Recovering from accidentally aspirating my morning cuppa just now, then I see this. God is an iron.

(Although in many ways its ghost is exactly the issue here. I knew a guy once who went straight from school to be a provincial imperial governor with responsibility for capital punishment in his district. He was 18 at the time.)

Desmond Morris RIP .. when our relationship with animals seemed a lot less complicated

Lawyers never lie is the WILDEST take I've ever seen.

#WitchDoctorComic readers! Remember we existed? Still into it? I'm going to post some other magical/medical stories you can pick up... #AfterWitchDoctor! "ECU: Eldritch Care Unit" it a TTRPG about the secret units at hospitals that treat magic patients! falconianproductions.itch.io/ecu-eldritch...

Despite the bullshit about Starmer I'm *fascinated* by the Daily Mail running a feature on Nadine Dorries that pushes gender-affirming healthcare ... /s

“Somehow, Kang returned.”

The exact same thing they do with all hairbrained education initiatives in this country: Having made a new millstone for teachers, & many of those teachers having their lives ruined because senior leadership can't stop the phones & so blame it on the classroom teachers, it will be quietly dropped

it's never population level interventions like clean water and public vaccinations, it's always like experimental telomere injections made from rare goat balls

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026, dir. Nia DaCosta)

Also I have a special beef with Scott Free as a production company for sitting on both FLASHMAN and THE FOREVER WAR, both books I was born to adapt

Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!" #IYKYK

These things look like the wearer's head shrunk, which makes them a perfect visual metaphor for chatbot usage.

In yet-another-reason-to-never-touch-Substack news, they recently *co-hosted a book launch party* with a MAGA socialite grifter for a book about Epstein that portrays Ghislaine as a victim and his actual victims as money-grabbers pagesix.com/2026/04/13/h...

EMP grenades

Yeah, I'm real tired of this narrative that disabled people "enjoyed" lockdown. Lockdown sucked. It just sucked less than dying of COVID, a thing the abled world doesn't care about anymore. I'm also tired of abled people mourning their time in lockdown more than they mourn the 1.2 million dead.

Poor little ziek vogel!

so they had the press secretary fire the labor secretary via tweet but the labor secretary is now like fuck off Oddjob, I'm staying and has lawyered up, just another day in the golden age of America

The reason they haven't been able to retroengineer anything from crashed UFOs, of which there are several, is that they are faerie technology.

Here are the cast announced SO FAR-

Happy 4/20 to all who celebrate. youtu.be/gPkPyVYp6ik?...

Alcohol expands to fill the void left by weed prohibition, and tobacco does the same for the constriction of legal ADHD medication.

There are no words that adequately describe how much I miss being able to go out to gigs, to parties, to festivals, just having a basic normal social life. Long Covid took all that from me, and it could take it from anyone.

Goodnight from Nev Rampley, clothes reeking of petrol and burning after attempts to destroy evidence of his dealings with Faeries in Hedgegate Lane. Goodnight from Sarah Passmore, hoping the cart and call of the phantom cat’s meat man won’t keep her awake. Goodnight from Hookland.

Happy 4/20 everyone I am sorry to inform you that this appears to be real

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

he ran out of ideas to make Apple suck more

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

"Being trans must be an illness because most of the trans people I know are mentally ill" Yeah, so am I. So are most people who get treated like garbage for little or no reason. The few trans folks I know who have managed to avoid abuse are doing just fine.

Gender Critical Commitment to Free Speech: Here's prominent Gender Critical barrister Naomi Cunningham saying anyone who disagrees with her beliefs on sex should be disqualified "from all responsible posts". Do you reckon they might just be using the "free speech" thing as a reactionary wedge?

"My stance on LLMs is this: if you freeze a turd in liquid nitrogen, you can use it to hammer nails but this doesn't change the fact that your tool is a piece of shit." - mycomancy

I'm really glad that Palantir's mask off evil is finally getting wider play, but I sigh when folks start saying "THEY'RE ALL OVER THE NHS!' Because my cousin and his colleagues have been trying to warn both the public & Westminster for OVER a decade about these bastards. Have a 🧵

Has anyone done a proper deep study of what reading a book actually involves, psychologically, neurologically and so on? Because it occurs to me that quite a lot of AI/creative initiatives are premised on a rather limited understanding of what that interaction actually looks like.

Okay, so we're supposed to accept that media is SO powerful that allowing young people to see ANYONE whose life isn't exactly like theirs will transform them into queer atheist socialists, but decades of works mocking teen moms are irrelevant and can be wished away?

www.uniladtech.com/science/rese... I know, trust me.

Klaus McForkface, a lifting robot developed by German manufacturer Linde AG, performed a stunning 1200-kilogram (2646 lb) overhead lift in Hamburg, beating the human world record by more than 300%

Also I feel strongly that NEITHER preparing children for exams NOR preparing children for the workplace are / should be the main purpose of education actually!

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

On a thread about the original Alien film, I reminisced that it was yet another movie where I watched a man that could have been my father get killed in a film within the first 30 minutes, because that was what ALL movies did when I was a kid. That did a number on me, I'm ngl.

Watching Alien for the first time and you mean to tell me they knew the tech bros weren’t shit in 1979?!?!

Bolas

You still have Confederate flags flying over several state capitols, so America doesn't exactly have a great track record for this kind of thing

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Honestly, I am taking it as a small stroke of luck that the TESCREALists are too high on their own farts and showing their power level too fast. With like only 10% more subtlety we'd be in a lotta fucking trouble; they're blowing their PR operation in a way that vindicates alarm raisers -

I think that the only tolerable way to handle the Shadowrun lore is to just play a conspiracy freak who disbelieves and has a contrarian explanation for everything that sounds stupid or culturally-offensive.

Don’t know why I’m seeing “the Elon hate has mostly dissipated” posts because no it fucking hasn’t.

“Here were produced rubbishy newspapers… films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.” - 1984, George Orwell

My least favourite SFFH trope is “ancient clue to [McGuffin] that somehow rhymes in English despite being from ancient Sumerian/Ogham”, I will 100% change channels or DNF the book

Thinking that ICE may not be winning the hearts and minds when the "thumbs in the body armor" move is now visual shorthand for "petty fascist shithead in TV.