cannot begin to tell you how happy I am to have stumbled upon the Paris building shared by metal music fans and the union for metal workers, what a delight

Now the Spotify wrapped stuff is done, I thought I'd instead share music that has been almost transformative for me. This is @stephenwilsonjr01.bsky.social & I urge you all to watch the whole video, because if the rest didn't hit you in the feels, the last track will: youtu.be/3Upi0I5LmO0?...

bugs bunny was literally the first guy in drag i ever saw but ok

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

In 2024, the Coast Guard conducted more than 250 targeted interceptions in the Caribbean of boats believed to be transporting drugs based on intel. Only 55 were actually transporting drugs; the rest (80%) were innocent. Trump's policy is to kill them all, including the 80% who are innocent.

Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 🧐

"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States... The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

If several of you share an umbrella thats brollyamoury

Now the positive post is out of the way: Why do Spotify & Daniel Ek have to be so exceedingly fucking awful? I mean, the product itself is near perfect, so why do they insist on all the fuckery? It's going to be a ballache copying the playlists & finding something else.

Whatever your thoughts on Mr Kipling, his mince pie whirls are actually exceedingly good. Not something I thought I'd ever actually say.

Kagi partnering with physical libraries makes sense to me. 12 months of the service free. I wonder if this will work for patrons, for libraries, for Kagi. kagi.com/libraries

I wonder how many Americans would have voted for someone other than Trump if the election was framed t like this: Who do you want in the top job during the 250th anniversary of the USA?

Royal Mail have written a GDPR policy for their letter to Santa scheme that is a) pitched at children explaining how their data is used and b) fully committed to the existence of Father Christmas and it’s just… really cute

I’m also gonna start posting stuff I don’t have the authority to order. Andrew Garfield shall be my husband. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

I hope somebody will complain to IPSO about this (and the similar Express splash). If so this will be a very useful reference.

As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this. All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA

“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years. Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?

Proper journalism from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social - just the facts on the people who are Reform UK in Wales

Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement. Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph Because this does NOT add up! No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies… 🧵1/9

The army appoints a brave decorated Afghanistan veteran as its first humanist ‘chaplain’ to give moral and pastoral support to thousands of nonreligious men and women who serve our country. The Mail sneers and rents a quote from Rees-Mogg to sneer more. Has there ever been a less patriotic paper?

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

So how exactly are they meant to get to them? Many are placed in areas without accessible transport links. They can't afford to pay for journeys themselves because of how little support they get. Yet again Labour choosing to pander to Reform than think of consequences. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

you call it diarrhoea I call it

"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."

Not enough credit is given to the safety feature of switching off the lightsaber if your hand has been chopped off.

Randall’s made me laugh a lot but that’s the first time he’s made me cry.

I remain genuinely gobsmacked that this wasn’t picked up more. The Alex Jones who *repeatedly accused grieving parents of making up their children’s murders*. Anyway, “after the news we’ll be joined by Nigel Farage & definitely won’t be asking him about any of this…”

RIP to Udo Kier! What a cool actor, and he made to 81 too! He’s mind-controlling Soviet dinosaurs in heaven now 😢

France has added Musk’s Grok to an ongoing cybercrime investigation after it produced French-language posts echoing Holocaust denial about Auschwitz.

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Saturday morning quiz, name the song.

King: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the running man King: it's about a dystopian future where real people's pain is exploited for television ratings King: you might even call it King: reality TV

Also. github.com/Raphire/Win1...

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

Jeff Bezos paid $50 million for a wedding. He just got a $16 billion tax break. He just laid off 60,000 people. And you're furious about a kid getting a free school lunch?

They want to take away our BBC. They want to take away our NHS. They want to take away our human rights. They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living. All for their own greedy enrichment. The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.

Just throwing this out there, but Wes Streeting is not the answer you seek.

Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...

This is in such incredibly bad taste.

..The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Monday lurks

Reposted every year in response to all those who fetishize remembrance

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

Now in detailed Black and White: The #Trump administration is blackmailing other countries to actively destroy the environment at the behest of the US oil industry. There is no sugarcoating it. Evil seems a fitting adjective. #MännerDieDieWeltVerbrennen