my Dad is like, do you want a pie to take on the plane? and I laughed like obviously that's illegal but actually

Normal people think gin drinkers like to fight but bartenders love gin drinkers because they tip well and are usually entertaining and slightly insane

I've had a nice few days and now I am really looking forward to being asleep

Are goats being sacrificed in this office in the centre of Hackney? www.londoncentric.media/p/hackney-lo...

Amazing story about how Starbucks launched a "Tank" marketing campaign in South Korea on the anniversary of a massacre by the military.... including a slogan referencing the beating to death of a student. AI did it. Emails were signed off unread by managers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

GNU Anthony Head. And a wail to the heavens. 💔

Almost as if rabid online transphobia is a tiny minority amplified by destructive billionaires… 🤔

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

This offers still out there AOC

our neighbours are getting solar panels so the scaffolders showed up last week, and proceeded to install the scaffolding on the wrong house, so they came back today and dismantled it and are now reinstalling it on a different wrong house

deeply in my peppermint tea era

My kids' school will be the third one to get a veloctobus. Not sure if they are more excited or me. They want to expand throughout Benelux. Get in touch if it might work for a local school.

surely that was a meet cute with my husband

A really wonderful book and film, do see/read it if you haven't already.

Watching the UK collapse into frothing far right conspiracism is the real decadence. Too many people letting it happen

if I take my shoes off I will fully go to bed

tapping the "Democrats haven't won the Presidency without a Biden on the ticket since 1996" sign

I mean I hope I know someone who will happily spend £200 on the Heated Rivalry fleece jacket but that person will not be me

It occurred to me this morning that we are four years in to “the first one’s free”: anyone who was likely to be hooked is hooked by now. The drugs don’t work.

Omg this tool makes it so easy, I was only clicking to check and it's done, might do it again later with some personal tweaks just to underline it

it may sound primitive and unscientific, but through the fairies, we could ask mothra to help

the one thing these people cannot countenance is being Accurately Described. all of this is happening because the internet provided a means for people to Accurately Describe them to their faces. and they lost their fucking minds

this is my kind of company motto right here

Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series www.gateworld.net/news/2026/06... Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero's Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall.

I'll probably stop using theatrical trapdoors eventually, it's just a stage I'm going through

A great way to not be stressed about something is to simply have too many stressful somethings on your plate to have any time to ruminate about a single one of them

in the UK, the first two series are on the iPlayer. They are really sumptuous, about identity and how you justify monstrosity. The second season succeeds at adding further depth and layering, and crazy tension, it doesn't get tired. Treat yourself.

So sleepy. I haven't had a full night's sleep for days and days now, would really love one tbh

Onwards!

Discrimination based on gender identity or expression is illegal in New York City. Trans New Yorkers are protected by law. Our City will protect your rights, defend your humanity and stand beside you without hesitation.

Welcome to Wrath Month. We have no rainbows and glitter and sideshows for your heterosexual children and drunk girlies in pink cowboy hats to enjoy. We just have the truth of the slide into fascism and who they came for first

Looking for fun birthday party ideas but everything is reductive and expensive

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

The Fire Brigades Union has made a statement on the proposed EHRC Code of Practice on Services. Our message is clear. Equality matters, solidarity is essential, and we will continue to fight for both.

Oh well if the candy crush guy says it,

guy who doesnt know what an elephant is at all, voice shaking: we have to talk about the fucked up monster in the room

I'm on day 2 of this headache now. Yesterday I thought it was an outrageous unfair hangover, but now maybe it's the screentime? Urgh.

I find the anger I get from people on Substack about the fact I left Substack fascinating and sinister. I write the same stuff, with the same regularity and it's now cheaper to read. The sole difference is that it no longer funds Nazi-promoting venture capitalists. And THAT'S what makes you furious?

In Concord, Massachusetts, they made a "poetry phone" booth, where you could dial the phone to hear a poem.

Yesterday I witnessed something extraordinary: the author Sarah Wynn-Williams sitting silent on a stage at @hayfestival.bsky.social. And she got a standing ovation. I hope the attempt to censor her backfires magnificently. I have just ordered her book. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Very relatable!!

"the human person still yearns to receive care and recognition from attentive minds, kind words and hands capable of tenderness. The digital culture multiplies connections and offers new opportunities for interaction; yet, the human heart retains an irrevocable need for genuine closeness."

"Decisions now seem to be driven almost exclusively by economic calculations, justified through media distortions, manufactured enthusiasm and "dreams" that inevitably shatter, generating frustration and further violence."

"The pervasiveness of digital media fosters a culture of immediacy and hyper-stimulation, which gives rise to fatigue, boredom and apathy concerning the effort required for seeking the truth."

"Indifference to the truth leads, slowly but surely, to a descent into totalitarianism."

Okay so I read the whole of the Pope's latest encyclical "Magnifica Humanitas", the one the internet is calling the AI Encyclical, but it's about a LOT more than that (of course it is, it's over 40,000 words). Here's a thread of quotes...

May is such a good month.

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Long soak; pub roast; walk in the woods; snooze. Sunday.

Here’s an ancient amber bear to wish you a happy weekend! Carved some 10,000 years ago, it washed up on a beach at Fanø in Denmark from a submerged Mesolithic settlement under the North Sea. National Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen 📷 by me