i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

how tall are the bosses, are they replacing the sign without needing ladders

I am no longer under embargo. #AnimalFarm consequence.net/2026/04/anim...

Ah! A rite of passage!

The NWSLPA & NWSL have joined Project ACL, a three-year study focused on decreasing ACL injuries in women’s professional soccer. According to organizers, only 8% of sports research is conducted on women, making it all the more valuable to improving the health & longevity of women’s soccer players 🙌

NEW EUPHEMISM “You took your time in there” “Yeah, I shat out a space hopper”

These are also the three types of job

If anyone would like to see a photo of a baby Anteater having a cuddle with someone's arm, this is your lucky day.

Hi I wrote about the making of classic platformerChuckie Egg and talked to its creator Nigel Alderton. Please give it a read as I want to show there’s an audience for this gaming history stuff 🙏 www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a...

(1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: [email protected].

This tweet is highly defamatory and Martina Navratilova should be fired from BBC Sport for it. It demonstrates an horrendous level of hatred for a trans woman (who was cleared of all wrongdoing in a recent tribunal) because she is a trans woman.

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism. buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Not sure tube strikes (especially partial ones) “bring London to a halt”. WfH/Liz Line/Overground/Lime bikes. London just felt a bit empty today (so bad for restaurants etc) rather than full of people who’d come in and were struggling home. TfL say only -13% passengers and 51% of tube running.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

The Thick of It always depicts a series of minor interlocking parts breaking at the worst possible time and things spiralling quickly thereafter. In reality its always dumb cunts refusing to steer around an iceberg they were warned about months ago.

NEWS: The former Odeon Cinema in Morecambe (1937), now a hardware and bathroom supply shop, has been Grade II listed following support from C20 Society. The Streamlined Moderne style cinema was one of 7 designed for Odeon by architect William Calder Robson; 3 of which survive, all are now listed.

WHY ISN'T ANYONE TALKING ABOUT THE REAL NEWS STORIES!!!

This is how I feel about having made the bestseller list at #15 for a single month in February 2020

Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...

Found it on the British Newspaper Archive. It's glorious. "There once was a lady called Di" 😂 There's a subscription needed, sorry. But here's the link. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/00...

"You cannot hope to bribe or twist (thank God!) the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to" Humbert Wolfe

And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion

The biggest red alert that the economy is REALLY bad is a hit to luxury goods. Seems counter-intuitive, but luxury goods are usually recession-proof because the majority of people who buy them are rich, and the rich are the last to suffer in a downturn, so they keep buying their luxuries regardless.

Fucking hell, though.

Italian government to Trump…

something that’s really been wild to me, as someone raised in the ‘freedom of religion’ usa, is how my other nation, the U.K., quite literally has a state religion and is somehow a hundred times less religious functionally than the USA

This result was inevitable once Viktor Orbán went woke, by Matt Goodwin for The Free Press.

A Hungarian called Hungarian just won the Hungarian election. Happily for them the Viktor was the loser.

The Chicago Sunroof incident:

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

@forrestbrazeal.bsky.social This is the Forrest Brazeal of the below I presume? Well done if so. This is still undefeated

if you don't hear music in your heart maybe you gotta open the configuration program to randomly try switching music card options until it comes through

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

For fuck's sakes. *Darts*. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/a...

so long suckers! i rev up my chatgpt and create a huge cloud of vibe-code. when the cloud dissipates my websites lying completely dead on the pavement.

Detransition is often used as a cudgel against the transgender community, but most people who detransition actually remain trans supportive. Today on Assigned, @madisyn-writes.bsky.social spoke with three detransitioners who support trans people. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Depluralise a movie Debbie Does JR

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story? Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of. Ready? Off we go, then.

When it was illegal to be gay in the armed forces, many servicemen who were outed were given an ultimatum – resign or be dismissed. That historic wrong is being righted with a compensation scheme. But veterans who resigned under duress are being told they’re ineligible: https://goodlaw.social/9xw0

>Canadian company builds solar panels in Malawi >is paid in Malawi's (volatile) currency >invests those payments in local farmers growing chili peppers >sells chili peppers to Nando's, in USD >builds sustainable business model on Cheeky Nando's This is my favourite news story of the year so far.

can't say I usually enjoy a whimsical shop sign but credit where credit's due, this made me laugh when I walked past earlier:

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

God, I love her so much. Just banger after bager. She's in it purely for the love of the game and I respect that.

I don't think I could make a joke better than this

dear lord above www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04...