Unfortunate that there is no alternative, as there are few tasks as onerous and unlikely to draw volunteership than taking photos of animals

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It says something about human nature that when there was talk of levelling this a few decades back, a fair number of the locals were up in arms. “Save Old Smokie” etc

In frankly horrific news today, at 12.50pm, Pacific Standard Time, it will be the 20th anniversary exactly of the first ever tweet. Yup. Twenty fucking years. Still, it did later give us one of the world’s great headlines...

Morning

Someday...

This is literally just Iran all the time

The interesting thing about the long-forgotten Mile Cross tribe of ancient Norwich is that residents have five fingers on each hand instead of the usual six.

RDG casually dropping the greatest description of Boney M I have ever read

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

I will close this thread with an anecdote. Once when I was working as a background actor I listened to a young woman monologue about herself for hours, barely acknowledging my responses. At one point she said, "My mom was a narcissist and she raised two narcissists... my brother and my sister."

you are a mark and a coward and a soft baby because you can’t live without number go up. i took an actual major hit to my income when i left. YOU are an over-employed child with the spine of a banana slug who got used to scanning trending topics so you didn’t have to do any actual reporting

Actually,

Am i meant to be working from home to save the economy, or returning to the office to save the economy? Getting a lot of mixed messages these days.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism

found 'em! posters my dad brought back from san francisco in summer 1966 (&, as an art student, thought to keep them flat), part 1. some BGP classics.

I remember reading a review of Elite in a retro gaming magazine and the author pointed out the text file he submitted was bigger than the original game which has an entire universe in. I miss people caring about file sizes.

I would be fine with just being told the date this isn't a fucking wedding invitation and I am 46 years old, I don't need some fairytale lies about how my glasses are made.

The world is, apparently, far more full of people who find thinking actively unpleasant and a thing to be avoided at all costs than any of us suspected just five years ago.

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

Happy Vernal Equinox everybody! It’s at 14:46UTC, to be precise 🌞🌐

The next phase of his dementia will be progression from no longer being able to inhibit his speech, to no longer being able to inhibit his actions. Only a matter of time til he sexually assaults someone live on camera in the middle of something Media will be like "an unusually handsy display"

The NYT front page is 49 megabytes, larger than the original install disk size for Windows 95 thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft

First sand martins of the year, darting around above suburban South London, like flying back to exactly the same place in England from West Africa when you’re five inches long is no big deal.

ppl's brains after chatgpt (the time machine, hg wells)

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Laughter tracks in comedy shows are well established but we need thrillers with tracks of people going oooh over the top of them at the excitement moments and plot twists

Morning

see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared

This whole notion that humanoid robots are going to replace everyone is going to blow up when they put one of these things in a nursing home and it folds someone's grandma in half

This piece should surely have a disclaimer that its author and interview subjects risk jail time if they write or say that things are bad www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The minute the sea spray hits your face, so too does a hankering for something battered.” I go on a silly little trip to Deal: open.substack.com/pub/sillylit...

Has anybody ever said this? I thought it was generally used as proof that all three were great songwriters, but L&M had been unwilling to include many good songs by George on the Beatles' albums.

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

1/ Here's how it works (for others, Oz knows). A story breaks and every news show needs guests to talk about it. A desperately overworked producer frantically searches Twitter/BlueSky and starts DMing people who seem like they have credentials. The producer likely knows nothing about the topic.

DRAGON: popping out for free cow, darling! CAT: Wait what? DRAGON: Free cow CAT: That's not a thing DRAGON: Why does that chap leave them in his field then? CAT: DRAGON: Like how he puts out a bowl of free chicken for you CAT: That's different DRAGON: Explain how CAT: DRAGON: CAT: *sigh* i love you

Complaining about "nobody wants to read" while someone is playing a video game is like saying "nobody wants to read a book while driving a race car" or "nobody wants to read while on a roller coaster" or "nobody wants to read while skydiving" No shit! They're kinda busy! 🤣

Supply them to your likely opponent?

Buying an LP in a chazza shop this week, the young assistant asked, "Do you have a machine that plays these things?" "A turntable. Come on, you must remember listening to music before streaming!" "Erm, Dad had an iPod (?) when I was little." I turn 60 tomorrow. 😶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0zs...

In 1988, two men sit in a room. One of them is cryptographer Bob Morris, the father of Robert Morris, who had just released the first Internet worm. "We were both aware a line had been crossed and the world we inhabited had changed." (John Mccumber, Assessing&Managing Security Risk in IT Systems)

Whenever I've posted about this fact online people try to catch me out as a liar in the dumbest possible way. They go "erm I THINK that cat would be dead by now..." YEAH M8 THE FILM IS 40 YEARS OLD OF COURSE HE'S FUCKING DEAD. But, and this will shock you, at one point in the past: he was alive.

TIL there’s such a thing as the Association of UK Course Measurers.

Your mobile phone exists because of software I wrote in the 90s (seriously). That hardware exists because of another trans woman. The book on how to do microelectronics was written by a trans woman. Loads of the internet is kept running by trans women. Rachel, THINK FOR ONE SECOND

Graduating high school before ChatGPT is like having a brain made of recovered steel from warships old enough to not have been weakened by atomic bomb isotopes.