I suppose we should be grateful. Captain Kirk would've tried to sleep with it. For science, obv.

Love is in the Air was cowritten by a man who had two far more famous musical brothers.

Me: Ohhh HUNTED looks like it'll be a fun show <One episode later> Me: You think I don't know why the rich fcukers keep getting away with it, eh?!

These are all very funny, but as an Arsenal fan, he'll obviously be implementing Xhaka law, making him tough through the middle, and bewilderingly popular for his efforts.

I don't believe I've ever really enquired as to what people I follow do for a living.

Cynical enough to think that certain Dems will surrender in order to protect the filibuster, which gives them plausible deniability when their donors have demands for inaction.

Starbucks in Palmy has its Christmas tree up. How very seasonal.

Cornell? Wild.

What a queen

Sounds like a cry for help.

Jessica Tarlov on The Bulwark reminding folk that she's only progressive in comparison to The Five. At least she acknowledges facts, as do The Bulwark. Enemy of my enemy again. And, OMFG, the idea of a podcast hosted by her and Prof G is nauseating.

I was supposed to go in to the office this week, but I had too much work to do, so I stayed home.

Making eye contact with another attendee at a Teams meeting, then remembering they are just looking at their camera.

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Will the DoJ prosecute for the jury throwing the idiocy in their face?

The new iPhone advert featuring Pro-Gen by The Shamen is pretty much the same as Heard It Through The Grapevine for Levis back in the 80s. Love The Shamen.

The Spectator are confused. It's not going to be cost free. Billionaires are going to pay more. Join.greenparty.org.uk

FIFA 2003 is an acceptable choice, although somewhat lessened by their absurdly patent corruption with the Peace Bribe.

I remember when Pulte was just supposedly giving away money to followers and claiming to be against waste in general. Turns out totally compromised and corrupt. Same as the rest of them.

It's the reasoning for the seasoning

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"I call it my... 'Oval Office'" Eugh.

Things I learned today +1

Bannon has a portrait of himself in his attic which looks remarkably youthful and content.

The Fcuk, The Marry, and The Kill.

[P] Found a higher-quality photo; IT *IS* TAPED UP SHEETS OF PAPER!

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today. Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

Chelsea losing (however briefly) in a stadium named after The Russian Linesman is amusing.

I have the creeping feeling that her sights are rather higher than that.

Just thinking that Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot is a reasonable way to describe Seymour, Luxona and Winston.

Creating a government monopoly on batons, to seize the means of conduction.

I need a second job to pay for the new school uniform.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

A lot of people probably won't get how finely crafted this joke is and how many layers it has, applause to Jane

Not only is this an inspired selection, it's a massive and spectacular eff you to corporates of any stripe

Don't blame it on the ballroom Don't blame it on the payoffs Don't blame it on the Epstein Blame it on the shutdown

Was New York visited by 4 sequential ghosts yesterday or something?

Amused myself by calling the Italian-Americans who voted against Mamdani "The Cuomi"

Setting up a Don Quixote-themed pinball where your turn immediately ends if you hit a windmill.

It's only right now that I connect Curtis Sliwa with Joe Don Baker in The Living Daylights.

Never been to NYC, but I'm very much enjoying, however briefly, Bed-Stuy being +68 for Mamdani.

Rock-solid sandwich assault humour

He probably voted Mamdani but daren't let the donors know that.

My default is that Generative AI (images and LLMs) is bad. Other AI is very often amazing.

Old enough that I still shake a new milk bottle before I open it.

I actually flinched physically when the presenter said that Copilot used its "Large Language Model knowledge"

When did "succinct" start getting pronounced sussinct? Or has it always been that way and I just noticed recently?

A little example, I think, of how our political media generally struggles to zoom out and look at systemic issues, not just react to the news of the day. There is a story here; it's not about fireworks. It's about NZ First's abuse of the members' Bill ballot to generate headlines.

Cathartic