Thinking a lot about the Fifteen Years xkcd cartoon today. Thinking a lot about mortality generally and that really pushed it up a notch. I don't remember seeing the earlier ones he did but I do remember his work when she was first diagnosed.

What..... What

Amazing headline.

Fun fact I couldn't mention until now: At the time Graham Linehan was harassing Sophia Brooks online, I was contacted by her former teachers and School Safeguarding Team to get her latest contact details, as they were worried sick about her being publicly stalked by an abusive alcoholic celebrity.

Oh what and your sexts are so tight and impressive and free of rural imagery

yes I don't really see how you can go "oh yikes these people have changed their political views incredibly quickly, mostly because of what Very Online people talk about on social media" and also think that people who went from never talking about gender to calling trans women predators are....normal

Hello and welcome to Assumptions Club. I think we all know why we’re here.

Amazing to learn that Isaac Chotiner can apparently just come for you in your replies. Like suddenly realizing you're swimming in open ocean

This is exactly what the recent Trump-BBC 'scandal' was designed to achieve. The BBC is now self-censoring criticisms of Trump in the name of "impartiality"

Worth reading the whole of that xkcd, slowly, before checking the alt text. Wow.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

If you’re cold, I’m cold. Bring me a side of mashed potatoes and gravy

me flirting

Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.

Saw a man earlier wearing shorts but also a thick jumper with a puffer jacket over that. He looked like a parsnip.

Haha!

Sure, on the one hand they abandoned all sense of decency and ethical conduct but on the other hand they did also deliver massive commercial failure.

I see what you did here and also think you should feel embarrassed about it.

But where else to go for the rest of us? Everybody I speak to from every sort of industry says their sector is in complete meltdown

You never see recluses anymore

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

it just didn't have the legs 😢

Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer

“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

That's made me feel a bit emotional, well done Eze.

That Richarlison chip is maybe the best consolation goal I've ever seen.

DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

Scrapping the two-child limit *is* welfare reform. Defining ‘reform’ solely as ‘cut’ is one reason why it’s proved so difficult

OK, sorry, I can't be silent any longer: what the fuck is that John Lewis ad even about. He finds a present he didn't open and then remembers his son exists? ....and? WHAT? That's not a heart-rending tale of festive hope! That's NOTHING. Why am I meant to care that this dad remembers the 90s?

bolsanaro reportedly upset about going to prison because it’s taking him away from his true passion, going to the hospital

Here is a nice mushroom

Some BODY Once told me, this wafer's kind of holy, It ain't a piece of regular bread

£2bn? Gosh, I hope they did it responsibly

You’re gonna see posts that make you think “I agree on principle but you seem unwell.” That’s the bluesky promise.

Amazing incorrect lyrics on the karaoke machine yesterday

We do know who killed JFK. The Warren Commission was an incredibly thorough and good-faith effort to prove and document what had happened, which they did. The conspiracy theories arose in spite of best efforts to avoid them, but there really isn't anything they could have reasonably done better.

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

I've always dreamed of becoming a skeleton that serves environmental storytelling purposes one day

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Said the phrase 'I'm over the moon!' to a Polish man and he was a little confused and asked what I meant so I explained and when I finished he just shook his head and said 'You're happy but you have no business in space.'

the baby (17 months) raised both her hands and said “WEADY?” so I said “ready!” and then she slapped me in the face

I think if 24 people are dead it's more than "testing" a ceasefire.

Oh no, Professor Chomsky might be collateral damage? That’s it, let’s not investigate any further. Call the whole thing off! As nobody is saying.

(character in a netflix show) well here we are, at the abandoned mall. if that mysterious phone call we got earlier was right, we'll find the key that opens that safe we found out contains a map we need, in order to locate a device which, you'll recall, could be the cause of recent events, such as t

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

if the telegraph can’t find a new buyer maybe it should just be towed out into the north sea and sunk

they're saying there's a spectre haunting europe and it's very nice, we're looking into it strongly, it's beautiful, we love it and we think it means well