I want a future where I can pay to punch Sam Altman, on a sliding scale depending on how hard and where

how long does it take to study the blade, like, really? it’s shiny, pointy, and maybe there’s a handle involved? all in all, you’re looking at about a five minute endeavor

"When they send one of yours a quote from The Hobbit, you send one of theirs a quote from The Silmarillion. That's the Chicago way!"

I showed Werner Herzog your mean posts about baby Grogu and he said the human capacity for cruelty will be our epitaph

Why do all of these guys think this is a bold new plan rather than what the party is already doing

Downthread - AI companies buy rare books, ingest their contents as destructured "training data", then DESTROY THE BOOKS! Imagine if you went to the library, and they offered you 100,000,000 loose pages, all indexed alphabetically by their first word...

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

this is why I find climate dooming so frustrating there is no point - none - at which throwing up your hands and going “well we’re fucked” is the correct response every tenth of a degree matters and can make a big difference and is worth fighting for

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

suffering financial ruin because my son's toy plays the song "wheels on the bus" which can be faintly heard in one of the voiceover files in my video and i am sued by its billionaire rightsholder, who has been circumnavigating the earth in a zeppelin since 1933

‘Alright, so do me a picture of a couple of knights with horses fighting.’ ‘Bit odd, but okay.’ *later* ‘Have you done that picture with the knights on horseback fighting yet?’ ‘Oh yeah, actually that does make more sense.’ ‘Than what?’ ‘...nothing.’ ‘Than WHAT?’

Some political party name ideas. Reform UK Restore Britain Reboot Blighty Revamp Albion Rectify Britannia Rebuild Airstrip One Renovate Loegria Remodel Angland

It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

Unsure which is more surprising, the fact that Finland had a pop magazine called STUMP or that the Fast Show's Jazz Club presenter (you know, the one who says "niiice!!") appears to have actually existed

There was a time, not long ago, when peaceful protestors were never sent to jail in the UK But at least 286 people have been locked up for protesting climate breakdown and genocide in recent years It's a fucking scandal

Comfy. #dragons #sketch #sketchbook #fantasyart

the hungry observatory

I like how wikipedia could only get a freely licensed photo of the political editor of BBC News by cropping this UK government photo

For #WorldTurtleDay, a reminder that Carlos is a stardard unit of measurment

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

You didn't worry about toilets, you didn't obsess over strangers' genitals, you didn't believe in a secret cabal of lefty parents and endocrinologists or a tidal wave of predatory men in dresses with blue hair and gender certificates until about 7 years-ago when the right told you to!!

Rest here, weary traveller 🎨 Lily Seika Jones

This rare Roman pottery lamp, shaped like a foot wearing a sandal, was made between 50-60 CE, and was found at Borough High Street in Southwark. Archaeologists discovered the lamp in a rubbish pit, close to buildings that had been burnt down during the Boudican rebellion in 60-61 CE. #FindsFriday

There’s a rogue “O” in the book title

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

THE HOBBIT & THE LORD OF THE RINGS Digitals available on Inprnt. www.inprnt.com/gallery/brucemackay

Anon reviewer told us to cite more of my work:

current news got me thinking about this story from last year

Oink... Ha ha ha... Oink!!

This truly is appalling. A massive racist would say they feel 'distressed' at black people being in the same space as them, and obviously what you do there is throw the massive racist out and ban them. This is pandering to bastards like they did to racists in the American South. Absolutely fuck this

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

On the tube

Late night inkin’.

Man who was Labour through and through and even got sympathetic, pandering coverage when he quit the party during the Corbyn years as proof they were losing the good people they were meant to represent.

Fraiser: And how is your work going in Gotham, cousin Johnathan? What do you have there, is it a Batman or a Man-bat? Scarecrow: We have both. Niles: How exciting for you.

Arrested Development ass administration.

quit scaring my dog

The AI rollout: a metaphor.

Aw dude

He scream at own vase!

Anthony Hurd (American, b.1975) "You Have This Hold Over Me," 2025 Acrylic on wood 24 x 30 in #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Autism defined by Autistic people:

Strong evidence that the shooters at the mosque in San Diego yesterday held both Islamophobic and antisemitic beliefs. Our safety is bound up together, no matter how much politicians may try to divide us.

pour one out for a real one

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Oh London

No consequences for anti-muslim racism. The government’s inaction on this is telling us we’re fair game.