Ugh this made me queasy. I hate it. I don't want to look at faces. I don't want to make videos.

Tankies are just the latest manifestation of Everyone Is Twelve theory. No content, just oppositional defiance. If everyone suddenly became a Stalinist, they'd hate not being shockingly outré any more and jump to being Nazis.

The uncomfortable truth (including for me, who makes a living doing it) is that the future communications landscape is likely to be vastly fragmented, sector-specific and require building trust with a lot of microcommunities. I'm not sure the capital or the infrastructure is there to do it properly.

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

This but it also applies to "my videos are rendering"

Quite admire the straightforwardness of Japanese vocabulary sometimes. Peninsula is "half island".

We have ordered tablecloths and party favours, officially making booze the final boss of our wedding expenses

They're just such a *weird* party. Worth looking into if you haven't (particularly because they seem to be involved in basically every government NZ has)

Area moron did woodworking in the living room yesterday, now has socks covered in sawdust

This has forced me to think about the last time I saw someone actually reading a copy of the Sun and it must have been pre-Covid

Proposal for regulating social media in a way that would be pro-social and relatively straightforward: Cap the amount of time a user can spend on any given platform. Say, two hours a day? Have some carve outs if your job genuinely depends on you being there, but otherwise, Log Off.

A real spicy take of mine is that attitudes to alcohol are one of the few areas where the US has MUCH stronger class boundaries than the UK. This is due to the absence of an exact analogue to The Pub.

The true pre-mixed drinking scandal is how the Strong Zero they sell in Tesco is only like two-thirds as strong as the real thing and they only sell little cans.

But yeah, Basically the far left reaction to the Hungarian election:

Boat pint! Boat pint! Boat pint!

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

I have to say, I do not love the Instagram comic trend of doing 20 panels and including not a single joke, just you earnestly endorsing a nice sentiment.

Yessss

Seen a few people attempting to get clout by doomposting about how Tisza are right wing and: yes we know, but they're not trying to turn Hungary into a dictatorship, so, you know, give it a rest for a bit?

Ireland's greatest political theorist David McSavage on the only eternal truth of politics

One down. Lukashenko, Erdogan, Putin and Trump still to go.

More like Loszar Orban imo

Not an economist but I think there's two non-economic things going on with how people feel about the economy. 1) enormous inflation of expectations. 2) the algorithm rewards pessimism and punishes optimism. A lot makes sense when you realise millions of people are using dopamine as currency.

Yeah, this is one of many things that makes me feel like a weird alien because I see the kind of lifestyle Influencer Culture tries to make us want and not only think "wow you can hire a Ferrari by the hour now" but also "this lifestyle looks horrible even if it weren't fake"

Big queue at the Hungarian consulate in Manchester today

I think there are too many cool Pokémon now. Back in my day, they were all shitty little animal freaks. Even Mewtwo was just an abused cat they shot full of steroids.

Sickos yes 🚇🚇🚇

It remains kind of maddening to me how we reached 1TB of internal storage for computers like 15 years ago and then decided to stop expanding that. Some of us work with video!

Who will win, my weight loss efforts or the voice in my head whenever I take Thameslink which says "if you stay on one more stop you can go to that great ice cream place at Herne Hill station"

Classics friends may enjoy this. Some of the Latin pronunciation is a bit weird, but the essence is spot on! 😆

30% of UK adults don't drive. The weird idea that if you don't drive your view is illegitimate really needs to die. It's their tax you'll be using to subsidise everyone else!

Played and beat TR-49 in one sitting last night - would highly recommend if you like deductive reasoning games and interesting Mancunian vibes.

More than 500 organizations in B.C. are now certified living wage employers, guaranteeing over 22,000 workers and contracted staff wages that actually match the cost of living in their communities. That number, years in the making, is growing faster than ever. #bclab #TyeePresents #Sponsored

Find it very funny the figure for wading birds is so low. Lot of people out there *really* hate herons.

just incomprehensible to truly describe how stupid this all is

My psychological theory of politics strikes again! The Tories have high self-esteem and low esteem for others, so they struggle to recognise genuine unpopularity. Labour have low-self esteem and high esteem for others, so even with a huge majority they assume their opponents are all-powerful.

Holy SHIT (also, the text in this image is an anime episode title)

No, no, I'd let them run with this actually.

It was through this method I discovered I didn't know who the leader of the Scottish Tories was.

Believe it or not, this was peak AI summarization. This is basically AGI

One of the very best from Clickhole

I am the One Who Works In Politics of my extended family and my answer to "what do you think will happen?" has become "oh god I don't know! I really don't know!"

At it again. Would love to get the TfL rider data for how many people commute between Battersea Power Station and Mill Hill East.

Our second borough day out - hi, Barnet!

Yes, and you call it the "Northern Line" despite the fact it is obviously like seven lines.

The Big Parade from A Hat In Time is joyous: youtu.be/mgkPZKHjmck?...

Will this lead to garden birds pleasantly serenading us as we wake, or crows shrieking next to our heads at 5am? Let's find out!

See I love taking long trains, but I have long realised that my idea of fun (driving across Canada in winter, travelling from the north to the south of Japan, visiting the only train station in Idaho just to see what was there) sounds to most people like a cry for help.

Set up my PS3 that I found in mum's loft. Still has the profile from the previous owner, who went by "Dagger" and seems to have filled it with pirated copies of movies from 2011. Also contains the disc from my two-girlfriends-ago ex's copy of Alice: Madness Returns. I doubt she'll get it back.