classic story of some lady hitting the transphobia pipe harder and harder and becoming an intolerable shithead who alienates all her friends www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

and another word for "anti-populist" is just "elitist" of course

This is true, and also applies to "nationalism" being used to conflate, like, the EDL and the SNP

I don’t know how this is being left out of like half of the reportage, but Nicki Minaj is clearly trying to kiss Trump‘s ass enough to let her child-raping brother off with a pardon. She hasn’t just like, gone insane or anything. www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...

Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.

Absolutely loving Call The Midwife doing dodgy 70s Chinese gangster movie

This comes round every year. It's not actually Amazon's doing, it's a public domain repackager. And the reason they do this is because the film is public domain... except for Pottersville. So they cut that bit out so they can sell it legally.

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

And this shows another difference between auto and human generated subs - human subtitlers can do useful things like raise subtitles above graphics!

I'm not saying the bsky admins are super trans allies by any means, but if they're attempting to harass every trans person and ally off the platform they're doing it EXTREMELY badly judging by my timeline

£49k now, for some of the most desperately vulnerable people. Keep it going with a repost or a quid! x

the graduation of a cohort of gaza’s new medical professionals in front of the ruins of al shifa hospital. No words, really.

Per Craig Ferguson: When you're about to say something, ask yourself 1. Does this need to be said 2. Does this need to be said by me 3. Does this need to be said by me right now It's amazing how asking these will get keep you out of trouble (that is, if you actually have sense to begin with)

This shit is made up, actually

I would probably buy more in the sales if shops had, like one (1) sale per quarter, where they put everything on sale at once, at the lowest price it's gonna get to.

It turns out that if everyone has to spend all their money on rent and electricity they don't have much money left for shopping.

The NHS is under pressure to adopt Palantir software. Palantir’s founder openly despises the NHS. You can push back – use our tool to see if your local trust is using the software, then send an email to say no to Palantir https://goodlaw.social/658abc

HER NAME IS PICKWICK

Got my boyband Brians confused and thought for a moment they'd got Brian from East 17 on

New addition to my Diana Wynne Jones Folio collection 💜🧙

Challenge for quiz show writers: in 2026, stop putting fucking Harry Potter questions in every bloody episode

Is it me or are the recommended "tips" on charity websites getting ridiculous

Every British columnist is currently writing articles like "I Will Have MI5 Classify My Adult Children As Terrorists If They Screen My Calls," so I assume that devoting the entire UK press to destroying trans people is going well.

Warm yourself by the virtual fireplace in this cosy 16-color EGA #Christmas scene. No MS-DOS or floppy 💾 drive required. Thanks to software preservation, it's still crackling on the Internet Archive. ✉️ Open the full 1986 Sierra On-Line "A Computer Christmas" card ⤵️ archive.org/details/sier...

Tiny Tim, who was *not* DEI

props to this christmas lad I’ve just spotted on @flightradar24.com

Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

It is very weird how all the media are pretending Zelensky wanting Putin dead is shocking. How many ordinary Ukrainians has he killed? But wanting him killed back, in war, is beyond the pale?

Dunno if I'd go with "I like the people on the Nazi app better than you lot" as a Christmas message 🎄

I know #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is fun and raises money for charity but it also gets me emotional. Like, it's so important for us to be with our loved ones that we will sleep on kitchen floors and also those bonds are strong enough for us to say "oh you're ok with the broken camp bed, yes?" ♥️

Happy Christmas! Even the "Russia is invading" stories are full of festive whimsy

Sounds dangerous tbh

Amazing the ways in which popular history repeats:

Merry Christmas, pocket pals!

Pfft, the NORAD Santa tracker goes to Edinburgh but doesn't even have Glasgow on the map. Typical.

Well this should be a bigger story! Why is a bank weighing in and lobbying ministers on who should be swept up in terror charges? www.thenational.scot/news/2571663...

it's Christmas Eve but it's also the 16 year anniversary of the time an art historian for the Hungarian National Gallery spotted a long lost painting while watching Stuart Little with his 3-year-old daughter, recognizing it in the movie set

First learned the word from this poem, which I dig.

And tiny Schrödinger, who did NOT and DID die,

Yeah this is bad for artists but it's also terrible for literally everyone who posts selfies doesn't want to be AI'd into Nazi porn or whatever

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

I was reading some research about the impact of pub culture on the genetic make-up of the UK. Basically, centuries of getting drunk and coping off in the local has localised breeding to the level where there's a big uptick of recessive disorders in the UK due to Inn-breeding.

Second anniversary of our Apple TV’s spectacular attempt to understand me asking for “Hercule Poirot’s Christmas”

BBC2's 1975 treat - an original rock opera version of the Siege of Troy, starring Bernard Cribbins (maybe as Homer), Patricia Hodge (as Helen) and Paul Jones (as Menelaus). Morecambe and Wise was on BBC1 at the same time, so few saw it ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfUf...

IT BEGINS. #DuvetKnowItsChristmas