... OHHHHHHH, Babyshambles was a pun on Babycham

tangential but related - that the majority of content on the Internet exists not for human consumption, but solely for the purpose of gaming search rankings

sometimes i worry there's a crisis in the number of people reading and then i look at the responses of people who *are* reading and i think we have to get the number to 0 even faster

UNDERWATER TUNNEL TIME

to be clear I don't always succeed either so this isn't me saying this from my high horse but I do think it's our collective duty to try and mostly ignore stupid people on the internet; stupid people with stupid views have always existed, we're just more aware of them now, but we don't have to be

Zeichen gegen Öko-Wahn: Söder fordert Abschaffung von Gründonnerstag www.der-postillon.com/2025/04/grue...

All but three (!) of the 1,651 refugees admitted into the United States in the three most recent months we have data are white South Africans. For comparison, in 2024, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees. It's an explicit white supremacist project. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

When you look in someone's fridge and see it's full of farmhouse cheddar, clotted cream and scrumpy.

> *vinyl scratch sound* > YOU'RE NOW LISTENING TO > *ornithopter flyby* > 101.19 > *explosion* > ARRAKIS FM > *thumper sound* > WHERE WE ONLY PLAY THE SPICIEST TUNES > *sandworm sound* > *sardaukar chanting* > THIS AIN'T YOUR REVEREND MOTHER'S STATION > *imagine dragons - radioactive starts playing*

Senators are e posting ESPN quotes of themselves now

I dunno man, sometimes they're just for me

You may not like it, but this is what soft power looks like.

The problem with AI is it makes plagiarism so low effort When DS9 was created, real human beings put actual time and effort into stealing from Babylon 5

Beethoven versus Trump:

World's First Enterprise Solution With Zero Nines Uptime

I still remember this one and giggle occasionally

The telling thing about that piece for me is that execs thought the pilot skewed "too young". I do not know how else you make Buffy (successfully) other than to make it about teenagers. That was the problem with the last few seasons of the original!

this is where i regretfully remind you that dawkins was one of the all time greats

The proliferation of this kind of shit is directly traceable to people having flattened, nuanceless conversations about Signal being "insecure" everytime some dingus adds a reporter or their random tinder hookup to the warcrimes groupchat.

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

Well done, 21st century, you ruined spaceflight

It's the most important day: Maundy Thursday, aka Gründonnerstag or Green Thursday in Germany, aka Green Sauce Day in Frankfurt. The eggs came out a bit shonky this year but whatever

This is in no way to disparage Inside Housing, but it does take an impressive skill level to give a career-ending interview to Inside Housing.

I think we might live in hell

That's close to the entire civil engineering budget of HS2 to date www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/hs2-4...

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Never fails to make me howl

An interview with Inside Housing. i-paper carries detailed extracts here. Reform's clear position is of post-Grenfell "over-regulation" but party seems to have not yet decided whether to abolish the Building Safety Regulator entirely as "rotten" or what could be 'fixed' inews.co.uk/news/grenfel...

300 under 30-year-olds in Northern Ireland aleady lost their Motability car? That's got to be a fairly large chunk of all young Motability users in NI (there are 50,000 users total in NI, but Motability skews old for obvious reasons - average age is 52)

If you ever wonder if you make a difference in this world, this horrible story is just the long tail of a couple of racist shit posters on Twitter getting so angry disabled people have help with getting cars they posted relentlessly about it 24/7 for six months www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Cooking is a way of establishing ourselves as bodies in the world” What a beautiful idea. And a Foucauldian one, too. Nigella’s rice pudding as an expression of the technology of the self.

This in particular is excellent. This is why I cook

This is the only good April Fools post.

99 problems. Not great, not terrible.

This is what social media is meant to be about.

at first it seemed like he was saying that he had been looking into Ali -- treated very unfairly by the Umayyads, stolen succession -- and the Twelve Imams, but then he went off on a tangent where he said that the Nur Mohammadi doesn't only pass through the Ahl al-Bayt? and he might be the Mahdi?

I can confirm that this is no longer true as of 2024. NASA Johnson Space Center failed to properly redact this Space Food Formulations document, which showed that they have space-rated Ka-Me brand sriracha sauce and Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning: www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

A Texas woman nearly died after a crisis pregnancy center missed her ectopic pregnancy. The staff there said it's not their problem, though, because the ultrasound was “for educational purposes only.” www.dallasnews.com/business/hea...

君の彼女を奪いに行く途中 is Japanese for “On my way to steal your girl.”

Extremely important Family Circus lore just dropped

Four weeks ago I asked billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital if they'd been issuing fake electrical safety papers to their tenants. Why? Because when we went door-to-door, we kept noticing the paperwork was curiously identical. And tenants said they'd never seen an electrician. Little thread:

I do think these guys have realised that the algorithm loves to see them humiliated (sorry, have their cortisol spiked by a mogging jestergooner) and now just pump out endless videos precisely so they'll get kicked and quote-tweeted, and therefore make a few bucks on X.

My favourite thing about this paragraph is that Hoyer misattributes this to the wrong Thomas Kochan. She's claiming that Kochan is an American management professor at MIT. That's not him though - the actual author is a German schnapps salesman (and, fair enough, an historian) from Cottbus.

I don’t love how every antisocial aspect of Twitter that gets replicated over here is then treated as a unique facet of Bluesky’s culture. Dogpiling is a Twitter thing and it’s still happening exponentially more on X than here

dogs can’t LOOKUP, in fact many of them lack even a basic understanding of Excel or other spreadsheets

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money

You sound mad explaining that No, London Is Very Safe even after we legalised stealing peoples phones. Imagine how bad things should be if you legalised crime! www.londoncentric.media/p/sadiq-khan...