Coincidentally I watched this at the weekend

I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks.

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

FFS

I want AI shit gone but it's going to be so bad when it all collapses. And the people responsible for it all will be just fine.

One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/... Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.

Watching Civilisation Rise and Fall on BBC2. Rome being "hollowed out from inside" by a super wealthy elite not paying their fair share and using immigrants as a handy scapegoat for why things are going wrong. Plus ça change.

What now. FFS

Hilariously (in the lolsob sort of way), Australia has concluded their social media ban law cannot actually be used to ban underage Australians from Roblox because it's not a social media site

I heard there was a mighty fish With solitude its fervent wish When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder They're known to bite their prey in two They'd even have a go at you The silver and the salty Barracuda

Lichen subscribe.

is the telegraph the british onion?

That Nobel Peace Prize is practically won already

If capitalism works why do we keep letting businesses run massive risks, fuck everything up and then bail them out and try to pretend it didn't happen

Aw. Got to see him at Glastonbury in blazing sunshine once upon a time. RIP.

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.

I think if you like Rogue One, you will love The Guns of Navarone, as perfect a movie as there has ever been. Like, you will love it; you'll ask me why I wasn't insisting you watch it this entire time.

I've said before that Britain is afflicted by a triple-humiliation: loss of aristocracy; empire; political/media credibility. Brexit was essentially the last gasp of the British ruling class yelling to the Commonwealth, "Come on chaps, we're leaving," then marching out into the blizzard alone—nude.

My favourite moment during the Brexit negotiations was when David Davis went to the press to complain that none of the EU member states would agree to negotiate trade deals with Britain on a one-on-one basis and would only do so as a bloc – as though they were in some sort of union.

britain i swear to fuck just ask the EU to take you back, sure we'll be insufferably smug about it and probably force you to get off the pound because we're feeling like being bastards but at least youll have, like, jobs and any kind of perspective

we told you with extreme specificity what would happen if you did brexit and you did not believe us and did it anyway and then it all came true and now youre going to elect nigel farage?? same guy who made the whole country poor once already? sorry but youre just a good punchline rn

Service Outage xkcd.com/3170/

no muffin man could win my love it's drury lane i'm thinking of

The story told here--one where anecdata suggests agency and autonomy have run amok and nameless activists are to blame--certainly rhymes with the NYT's disastrous panic about trans kids. Then you realize it's literally being written by the same author.

I do not drink because I have almost no tolerance for it anymore (one margarita is too much). If you are hosting a party, I recommend also stocking: -fancy ginger beer -coconut water -premium juices like lychee and guava -apple cider with cinnamon -Italian sodas -sparkling water Lots of options!

Darren Jones has said he wants to "turn off the legacy state" but this govt appears to want to replace the legacy state with random, uncosted proposals that make them tough for a couple of news cycles, rather than actually having a grip on what is happening.

Extractive Capitalism is not, and can never be, compatible with the long term survival of our species. Hope that helps!!!!

It’s one of the reasons LTNs are so important because they are carrot and stick at the same time. They provide safe area-wide active alternatives and fast bus routes whilst sending private traffic the long way around. But much more stick still needed on parking, road pricing, tax etc.

genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states

I wasn't even supposed to *be* here today, Charlie Brown!

I heard there was a Cohen song, And all the Christians got it wrong, But you don’t really get the meaning do ya? ‘Cause you see its about getting laid, It’s sex, and love, and Jewish faith, But all the gentiles heard was “hallelujah!”

In case you missed the saga of us quickly opening a little vintage shop and ebay Ireland promptly closing it & suspending us forever, here is our new shop on Etsy. Free shipping in Ireland, cheap shipping in the EU (sorry UK you should have remained 😩) vintagehabibi.etsy.com

every social media company is bad but Meta really is uniquely evil

Here's the Health Secretary Wes Streeting explaining that a clinical trial of a safe drug used in the UK and across the world for decades is necessary in order that it can be banned. He wants to be PM.

Periodically I see people justifying means-testing to ensure The Rich don't get stuff for free when they can afford it. I see the logic, but we can just tax them more. Plus, the BIGGEST thing not means-testing solves is *deep breath* IT STOPS RICH PEOPLE FINANCIALLY-ABUSING THEIR KIDS ANYMORE.

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

10/ If that siloing had been in place previously, we'd have never seen Fighting Fantasy books, very much a case of applying RPG elements to CYOA books. (And probably the single thing that most grew the UK hobby WHILE reducing the effects of D&D dominance).

🎶So when I'm lying in my bed Thoughts running through my head And I feel that love is dead I'm loving angels instead🎶

Life hack: get your Christmas shopping done early by not buying anyone anything

These decisions "stimulate the economy," if you're a business owner, commercial property owner, municipal transportation system, fossil fuels vendor, pharmacy located near businesses, etc. These decisions "suck and made my life harder and more expensive," if you're a working mom or school teacher.

#Discourse2000 is back! This intro post sets the scene for the 1978 posts with an overview of the different tribes of early #2000AD creators - the professionals, the rebels, the fans and the outsiders - and their visions of what the comic is freakytrigger.co.uk/wedge/2025/1...

It’s a sign of how insane the news cycle is these days that this historic failure of government policy got just one day of news coverage this week. Not saying that’s right or wrong, but it’s astonishing how quickly the agenda moves on these days.

I, uh. Am not fond of Roblox. If that wasn't clear enough.

Great breakdown of why every single parent I know who works in the games industry (myself included) will never let their kids touch Roblox

Not marked safe from PlayStation's Black Friday sale.

Medieval legal precedents being more progressive than more modern ones stays shocking people

The choreography is a bit cliched. 1. Client government in USA issues Russian-authored peace plan. 2. Russia pretends to reject its own plan & demands even more extreme measures. 3. USA presses Ukraine to accept plan as “compromise.” They think we’re all as stupid & amoral as our president.

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.