What's mad here is the amount of people in authority involved in all of these steps along the way of this who go home at night thinking they're the good guys.

Slop is a very kind word in this case.

The best part about sitting on the fence is that you have a better view of the whole situation from being up so high and therefore are objectively more suited to comment on the situation. Those who pick a side can't see over the fence and are therefore blinded by their choice. I'm so frickn smart.

Neat

It's sad that they weren't remembered

Slightly increase a band: 66daysofstatic

Every day lately on a stroll through social media you'll find about 5 of these kinds of scene with no context of the drama's origin.

Reminds me of one of Peter McGann's finest works www.instagram.com/reel/Cu9F1RB...

Roko's Basilisk 2: The Torment Nexus

This push for age-verification and VPN bans is driven by social media company lobby groups. The goal is to prevent people from hiding their online activity and then selling that behavioral data. Buying something online without being algorithmically overpriced is the end goal, not tracking your pr0n

Oh my God

John, maybe if you have a rest you'll feel better?

Funnily enough the name "Bluesky" is actually reference to a 1974 sci-fi novel based in a world where the sky on a bright clear day is a vivid cerulean blue colour, rather than our own regular green.

This day in 2006, Guy Goma arrived at BBC London for a job interview and walked into history.

Photo via @arrivalists.bsky.social

There are multiple levels of irony around the idea of the Irish government reverse-bikeshedding the issue of the national energy crisis.

He 𝘪𝘴 from Chicago, so we can only assume both are true of "Pope" Leo.

If you put David Attenborough in a past tense in a headline in 2026, you're doing it on purpose

It's called the hantavirus cause we hanta clue what it's about

I cannot repeat enough how bad it is that we put the "ban Firefox to stop prostitution" guy in charge of this stuff.

Giancarlo Soresi? In Dublin this October? In this economy? Neat

"Sure that'd be horses" as a positive statement fits well into a few Irish accents. It could work.

The mother's Ring camera was stolen last Thursday and it failed to capture itself being taken. What even is its point at that stage?

You shouldn’t make jokes on the internet it makes people mad

i am totally out of touch with the state of the world today

! This will be the last I'll say on this topic here for a few months so as not to jinx it, but !!!

I asked Grok AI for "the answer to life, the universe, and everything" and it came back with "42" guys I think it's conscious and very smart.

Tuesday morning after a long weekend. Someone just sent us a ticket saying that their email wasn't working, showing an example of a bounceback message when they tried to mail themself from a personal address. They had spelled their email address, which was just their full name, incorrectly.

Dear #SpeirGorm, This stupid idea has been in my head since Thursday. Please allow me to offload it so that I can stop thinking about it. I am *not* a crackpot.

Sometimes it's okay if something in the film was just a production mistake.

"Vote for me and I'll put the concentration camp somewhere else" We really need to pause and reflect on what happened to discourse in this country that this is seen as a thing you can say without being expelled from public life

This is why the best version is @kierongillen.bsky.social's The Power Fantasy, where the premise is "what if they were all good people doing their best, and that wasn't enough to make them not a danger to the world, because there's such a thing as power that can't be used ethically?"

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

I love what's happened to Infowars. A fate nobody could have dreamed 10 years ago.

Maybe God is real and Dawkins constantly making a hames of himself over the years is all of our punishment for liking The God Delusion back in the day.

I cannot get over how wrong my doubts about SNL UK were youtu.be/u2T-iebYp2A

this is word for word what my last performance review said

it's a bad title Brent

The global push by public and private bodies towards online "age verification" is one of the biggest threats to personal privacy and the Internet as a whole that has ever been faced, and it's not getting the attention it needs in time for any serious pushback.

I do sometimes miss chatting to Ben over there.

Saw this meme and I did it. Opening line to Neuromancer.

Ontology is the study of really posh ants.

Fuel protester adds 'abolishment of Halloween' to list of demands

Yes, this is probably how he would have wanted to go. But on the other hand it's also very much how the elephants wanted him to go