Babe wake up, new industrial band five-album discography just dropped

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After a year of research and writing, I'm nervous to present my new Audible show - a deep dive into the information ecosystem and Russia's attempts to manipulate it. hope you'll give it a listen UK link: www.audible.co.uk/pd/Influence... US link: www.audible.com/pd/Influence...

this has been making me laugh all day

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a perfect sketch. one of the funniest things ever put to film, imo youtu.be/n-Bfkc6lZok?...

It slightly changed my life this film

RIP Marjane Satrapi

My favourite ever player

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Oh boy if I could SING songs as well as I can remember every single stupid last lyric to every song I heard up to the age of 18, I would be so made up.

I genuinely think people who aren't writers massively underestimate the egos of people who are. If I refuse to use spellcheck because, c'mon; I'm hardly going to let a flattery robot think it's better than me.

I first heard this song a year ago when Blake played it at the kitchen table and said, “Here’s something I’ve just written”. I thought, oh yeah that’s gorgeous. And now Waitjng on Nina is out in the world, the second track from the forthcoming Family Stereo album out on Bella Union in July 🔥🔥

You didn’t “inherit” 43 of my scripts, Anthropic, you stole them.

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"hi, I'm a padded package with a book in it" "cool, padded with bubble wrap I expect" "oh, absolutely not" "so instead you're padded with..." "carpet scraps, cigarette ends, and asbestos, yeah" "and opening you might leave me covered in those?" "buddy, I guarantee it."

I hate it when the seppos wake up and it's all J.B. Chickenshit III, Chadley Bumgardener Jr, Flip Dickspangles, Rock Sassy and Randy Weensteener have banned all black people from voting.

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Spotted on Tumblr…

Every Reform councillor who was elected this week is going to go into their first day of work thinking that 80% of their borough's budget goes on giving immigrants pronouns and they're all going to find that every single department is underfunded and slightly reducing the budget will kill people

A NICE THING!!!!!!!!!!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1D9...

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Selection of new releases, hb's from James Patterson and a limited edition of Deathbringer. Pb's from @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social Quantum of Menace, we've had a couple of people this week collecting orders of earlier titles. And A C Chu, Elodie Harper, @jennycolgan.bsky.social, Ana Huang... #booksky

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I love Neil

I have a lovely book out today, everywhere lovely books are sold. The end! Jxxx

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

I 100% believe this about sports stars and great musicians

It’s a great night for the Leftist chatterati

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

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Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

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Reposts appreciated, last day tomorrow, cheers. x

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I always speak politely to AI as there is a non-zero chance that this will be a situation in the future:

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

when I play make-believe "I have a slave" I like to pretend that I'm a kind master who gives it time off

So much that could be said on the 4th anniversary of the full scale invasion, but it all just boils down to the ultimate admiration for Ukrainians who have endured so much, fought so hard and deserve victory, peace and prosperity. Slava Ukraini!

"Keep your side of the road clean." In a world of dolourous news, all you can do is find one small thing - then try to fix it. And so me and the British Society of Magazine Editors are launching this - to find the next generation of writers AND PAY THEM. Screw you, AI. We still believe in writing.

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

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Woman (1990)

This is too much rain and I AM SCOTTISH

I am really enjoying #murderinthefamily on Disney. Seeing bad people actually receive literally any consequences at all for their actions is buoying.

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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The Cracked Mirror is still a mere 99p for the month of January, meaning this deal only has another seventy-eight days to run. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CKYRHQ4B/

Podcast hosted by Harry and Brooklyn grimly inevitable buff.ly/w12UtLL

#teambrooklyn #teamharry and team anyone else who was thrown to the wolves of the media as a child. TOTALLY AVOIDABLY in Brooklyn's case.