yo dude just one more bufferzone, I swear. My bufferzone just needs a security corridor, just one more zone of free action and it'll be good, just let me create a cordon sanitaire and we're good, create a buffer zone here and we're done once we add another bufferzone next to it

I used to wonder why Americans don't riot that their airlines regularly sell more tickets than they have seats, but at least they pay you hundreds of dollars to be bumped from a flight. Parcel companies will just not deliver to you and you have no recourse whatsoever.

This will probably put me at the godless communist end of the Centrist Dad Spectrum but the delivery of competition to the British postal market and - very precisely - the removal of the Royal Mail monopoly is, I feel, one low key cause of people feeling everything has gone to shit

this looks like a clickbait thumbnail from the youtube equivalent on the home planet of the aliens from ANNIHILATION (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) explaining why they didn't conquer earth

Speedrun xkcd.com/3246/

the Al Carns 2026 leadership challenge was a sociological experiment conducted by the University of Birmingham. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.

When asked whether any cups had been stolen, the Met confirmed, "No, the intruders didn't get anywhere near the canteen".

This is ridiculous, the best chance for no casualties is opening up ten fronts simultaneously. Twenty fronts. Sixty nine fronts. At four hundred and twenty fronts our veterans start coming back from the dead

Daily Mail "SCIENCE"

Right - you all thought that quiz was too US-centric. So I've vibe-coded something far more British. Specifically British, because I am *not* making a Northern Irish Political Compass. From taxes to the monarchy, answer the questions and see where you sit. quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

Hmm. The stopping distance for a freight train that size would be multiple kilometres (Wikipedia cities a Thai crash investigator who says at least 2 km). Drugs or no drugs, the driver had no hope of stopping in time if the level crossing circuits weren't working.

Oddest edit detail imho is that between filming and release, Sydney Sweeney broke out as a global star and sex symbol, and you can see the edit tries to cut in as much of her as possible. But her character's a nerdy schoolgirl, and it ends up feeling perverse. Like the film is leering at a teenager

We all had to learn to do this when meetings moved to Zoom, am I right folks?

My favourite thing about Madame Web is that it is *such* a mess, just a barely-there Frankenstein's monster of a final cut, other than the significantly more artful and loving shots of Pepsi where my conspiracy theory will always be Pepsi brought in another team to touch them up.

Going to start a conspiracy theory that the US government is secretly run by an alien entity called STACEB

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

in all seriousness 'putting your fascist rally up against the FA Cup Final' is probably another data point for 'the organisers don't respect or understand the people they're trying to appeal to'

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Having met your long term partner before the app is the Millenials' equivalent of Boomers buying a house at 23.

I want to live the kind of life that makes bold, happy lines on my face. I want wrinkles that show I’ve spent my time smiling. So. I drew these lines: www.girlonthenet.com/blog/i-drew-... NEW blog, gorgeous art courtesy of @tabithaerotica.bsky.social, who has captured my joy so well ❤️

It feels like around the same time as CEOs decided their primary political priority was keeping their workforce in line, they also stopped caring about whether their products actually work.

Every graduation speech about AI

I'm still weirded out by how much the Facebook algorithm pushed pro-Luigi Mangione content to me. Like... he murdered a CEO. He literally represents violent resistance to corporations. And Zuckerberg thinks it's in his interest - as a CEO of a hated corporation - to boost Mangione's profile???

Fixed a leaking sink

The two types of anime fan are “As a rightist, I adore Gayqueer McTransmarx, a character I believe embodies conservative values,“ and “As a leftist, I’m a big fan of Hitlerhito Tokyonazi’s ’Manchuria Deserved It’ franchise.”

i want to know the circumstances of the ryan gosling obama pic and the christian bale obama pic coming out at the same time. like is this an ARMAGEDDON/DEEP IMPACT situation

Our tracker suggests it has suffered its first sustained net loss since October 2023

Ironically a lot of this article prioritises stuff that feels true more than is true

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Keep on truckin'

It’s all just *so* fucking stupid. It’s not just that none of these people have read the stuff they’re talking about, it’s that they aren’t even interested in it! They don’t care about any of the themes or ideas or characters *at all*! It’s all just bad faith horseshit

There are three Michael Jackson songs in the Top 10 this week, and maybe the weirdest thing is no-one will even comment on this. That's how irrelevant the charts have become

A lot of people don’t seem to understand that “the cordon sanitaire against racism is rebuilt” means, e.g. “once again this stuff is said by the *Conservative leader*” let alone “a politician on the Labour right they dislike”.

He's right, he should say it, and you should want even politicians you dislike to say things you agree with.

WAITRESS: Welcome to I Love The 90s Grill and Bar! What can I getcha? KID: I want the Macarena And Cheese! WAITRESS: For you, ma’am? MOM: The…Rodney King Crab? WAITRESS: And you, sir? DAD: The eggs. WAITRESS: You have to say it. DAD: *sigh* Jesus Christ. Okay. I’ll take the Sarajevos Rancheros

Dog bites Andy Burnham on the bum? That's not news. Andy Burnham bites dog on the bum? Now that's news.

I think this is pretty much right, although relatedly he also doesn't really appreciate the last 10 miles problem. If you live in, say, Oldham, you don't take the fast Manchester to London train if to get to Man Picc, you need to take a slow bus or drive your own car through Manchester traffic

I love when legacy brands feel they have to do something hip with influencers to bring in Gen Z customers. We hired these influencers and made them pretend to live in a house together and eat a mediocre German recreation of mediocre US sliced bread. Aren't you impressed by their follower counts?!

i posted a few days ago how great i thought the casting of tom holland as telemachus was, but i now realize that anyone who could play peter parker could also successfully play telemachus

To me he just looks like John Travolta from the cover art of a computer game called John Travolta’s Paint Studio

When my brain is shutting down and When Harry Met Sally and A League of Their Own are briefly combined into a single, perfect movie

if you see a woman throw up in a movie it always means she’s pregnant. we could help hide this if other movies would pitch in and include people throwing up for no reason more

The Visitor is pretty awesome actually. It's a ripoff of every 70s evil child movie (The Omen, Carrie, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist) mixed with trippy sci-fi and Star Wars, but also with those 70s detective action shows with "wacka-chika-wacka-chika" funk soundtracks.

Evelyn Waugh was Somerset Maugham's Wario

TELEMACHUS: How did I get this twenty-oar ship? Crying. My herds of cattle? Crying. My most loyal slaves? You better believe it was crying. Now get the fuck out of my house

remind us what the Green Party's leader was doing from 2010 to 2015? yes, apart from that.

Something I have written on the hellsite is that supposed fans of the classics lack that subtle appreciation for the nuances of translation and language differences that you can, on the other hand, find in anime fans

My feeling about Wilson's translation is that I love it *in dialogue with* other translations. The choice of "complicated" is brilliant if you read it alongside, say, Pope and Fagles!