One thing that's interesting is that all the cultural big hitters of toddler TV are from outside the US - Peppa Pig's UK, Bluey's Australian, Paw Patrol's Canadian.* The US mostly churns out huge volumes of low budget stuff. Just the opposite of the usual media ecosystem

There are only three Eccleston era stories which don't guest star a sex offender. No wonder Chris is angry.

Sorry New Scientist, I know you're trying, but this will just never get the vitality of a good "Scientists probed Uranus" headline

I'm dying over Smitten Kitten (a sex shoppe) having to basically be like, "Google is lying about us having a glory hole." www.instagram.com/reel/DPACIxZ...

Please don't call it that

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

The plan? Take millions of dollars in bribes from Gaddafi, then launch an international coalition to overthrow your creditor.

Dazzle Ships, South Docks, Liverpool Shipping, 1918, by Edward Alexander Wadsworth.

Sinister stab-in-the-back myth in some Remainer circles on here (having never seen it on Twitter, I assume it's come from Facebook) that Commonwealth voters did Brexit. (In reality, there are only a million 'Commonwealth' voters, and black Britons and British Asians voted 3:1 and 2:1 Remain).

[the "britcard" branding comes from a think tank report in June, not the government's announcement which is happening tomorrow]

If Römerhof station gets built like this, it will prizes for the ugliest railway station in existence

It appears that there is an increasingly high chance Israel will be banned next week from UEFA due to its genocide in Gaza, which would in turn effectively end its hopes of qualifying for the World Cup. I have heard this independently confirmed from another source. www.thetimes.com/article/11e9...

'it was this or back to the panto circuit, dear boy, and I simply couldn't face another Aladdin'

Let's not miss the important detail that Stephen Miller looks like if Prince William went on 'Stars In Their Eyes' as Pitbull.

charging at my boyfriend in the bedroom and he screams "olé!" as I crash into the wall instead

Friends have explained that street harassment today is significantly worse than it was just after the riots a year ago, taking clear action to condemn does set a tone and direction!

This is a positive development as Sam says because Labour have finally broken with the demeaning, wasteful and divisive Whitehall begging bowl model. But breakdown the money and its £1million per community per year - that’s not going to touch the sides of the problem is it?

I'm back in the Indy today, with clues like: Mouthy art student is trying, to an extent (9) Solve for free here - I hope you enjoy it! puzzles.independent.co.uk/games/crypti...

"there's no word for [x] in [language spoken by group i am condescending to]" is always a terrible sapir-whorf bullshit move that i hate, but this is far and away the funniest word you could do this with for arabic www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

Meilenstein beim Bau der U5-Verlängerung ins Europaviertel 🚇 Unter dem Platz der Republik werden aktuell die letzten Zentimeter Beton abgetragen, welche die beiden neuen Tunnelröhren vom Bestandstunnel zum Hauptbahnhof trennen. 👉 Weitere Infos: www.sbev-frankfurt.de/de/u5/presse... @frankfurt.de

Radio 3 are doing an eight-hour live programme broadcast on an East Coast Train travelling from Inverness to London King's Cross on Saturday to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of the Railways.

Having a pleasant conversation with an in-law, and suddenly she drops "They're building new houses in the town centre. But they haven't said who's going to be living in them, and the rumour is it's going to be migrants". Calling it now: NIMBY is going to go full-on flag-waving fash (or vice versa)

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

We've got a shiny new report (full of lovely graphs) all about the no/low alcohol drinks market in Great Britain. How big is the market compared to for standard alcohol and how has it grown recently, how do prices compare, who drinks these products etc. We've got answers to all these questions:

Funny to me that I have a considerably more embittered response to this than *any* Liverpool fan I follow. The yellow card for taking off your shirt in a celebration is stupid, was introduced for bad reasons, is joyless, anti-football, and Ekitike did nothing wrong.

Banger of an intro paragraph When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing. Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models

If his line is linking paracetamol to thalidomide then he's absolutely on the back foot here. It's the last resort argument of the worst wanker in the pub. It's also grossly offensive.

tired: thiel lawsuit was the trump-prefiguring gawker event wired: gamergate was the trump-prefiguring gawker event inspired: commenters flipping out because richard jokingly called them "peasants" in a private chat was the trump-prefiguring gawker event

Paracetamol remains an important option to treat pain or fever in pregnant women. Following rigorous assessment of the available scientific data, we find no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. Read more 👉 www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/use-...

Here is a comic from March 2024 that I forgot to post here, featuring my whimsical characters whose names I also forget

It’s working fine for me!

COME ON, DON'T TRUST GOOGLE'S AI OVERVIEW I searched the book. This text doesn't appear anywhere in it - nor "marbles", "microchips", "paper airplanes", "drones" or "kites". It's worrying that even on Bluesky, the AI-Hater Social Network™, so many people don't realise AI Overview makes stuff up

What the heck was that?! #cowtools #simpsons #coldwarmedia #farside

Des Moines has you all beat

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Once you know this, it is impossible not to hear the line as "I'm addicted to you, but you know that your dog's sick".

this is the most chotinered a chotiner interview has ever chotinered

Not to be too grouchy about the modern world, but I think this is a legit problem with SEO farm (and now AI slop) recipe sites. If you say you cooked, say, a pot pie, there's no longer the assumption that you cooked Delia's or Nigella's or whoever's. You just cooked whatever the algorithm said.

If you're not entitled to a free flu shot, you can get one privately from Asda for 60p(!!) as part of a promotional offer if you book online and can go before September ends. Here's the link: asda.cxmflow.com/OABS/Appoint...

I am laughing constantly at all the dumb things I see that are filling up their data centers… it’s basically amazing…

An officer confirmed that she was having to revisit accounts from 2023/24 - the backstop deadline for those accounts was more than six months ago

It's finally happening (Hopefully we can increase these numbers as the sun gets to a better angle - we're quite west facing)

Well, if it’s 23 September... YES, THAT’S RIGHT! It’s the 71st anniversary of the hunt for the Gorbals Vampire, in which hundreds of children aged from four to 14, armed with dogs, knives and sharpened sticks went looking for an urban myth

OK, look, do we have any photos or videos or radar images of these drones? Because this is, again, exactly what the British police said about the "drone" at Gatwick

If the government announces it's going to boycott the lobby and speak exclusively with transport YouTubers in future, I think it will be the best decision in the history of political comms. Keir Starmer, go on Map Men next

I did also find Getty has this image where Trump's bald spot has been covered up with the most inept clone-tool use in history. I thought stock photo libraries were meant to refuse photoshopped images www.gettyimages.de/sets/rALaYAI...

Hell yes we're doing this again

"I'm cancelling your show ... for a week!"

Erstmals mit der Illumination der Seufzerbrücke – wir senden die besten Wünsche zum jüdischen Neujahrsfest Rosch ha-Schana! 🍯🍎 #shanatova Mehr zum Hintergrund 👉 t1p.de/0k79w