Despite some stiff competition, I’d say Terrahawks had the best theme tune of any TV show of my childhood, and this chap’s piano rendition of it is really fab. youtu.be/GJXtHyF1JHM?...

I remember when the government suppressed that report on the impact of climate change a few months back. We still haven't seen it. We only saw the highlights and that was that it was essentially an existential crisis. It said it was the biggest threat we face. Fucking silence though.

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.

"My friend has Long Covid but I'm just too bone-idle to shower" is certainly a thing to say. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

There was a production issue impacting service for a customer, and support took an hour just to get engaged? That’s honestly terrible. If my team has a customer blocking issue, in less time we’d have not just support reps, but if necessary engineering logged in and fixing the issue 24/7/365.

for the vibecession people about to post a chart and say "actually, you have more money than ever!": here's a nice new working paper showing how the real-wages calculation is very bad at measuring purchasing power in periods of high inflation that you should read papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Leaked image of new Apple EV.

Superb work from Birdbox www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHR...

The problem isn't the repeated ditching of PMs, it's the repeated choosing of PMs who soon turn out to need ditching.

a) this is absolutely right, and b) this skeet literally uses AI's beloved 'it's not X, it's Y' construction BECAUSE THAT IS HOW PEOPLE USE LANGUAGE AND WE WERE HERE FIRST.

And this was with a turnout of nearly 60%. Even if disaffected Labour voters don’t switch votes to another candidate, but instead just don’t vote, a lower turnout could easily erase this majority. members.parliament.uk/member/4504/...

Every line of this poster is more baffling than the last, it stopped me dead in my tracks

Entitled rich people are always good for a laugh.

Slightly decrease a band: Frankie Goes to Atlanta

Slightly increase a band. Full Collins

I mean, to be fair, I’ve lost my keys a few times – but this seems very careless indeed on the part of Keir Starmer.

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

It would help if supposedly serious politicians didn’t keep telling low information morons that their confected grievances are worthy of consideration, frankly. Could we get back to stupid bigots being told that they’re just plain wrong?

#TodayIsNoSocksDaySo I’ll be making my TCP connections directly today.

Well, this is quite a depressing scene to wake up to.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

hell hell hell hell hell hell hell if you're a parent who declines shots for your kid I pray that fate is kinder to your child than you are; if you're someone responsible for no longer recommending the shot I hope you spend the rest of your life atoning for harm www.propublica.org/article/more...

Reform UK Candidate in Acting Like Despicable Scumbag Shocker!

The anguish of Jewish citizens ought to be motivation enough to call out antisemitism whenever it is heard. Too many have shamefully failed to do so

This is a brilliant thread. Anyone who’s ever found themselves defending or minimising any accusation of racism should definitely read this and think on’t.

I think about this comic all the time.

This is a hilarious thread – Tory MP defects to Reform, and then acts surprised and attempts to sue when he’s locked out of his Tory-supplied offices.

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

If you feel like you’re a better writer and student with a pen in your hand instead of a keyboard, you could be onto something. In 2024, a study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology recruited 36 students in their early 20s - true digital natives at home with modern devices... 1/

New handmade pocket sized notebook! Yours for only £30 (+£5 UK p&p). Extra heavy clothbound hard covers stitched into the open-spine binding. Morris-style endpapers. Nice paper. Bonus bookmark and blotting sheet. 160 pp. & approx 9 x 13 cm. Speak up if you want it!

The shortages of aviation fuel are going to have some very serious effects. One effect, albeit rather less serious, is to once again make me furious with how UK newspapers misuse the term “staycation”. apple.news/AzyEGMCVTQvi...

Absolutely appalling behaviour by UK police here – not just during the incident itself, but the clear and blatant attempts to cover it up afterwards and dodge any accountability. This poor woman deserves some major compensation, and some heads need to roll in the forces involved.

Yet another experiment proves it's too damn simple to poison large language models

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

The advert placement in this Guardian article is apropos.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Right, it's important to remember that this is unfortunately a fairly common experience for most presidents, but normally presidents don't spend all their time crying about it in public.

This is a bit of a niche post, but I’m sitting on a Great Northern service from London Kings Cross to King’s Lynn… Except it’s a Greater Anglia train from before they switched out all their rolling stock for new trains. Great Northern is operating Greater Anglia’s hand-me-downs!

This signage has become popular in the UK.

How come they keep spelling “open” wrong? Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth

This is the illustration I created during the class at Swatches Academy: “SHOW OF RESOLVE” which depicts a Kor mage. I absolutely loved the course, it was incredibly interesting and taught me so much. I’m very happy with the finished illustration! I hope you like it too!

THREAD. Today I'm giving away 3 signed hardbacks of my latest book, each with fab linoprint bookmarks, made by my mum Jo. Repost & reply to enter. You might like it if you like: Folkloric creatures Old records Intricate psychedelic stories The idea of circular time All shares much-appreciated.

“In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political, I must listen to the birds. And in order to hear the birds, the warplanes must be silent” - Marwan Makhoul

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

Post the best picture you have ever taken of your pet (if you like it):