THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Obviously this is just Times ragebait, but of these only "Pankhurst" sounds like an English placename, and unfortunately a slightly silly one. "Elizabethtown" sounds like the embarrassing former name of a Commonwealth capital.

good morning welcome to hell here is your addictive game 100jumps.org

the vengeful pillow by Edward Gorey

This feels like what you would come up with if you set out specifically to enrage me personally.

1200 Oxford City Greens Members!! A HUGE milestone leading up to Local Elections on May 7th triple what our membership was this time last year. We're stronger than ever - now is the time to join if you haven't already!!

hi, car expert here! this isn't funny, cars only do this when they're in extreme distress.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

Sartre said it best: You will never out-troll the far-right.

We can't even say for sure that the meaning of life isn't to get smushed by an asteroid. i'm gonna go lie down, and then i'm gonna write one HELL of a got dang treatise qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Thinking about the Goodies' Trandem and discovered a nugget of old, good, beautiful internet www.goodiesinfoguide.com/trandem-guide

Primary school teacher. Me and my colleague who teaches the other class take turns to make maths worksheets for both classes to do. Made him one where the answer to every single sum is 67 and you could hear the shrieks across the school.

truly incredible that strava leaks are still happening after all this time

Filed himself again

Amazon are partnering with Comic Relief to sell their red noses. Last year Comic Relief raised £34 million which is how much Jeff Bezos makes in six hours. Dig deep everyone.

The FixMyStreet front page is currently *0.45MB* in total on mobile (0.69MB on desktop), of which: * HTML: 19K (critical CSS inline, >½ is inline images) * CSS: 29K * JS: 21K * Images: 17K * Icons: 22K * Manifest: 1K * Analytics: 150K Prefetched: * CSS: 10K (desktop/map) * JS: 181K (map &c)

As well as beautiful walks the England coastal path offers new opportunities for English pedants to have fun. Does it go “all around” England given the breaks for Wales and Scotland? Is it actually two paths? Does it make a difference that there’s a Wales coast path that it joins on to?

The fact that many tech CEOs find LLMs extremely useful for their day-to-day work says more about what these CEOs bring to the table than it says about the capabilities of LLMs.

Another charity - @taso.org.uk publishes results on something that didn't work - whether learning analytics could help find students with low wellbeing, and whether they could be nudged by an email. Fantastic that they are publishing the null result www.impactsimplified.co.uk/blog/two-yea...

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

Due to high geopolitical tensions, sports fans are temporarily required to contextualize their posts, for example: ❌ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK ✔️ OH GOD OH NO OH FUCK how did he make that basketball go in the hole

thanks to AI our slow and humiliating national suicide will be punctuated by visual media that is so good even a dog could jack off to it

300+ issues of the UK music magazine NME from 1969-1983. The ads alone are incredible. (via @bourgwick.bsky.social) [archive.org]

How almost brave of him

The machine will never be horny and that is why it cannot be human. It can only reproduce horny. It cannot be horny itself. It will never yearn to rut.

I was raised by a weirdo so I have been concerned for most of my life that we're wasting a finite resource (helium) in fucking BALLOONS, when it's crucial to medical technology.

virtually every main social ill we face right now is downstream from the fact that rich people have more money than they know what to do with. national security risk

now that we don't have any oil we have no choice but to accelerate woke energy. you will put up the wind turbines. you will harness the power of the sun. you want treats? say the pronouns bitch

Train nerds: ugh, a train *website*? Website nerds: ugh, a *train* website? Train website nerds: ugh, South West?

THE MYSTERY OF THE BLOOMFIELD BRIDGE aka one of my all-time favourite things!

the Attlee government nationalised healthcare, the railways, the energy industry, telecoms, the steel industry, and the Bank of England, and established the welfare state, introduced free secondary education, and built a million homes

Superhero origin story.

like, if you're going to just do nothing and make nothing better ever, why don't you at least promise everybody a free ride on a swan?

It looks lovely & I love that it promotes domestic tourism & encourages people to appreciate nature & activity in a way that is relatively accessible. But regardless of its merits & shortcomings, we'd be having a very different conversation if it significantly inconvenienced even tourist drivers.

Miya Wilkes, 37, who counts several trans and non-binary people among her dearest friends, has announced that any law that discriminates against people she loves will be disregarded.

The instructions on this cleaner says apply liberally so I said out loud I was going to evenly coat the left and right but actually only did the right.

Alert through crepuscular gloom My monochrome lineaments loom. By starlight awake

I have hung the washing up OUTSIDE. In the SUN.

This speed limit makes the speed of light seem almost stationary. #maths

Bless the librarians of Aberystwyth University for sending this blog out to their students: "Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI?" #LibrarySky

If oral hygiene and a bit of bowling don't solve your problem, Doctor Pretty Princess has other solutions to end your pointless suffering ! 🩷🩷🩷

And a badger with a steak bake on the tenner.

Remember this Herb Ritts photo of k.d. lang and Cindy Crawford from Vanity Fair in 1993?