Anyone else in the UK having trouble with YouTube at the moment? Mine's not working.

Swiss Olympic bobsled commentator broke a century of neutrality and spent the entire run of the Israeli bobsled team recounting all the pro-genocide remarks and social media posts by Adam Edelman, one of the apartheid state athletes. Absolute legend. More of this in sports please!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Not many likes on this one lol. That's probably fair. It would be the top tier of a Kickstarter I'm looking at running.

People are talking about a RAM shortage, and I'm over here like

It's going to be so hard to explain to everyone else how the collapse happened- 'so you know those illustrious engineers and computer scientists you listened to, up to and including that one you gave a Nobel? turns out they were just math cultists, and they destroyed the hardware industry over it'

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

He had a joke in his stump speeches about how, if he were to walk on water, the headlines the next day would read “Jesse Jackson Can’t Swim”

Like all the time, yeah

It is 1996. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2006. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2016. The American president was born in 1946. It is 2026. The American president was born in 1946.

Anyone please aware of people here who might be experts on industrial trawling vessels? Looking for help with terminology and ship types, thanks!

Art Nouveau study

You'd pay £100 to be named an admiral in a #steampunk airship card game, right? One of only four? You'd get a presentation copy of the game in a tin box, your name in the Admiral's Lists, and a print of your favourite airship (which are going to be awesome BTW).

It's hilarious the way all the spam I get assumes I'm American. 😋

If I had a nickel for every bad decision I’ve ever made, I’d invest it poorly

Ships of Innsmouth print (99% there I think). Feedback welcome. #ArtPrints #Innsmouth #Illustration

This is disgusting, and dehumanizing, and unfortunately coming to damn near every platform you can think of. Multilingualism isn’t an inconvenience to be “solved” by technology. We have to push back.

This Brazilian woman hates AI

Share this. 👇

Wow.

Also see @jasonsanford.bsky.social 's post here, about AI scamsters threatening to review bomb if their kind offer of a "book club feature" isn't taken up. I do wonder if this suggests that they're not actually getting many takers, but I guess review bombing at scale is something AI would be

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Oh, well done!

Raffle to support the Ukrainian war effort.

I’ve just seen an American (well, supposedly) describe the UK as “our motherland” and that’s “why we care what happens to it.” Guys. You literally celebrate Independence Day every year.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

This makes me think of when they asked a computer program to design a spacecraft. It stuck everything it needed on at random angles, with no thought to the laws of physics or survival of the pilot. Things stuck out at random angles, nothing was connected, the whole thing was spindley and fragile.

All my errors are in fact on purpose and I will change lore to prove it.

Interesting piece so a quick translation: this author ran her book through AI (i know, booh) which then altered the sex scenes to shift towards a male perspective, removing clitoral stimulation and more emphasis on penetration scenes. But yeah, keep AI away from your work at all costs!

That's a nice cover.

my daughter got bitten by a donkey at a farm park and refused to walk back past its enclosure - which was the way out. i asked if she’d like to go and be mean to them and long story short she ran up and shouted “YOU’RE JUST A RUBBISH HORSE!”

Voting for the lesser evil is what you do AFTER you have exhausted all other options. Refusing to exhaust those options, uh, what Rob says.

Could use some work in the coming months, keep me in mind if you need a mage.

Film Four has a film on tomorrow, Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, and right at the end there's an advert for war bonds. That's going to bring back memories for some people.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

I'm not changing the way I write for the sake of weak thinkers. I don't care

The alt-text is a thing of beauty, too.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

Well this is fucked up.

Happy Presidents' Day. No, not him.

My faculties are hanging on by a thread. Mid night shifts and I had to deal with a plumber, a viewing, and instructions from my solicitor. Tomorrow morning I have to do a bunch of banking *before* I can go to bed and I can barely keep my eyes open already! 😩

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A lovely review for The Sea of Clouds! "Another strong entry in the Imperial Mars trilogy in advance of what will likely prove to be a thrilling conclusion." Thanks, Maya!

Just got an official email from @draft2digital.bsky.social. "Distribution of mainstream erotica titles to Bookshop. org is expected by the end of the second quarter, 2026."

I'd probably be on it more, because money doesn't take away the lonliness. Although saying that, it would give me more time to go outside and meet people, so who knows. 🤷‍♂️

While sudden cliff falls at Birling Gap (near my home town of Eastbourne) are no joke, I really love how much it looks like we’ve roused a grumpy, sleepy sea-wizard.

People are forgetting the 'don't quote tweet even to dunk on people' rule. Stop spreading their stupidity by providing a link. If you absolutely have to, and I'm not saying you should, take a screenshot instead.