nasa employee: oh hey u guys are back early astronaut: Office365 in spaceship nasa employee: what? astronaut: *loading a pistol and getting back on the rocket-ship* Office365 in spaceship

I'm sure the joke has already been made, but the FT is clearly up to some "mid credits stinger scene" stuff here with gathering food writers.

Correction, they didn't fully circularise low orbit, merely bring perigee (lowest point) up out of the atmosphere.

"...eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."

So they're just on a ballistic trajectory so far. Next step is to circularise low earth orbit. Then accelerate to raise orbit to high earth orbit, where no human has been in over 50 years. From there they can, at the right point in their orbit, set off towards the moon.

Now that's a view.

Fly, you beauty. Safe trip, you brave, brave lunatics.

Come on....

Counting down!!!!!

The problem isn't April fools, it's people treating humour as a purely selfish endeavour. If the only person you intend to benefit from a joke is oneself...

Definition of good coffee from a cafe is when you ask them where they got it from...

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I'm not cynical about this stuff, the term is "wise". Hopelessly misguided (arf) direction for future transportation. BBC News - Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If this was an episode in a military or political drama series it would be criticised for lack of realism.

Peak hipster is paying over the odds for b grade product because some marketing genius lied to you that it's "cutting waste".

He's so nakedly, aggressively corrupt. When he's gone, America is going to have a long, hard look at its institutions to work out how to protect them from someone else like this in the future, because they're clearly not robust enough.

It would be good if the chancellor didn't make April fools jokes in a professional capacity. (Seriously, linking it to household income. Is she just thick, or the kind of seagull manager who assumes someone else will figure the "how" out?)

I'm mostly staying out of the "Andy Weir says odd things in interviews" discourse, but several my colleagues would find this Amusing. I may, sometimes, venture and opinion on something. Maybe...

$4 a us gallon is about $1.06 a litre, or 80p a litre. Excuse me while I have literally negative sympathy. BBC News - US gas price tops $4 for first time since 2022 - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That, or I have an idea for Charlie's attire:

No. Charles shouldn't utterly debase himself by pandering to a deranged tyrant. BBC News - King Charles to meet President Trump on US state visit www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes it's fairly simple:

Maybe it's a baked in assumption of what a listed building "looks like", but the point seems *very* odd to list - the historical significance is lost behind it being kindof an eyesore? Plus the location is far too useful. Put a blue plaque on the new houses to record the history.

A lot of people are going to be shocked when they get their next phone and see what’s happened to flash storage prices in the last 2-3 months

🎶daisy, daisy...🎶

This is such a stock rhetorical trick now: AI... proponents... talk about the consequences of AI's *purported* abilities, acting as if those abilities can be taken as read... And people fall for it.

Based on the apple age verification disaster the other day, it's safe to say the government won't approach this with any respect for kids or understanding of the tech, and will therefore make an utter Horlicks of it with nasty unforeseen (but trivially foreseeable) consequences.

My colleagues are being talented again.

Excellent decision.

Once, just once, I would love it people who think about the "how" for five seconds before pitching their Big Idea. It's not "someone else's problem" to make it work, you need to sanity check it even can work.

Meanwhile kids will be driving a coach and horses through all the inevitable loopholes. Feels like a picture of the MV Cougar Ace is needed... (Knowing that reference proves your age)

Milliband may well have a reason for the delay, but the optics of can-kicking right now are awful - we're literally paying for decades of can kicking already.

Read the whole thread, but yeah: social media, and similar platforms have Serious Issues. Courts making arbitrary rulings about unhelpful terms like addiction don't help anyone, and will likely bolster misguided politicians to Just Ban Stuff.

On Tuesday, activists from ‘Raise the Colours’ erected flags along Abingdon Road in broad daylight. We ask who is behind it – and why the campaign is so controversial. oxfordclarion.uk/raise-the-co...

It seems that the government's action to close the crypto donations loophole might do absolutely nothing to affect the way Reform currently accepts crypto donations. 🤦‍♂️.

This is why you can't take AI coverage in the press seriously: you still get credulous coverage of this pointless garbage.

So much to 🙄 in this, from the catastrophically bad framing of it as "Doge of the left" to the blithe assumption that there's low-hanging waste and fraud waiting to be cut. Reform is imploding on contact with the reality that that is absolutely not the case at all.

RoS went badly wrong, but there is no way letting the book of Henry guy have a go was going to help. The only way to "fix" RoS was for them to have had a plan before last jedi went into production - ideally before force awakens.

Sorry to hear of so many job losses at Epic (and others) recently. I'd normally not say this as it can feel a bit vulturey but Rebellion has some vacancies in games dev and it always looking for great games devs to join our talented teams.

Well, that sucks.

So, governments Secret Plan for energy bills is apparently help where it's "needed". Nice headline, but the devil and the entire legions of hell will be in the details, as we seem to have two bugs of the current administration compounding here: being reactive and being stingy.

To drive home how significant this is, have a think how many squares on the policy area bingo card this ticks off...

The easy way to tell the difference: attitude to their leader. Asside from the starmtroupers, labour supports are frustrated with Starmer at best, and want him to do better. Whereas the greens picked fecking hypnotits as their leader and are all being question hound about it.

Now ask yourself, could you see either Zack Polanski accepting shared cabinet responsibility in government as Ministers? First thing that went wrong or that angered their base and they'd be screaming to the media about how it wasn't their doing and it was the other parties to blame.

Non-crank parties can show varying degrees of competence in and out of power. Crank parties are always incompetent, because competence is not sufficientt to advance a career in them.

This is really good and thoughtful from @stephenkb.bsky.social on how civic-minded and financially secure older people do a lot of below-the-radar work lots of charity/community orgs and institutions going, and the looming problem of less secure younger people who won't be able to pick that up

Seems clear Mcsweeney wasn't the sole problem with prioritisation in downing street.

I was asked to explain why Mid East conflict pushes up mortgage rates in language a five year old could understand. Not sure I can manage that, but here's as simple as I can make it...

"taste the effort" is a really stupid ad slogan for a product that is very much the production line inferior version, as the obvious retort is "very little, clearly" Their pasties aren't exactly *bad*, but compared to Proper Pasty, they're the supermarket instant coffee version.