Reading Yearworth v NBNHST and I can't help but thinking that if Ward LJ had been sitting on this appeal he would have managed to quote the lyrics of "Every Sperm is Sacred". caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/civ/200...

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Over the other side of Worcester it gets absolutely bonkers.

Train driver announcement: “Sorry for the delays, there is a points problem on the Lickey Incline.”

Yes, my VAULT-TEC liquid nutrition has arrived! Tastier, healthier and less radioactive than that Nuka-Cola rubbish!

Einstein 1, Skywalker 0.

I have two slightly different views on this joke

What really brought tears to my eyes is that shell measurements typically refer to the *width*…

You could put that as a description in a beer festival catalogue and people would still be queuing up for a half.

5 Classes you took in university: 1. 6502 assembly language programming. 2. Philosophy of science. 3. Spacecraft systems engineering. 4. Equity and trusts. 5. Introduction to forensic ballistics. (Not, I add, all at the *same* university, and spread from 1986 to 2019.)

As counsel for the Red Dwarf Anti-Defamation Alliance I respectfully invite you to adopt the more neutral terminology “chromospherically exuberant luminosity-challenged star”.

Me: I like protein drinks but am not going to succumb to media tie-in promotions. yfood: We have some new packaging... Me: SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY

Happy Large Boulder the Size of a Small Boulder Day! I'm celebrating by eating a Large Chocolate Bar the Size of a Small Chocolate Bar.

Surely it should mean “without legs” by analogy with amoral and atheist?

I suspect we are about to witness the biggest about-face by Republicans on Second Amendment rights in decades, likely including fast-tracking the reversal by the Supreme Court of DC v Heller such that only those affiliated with a "well regulated militia" (i.e. accredited by ICE) may own guns.

The same people who said that the mass murder of children in schools was a sad but necessary price to enable citizens to bear arms and oppose tyranny are now saying that if you carry a gun it’s your fault if you’re murdered.

It was very clear that Ferrix in season one of Andor was modelled on catholic Belfast during the Troubles. It was horribly clear watching season two how prescient the writing was, but it is still horrifying to see the Ghorman arc unfolding in Minnesota.

Whiny fan: Star Trek Academy is WOKE!!! Sir, this show has Gina Yashere as a hybrid Klingon / Jem'Hadar Cadet Master who makes the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket look like one of the Care Bears.

A question from Mrs Clanger this morning revealed that she has been mishearing the title of a much-discussed science fiction novel as "There Is No Anti-Emetics Division" and was wondering why there was so much fuss about a book on vomiting.

Alternative explanation, as hinted in some of the comments: this mushroom contains a naturally-occurring Class Z mnestic drug that lets you see past the Little People’s evolved perception filter, cf ‘There Is No Anti-Memetics Division’.

This is a point that has been worrying me. I might be old-fashioned, but to me it is not good journalistic ethics to engage in a competition with your counterparts as to who can goad POTUS into the most ridiculous policy.

Unfortunately Monty from Dyrham Park does *not* appreciate his nice new neckerchief. 📷: Mark C

Re the recently deceased Mr Justice Blofeld, elder brother of Henry ‘Blowers’ Blofeld.

Has anyone else found that Duolingo’s chess player has suddenly become much tougher to beat? I was winning about half the time until a week ago but since then I’ve only won a single match and my ELO has dropped 400 points. Looking online it seems I’m not alone.

I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.

Where am I? #fs2024

This might well become a thread. I am calling it 'Bloody Hell, Aren't Doors On Old Walls Fucking Brilliant?'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n... So who are we sending...?

WITH OUR NEW BATTLE COMPUTER THE DALEKS WILL BE INVINCIBLE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!!!

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only!

I honestly assumed he had died decades ago.

Someone get this man a T-shirt that says "I actually WAS on the balcony at the Iranian Embassy" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

I joined Twitter in 2008. I stopped using it when Musk bought Twitter, but kept my account live to stop the name being reused. The reputational risk of having even a dormant X account is now too great. I deleted my account yesterday.

About time the National Association of Marlon Brando Look-Alikes made a comeback.

the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...

And we have a new entry for Crappiest AI-Generated 'News' Image Of The Week. I particularly like the tail-both-ends AWACS with a rocket engine, the US 'Choast' Guard ship, and the Russian flag seemingly built of giant Lego blocks amidships.

You might think this wouldn't affect UK couples with our tight rules on what is a valid ceremony - but we recognise marriages done in other countries, and there are several court cases about British citizens who married each other overseas in what turned out to be a legally invalid ceremony.

This is an intriguing analysis examining why Russia has suddenly gone all Hunt For Red October over what is plainly a very *empty* (of oil, at least) reflagged tanker.

“Who Do You Think You Are Kidding, Father Dagon” - the Deep Ones invade Walmington-on-Sea. I would not be at all surprised to find out someone has already run this as a game!

This is why, after years of saying I’d go down with the ship, I changed my mind. This was beyond imagination for how I thought Twitter might go and there is no pride left in staying on deck. It’s safer in with the jokeless icebergs

Me: Did I submit my MSc dissertation back in 2020? Subconscious: Yes. Me: Am I even doing a degree now? SC: No. Me: THEN WHY THE HELL ARE YOU REPEATEDLY SERVING UP THE DREAM WHERE I'M ABOUT TO HIT THE END OF A DEGREE COURSE AND I REALISE I'M HOPELESSLY BEHIND ON COMPLETING ONE COMPULSORY MODULE?!?

On a Zoom call with friends, discussing how to keep warm in cold weather. Mrs Clanger meant to say that we have a rug made out of four sheepskins, but what she said was that we have a rug made out of four skins. The expressions were priceless...

Well the FIFA Peace Prize doesn’t seem to have worked so perhaps FIDE and whoever regulates international darts tournaments can send him one too.

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hello: I am the Iraqi insurgent rocket that did this about one minute after @majorclanger.bsky.social drove past in a very un-armoured Landrover.

I wonder if this inspired the Soviet/Russian Sokol spacesuit which is donned the same way?

The Ghost Trees of Croft Castle, looking for all the world like Lovecraftian horrors poised to shamble across the bleak winter landscape.

What was the last movie or TV show you watched in 2025? Movie:

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" I drew the original of this. (I storyboarded and assistant directed on this episode.) (Fry, "Shut up and take my money")

Preferred box size is inversely proportional to the size of the cat.