A new Dan Brown novel and Richard fucking Dawkins honking like in unwelcome goose, is it 2003?

Roses are red, Black cat superstition,

Facebook is full of this shit now. Rammed with it. Yesterday it was a bad AI purporting to be a promotional photo of Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs 2. This is just bad actors testing the waters of what made up shit they can get away with selling people. Tylenol Part 2.

In the Independent Coffee Shop having a very healthy Americano. No milk or sugar please, just the caffeine thanks.

I don't trust people who always blur out their backgrounds on video calls. What are you hiding? A dead body? A full klu klux klan wardrobe?

"Potholes" and "nurses" are how we officially measure costs in the public sector.

Can add "golf" to the increasingly long list of things obnoxious spoilt Failson Brooklyn Beckham has bought his way in to only to display no interest in the fundamentals of the activity or a desire to proactively develop his skills. No working up from the bottom, just expects to be in with the pros.

I would simply have 1 curiosity about why the guy who clearly wants to feed all our data to the AI gods keeps coming up with increasingly silly excuses for packaging up all our data in one ready-to-eat serving. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

In the REM song Swan Swan H, the H stands for hollandaise

Fuck you Keir Starmer, all of this bullshit is on you. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/5339...

Why the left are turning to Burnham is beyond me. In the 2015 leadership race against Corbyn, he was considered a Blairite. And his Faragesque remarks about immigrants is anything but socialist. Burnham is just a shape shifting opportunist. www.businessinsider.com/andy-burnham...

Just absolute scenes. It's funny but it's also not because *gestures at everything else*. Nothing but a vanity project distraction.

Denis Villeneuve's...

This is just to say I have eaten the swans that were in the duck pond and which you were probably saving for the King Forgive me they were delicious so white and so necky

Nicola Sturgeon on Kamala Harris’s book. Eloquent and blistering. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Running around chasing after everyone this morning and thus ended up putting on the moka pot with no water in it.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if there was an obviously compelling story in James Bond's origins then professional writer Ian Fleming would have written it. He wrote Bond as eternally 37 for a reason.

Gen Z are consuming their media on their phones, on the bus or train or sat in Nandos, often even without headphones and just blasting it through the speaker I am convinced that that is the only reason why they don't like sex scenes

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Modern slavery laws have already been weakened to the point where victims are at serious risk. Further undermining them will be absolutely catastrophic for vulnerable victims. It isn't modern slavery laws which need changing. It's Labour anti-asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If there's one character other than Spider-Man who absolutely does not need a fucking "origin" story movie in 2025 it's James Bond. You aren't allowed to have any lore left to the imagination any more, absolutely everything must be explicit text. The "reboot" element of the Craig era was awful

Labour are more socially right wing than David Cameron's government, and more authoritarian. The only supporters they have left are a bunch of terminally online centrists that don't really believe in anything. And transphobes.

this also applies to single high-profile killings btw putting "OwO notices bulge" on a bullet casing makes me think this is just another example of this phenomenon

the modal domestic terrorist over the next decade is going to be a terminally online 20-something who cooks their brain in irony-poisoned social media spaces and decides to kill a bunch of people as an elaborate shitpost

They've lost the 9yos

The problem with egregiously lying about *absolutely everything* especially stuff that has a mountain of supporting evidence is eventually your reach an untruth event horizon where even your most ardent supporters will stop and go, "No no no, wait hang on a minute ... that doesn't make sense?"

Now kind obsessed with this guy and his mobile rig and the preponderance of people wandering the streets of NYC who can apparently just pop off freestyle raps at a moments notice. Skip to 27.00 for the real start. www.youtube.com/live/XXT9VeO...

“Single issue extremely online NEET with a firearm” is not exactly a threat I saw coming but Oh dear

Jon’s working in the children’s ER today: “Already 2nd family asked if Tylenol is safe FOR THEIR KIDS.”

He wears tight pants, runs away a lot, and if she's lucky she catches him and pegs him?

“In every industry, AI is being used to replace all the creative things that bring us joy instead of the boring, tedious tasks we hate doing,” she says.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett's "My Blackberry is not working" sketch. God, it's *exquisite*. Not a line out of place, everything works beautifully and there's some free Harry *almost* corpsing thrown in as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG3...

Kash Patel is the head of the FBI because he wrote pro-Trump fanfic for children. Keep this in mind when he is giving out briefings.

An attack on ICE where they only shot the people being abducted by ICE and all the ICE officers were unharmed, and then this extremely convincing piece of evidence from Kash Patel? Yeah, seems extremely legit. I'll bet on the other side it says TRANS too, right Kash?

Just the most sexless people in the universe, no matter how they try to present themselves.

I am begging the media to stop doing this framing. It's not a feud between individuals! Trump used a speech to the UN to tell outright lies about London and its mayor. Khan responded with dignity while accurately describing the US president - Trump categorically *is* racist, sexist and Islamophobic.

I do believe this is Farage testing the waters of just how far he can go saying outrageously stupidly racist made up shit and still somehow have the media outlets uncritically let him say it with no pushback and, well, here we are.

Alien Earth is a great example of the problem of modern streaming shows. We're left on a honkingly big frustrating cliffhanger that creates more questions than it answers, FX has made no commitment to season 2, and if and when it does, it'll take knocking on 2 years + to actually make.

Alien Earth finale day!

Truly a great time to be alive when you, a literal nobody living in some backwater village ekeing it a living in the creative/service industry, unironically feel like maybe you're smarter than hot shot movie studio CEOs and the goddamn Prime Minister

Bitten by a radioactive willy, he became…

With The Mandalorian getting its film trailer this week, here's a recap of every episode of The Mandalorian

I am sick of this narrative that is being fed to us, talking about uncontrolled borders. Less than 5% of immigration is irregular, the rest have been invited in via visas etc. It’s not uncontrolled! We needed them, we issued visas they came.

"Too many brown faces are making Nazis uncomfortable and we should just pander to them to make their feefees betters." What the ever loving fuck?

It's good to know that the Home Secretary is a fascist

MAYOR: Did you do that sculpture solemnly honouring our civil war dead SCULPTOR: Sure thing boss, real sexy just like you asked MAYOR: What

Costs and severity of cyber attacks seem to be going up (e.g. JLR, British Library) while governments continue to be excited about AI. Doesn't quite add up. And defending critical national infrastructure against such is presumably getting harder / costlier. www.ft.com/content/4982...

Aside from everything else about it, this trite "conclusion" and acting as if the BBC is the cool clear voice of moderation and reason in all this while the BBC is full of the likes of Tim Davie and Robbie Gibb, explicit right wing company men in positions of editorial control, is really galling.