The most cursed clock. It is utterly mad. (via @cstross.bsky.social) boat.horse/clock/index....

SNP: "Well, minimum pricing didn't work as we sort of intended, but maybe maximum pricing will, and at least we'll get to go to court again to talk sovereignty." academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

The huge used car supermarket Cargiant is closing. I look forward to plans being put forward for 4,000 homes next to the future HS2 station at Old Oak Common - and NIMBY protests to protect the natural environment of a used car sales warehouse.

I hope all these important people are glad they spent the last two and a half years, and indeed several decades, helping to smooth over America’s horrifying imperial rule over the Middle East. And some shit-hot excuses, because every current government is going to get voted out pronto for this.

When I suggested to someone in early 2016 that the hardest Brexit could include withdrawing from Erasmus they told me I was mad...

Whereas we seem to have managed the crumbling without the global platform

I think I’ll survive being forced to go vegetarian by the American government’s malicious, vainglorious idiocy but I advise anyone in politics to start wargaming their responses to this one now, because the public are going to go apeshit.

me: i wonder what we’d be capable of without all these high tech distractions some guy in like 1066: try and knock me off a horse with this here pole

Ask not for whom the code vibes

Interesting snippet in the latest Londoncentric

While topic is legiti, this midmarket tabloid tone has a v significant editorialiising skew that is more Expressi than BBC in validate & amplify perspectives on politically contested issue in election period. Esp as it reinforces such big misperceptions on scale, direction of change on immigration

I really think part of the BBC's metrics should be a university picks some key facts about the country and the world, and measure how well the public knows these. The BBC is here to educate, and we should check how well it's doing

Academia: same as it ever was

Universal healthcare: good. NHS: a bit shite on the whole, not helped by the massive "be kind to the uwu smol beans (only £200 billion per year)" contingent State funded broadcasting: good BBC: vaporise the fuckers Thank you for coming to my TED talk (Obviously I am aware of the path dependency)

I know that previous BBC investigations have been initially pitched as a way to illustrate the scale of the difficulties in the asylum system before the higher ups have seized on the small aspect that allows them to demonise and fearmonger. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was another such case.

my work had been pushing Copilot and I noticed the day the revision to the TOS that said "hey yeah this is just for entertainment purposes lol" came out, suddenly all the HEY GUYS USE COPILOT banners on the intranet vanished lmao

So it begins. We won't have to wait long until executives come knocking on the doors of engineers asking "so... that Claude Code licence we gave you and forced you to use, going so far as to track your token use... how valuable is it REALLY?" gizmodo.com/anthropic-is...

Don't know if it works the other way, but about ten years back I noticed an uptick in the social/economic situations of protagonists in mediocre harem/fanservice manga, matching improvements in the japanese economy around then.

Many people are saying that JD is quite ignorant about the history of religion in Europe and the Middle East but that overlooks his expertise on the ottomans.

I was at the cinema and I wanted an ice cream and for a brief moment I mistook the sex toy vending machine for an ice cream machine, and on looking closer I thought "I don't recognise any of these weird-ass ice creams...oh wait."

The headline is bad but the real horror awaits in the standfirst

Would love to see one of those classic daytime TV talk show set ups but it's an episode about parents concerned with their kids NOT having premarital sex.

Here the context is incremental damage happening with every day we don’t get full reopening though and the market is still yolo-ing “he might TACO!”

The correct way to choose the Town of Culture is of course by bringing back It's A Knockout with a light veneer of culture - bit of am dram whilst suspended over a pool of custard, that sort of thing

It seems that almost every settlement in Lincolnshire is bidding for Town of Culture status If this plays out across the country then Phil has his work cut out.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Here is an easy solution: Food stains are humiliating, as they suggest you're a little baby who can't feed themselves. Oil stains, such as those you'd get from working on your car, suggest you're tough, independent, and skilled. Thus, simply cover your food stains with used motor oil.

🎶Feral hogs doo doo doo doo doo Feral hogs doo doo doo doo doo Feral hogs doo doo doo doo doo Feral hogs

Phil Redmond?!

Lisa Nandy finds a link between the job she has been parked in to sulk and do nothing (Culture, Media and Sport) and her only true love (TOWNS!!!). To be fair, Banbury scores very highly on the WTI (Weasel Towns Index), probably about 8/10. The towniest of towns is of course Mansfield - 10/10

Activate The Nandy. Towns have been mentioned.

Another day with the strait closed. Another day closer to the largest economic shock of our lifetimes. Another day in which US stock markets set a new high.

I wonder, I can see that.

Called The Language Lab in my school. It was a bit shit.

Two parts The Gender to three parts "never really come to terms with the fact that you didn't keep up with your old school friends when you went to Oxford like you thought you would"

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

unmute, this is 100% right

#OnThisDay 1992 : The first episode of Sean's Show was broadcast on Channel 4. It ran for 2 series featuring Sean Hughes who starred as a fictionalised version of himself, aware that he was living in a sitcom. Sean passed away in 2017. #90s

Newcastle coming out as pro-growth (pasties division) yet again.

useful reminder from Private Eye

Starmerism is Cheems plus lack of electrification of the whole country

This is why people feel worse off. The BBC is the national broadcaster. It covers those events which bind the nation. Now it's dying. Killed finally by a Labour government who hates them. Sure, the Tories did their best to destroy it but Labour have done nothing to save it.

The kids these days will hardly believe it, but a mere two years ago, the mental & physical (lack of) acuity of Elderly Presidents was the Great Issue of Our Time. Someone should tell Jake Tapper & Alex Thompson, so they can write a book on it.

I know it's fashionable to go "lol cringe libs" about the 2017-2019 anti-Brexit crowd, but I do think it's a mistake to insist that a pro-EU case cannot be made until it's been fully focus-grouped and that anyone making it has to talk like a Downing Street press spokesperson

He's the opposite of 'It's not you, it's me'. I still live in hope that one day soon someone will tell him that he IS the actual PM, not a deputy head teacher running the mic at the school fête.

Should it really be that surprising that an elected politician with a democratic mandate to build a tram is pushing for a tram to be built? Only if you view elected mayors and strategic authorities not as sub-national governments but as delivery vehicles for Westminster-designed policies.

Literally not a Republican alive who can answer "Who was President in 2020?"