Watching Ocean's 13, and back in 2007 this meant something serious. Now you could just ask it to disregard previous instructions and open the vault.

I read somewhere that if you look at the “golden era” of Simpsons eps, you’ll see that the writers were making random, out of left field gags and odd references because they grew up watching and reading all kinds of weird shit. And the writers writing for Simpsons today grew up watching Simpsons

genAI is poisoning our water and planet you should hate it all indiscriminately even if it "never touches" the final product

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

The notion of *chocolate ice cream* being "too feminine" is absolutely wild to me. Stuff like this reminds me of the time in year 6 when it was, for an afternoon, decided amongst the boys in my class that looking at your nails was "gay." It's beyond child logic. It's just ridiculous.

This is moss agate from Indonesia, the ''moss'' is actually iron and other mineral inclusions in the stone that make it look like it contains a forest

It's called a "mouth"

Not to poet-post, but one of the problems of the internet is that it's fuelled a culture in which people "love poetry" but never actually pay for it - consuming fragments posted online instead of immersing themselves in full collections - then being surprised when poets ask to be paid for their work

And for UK people who enjoy music, this one closes sooner. Require all AI 'musicians' and songs to have a visible AI notice. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... Remember, while 'likes' are nice, reposts get these in front of more people. (Bluesky is not Twitter.)

NASA Perseverance rover captures what a Martian night really looks like from the ground

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

We're letting machines do our thinking for us, and pretty soon, if guys like this are any indication, we'll let them do our feeling for us as well. He's right, why bother going anywhere, just read the wiki. Why stand in front of the Mona Lisa, your screen has 4k resolution. Why date, just play Sims

By all means, let's stop experiencing things. Let's pay a rentier class of technocrats for a simulacrum of those things displayed on a screen.

academy award contending tiktok

Early microscope

I’m middle class, left wing, and my lived experience has taught me that I’ve been afforded more human rights on account of features I was born with and can’t control (skin colour, location of birth, cisgender, etc) than other people, and that makes me fucking furious because that’s unjust

The Illustrated Man miniseries. It's so incredibly vividly written, and a proper page-to-screen adaptation as a miniseries would work so well.

You know what? People who don’t like kissing don’t have to watch romances. Sober realists aren’t forced to sit through SFF. Grouches can eschew comedy and squeamish people are welcome not to watch horror films. Just let things exist for their target audience.

"getting paid... buys us time away from the work we don't want to do" hits hard. As someone slowly struggling to be a writer, I see the seductive lure of AI. Click button get book! Yay! But I have to put the effort in, or else I won't be any kind of writer...

What's wrong baby? You haven't touched your peach piss n fart cake.

What distinguishes the UK from the US and many similar countries is that our entire media-political class were educated in the same institutions, live in the same city, and are increasingly inter-related. It is the civic equivalent of incest, and has similar results on institutional heredity.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

read discworld

Scorpio: Your charitable endeavors this week will make you feel better about yourself. But make no mistake, you're still garbage.

UK publishing generated £7.4 billion in revenue last year. Compare that to: Premier League football: £6.6 billion Home entertainment: £5.6 billion UK film industry: 2.8 billion Now tell me again why authors don't deserve fair contracts and better pay.

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

Do YOU like lists of Haunted and/or spooky objects? Oh BOY do I ever have the list for YOU!

Me after reading story about sourdough made from a yeast found in a mummy: This is totally the first act of a zombie movie. You could call it THE STARTER. Daughter: Not THE WALKING BREAD? Me: … Daughter: Tagline: “They will rise.” I’ve never been more proud.

Lego Sagrada Familía Once you finisshe thys model, you kan place it yn your livinge roome as an eye-catching decoracioun -- thogh that mighte seeme a bit Gaudí. www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

This is good news, and it matters beyond the ponds themselves. It's a reminder that, as others have said, the horrifying rollback of trans rights in the UK over the last year and change has happened wholly without a democratic mandate. When the people get a say, they demand inclusion.

I fucking love Van Eyck. They have a replica of the Ghent Altar piece in its original side chapel so you can see how much they'd painted it for exactly that spot. Adored pointing out the way the light falls to visitors when I was a tour guide there. I didn't catch the reflection in the 3 mm gem 🤯

It's Pride Month, so once again here's Sappho's Reply, one of the most powerful queer poems ever. Written by Rita Mae Brown at the height of the post-Stonewall struggles, it's the origin of "an army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Y'all, we are going to win.

The idea of there being any such thing as a true Brit is a nonsense. For recorded history the British Isles have been populated by humans from across the world sometimes as invaders, often at our own invitation. To turn on any race, culture, religion that calls this country home is to turn on us all

“No kink at pride!” That’s “prude” you’re thinking of. No kink at *prude*.

Stewart Lee was brilliant tonight: "If you're unsure of which toilets you can use feel free to shit in a bag and mail it to Graham Linehan, he sorts through them by hand"

Everything is awful, so have a cute puppy picture. Tiny Pup doesn’t want you to be sad.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

Please do this.

BRAVO

A very Fforde-esque thread.

why do they call it an orchiectomy and not a cull da sack

Labour *IS* the far right Source: everything they say and do

I am the city and i must scream

this is my kind of company motto right here

Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Now this is a revenge I can appreciate, having written about Japanese Knotweed almost weekly in my previous job.