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

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Ah fuck man ra.co/news/83103

Disco Elysium is truly the most leftist game of all time, the studio immediately collapsing into bitter infighting demonstrates the depth of its authenticity

“I mean, your society’s broken, so who should we blame? Should we blame the rich, powerful people who caused it? No let’s blame the people with no power & no money & these immigrants who don’t even have the vote, yeah it must be their fucking fault.” —Iain Banks www.theguardian.com/books/2013/j...

Observation from driving the length of the UK this week. 1. Flags on bridges only start appearing ~Birmingham and stop again at Devon. This is very much a middle England thing 2. The flags are around 80% St George's Cross to 20% Union flag 3. Of the union flags, about half of them are upside down

Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor

Where's that goddamned Batman meme lol

Definite George Square Thatcher Death Party vibes on here this morning youtu.be/QdNxEczuQXg?...

let’s fucking gooooooo

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

omg omg omg it's happening right now:

This is one of the greatest cover versions of all time and I will not be taking questions music.youtube.com/watch?v=BibE...

Also, from the comments 😲

Day after day of opening the app and scrolling ever-bleaker dystopian news, it's actually disarming to just find nice people being nice occasionally

Who would win in a fight? One Geoffrey Hinton or a playgroup of 3 year old

Berger's three laws of chatbotics: 1) The bot should never express emotions. 2) The bot should never praise the user. 3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state. There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Go Team are my happy place music.youtube.com/watch?v=KcyP...

Getting your devil worship instructions from ChatGPT: - pathetic - wastes water - gives money to the worst people in the world Getting your devil worship instructions from a local witch: - cool - edgy - learn the names of all the local toads

Just verified my age on Bluesky by reciting the entire opening to Monkey, verbatim youtu.be/J-SUoHmpRdM?...

In "Shit rejected by Charlie Brooker for being too bleak, even for Black Mirror" news

It's almost like terminating all moderation and allowing people to post extremist views on twitter was a bad idea with negative repercussions

Sad news, obviously. Although I had sort-of assumed he had died decades back, since he already seemed ancient when I was watching Cavalcade 40-odd years ago

"You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you."

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

Big move here - AI firms are all facing down an existential content theft reckoning and still haven’t explained what applications will generate enough value to make it worth it www.theverge.com/news/695501/...

His parents are complete xunts

It's 13 years today since we stayed in a hotel in Crete with this incredible artwork on the wall. I still haven't worked out it's meaning

Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated

I was looking forward to the fleeting bubble-wrap-pop dopamine hit of blocking the prick, but he's already been nuked

When you wanted a big beautiful military parade to show the world how massive your peepee is, but all the headlines are about the anti-you protests www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/s...

Have you ever dated a narcissist? Someone with no morality but an interest in keeping you wherever you are? Someone who will apologize sincerely, tearfully, as they are emptying your bank account, stealing your work, breaking their vows? That’s chatGPT amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Won't someone please think of those poor student flat developers www.glasgowbell.co.uk/tinderbox-th...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

The (brilliant) new album sent me back to listen to the classics today music.youtube.com/watch?v=zsIB...