My nine year old asked for a Rosetta Stone cake for his birthday

The American mind cannot comprehend this

Watched Hoppers with wife and daughter. Wife slept through a chunk of it. When she awoke: "What happened with the bypass?" "They re-routed through someone else's favourite bit of countryside instead". "How much did that cost the taxpayer?" "They didn't say" "How much did it add to journey times?"

This is now 100 prompts. You don't have to use AI for posters. But if you do, they don't have to look like every other AI poster. ukslim.github.io/poster-promp...

Made a thing. It helps you visualise how enormous AI data centres are. Mind you, so are airports and power stations and reservoirs, and AI coded it for me. ukslim.github.io/datacentre-i...

Further to my post about horrible AI posters yesterday, I've made a site with 50 diverse styles you could use instead. A must for ferret lovers. ukslim.github.io/poster-promp...

Built a blog page just to get one thing off my chest: ukslim.github.io/2026/06/07/a... (bsky has already seen these thoughts, mind you)

Welp there’s no unseeing this

So what happens when Reform take over your local council? This. #KentCountyCouncil

Spotted, Leamington Spa

Ozymandias is a perfect poem bc it proves that no matter how powerful and historically significant you are a shitposter can show up and dunk on you so hard that people only remember you as the guy who got dunked on.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

Borrowed this image - the author is begging you to stop using ChatGPT to make horrible identikit posters, and I agree...

Made an Origami Lament Configuration box

"Don't wanna".

They should have been honest and called 'Middlemarch' Coventry and then everyone would have said "lol no, I'm not reading a 900-page book about Coventry" and then nobody would have had to read Middlemarch.

NEWS! Ballrooms to be installed in American high schools to protect against shootings newsthump.com/2026/04/27/b...

Trump Appears To Doze During Stroke

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it." ― George Orwell, 1984

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

What I mean is...

It's at least 16 years since Mitchell & Webb's Apprentice sketch. "The point is that everyone will think that they're the only person to have noticed that the contestants are all idiots. I've got a hunch that for some reason people will think that this never stops being worth commenting upon"

The Devil wears Pradum.

Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.

I can't surely be the first to notice that "OoO" looks a bit like an owl, and that owls sort of go "OoO!"? AI did the rest; sorry not sorry.

The source is lost to time, but this is one of the funniest photos ever taken

25p/minute cheap rate is 73p/minute cheap in today's money. Still begrudge your Spotify subscription?

We had a CD writing app called "Nero: Burning ROM". Why didn't we get a file manager called "Lord of the Files"?

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this. It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

Reading a story to my daughter last night, wife informs me I've been pronouncing "Esther" wrong all my life. Just spend 15 minutes trying to prove it varies, but it seems it doesn't.

Watching Reservoir Dogs for the first time in decades. It's not dissimilar to The Traitors. "For all I know you're the rat!"

What Europe could do is threaten to boycott the World Cup. It won't. But that might actually work. Trump wants his big show.

Come on LEGO, you know what to do

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Today's Spelling Bee lacks depth. www.nytimes.com/badges/games...

In the summer I read that some kids in the UK were using "your dad paints roundabouts and shouts at hotels" as a new insult!

I was silently dwelling on the awfulness of [gestures around at things in general] while walking my daughter to school, when suddenly she says: "Daddy are we going to be alright?" "What do you mean?" "Will we be late for school?"

Give up @clickbaitrobot.bsky.social , you're not beating this.

I'd just like to point out that DADO is not in the NYT's Spelling Bee word list. 😡

1987: smash hits 4 17 november 1987, page 56 Full mag --> https://archive.org/stream/smash-hits-4-17-november-1987#page/n55

Photographer Kathrin Swoboda captured amazing images of a red wing blackbird's song, visible via the bird's breath in cold air and early light #WomensArt

LOL at the image. But also, what an absolute tune.

We're so close to having the ultimate vehicle on our roads

On business trip in the US. Hotel guest dropped dead on the dance floor. Friendly barman put all our drinks on his still open bar tab for the rest of the evening. Doubt the hotel pursued his widow for payment but don't know. No regrets.

● Andrew Windsor remains 8th in the line of succession. ●King Charles III will privately fund his new living arrangements despite Andrew being very rich indeed ● Actually we don't know how wealthy Andrew is because his mother's will is sealed for 90+ years ● Sleep well serfs. ● Know your place.