begged to do it, worked out my schedule a year ahead of time to make it happen & got to do the best show on TV w/ the loveliest ppl. Ep 1 is out &, trust me, you need this joy. All seasons free on youtube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRfH...

This is as beautiful a thing as you'll see in all your life. Hope, after months of darkness.

@aiannucci.bsky.social ❤️ #Taskmaster #TheThickOfIt

Iannucci double-bill - The Thick of It (Richard Bacon episode) followed by new Taskmaster! 🎉

How extraordinary to have some lost Doctor Who reappear from 60 years ago And for all the available episodes to be there on iPlayer is such a fantastic thing 💙💙 #DoctorWho

Delighted that Taskmaster has (at least ) SIX more series after the one that starts next week - joy! ❤️ #Taskmaster

Much blocking, muting & unfollowing, April 1st tradition, fuck your Foolishness

What's big and small at the same time

Oscar-winner on Taskmaster s23… Olivia Colman or Peter Capaldi??

Watch out for the

sorry i never responded to your email, i didn't want to and then i forgot

I can confirm I had a gargantuan amount of fun. It’s one of my all-time favourite shows; everyone involved in it is brilliant and it was sheer joy. That said, nothing can hide you from the dribbling terror of opening your first task in a room-full of people watching and judging you.

A colourful new season of Taskmaster drops on Channel 4 and YouTube on April 9th at 10pm BST - starring Armando Iannucci, Amy Gledhill, Joanna Page, Joel Dommett and Kumail Nanjiani!. 🔵🟢🟡🟢🟡

i deleted all the games and apps off my phone, put my phone in a trash can, and now just carry my game boy around in my pocket instead. so if you want to reach me you will have to release a new game boy game.

I do not like this gen AI I do not like what it implies I do not want it in my art I do not think it makes you smart I do not want it in my games I do not like its goals and aims I do not want it in my books I do not like the way it looks I do not like it, I don't care I do not want it anywhere

London ❤️

🚨 NEW BLOGPOST 🚨 There's a through-line from trolling culture to the manosphere and government rejoicing in its own cruelty. The common thread is the weaponisation of irony, making it cringe to care, risible to object. The radical response: reclaim sincerity. open.substack.com/pub/joxleywr...

"I asked AI..." NO. YOU DIDN'T. You scraped answers from a load of websites in a way that obscures where those answers came from, rendering them pointless

the government a) making ai training opt-in, not opt-out b) giving the bbc a permanent charter and c) finally increasing funding for the world service, is giving me an unusual feeling of contentment someone please do something bad soon, i'm not used to this

Jett Reno MVP? #starfleetacademy

eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same

One of the joyous things about Doctor Who missing episodes will be seeing the reactions of people who think the first Doctor is always grumpy & serious - and are about to discover he was a giggling idiot a lot of the time!

The Doctor 💙💙

I'm struggling to explain to non-fans how 'they found two missing episodes' feels. I think it might genuinely be a whole human emotion only accessible to Dr Who fans, like we're deep sea fish who can smell magnets.

The distribution of letters in English words.

Is it ‘starve a fever, feed a knee’, or the other way around? My knee hurts. Also, I have a fever

move slow and repair things

Accidentally used a floor wipe on a wall & now my whole room has flipped, can’t reach the door

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

It’s actually FEWER Misérables

Lighting up, kicking back, typing in 58008 and turning that baby upside down like an absolute legend. I am smooth, I am suave, I am James Bond, I am the Hofmeister bear, men respect me, the ladies love me, thank you Casio

Percy Shelley’s journal: last night I awoke to a creature watching me through my bedroom window with a face white as chalk Mary Shelley’s journal: read four books today. Learning three languages while discussing astronomy and mathematics. Also Percy tried to chase his creature again.

Due to everything, I will not be doing anything at this time

I've spent the whole week convinced that I had forgotten a friend's birthday - this must be why:

'As a movement, the left has largely refused to engage seriously with AI' That's because it's killing every industry we work in, you quisling fuck.

Canary Worf.

Kind of wish more folk would frame art and creativity as being a bit like running in their heads or something. Is everyone naturally brilliant at it? No. If you work at it will you improve? Yes you probably will! If you don’t get good is it still worthwhile? Yeah! Can an LLM do it for you? Nope.

Happy Birthday, Gromit! x

Small Prophets is absolutely lovely Pearce Quigley & Lauren Patel are so wonderful Michael Palin - of course - perfect Thank you, Mackenzie Crook x #SmallProphets www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

I wrote about the new Muppet Show, which is, thank God, exactly like the old Muppet Show.

Why is every scandal existential for Starmer? Because he has actively worked to eradicate his own support base. And that, along with the Mandelson decision, can be laid at McSweeney's door iandunt.substack.com/p/starmers-m...

I know he doesn't approve of handouts (unless he is receiving them) but he should set up a load of charities & change the world in a positive way & also he should kill himself

It was the Fuck Around of Times, it was the Find Out of times

@ewacat.bsky.social Hope you’re feeling better And - thank you for mentioning Neal Stephenson recently - I had never picked up his books before (I usually avoid long books unless they’re by @sennydreadful.bsky.social ) but am now halfway through Cryptonomicon, and it’s so good!

New year new trousers

If The Thick of It were still running, what cultural references would Malcolm & Jamie be using as insults? "Hey! Claudia Winkleman!" "Shut up, Celebrity Love Island" "Hey, Ryan Reynolds-or-Gosling, shut it" "You are The Weakest Link go fuck yourself"

How? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.

I mean, if the murderers say they didn’t do the murder we all saw, then how can we confidently say that they did, again, murder? Apart from looking at the incontrovertible evidence, of course.