A Greggs bag in UK claims "BAG SOME JOY" is a registered trademark. Seriously?

Creative writing time. What did the reindeer do to deserve this fate?!

“They’ve accidentally released you?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Post an image that will always make you laugh

BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now.

After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes... Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube.

@ecoflowtech.bsky.social I thought you should know this YouTube advert has maths that don't add up, and by the way "£9.9" is not how we quote prices in UK.

Gavin's video on the Slow Mo Guys channel (some glorious footage): www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1c7... And here's a GitHub repo (github.com/geerlingguy/...) and blog post (www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/co...) with the code and more detail.

When you ground a hot dog to an AM radio tower, it generates plasma. Can I turn that plasma into audible sound—without a microphone? Excited to finally post this Geerling Engineering video after working with @gavinfree.bsky.social to get the high speed footage! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMF3...

Dear #Google get your filthy, toxic paws off my data. No love, Me

There's a gang in my area and they recruit members by threatening them with all kinds of punishments if they don't join. But enough about the church...

@ai-fix-mark.bsky.social Every time I hear your reaction to the AI trolley problem, I still chuckle. Pull the plug. Pull the plug, Graham. Abort! Abort! :-)

Magick, obvs Everyone hates on Clippy, but do you remember the Wizard? 😄

Plan to ban catapults for under 18s From the new Private Eye, out now.

I am officially a purveyor of some 'mad shit' 😎

@theaifix.show Today is national "Take Your Mug To Work" day :-) So...

She: *sends photo of woman* She: What do you think? Is this pretty? Me: I guess. She has dead eyes, though. Like she's being forced into taking the photo, by financial circumstances or other sinister powers. Maybe sedated to get through the working day or-- She: The dress. I mean the dress. Me: Oh.😁

Listing AI-generated images for sale on stock photo libraries makes about as much sense as a bar deciding to offer pints of human piss for sale. Like, even if you want that, even if that's genuinely the thing you want, why on earth would you pay good money for it when you could just make your own?

"Sing us a song. You're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Well, we're all in the mood for a melody And you've got us feelin' alright" (insert tears, and excuses for those tears here) #BillyJoel FTW. He saved my sanity once, many many years ago...

@kevlin.bsky.social These LLMs are getting better, I have to admit I tried 'r's in 'strawberry' and 'w's in Mississippi with no trouble, so I tried asking "How many 'L's are there in 'floccinaucinihilipilification'?" and it said 3. I think that's right ;-) I think they've made a special case :-)

Blogged: Step Back "Instead of trying harder, do the opposite. Take a break. Properly. Don't just switch to another screen to browse memes, graze cat pics, answer your email or catch up with notifications, messages and socials." kevlinhenney.medium.com/step-back-39...

@theaifix.show My "Would you trust a pigeon?" mug has arrived and been christened with coffee (Canadiano, natch). It's the larger 15floz size (can of pop for scale), the quality is superb and the coffee tastes even better than usual :-) What more could a reformed programmer ask for?

everybody acting like Auri didn’t just heal the pain of this sick world by releasing this album youtu.be/rbIm2Te3RcY?...

Southwest Airlines Rolls Out New 'Loyalty Goes Both Ways' Campaign

“I just need to take a photo to confirm delivery” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Bridgewater Hall Manchester tonight to hear about my travel to Idle yesterday. Plus rude songs and comedy… 8 o’clock

The Idle Cox Trio semi proudly annouce my new tour beginning Wednesday in Birmingham

wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

It's so important to include names when sharing art, music videos from people of color. Especially now. "Come and Get Your Love" by Redbone "whose members were of Mexican American & Native American heritage, something heavily reflected in their songs, stage regalia, and album art."

I would buy this album in a heartbeat (@fakemusic_br instagram) #funk #acdc

“Was it a mistake, killing five journalists?” From the new Private Eye, out now.

Authoritarianism in plain sight. Texas Rep. Nicole Collier was forced by police to hang up on a press call after being threatened with a felony arrest—for daring to speak. She can’t be in the bathroom, can’t be on the floor, can’t even talk to the press without GOP cops breathing down her neck.

Amazon #Echos do my head in (part 93) Vikki has an original and a Dot, with different trigger words. The Dot was nagging her, so naturally she told it to F Off. She was in the room with it, but it ignored her. The other one answered something like "Vikki's Echo Dot can't do that". A bit weird?

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

A retired headteacher was arrested for carrying an Eye joke at a march in July. To hear more about Mr Farley’s arrest and release, tune in to the Summer Free Speech Special episode of Page 94, the Private Eye magazine podcast.

tech ceo: we poured all our money and resources into creating you. please tell us how we can turn a profit ai superintellegence: i don't know. you guys kinda chunked it ngl

Slightly diminish a band: Presbycusic Leppard

"Military grade encryption" by which people mean the password input for the key derivation function for the AES key is written on a post it that's stuck on the wall visible from someone's webcam

This looks amazing: a previously unreleased live Horace Silver recording from 1965 with Woody Shaw and Joe Henderson up front! Coming in October from Blue Note.

It really is fun and positive and contains no exploding spaceships or JavaScript, and I’m looking forward to sharing it with lovely Aussie folks!

Treated myself to a #music CD. "Google Search & Destroy" by #iGod seems as relevant today as ever :-)

Am feeling a bit discombobulated today. Words I use almost daily, such as antidisestablishmentarianism and floccinaucinihilipilification, don't seem to be in either list (used or unused) in Bluesky.

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Friday afternoon tunes: "Mess I've Made", the debut album from Big Rav, featuring none other than @maddymontaquila.net on vocals & keys. Loving it so far. Paramore meets Blondie with a whole 90s pop-punk vibe to it. The album's on Spotify, Apple Music and the rest - and check 'em out at bigrav.band!

How many knees does the AI allocate per picture? More to the point, how many knees does the magazine's art director think it's normal to have?