Spent too much time watching a 2000s sports channel and now I’ve got Setantavirus

For anyone panicking over hantavirus, I highly recommend this thread from the only person on planet earth who could keep me sane during COVID with actual fact and science based communication.

Weird & non-celeb-vehicle sketch shows written by a writers room of professional comedy writers work! WHO KNEW!!! NOW LET'S HAVE EVEN MORE!

"A puzzle game where you play as Schrödinger's Cat" is something I didn't know I needed in my life this badly.

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

Our mini-honeymoon is in Santander for the solar eclipse in August and I will be exploiting this joke at every conceivable opportunity

Happy Bank Holiday to all the people with cats. Signed, Someone who was up at 4am, 5am and 6am.

Amazing. This is what sand looks like under a microscope.

Happy Star Wars Day. Here's your annual reminder that "May the Fourth be with you" was invented by the Tories to celebrate the election of Margaret Thatcher.

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

...I was literally just trying to work out if something was a quote, to be honest, but fucking hell google

Betteridge’s Law of Headlines is alive and well.

This is like when an aged celebrity dies and you realise that you didn't know they were still alive.

famously the only joke allowed on Wikipedia is, in their List of Whales, any entry that is missing a photo says [cetacean needed] apparently some unfunny losers have made it their job to find public domain images of whales to eradicate this joke only one instance of [cetacean needed] remains

Current minor peeve: when you’re navigating with Google Maps and it asks you “is roadworks still there?” like it’s George W Bush.

One of the many things that makes Ruth an excellent follow is the sheer commitment to the bit

Fantastic new piece of public guerrilla art from Banksy: clearly a politician about to fall from their plinth as they’re blinded by the flag they are waving And it’s been put up right in the part of London soaked in imperial imagery. Applause

Holy shit I’m getting married in three months

Speaking as an artist, I think that everyone should have a craft they excel in. It doesn’t matter what it is. But the profession I really feel for is the baking industry. At the end of the day, bakers who aren’t passionate about their trade only do what they do because they knead the dough. 🙃

Her name was Lola, she was a gamer With yellow fruit in her care And a dress cut down to there In a bare warehouse, stare at the camera And while she tried to sell a game Next to her floated the name Of the Hentai Hentai Banana The hottest game made in Japan-ah The Hentai Hentai Banaaaaana

I think Alanis Morissette wrote a song about your apartment once

turning my phone off do not disturb mode and into disturb mode

Shortly after this, Tom Cruise was spotted escaping on a motorcycle with Rebecca Ferguson in pursuit.

The Wachowskis built 1.5 miles of highway for their Reloaded set piece, got 300 some cars from GM that were not deemed to be road safe for consumers, and after filming one of the five best car chases in cinematic history, recycled all that material into affordable housing in Mexico

Me (being caught in bed with an optical illusion): it’s not what it looks like.

VIP tickets for the Crush 40 Farewell Tour secured. Wouldn't miss it for the world. 🥳 Wish I could have afforded the meet-and-greet, but £450 is an eye-watering sum of money, lads. (We've come a long way from free entry to Summer of Sonic 2010 though!)

We could potentially end up with the most ludicrously long game title yet: “Dragon Quest XI S: Echoes of an Elusive Age: Definitive Edition – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition”.

I have zero evidence to support this, but I swear staplers have got so much worse since I was a kid. Try to do 15 sheets, and the staple just buckles like Frodo when Sauron’s eye sees him.

Two of the social media apps I doomscroll on are called Dystopia and Threads and that feels incredibly fitting for the current landscape

We really need laws passed to stop companies pulling this shit. Spend £600+ on a games machine that then becomes a brick if you don't connect it to the internet every 30 days.

The fact that they deliberately put "physical" before "code-in-a-box" says 2 things: 1) They think you are extremely stupid. 2) They actively undermine the meaning of "physical" to sneak in an inferior product as the new status quo. Don't give in!

It was going to be but Paul McCartney threatened to eradicate humanity if they put Ringo's name first

I’m surprised the Beatles videogame was a music game and not a JRPG – what with it being their initials and all.

Damn, I forgot about it and left the Colin Catterpilar cake in the cupboard for weeks.

I realise there are bigger problems with the forthcoming World Cup, but with its expansion to 48 teams, spare a thought for those of us who love a wallchart. I might have to get an A1 canvas.

Dental memes

✨ANNOUNCEMENT✨ My solo show, "Innards", will be coming to the Edinburgh Fringe! 20th-30th August, 11:15, at Whistlebinkies. Come and see it, if you're around!

IDEA: Heist where a young Trans man, a bisexual and a long-time-masking autistic person go around robbing the offices of the British national press & getting away with it because their heist targets refuse to believe they exist and therefore can't see them cartwheeling out with arms of cash

If you squint real hard you can see the exact moment when our cat jumped on the bed and meowed directly into my ear last night

A rare 2026 visit to London to see Craig Ferguson live for the first time. 🥳 Well, second, if you count the time we saw a recording of The Late Late Show in LA, where he spoke to us in a break, found out we were Scottish and arranged a free dinner for us at a fancy Beverly Hills restaurant. Yep.

it blew my mind when i learned (from @ucsdave.bsky.social ) how much oil "driving oil around in trucks" uses up

What’s wilder is that Sum 41 have now retired, and Maiden and Priest (“the gods that we praised”) are somehow still going.

UPDATE

NEWS! Nervous film critics unsure if it’s okay to call Michael Jackson biopic ‘whitewashing’ newsthump.com/2026/04/24/n...

New favourite account. I love how you can see the red line of the sunset along the western edge.

80s video game: here is a fantasy that you are an astronaut blasting asteroids 90s: no you’re a badass marine blasting demons 2000s: time to blast some aliens 2010s: chop up these zombies 2020s: here is a fantasy that you have a house, friends, relationships and food

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