The theft was noticed when the lorry arrived with less cargo

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

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I know they are all evil, planet destroyers etc but I quite like that Amazon’s AI Rufus has been designed purely to sell you stuff and does not give a shit about trying to flatter you or keep the conversation going like chat gpt does.

Do what now?

Judge for yourself: did the dossier accusing the BBC of doctoring a Trump quote…doctor a Trump quote?

Perhaps if they hadn’t dumped theirs in the harbour in the first place this wouldn’t be an issue.

Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to "help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.

My mum just said to me "You should be hung like a horse". When I challenged her over saying such a thing, it transpires she thought it was a punishment horses got. Turns out she's been incorrectly using the phrase since the 90s in various settings

I challenge you to open this in your browser and not be impressed and sucked in messenger.abeto.co

It’s really annoying to think that in a few years time we’re going to have so many ‘How Sam Altman fooled the world’ and ‘the crash no one saw coming’ documentaries when there are so many people pointing out the circular financing and impossible growth requirements. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I frequently go back to this observation by Jesse Hamm (from Hamm Tips volume 5 jessehamm.gumroad.com/l/eMeWr?layo...)

It’s #KidsBooksFriday and I need your help! I’m trying to raise the funds to self-publish my next picture book and after one week, I’m at 35% funded.

Tomorrow I’m going to go round the local area and rip down all the England flags from the lampposts! Today I’m going to finished optimising the SEO for my new website www.bulkbuycheapenglandflags.co.uk

Just when you Roquefort it was safe to back in the funny books about cheese for kids market.

Spotted at Tesco. I guess these are designed to hold a… booquet?

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Bereaved Dad Paul explaining very movingly about how having bereavement care from Shooting Star is helping him after the sudden death of his daughter Erin.

My child updated her iPhone software and it locked her out of everything as the parental controls settings have changed, forcing me to finally update mine as well. As a result the NYT app updated and I lost access to the mini crossword. @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com is clearly to blame for this.

Naddpod The Bugle Loremen Beyond the Map You’re Dead to Me. Probably lucky I got married before podcasts existed.

Doctor: so, hear me out

Me: I have no interest in what any British columnist has to say. Also me:

Well this has completely sullied the reputation of Peter Mandelson.

Worn by who?

waka wake

In a few months all those England flags on lampposts will have been bleached white by the sun. This will really annoy the people who put them there as they’ll think they are living in France.

Breaking news: Thousands of flags for the patron saint of Palestine put up accross the country as a sign of solidarity with Gaza.

The correct headline should be ‘Costco continues to not sell abortion pills, due to fact no one wants to buy a giant bottle of abortion pills’

The world waits to see what Trump gets conned/bribed into this time.

Did a new one

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

The thing about having a Ninja issue is that if you never see any ninjas on the streets that just means the problem is even worse.

Why is the site of Caesar’s assassination the top destination for tourists this summer? Because nothing beats an Et tu holiday.

I feel like he may have slightly misunderstood Bond’s relationship with Russia.

Would kind of like to see Diane Abbott quit labour along with the four suspended MPs and join Corbyn’s new party, purely because then it would have more MPs than reform and it would be fascinating to see it gets the same level of media fascination.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Happy Bastille Day

This was my sketch - a first credit for #DeadRingers which I was very happy about - but the seed of the idea for it probably goes back to when I was in the audience for QT in 2015 and saw how much Farage played up the cameras - he was seen as a harmless panto villain of politics back then.

I was actually looking for ‘in with a shout’ but good try AI, have a sticker or something.

If Bluesky wants to check users are over 18 it just has to ask them if they remember when cif was jif.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

Me: thank God it’s cooler outside now. House: I kept all this warmth for you. Me: No, bad house. House, remembering all of winter: The fuck?

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

I did say the thing!

I have to assume the original word was pisstaker and it got autocorrected.