Well, that took less than 24 hours, lads. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

The last time I was turned down for Arts Council funding, they sent me a model application for a project to demonstrate what they were ideally looking for. The model application was by me a year earlier. And was also turned down.

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Replacing Starmer with Wes Streeting is like taking The Two Ronnies off and putting Hale and Pace on instead, when what people actually want is Morecambe and Wise back

Stop! It is necessary for you to see graphic designer extraordinaire Margaret Calvert’s 90th birthday cake. Perfection.

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

Anybody else notice the guys who say it's "inevitable" Goodwife Putnam hang as a witch "so get used to it" are the same bros who only a few months ago were saying Sarah Browne the scullery maid hath spake bedeviling words in a tomcat's ear to make him walk on two legs in mockery of Christian man?

Her work must have the broadest reach of any British visual designer of the last 100 years or more! You might not know her name, but you’ve seen her designs many thousands of times if you're UK resident and venture outside from time to time.

We use a wizard for this. We have put together some slides. We have a skeleton for the document. My heart fukken *breaks*

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

Gas Station Price Sign Using Scientific Notation

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

so many people out there making fun of Blue Labour and the people obsessed with the Legitimate Concerns of the Red Wall yet still they think the white northern mayor should be their saviour and they have not once considered that the Muslim London one could also be considered a viable candidate

I *really* wish they'd release this on DVD. It's got a terrible reputation but I watched it about fifteen years ago and honestly, it's like having an extra series of Python but where you don't have all the sketches pre-memorised.

The stuff I write about is so nuts that I find myself quadruple-checking the facts with pen and paper. For example, in 2020 Andreessen Horowitz led a $12 million investment round in the Clubhouse app (at a $100M valuation). It had 1500 users. It reached $4 billion valuation in 2021, then...poof.

Am I wrong or is this peak comedy

It’s interesting seeing the first wave of companies who thought they could replace designers with AI, suddenly realize design was never about the pixels.

i will simply incant "do NOT corrupt me. make NO mistakes" before wielding the One Ring

i'm almost disappointed his address is in the paperwork. i found him the old fashioned way months ago (looking up new corp filings under his mother's new married name, finding an LLC in new mexico, then searching property records in every county in 3 states until i found a transaction for that LLC)

Do politicians still ask their advisers to “take soundings” to “ascertain the mood of the parliamentary party” or has that noble tradition been wholly supplanted by “checking Facebook to see which gobshite has been slagging them off this time”?

I have massive amounts of respect for people who were trying to play sexy games with naked girls on a screen that could only display four colors, and you didn't even get to pick what four colors they were. Truly, Black/White/Magenta/Cyan is the sexiest palette

Look at some of those Crossrail flows. anita.garden/londonriders/

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Fun fact: In WW2 the Royal Navy desperately needed a a way to listen to U-Boat radio traffic in the South Atlantic. So their creative solution was to commission the entire island of Tristan da Cunha into the Royal Navy as "HMS Atlantic Isle" and whack a SigInt station on it.

Doesn’t he realise that people liked Dumbo? Walt Disney made a film about him! 🐘

Truth:

This was at my nephew’s graduation ceremony from the college of arts and humanities at @ucf.bsky.social Her entire speech was tone deaf, and rightfully booed by the graduates It even sparked an entire subreddit DURING the speech. (1/2)

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

I’m a tail-end boomer. In the UK, an early boomer came of age in the 1960s amidst prosperity and the rise of the counterculture, while under Thatcher I got mass unemployment, social strife, and Yuppies. Then again, I was able to get paid for writing computer games, which wasn’t an option for them 👾

Satya will be fine here. Anyone who has ever heard this man talk knows that he sounds like an MBA course taught by a man with a concussion. It will be totally impossible follow what he’s saying. A master of the art

Once at university I was in the Student Union bar and got chatting to a chap I knew slightly. Gradually more people he knew started filling up the table, and I happily chatted away with them too. It was nearly closing time before I discovered that it was a meeting of the Anarchy Society.

I hate this confusing nether-time between New Year and Christmas.

Monday morning. Why do they keep doing this? Nobody likes it.

Fancy a nice cup of tea? But what have we forgotten…

Dipshits like this are so dangerous. Glad the students responded to bullshit as bullshit.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Listening to infosec people freak out over Mythos is so tiring. Like, bro, your local water treatment plant runs Windows XP, your mobile provider's hardware is older than you are, and the protocol that routes internet traffic is secured by everyone just agreeing that hijacking it would be uncool.

Extremely funny that this, from 1627, is indistinguishable in message from modern RETVRN / masculinity podcasters.

Inside your brain is a PINECONE, rapidly filling with BRAIN SAND, and it's evolutionary evidence of your FOUR-EYED FREAK ancestors. Let's talk about the tiny eye inside your brain, the pineal gland. We start with Galen, 2nd century AD, who called it, in Greek 'konario' (κωνάριο), "pine cone".

Sad to report that this garage doesn’t have another sign on the way out that says “to see you nice”.

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

Also this is still peak life goals, I mean if this ain't on your vision board, what are ya playing at?

... which reminds me of this story that Barry Cryer told about Willie Rushton:

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures ‘“Did I hear things, or can that little dog speak?” said Dibbler. “He says he can’t,” said Victor. Dibbler hesitated. The excitement was unhinging him a little. “Well,” he said, “I suppose he should know.”’

Someone at my friend's polling station accidentally posted their driving license into the ballot box. So, there's some good news for you.

I feel a lot of David Attenborough's hard work with nature preservation is to cover for how much of a mess his brother made of that dinosaur theme park.

Catherine West says she is a lone wolf AND a stalking horse, I am excited for Britain's first werewolf centaur Prime Minister