Exciting moment tonight at a horror writers’ panel where it struck me that the “you have to set your story in the past cos of mobile phones” era is over, cos now your phone will lie to you, mislead you, freak you out, let you down, and do all sorts of sinister uncanny shit.

Aberdeen FC. Bravo. 👏

A Very Peculiar Practice time #AVPP (Alien vs Pretend Predator?)

Channel 4 News's Clare Fallon tracks down Nigel Farage who was absent from Parliament today avoiding questions about the £5m donation She asks him about it He jumps into his car and drives off

In all the Lovecraftian horror, I always felt the cultists eagerly supporting the world ending cosmic entities fully knowing their nature & goals were the least believable trope. Joke’s on me. That’s apparently how a lot of humans work.

Hey do I know anyone who is a regular Wikipedia editor? I need help removing something wildly factually inaccurate from the Black Death article and it is semi - protected.

We go again #stoolreport

A favourite variation was one I contrived for @thefence.bsky.social in 2020, re: Jeff Bezos' then wealth of $177bn. "Iago first said 'Put money in thy purse’ at the premiere of Othello on Nov 1st 1604. You'd only need to put $1.1 million in said purse every single day since to match Bezos’ total".

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

#HillfortsWednesday Dominating the level floor of the Dysynni valley in north Wales is the towering peak of Craig yr Aderyn or Bird's Rock inland promontory fort 🤩 The fort occupies the pointed summit 😮 with a second smaller defended crag behind One of the Top 10 forts in my book 🥳 📷 My own

Now THIS is a good opening hook for a horror story.

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

TELL SCHRÖDINGER I FUCKING LIVED!

In minor enshittification moves you can no longer read reviews on IMDB without an account

Checked the quotes to see how many people were saying Private Godfrey from Dad's Army wrote this! But I'm the first. Come on bluesky, telling each other stuff we already know is our STRENGTH

Handily, they can also blame any further sanction-busting deals with Iran etc. on an algorithm

MIdweek cucumber inventory 🐈‍⬛🥒

High jinks and chills in Arnold Ridley's THE GHOST TRAIN (1941) 1:35pm with #ArthurAskey #RichardMurdoch #KathleenHarrison comedy horror #TPTVsubtitles

Today in “Oh my god, did nobody tell them?”, oh my god, did nobody tell them?

The funniest part of this is the complete lack of any sort of reaction from the audience whatsoever

FAO @greenleejw.bsky.social 🙂

EEL INSERTION TIME! stuffyoushouldknow.com/episode/eels...

This whole account posts nothing but art without alt text, many in a very muddy generic style. So as well as this obviously AI image - Mt Fuji would be 200km tall if this was real and Everest is only 9km - the entire account is engagement farming with what looks likes AI crud. Report and block.

Boules #stoolreport

Morning. ☕️

A bit of X-Files then... Featuring Jack Black and Giovanni Ribisi

Being a humanities guy in IT has its quirks, like finding narratives in the past to explain the present. Recently, I've been seeing managers and executives going wild over AI because it lets them build stuff which impresses them, and I realized I was having a Henri III in Venice moment. 🧵

anyone here use Yamaha HS3s in their home setup? any good? just for home use with a handful of synths, drum machines etc, just fancy something for when I'm able to unplug headphones. actually whilst at it Mackie 1202 VLZ4? looking for a new mixer to run a handful of synths/drum machines through

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

Hi hello we are Kagi and we do not do this 👇

The whole thread is worth reading.

41 years of EastEnders and someone finally said it.

And guess what I'll be saying back to it?

Behave accordingly

When the biggest corporations on the planet are pushing technology which encourages you not to think for yourself. Is that a warning sign? Mm. Hard to say. Maybe I could ask some software for the answer.

Could you imagine being a Pompey fan right now

Amazing lineup. I might start not avoiding it at any and all costs now.

Normal Vinted stuff.

Le Tissier will presumably have some pretty strong views on this Great Replacement.

Hearing that Andy Burnham is set to replace Southampton in the Championship play off final on Saturday.

Google kills Google.

My mind feels very fuzzy today youtu.be/hTbbVunfDe0