Agreed: men should have more sleepovers with their friends and watch Roger Moore duel Christopher Lee.

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Momentary excitement before remembering just how cloudy it is out there.

I really wish London media could appreciate that majorities are very unlikely in Scottish Parliament elections, and stop framing a failure to get one as some sort of big problem.

Hi pals my 2026 calendar is now up my shop! I worked really hard on this one and I’m really happy with it🐢 ✨

Martin Scorsese and his daughter Francesca read Letterboxd reviews and guessed which Scorsese movie they were about.

The Reform vote is just all the former Tories, a chunk of right-wing Labour who have stopped pretending and all the newly energised nihilist channer fash, innit? And the half-arsed SNP can still beat them all, and Labour, combined? That'll do, Fife, that'll do.

AI calipers! Get youuuuuuur AI calipers right here! Fine tuned on the most exquisite racism! You over there, fine gentleman, won't your good lady wife appreciate some new AI calipers?! Tell your high brow from your low brow! Nothing but the best phrenology can supply! AI calipers!

Subway has got to rename this sandwich something like “The Widowmaker.”

meanwhile RFK Jr fled like the guy was a life-sized vaccine

Watched a fairly interesting (but far too long) doc about the Sinclair Spectrum and I never knew that what one of the things that sunk the company was that Clive took all the resources away from a hugely successful and popular product and used it to set up a hugely expensive AI research group.

385) Oldcountrybot. When you're doing some history research or a slightly racist older relative is visiting, and an archaic name for a country comes up, indicates its modern equivalent on its illustrated surface. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Just ran some errands on a high street near me and noticed three not connected but definitely related things 1) this street used to have 6 banks, now it has 1. This means it used to have easily a dozen cashpoints, now it has two. Today neither cashpoint had cash though and a lot of people were

The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.

It's genuinely worth a quick check of the advanced moderation settings as there's plenty I'm sure people would like to tweak but aren't aware that they can.

What it needs to be is a baffling noir story that even the writer doesn't understand: The Pig Sleep.

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This absolutely comes from the legal fights of transphobes to “protect their beliefs”. Congratulations, JK Rowling, Maya Forstater, Julie Bindel, Alison Bailey, et al. One more time: transphobia harms everyone. Everyone.

This is horrendous and the Scottish and Westminster Governments should take it as further evidence of why they should leave 𝕏 but minor correction: these "AI" tools are supposed to be software products that make money for private companies. That is what they are designed to do, nothing more.

I'm still catching up, so not got to this one yet, but the rigour with which the opening episode demolished the platitudes about violence having no part in society, when it is in fact founded upon violence, is worth it alone. Proper philosophy, like.

“Would you like to see my TikTok?”

As an election nerd, I would like to congratulate the people of New York City for boiling the piss of the all the worst people in their country.

One benefit of redundancy is finally being able to stick your real name on crowdfunders that you know the company who binned you would hate and want to crush.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

Cheney's legacy is not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but all the dominoes it set off: Syria, Isis, the backlash to the Arab Spring across north Africa and beyond, Yemen, giving Putin credibility, and all sorts of smaller ripples building to tidal waves smacking the rest of the world. For cheaper oil.

Earlier this year, I met a Croatian journalist who was in the US doing a piece on America’s politics and I asked her what surprised her. And she said, “What you all call the far left is just being normal.”

rip 😔

Oh wow did you hear about the mysterious fire next week

What a large proportion of Scots will think of when they see the John Lewis ad. www.tiktok.com/@limmytwitch...

One of those days where I feel like I've accomplished nothing. But being a small ape able to get another to drill a hole and fix the things I need to eat with, almost painlessly, and then recover from it is pretty outstanding as animal accomplishments go. Nap time, I think. Then some pant-hoots.

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

I think the big problem with the "listen to other viewpoints" debate-culture demand is that the "we've DONE this and you lost" reply is never good enough or accepted. Even when it was a fucking world war they lost.

Obviously someone noticed Teen Vogue was printing way too much truth

I love that this is a government who's proposing mandatory digital ID and is having to assure us that this is going to be secure while they're sending emails to the wrong people.

What a strange flag choice, one that hasn't been current for well over two centuries.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Chocolate teapot in charge of media standards Glastonbury edition. www.ipso.co.uk/rulings/0291...

It’s not that they don’t understand they need to appeal to millions of left-libs. It’s that they like and want big bungs, migrant terror, nasty crackdowns, means testing and belligerent war speeches, and they would always pick Prime Minister Farage while doing that, than admit they’ve fucked it.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. The first three words of "look at this asshole" is "look at this".

The "This is Your Brain on Drugs" video, but specifically reworked for tech billionaires only.

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

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I can’t think of a better analogy for AI than the HHGTTG description of the Nutri-Matic machine.

we saw a car going through Craigmillar with a bumper sticker that read "Honk if Thatcher's Deid". We hooted, hollered and clapped like seals as we are simple folk

A movie you've seen more than seven times, with a GIF.

"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary." manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

Wtf is that?

I heard there was a handy clasp That helps rock climbers with their grasp Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener It saves on space, it opens in, And closes with a subtle spring, The humble and the trusty Carabiner