This all seems pretty unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner

Well the new Apple glass update looks shit.

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

my name is cow and wen its nite and when a star is shiyning brite and three wise men give me the nod i walk up close I lik the God

“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.

A long time ago, a friend opined to me "you really have to have nothing whatsoever in your own life to be proud of, to have to resort to being proud of where you were born". The phrase has never left me since, nor been disproven.

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

A wild #AbsoluteUnit (weighing in at 197 stone, 8lbs, or 1.254 tonnes apparently) spotted, requires mandatory reporting to @themerl.bsky.social.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Can’t decide if Aziraphale owns this purely to mess with Crowley, or this is his pen-name.

The World Bank’s latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write. In many regions youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful, least reported stories in development. buff.ly/vnsUhLo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Random question but how well can you see underwater without goggles? Films always show people actually finding stuff underwater. I’d always assumed vision was low and they were using creative licence but it’s occurred to me that I’m horribly short sighted and that may be a factor…

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

🪽🐍 lost rembrandt portraits #GoodOmens

Had to go out in the car this evening. Lightning but no thunder, and rain so heavy I only knew where the road was thanks to the lights of the car in front and the catseyes. Crawled along and would have pulled over if I could see the side of the road enough to know I could. 0/10 do not recommend.

I think any story about Trump's autocracy should be mostly about the people and institutions who failed to stop it. This guy isn't a political genius, everything else just happens to be rotten. 'Toddler Consolidates Power In Household' is a story about incompetent parents, not shrewd maneuvering

Sometimes these are the same cat.

Are you a UK or Ireland-based designer looking to get started in the industry? Penguin UK has launched its cover design awards and this year, the focus is fantasy – and one of the two titles is Terry Pratchett's Night Watch. More details: terrypratchett.com/news/calling...

"But when the team looked at the employees’ actual work output, they found that the developers had completed tasks 20% slower when using AI than when working without it. Researchers were stunned. “No one expected that outcome. We didn’t even really consider a slowdown as a possibility.” 🎁link

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

Using ChatGPT

This bound volume of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and volume I of The Ghost Seer by Friedrich Schiller is exactly what we need at this time of year! These illustrations depict iconic moments from the stories, though Schiller's tale remains unfinished…

There's a lot going on here. Not least the cameo appearance of Captain Blackadder.

If you see this, post a robot

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms “If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

People laugh at Aziraphale for thinking Major Milkbottle was a real human being as though he doesn't live in a world populated by real humans with names like Device, Sandwich, Pepper, and Wensleydale.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

Discworld QOTD, from The Fifth Elephant “'... well, you know what people call men who wear wigs and gowns, don't you?' 'Yes, miss.' 'You do?' 'Yes, miss. Lawyers, miss.’”

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

We all know that this is Best of Queen.

Proof there is still joy in the world: we have a new train that battles the old ‘leaves on the line’ issue and they called it CTRL ALT DELEAF.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Slower internet really gives you a chance to think about your actions.

This is awesome. science.nasa.gov/specials/you...

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

More reasons to be anti-AI

This is SO good and to the point! Should be heard not just in the UK but everywhere, because the exact same playbook is being followed in so many places. Kick Starmer and Farage out of politics. Make this guy PM! 💚

Kiddo watched K-Pop Demon Hunters the other day and loved it. And it’s good but it didn’t make sense to me until I realised; there’s very little plot, no explanations for stuff, and everyone constantly breaks into song. It’s an opera.

So there was a beautiful rainbow here a couple of days ago and it had an extra band of colour below the violet that was sort of greenish but in the purple range. I need to get a pointy hat because I’m pretty sure I saw octarine.

Deaths averted by vaccination since the 1970’s

Unfortunately, it seems that president Trump was found alive today at the white house. Ours thoughts and prayers to the american people in this difficult time

The Freddy Mercury hoovering display team were also a particular highlight...