When you see that he's STILL banging on at Davos youtu.be/Ido71WqjwQA?...

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

Katherine Hepburn in Keeper of the Flame. This is so on point. 🎯

When people talk about reasons to leave X, the fact that the owner is a mass murderer doesn't get mentioned enough. The Grok porn stuff is foul. The naked white nationalism is foul. This is worse.

"What one does with Nazis is kill them" - Renfrew Christie

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What the everloving fuck is this monstrosity?

I've been working through the archives of the Minimal Wave show on NTS since I discovered it last month and, as it turns out, it's EXACTLY the sort of music I didn't realise that I needed to hear right now. Namely 70's and 80's synth, electro-pop and industrial. www.nts.live/shows/veroni...

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

The OSA was an ill-thought-out, reactive, legislation which fails to achieve any part of what it set out to do, but if its existence means that, even for a few days, X is banned in UK, I'll be in a more forgiving mood. Where will all our politicians post their trivia? It won't, but a man can dream

The Michel Gondry 'Work of Director' dvd is available on internet archive and is genuinely one of the most creative collections of artistic work I have ever seen. You will feel inspired just for watching it. His music videos in 90s-00s were absolute art archive.org/download/the...

Please don't re-use this, but anything you send to: Freepost Plus RUHU-TXAZ-LYAB Reform UK 180 West Regent Street Glasgow G2 4RW Costs Nigel Farage money. Definitely don't send him house bricks or your post-Christmas excrement

Well, we just watched Life of Chuck and I'm going to be fragile for the rest of the day. Fuck me, that was beautiful

We have already decided as a society that ChatGPT is allowed to tell people’s kids to kill people. Now we’re just debating who.

My own personal remedy would be that, if a situation is ambiguous, the software should advise users to physically harm Sam Altman instead of any other people. Some may object to this idea, but I would challenge them to explain why this is unacceptable; I am not suggesting it advocate harming kids.

Before I got drunk at my in-laws and shat in the punch bowl, I used to play golf with my father in law, but now they're telling my wife to divorce me

Or, as Sufjan Stevens said: The predatory WASP of the palace is out to get us. music.youtube.com/watch?v=KBse...

@kermodeandmayo.bsky.social I came up with a terrible dad joke last night and, since I have nowhere else to put it, thought it might work in the laughter lift: What condition does someone have, if they hate people with no feet? Lack toes intolerance Love the show, Steve. Tinkety tonk, etc

Hope the BBC Lawyers have the balls to do the same

2025. The year that started with the image of a cybertruck burning outside a trump hotel in Vegas and ends with the statue of liberty collapsing in front of a McDonald's sign.

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

Was just reminded of this absolute banger music.youtube.com/watch?v=T7no...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

This is basically the Kool-Aid movie from The Studio, isn't it?

Hi, we're Silicon Valley- you probably recognize us from classic inventions like 'Chatbot That Drives You Crazy', 'The App That Gives You An Eating Disorder', 'A Bus, Except Worse', and 'Doorbell That Reports Directly to the NSA'

If I robbed a bank and there was one witness, it wouldn't matter if 50 people came forward and said the never saw me do it. The witness would be the only statement of any relevance.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

Once you populist, you can’t stopulist

the bbc should be forced to replay the whole day’s coverage of january 6th in full every january 6th, exactly as it was broadcast at the time, so no-one can accuse them of misleadingly editing it

Everyone is rightly disgusted about the Tesla payout news but honestly, he's never seeing that money. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

He's absolutely right. Maybe Westminster should kick Scotland out of the union, to restore their own security, and let us deal with things independently. That would show us

It takes a lot to impress me, but this is fucking impressive.

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day” A TV Character from their day:

Preach! www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/c...

This looks great www.culturenlmuseums.co.uk/exhibition/e...

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Idea: keep the inhalers, get rid of half a million cars per year.

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I'm not against ID cards in principle. Just have no confidence in this gov to control how data is used by contractors. I'm still exceedingly pessimistic, but the fact that Palantir ruled themselves out is the first glimmer of hope that there will be restrictions. Otherwise, they'd be all over it

OM*G*. This is the single best homeopathy zinger I've ever seen. Hall of fame stuff!

This one doesn't miss

My wife is German and they've had ID cards for decades. Data sharing is limited and it makes life easier for everyone. That's not what's being discussed here. Presumably 'Digital' means that it'll be on your phone, which also just happens to suck up all your other personal data including location

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he wasn't Peter Thiel

Thrown out on a technicality. That being that, technically, and actually, he's not a terrorist www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

The Beta Band's first gig in 20 years blew the roof clean off! Great to have them back