Radio Rwanda didn't have a market cap in the trillions

Googled Medway and wtf?

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

gills beauty apples, painted by bertha heiges, 1899

Ben Goertzel, popularizer of the term AGI and creator of the Sophia robot, congratulating Jeffrey Epstein the day after Epstein was released from prison. Goertzel is mentioned in the files nearly 800 times, including well after the Miami Herald investigation in 2018.

First Gisele Pelicot, now Joanne Young. What is wrong with these men? Monstrous. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Area Dad Suffers Massive Nothing To Worry About https://theonion.com/area-dad-suffers-massive-nothing-to-worry-about-1819571358/

Time to retell my worst first date story: We're having drinks and a little while in she asks if I know who Andrew Wakefield is? I launch into a real rant: call him a liar, list off all the errors in his work, his patents and other conflicts of interest, anyway, long story short he's her godfather.

This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.

Tomlinson (who advocates banning Jews, blacks & Asians from parliament and the civil service) endorsed Goodwin on Feb 4th saying he trusted him to "improve" Reform, despite CT being a vocal critic of Farage for having too soft & civic a project, rejecting ethnic nationalism x.com/Con_Tomlinso...

extremely rude of my baby to roast me by pointing at this character in her book and loudly insist it’s “daddy”

If left unchecked, we are racing towards a world where searching for "struggling to breastfeed" makes baby formula more expensive for you in your local supermarket (that's one dystopian example anyway)

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".

The Bicycle. Gerard Sekoto,South African, 1913–1993.

James Watt is Scotland's most embarrassing export

All while Watt (and others) are off making headlines for being spectacularly shit bosses and STILL trying to make themselves cheeky-Scottish-chappy TV and internet stars. You're meant to be running a company in a constricting market, lads. You're not the product. The beer is. /5

Nothing sums that misjudgement up more than the CONSTANT efforts of Watt to turn himself into a reality TV star, particularly in America. Just an endless progression of trying to make 'Brewdog TV' a thing, first on cable then when it got dropped as an in-house production. /3

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Untitled https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31423

Lowe makes clear that "millions must go" is his central argument

BrewDog sale plan leaves some ‘equity punk’ investors steaming

I sometimes worry our advertising material isn’t as welcoming as it might be

This, basically:

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

"Scotts"

Musk is such a fucking idiot he probably does not understand that Scotts-Irish (sic) is a category of Presbyterian Scottish planters sent to Ireland to exclude the traditional Irish.

Orange over Violet https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4928

Manchester Mill find the small group of Reform activists includes several with v overt prejudices. They fairly note that Goodwin can't be expected to vet them all in advance. To date, the site report he is not willing to criticise ant of it once revealed either manchestermill.co.uk/goodwins-gan...

I think one of the real challenges in discussing anything to do with trans people is that the media simply cannot accept that the anti-position is entirely eliminationist. There is no way to "exist in public whilst trans" that they will accept, right down to celebrating a doctor quitting.

Bangkok's Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is an underrated gem

On the way back to Wales after 3 days in London. I still have my wallet, phone and watch. It’s a very cool city and I felt as safe as I do anywhere. Beware the snake oil sellers.

Kind of wish more folk would frame art and creativity as being a bit like running in their heads or something. Is everyone naturally brilliant at it? No. If you work at it will you improve? Yes you probably will! If you don’t get good is it still worthwhile? Yeah! Can an LLM do it for you? Nope.

The sass of the person writing the minute by minute on England v Scotland is to be admired

I was once locked out of my toothbrush

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

In nearly all countries, a single religious group makes up a majority of the population. In 122 places, one group makes up at least 80% of people. https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2026/02/12/religious-diversity-around-the-world/#in-almost-every-country-a-single-religious-group-forms-a-majority

I’m going to try to move through the rest of my life as if everyone I meet needs that kindness too. And I hope you might do so too. For maybe one in 500 people it will be really, really appreciated.

My mother died this week. I’m not posting this for sympathy, although thank you. But I realised I was so extremely grateful for people who showed small kindnesses this week. People who let me out while I was driving to her deathbed. People who smiled when I got stuck at the self service supermarket.

POV you’re riffing on bluesky

The wet weather produces some beautiful photos! Thank you to estherjohnsonphotography on Instagram for this wonderful shot of the Clarendon Building. 📸

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A few readers

Hello Friday. Portrait of a Woman Playing a Lute, Master of the 1540s.

...horrifying message without context, thank you

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Rothko Chapel https://botfrens.com/collections/25/contents/4920

Incredible sunset from my office @bodleian.ox.ac.uk