There are now officially zero MTV channels in the UK that play actual music.

Some teatime festive viewing after today's sad news. youtu.be/7q_NLFxg9CE?...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

“The message from Caerphilly is very clear to me: One-third of the vote is not enough to get Reform elected, if the other two-thirds get their act together.”

A man called Jeff invented this, and he has a whole story behind the 'inspiration' for this notepad, sorry productivity system, which involves a fisherman and banker How do you not feel embarrassed that you've just reinvented a notepad?

All these tributes to the wonderful Patricia Routledge and not one mention of the wonderful Kitty, as seen on the wonderful Victoria Wood show. youtu.be/bSYZSFiLKJY?...

Dear @apnews.com The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once. Fix your headline.

Medieval London church is balanced 45 feet above ground in 'never before seen feat of engineering'... as skyscraper is built Glasgow: 'Hold my beer...'

I can’t remember who said it but “it’s bit like saying you don’t have to be a vegetarian to be in the Green Party and you don’t. But you do have to be comfortable hanging out with vegetarians.” Same here you may not be a racist but you sure are happy to hang out with them.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Charlie Kirk was, amongst other things, extremely homophobic, transphobic, antisemitic and Islamophobic. Assorted commentators "he had varied interests"

We should honour this guys wishes by talking more about Trump being on the Epstein list.

I remember being taught about good Germans and bad Germans, the brave few who resisted the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the masses who enabled it. Now I wonder if there weren’t a huge contingent desperate to stop it but without any sense of how to do that.

The BBC has always bent towards the status quo. But since Brexit it’s top journalists - who like Mason & Kuenssberg think they’re celebrities - have fawned over the protagonists of that ‘exciting story’: the rise of hard right populism. They’ve stopped being journalists & become celebrants.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Just to expand a little. Suddenly in the US there are a large number of people who find themselves with arbitrary power over many others but no experience or training in how to use that power. The results are cruelty, brutality and the demonisation of the vulnerable and marginalised.

Feeling seen by the Oxford Uni job portal

The absolute cream turnip of hypocrites.

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Shoutout to the individual I saw on the way to friends tonight who was driving an impeccable wine-red convertible with the top down and a goose in the passenger seat wearing a colour-coordinated bow tie. I hope you had a great night.

Many more insightful and thoughtful things have already been said about the Online Safety Act, but one thing that strikes me as particularly weird is the government, within a very short space of time, telling 16-17 year olds “You’re old enough to vote, but not old enough to look at boobs online.”

We are very far over the cliff here folks

He's not wrong, once ai and robotics has destroyed the environment and taken all the money, there won't be any people left to suffer from hunger, disease and poverty.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Hulk Hogan and Harry Potter have a lot in common * Very meaningful when you were a kid * Changed the landscape in many ways * Continued to be bankable way past their prime * Critical analysis of the work finds it surpassed by so much more in the same field * Legacy ruined by massive bigotry

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Oh, "bullocks."

Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.

People wonder why the BBC only showed Live Aid on BBC2, but what nobody remembers now is that there was an all-day concert on BBC1 raising money to make the famine much worse, for balance.

NO, YOU’RE NOT IN BENIDROM

We discovered AI can't tell the difference between "on the toilet" and "on the toilet" which made for some interesting pictures

Okay this made me laugh

Briefly thought that Scarlett Johansson was playing a banjo and was suddenly 100% more interested in the franchise.

Grok says yes, cuts have been made. And regardless of the role NWS cuts played in this particular tragedy, they pave the way for more tragedies like it in the future. And cuts to FEMA, Medicaid, USAID, SNAP etc. will make it harder to deal with the aftermath. Not pro-life.

happy birthday to bill watterson who gave me the gift of encapsulating my entire ethical approach in one comic panel.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

I received this email from the SSA as well. It is a complete lie. Social Security income is still taxed — the Big, Ugly Bill did NOTHING to change that. Welcome to 1984, folks.

My only ambition in life at the moment is to obtain a copy of this ring-bound masterpiece

Remembering the incredible Caroline Aherne, who sadly died 9 years ago today #thefastshow

"Send in the clowns"? The clowns are not sitting around at our beck and call. They have lives

“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

Can't believe no coked up tech bro hasn't tried launching the Glastonburai Festival yet, with all the acts just ai created versions of the most famous acts on the planet, playing ai videos of copyright abusing songs and no money going to Greenpeace. Set it in the UK, the government's fine with it.