I’d like to see the sector break down of this but I’m increasingly confident (75-%) that we are going to get an AI driven productivity boom. This is partly personal experience with ai agents getting better; and partly the Uk statistics now following the us productivity numbers higher.

Woah! That Bluesky map is really accurate.

I always push back on the discourse that Musk isn't intelligent or has business acumen (because he is and does) but he is ultimately a man in a permanent state of arrested development. This is the sort of thing a precocious eight year old would write.

Lager drinker. Unelectable.

Genuinely me on my first date with Cones.

Made a lovely moussaka, I think.

Booked our honeymoon hotel in Rouen and Cones went "this is nice but I think I prefer the other o-JACK IT HAS A CAT WE ARE GETTING THIS ONE IT HAS A CAT".

Due to a digital shortage, downloads of the crab dance meme are currently suspended until further notice.

Maybe he can be the new Envoy to the Nations and Regions.

BALROG’S DEAD!!!

Japanese election day and a roadrun of vintage buses commemorating the first day of RM1 in public service on Wednesday 8th February 1956. Or, as I call it, “Autistic Christmas”.

Yeah opposition had nothing once LDP embraced fiscal irresponsiblity. Takaichi's combo was perfect combo of populism and "not actually gonna change much" plus her not like her predecessors Which is also why within the year as the Yen depreciates the whole thing will collapse.

so long suckers! i rev up my centrist refomr alliance and create a huge cloud of smoke. when the cloud dissipates im lying completely dead in nagatachō

Japan is a typical, developed democracy. Elections take place in an environment where the general public have a range of political parties to choose from, operating in a pluralistic media landscape, with totally free, secret ballots, after which the LDP win.

I love how the BBC medal table includes all participating countries so even the ones that haven’t won anything yet are just all joint ninth. Well done Guinea-Bissau, you’re currently as good at winter sports as France and Germany.

“Six years after Barnard Castle”

Americans eating like the Luftwaffe are still flying overhead! 😂

There's something endearingly honest about "0.9%". (perfectly sensible advert BTW)

Chinese takeaway and Hbomberguy’s Pathologic video tonight, folks.

Was out dressed surprisingly casual this afternoon so managed to nonplus someone on the Overground by sneezing into a handkerchief rapidly deployed from the pocket of my hoodie.

Woke nonsense. 😡 What possible connection are they going to draw between the gays and the Royal Navy?!

Ricky Gervais. I know it’s obvious but he would be absolutely appaling.

Christ, I'd forgotten how funny Joseph Anderson is but also just how insanely camp and silly Zero Time Dilemma is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1cW...

From the little I know about newspaper deadlines, this will have gone to the printers on Wednesday afternoon (the glossy supplements always take much longer to do), so, basically, at the exact moment he was being formally removed from the Privy Council.

Friend of mine is in Hokkaido and sent me this photograph of this information panel about the "Northern Territories" (yes they have a mascot, obviously) and I could tell he immediately saw me typing a response about the Kuril Islands Dispute and thought "why am I friends with him...".

"I don't agree with that in the workpla- do you not know who Eric Heffer is? Who's been to the Labour Party Conference?"

Yeah this is mad - need a proper hub.

Genuinely thought this was a shitpost.

Was muddy at Parkrun.

thought you might enjoy this

@grok is this grounds for annulment

BBC Election Coverage (2005, Colorised)

Amazing present.

One thing I love about Eva is that they'll keep throwing in cool rooms and buildings that are never brought up again. Presumably this is a glass floor that is at the bottom of one of the skyscrapers that retracts into the Geofront but a) why does this exist and b) why are they meeting there anyway?

"In a typically irreverent meme on his Truth Social platform, the President posted a video of Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys, content that has been interpreted by some as racist" -Me for The Washington Post

Probably not my problematic fave, but it would apply.

me playing hollow knight for the first time

Go get the Lyle Lanley meme.

Al Carns when he's asked to stand for the Leadership.

This seems a bit on you, Eric.

We hebben een serieus fukking traitor.

Have to admit that the Norwegian Republican Movement logo is quite sound.

I will say that whilst it is significantly less complex than the Parliamentary restoration, the Buck House one is currently on time, on budget, and has that rarest of things, a very complementary report from the National Audit Office. www.nao.org.uk/reports/prog...