"Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”

Few things buttress my faith in humanity like this loathing. The fact that the AI overlords have so miscalculated what we would think and whether it would matter is fun too. A bit like the Trump Administration's miscalculation of how Minneapolis would respond to invasion by a thug army.

Can't bear that there isn't more pushback against Eurovision - so few nations have boycotted, Graham Norton hasn't withdrawn, people are updating as it is a harmlessly camp spectacle rather than a vehicle for Israel to triumphantly display their flag as they carry out murder in Gaza, the West Bank.

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

It'd be Eric Morecambe's 100th birthday today

An extraordinary essay linking opportunity, UBI, Einstein and microtonal rock, by @scottsantens.com. Featuring @anginedepoitrine.bsky.social, who have criminally few followers on Bsky.

feel the urge to send this to everyone that ever told me "yeah UBI sounds nice but if we did that everyone would just be lazy and noone would do anything"

But Keir Starmer got a pair of glasses/a suit/ football tickets….all declared

...and every shot a grasscutter. Of course, these were the times before Premier League gravity was implemented. #totp

Yes! It's an episode that's been covered mercilessly by @chartmusictotp.bsky.social . It's Keggy Keegle, and well... the back's well... #totp

You're going to need a LOT more diamante than that, Mr Live Report. #totp

If you're a Friday night BBC Four #totp person, and you haven't yet experienced the utter majesty that is the Chart Music podcast, you're really missing out.

Pop-Crazed Youngsters! Part 4 of CHART MUSIC podcast Ep.78, Paint Along With Nancy Spungen, out now! We round off a classic 1978 Top Of The Pops pondering "the New York Times' effect on man" and talk Bee Gees, Magazine, ABBA, Rod Stewart. shows.acast.com/chartmusic or wherever you get your podcasts.

A really well-written piece about UBI. It's not a cost analysis. It's a humanity analysis.

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

CHART MUSIC #78 PART THREE: Darts! Legs & Co on ramps! Sweaty Billy Joel! The Sweet! Elkie Brooks and ALL HER LOOKS!

The "out of the way swine" comic is great but this is the best comic strip of all time

The largest AI music company now owns to your Songkick data, which includes your Spotify data. Including, but not limited to: • Contact info • Historical location data • Artists/songs you've listened to • Shows you've attended • App usage • Ads you've interacted with • Acquired third-party data

Gently annoying broody hens is a good way to get them to leave the next and get their hormones back to normal levels. It's also a good instrument.

“Dick Institute: not too busy” has finally beaten “for sale: baby shoes, never worn”

We must spend $10 trillion dollars constructing an orbital “space chandelier” visible from every corner of Earth. The mile-long swarovski crystals will turn the entire planet into a ballroom

I read a guy saying all cognitive tasks will be automated, so it's important to stay flexible, and all I can figure is he was imagining humans would make a good building material. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nigh-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

I think every film should end with the main character(s) saying the name of the film in the last line like; "I guess at the end of it all, we really were Nuns on the Run" or "I've genuinely done a proper Oppenheimer here" just to tie it up nicely x

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

A VCR never sold my private info to a nazi

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir. The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm So we’re taking legal action. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed. But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

If you're a UK gamer who uses Steam - and that's nearly all gamers, surely? - then you need to watch/repost this. You may be in a class action lawsuit that you were unaware of; one that you also may not agree with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSp...

The *checks notes* President of Iran is now *checks notes* defending the Pope

Not a conspiracy theorist, I promise, but have you noticed Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis all look like Muppets? Like it's just take a furry nose and bam.

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

🎻 [tiny fleetingly-scented low-sillage violin] Seems to me like someone wants to have their overpriced underpowered cake and eat it. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

Chazza shop badge find of the week. I'd like to think I would've at least got silver at the Munch Olympics.

God, these lovely, peaceful morning hours in Europe before that stupid cunt wakes up.

Fantastic.

A peaky blinder has disintegrated in the sunshine

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Desmond Doom always twangs my reverb-drenched string. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WUd...

I'm guessing that today is Nose Day, right Petey?

I’ve put a few little clay men in my shoppe! 👻💘 hellohalloweeno.etsy.com/listing/4483...

Only ever attempted one April Fool: 8 years old, intoxicated with love for Penelope Lively’s The Ghost of Thomas Kempe, I did “haunted” handwriting on tea stained paper & labelled the food in our kitchen with such spine chilling messages as “I lyke not these sausages.” I’ve always so been fun & cool

I have always maintained that the internet is missing a representation of time passing in a visual way that would be a valuable element of UI. Dust, rust, erosion, and yeah: cobwebs. Someone should make a browser extension or something.

She's just told him the baby is his x

Hat tip to the brilliant Sesame Street deep cut. #NoKings