I understand why Americans/people who have to use Fahrenheit for some other reason think this but actually the measurement used by most people becomes de facto the easiest one to use

Meanwhile

Rosiger Montag zwischen Frankfurter Fastnachtsumzug und Klaa Paris 🌹🥳 Kommt gut in die Woche! 🫶 📸: Isaak Papadopoulos

Normally Peaches songs are ungooglable because most of the hits are porn. This one is ungooglable because most of the hits are recipes for peach panna cotta.

On the one hand: a great deal of cope gets posted on this website about how AI is completely useless and can never do anything. On the other hand: it's 2026 and even leading AI models can't produce output of sufficient quality to use in my daily work beyond "Summarise 500 words in 50 words".

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

On the contrary: We've just perfected going downhill very quickly.

First 10 minutes of Hot Fuzz: Ha ha, all this police bureaucracy and rules-obsessed professionalism sure does suck! The rest of Hot Fuzz: Oh wait, this is why policing in a liberal society needs bureaucracy and rules.

Citizen Kane, Casablanca and Alien are the three films that I had functionally watched in their entirety solely through jokes in Animaniacs and The Simpsons, long before ever seeing the real version

It’s also that very rare thing: a brilliant and influential movie that still feels fresh.

buddy, they won’t even let me wuther it

Can't believe they overlooked classic couples like "Lando and the computer from the Millennium Falcon" and "Lando and a woman heavily implied to be his own daughter"

reskeet this to die instantly

This is an especially striking example because he is trying to decry multiculturalism while also asserting (without realising it) that Americans culture is a hybrid of multiple independent cultures!!

It remains extraordinary that someone like Musk who clearly sees himself as a figure defined by the future remains so committed to this weird pseudohistorical and paeudoscientific garbage that was last current in like the nineteenth century

Just a total collapse of the right's cordon sanitaire! A Tory MP and the Tory leader in the London assembly are both on the board of this movement!

The most inscrutable float of Carnival so far

I am sorry, but when I hear about Hull, I am instantly reminded of this

This week it came out that Teesworks' only tenant has lost its biggest contract because it can't supply it. I look into what's happened, as well as the reaction to it from the Tees Valley mayor, Ben Houchen.

Everyone thinks that Nazism is just boots and braces skinheads and 14/88 chuds but the esoteric variant that dresses itself up in new age spirituality, health neuroticism, and woke blood and soil nationalism is far more pernicious.

This is probably ok

There's nothing more Boomer-coded than treating "the Beatles and the Rolling Stones" as equally relevant in the year 2026. Can't dare offend the valuable Stones fan demographic.

The Beatles, aye? A bunch of Catholic lads who got into agnosticisn and Indian culture and religion and openly loved American black music to an obsessive degree?

anyway realheads like @trow125.bsky.social and i know that dave eggers' greatest creation was his "smarter feller" comic that ran in the SF Weekly in the mid '90s and is impossible to find anywhere online, but #2 is the essay he wrote about pluggers for salon in 1996 web.archive.org/web/20100721...

I like that this interview with Peaches covers the most important issue of our time (people scraping the bottom line of the E off MILES carsharing vehicles so they spell MILFS)

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

POP FACT: Everyone who watched The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show died one week later, due to CBS accidentally booking John, Paul, George and Ringu

Betting markets are designed to clear profitably – partly by pricing all the outcomes to make participation tempting! – rather than to accurately predict outcomes. The first goal is often in direct competition with the second. Calling them “prediction” markets is false advertising.

Roses are red, Violets are blue,

This is wrong twice over, in that a) having a lot of followers *on Bluesky* is not 'fame' and b) actually being famous is not something that is 'easy to walk away from', because people still have this thing called 'memory'.

vividly remember, in the Corbyn Hell Years, seeing people on Twitter quite actively bonding over their joint hatred of me - trying to outdo each other in their meanness - and I just don't think it's possible to explain how weird and unpleasant it is, especially as someone who's....no-one

Britain has 6 train stations with "International" in the name. Only one has international railway services.

Just a passing reference in a superb novel otherwise about a doomed love affair in a 30s Japanese hot spring town between a geisha and a Tokyo dilletante but the unexpected presence of the White Russian diaspora across Asia is a story not fully told I reckon

Me, after living in Germany too long: "Obviously, Greens all despise the Mafia-state dictatorship built on oil, war and homophobia. Now to take a big sip of water and check the latest UK polling."

CUSTOMER: Your mattress has given me enormous chronic back pain IKEA: Hej, thanks for messaging us BACK! 😉 I think I would kill someone

The non sports part of prediction markets is trivially small and economists should stop being excited about it. - www.ft.com/content/1aa7...

When you're trying to play a "free-to-play" game

He wasn't initially called to religion, but then he saw the light.

Classic Trek would of course never have an officer who sits in chairs in an undignified way

This issue actually destroyed US transit. So many trams might still exist if there had been a 7.5¢ coin in 1920

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Lord of the Rings and the Spider-Man trilogy both rule, because we took some absolute freak horror directors, gave them infinite budgets and never-before-seen CGI tech, and told them to make an all-quadrant family blockbuster based on the most beloved characters of the 20th century.

i love how even our wildest characterizations of them, in previous years, was completely accurate like "DEI is when the mere presence or mention of somebody than a straight white male" was played for laughs, a reductio ad absurdum, not THAT many years ago