I've been singing this to myself all day

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Amazing article, 2 thoughts 1) absolute cosmic horror fuel (as per Ethan’s note) 2) they gave it to mice. Did the mice see mouse-sized people or even tinier mice?

A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

Thrilled by the response to my first novel being announced. For those wondering, you can PRE-ORDER at the below links! Amazon UK: www.amazon.co.uk/Dogs-Street-... Amazon US: www.amazon.com/Prestige-Dra... Bookshop: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/brig... Waterstones: www.waterstones.com/book/prestig...

A little joy to palate cleanse the tl

Absolutely delighted to actually be paying enough attention this X-Files rewatch to realise that Law & Order and The X-Files are same universe lol

How I'm walking out of 2025

I’ve posted this before but the light was perfect today- a little Victorian cat paw in a brick at the front of the old Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. As this is on the front-facing corner of the main gates, the bricklayer quite clearly put it there on purpose, at a height where children would spot it.

it's 2025 and the gangly guy who appeared on a few seasons of The Office is now our only mirror to society

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This is a production. 10/10 😭😭😭 THE LEAVES 🍂 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Did you know. That the meme-explosion that was the wooden model of Sacabambaspis (an Ordovician jawless fish) held at a Museum in Helsinki, was created by a pioneering Estonian fish paleontologist and palaeoartist, Elga Mark-Kurik. 🧵

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Physio: have you got a band? Me: yeah it’s kind of early 80s thrash, but more sort of crusty… Cold War themed! We’re actually playing on Thursday. Physio:

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Hugh Bonneville took advantage of a live TV interview at the premiere for DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale to make a statement about Gaza. Watch the face of ITV News reporter Helen Keenan drop as he *goes there

Let’s be honest. Carswell is not alone. You don’t tweet unless you know it’s a popular belief. There are many in public roles, in pubs and at dinner tables who believe this. This is a persecution of Muslims in the UK and anyone with any sense of humanity, who cares about Britain must call this out .

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

David Byrne came to my band’s show at a gay bar in Bed-Stuy and sang This Must Be The Place with us and I still haven’t processed it

Some of the media want to portray the thousand people protesting on asylum as being a proxy for general public opinion. They wouldn't want to say that about the much larger trans rights + allies protest of up to 100 thousand people www.thepinknews.com/2025/07/26/l...

Okay folks! We’ve a real opportunity here. This petition is at 78,000 (ends 28 July!). With a good push, we can get it over the line. MPs *don't need to stick to the exact petition topic*. We can brief them to discuss any & ALL issues with trans healthcare. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... 1/🧵

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What actor's expression will stay with you for the rest of your life (a twofer)

Maxfield Parrish (1870–1966) At Close of Day, 1941 #Art

The lady who says "It seems that the 9-year-olds from the school have been...karate-ing the picket fences" in Jaws was snubbed for Best Supporting Actress and you know it.

I just saw a good example of what I was talking about with chatgpt being a crackpot generating machine. A guy had started Wheeler's Spacetime Physics, and had a problem on page 2. Wheeler expressed a square root as a power of 1/2. √a = a^1/2. This is basic algebra, not physics.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

A system already exists to over-confidently state incorrect facts to women, thanks, we don’t need another one

Unknown woman, as fresh as if she'd been painted yesterday: the pin (the pin!), the folds, but mostly the eyes. Rogier van der Weyden, 1440. Today is his day.

Walked into an elevator with my kids. Tom Hanks was in it. “Hello, Tom Hanks.” My kids looking at me like I’m INSANE - why are you talking to a stranger? How do you know his name? TOM HANKS: Close your eyes. (Reluctantly, they do) He goes into full Woody voice. “Andy’s coming!” Smiles. [FIN]

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Polish edition of Authority. They had to use a different word.

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