Some Americans are not going to cope well after The Event.

Oh great. Now Google can't even tell you the fucking time correctly.

Go home, @espncricinfo.com, you're drunk

Recognise that online data collection was garbage even before this, and stop using it.

Current mood

Positive news! There is a revamped Schengen stay calculator and it does not have a Russian flag on it!

I like to think that whoever compiled this (obviously fake) list had a British friend and asked them "Whose name can we put on there for shits and giggles".

New editorial with John Carlisle: Detecting inconsistencies and fraud in research data: Time for authors to share the data underlying their summary statistics as a matter of course tl;dr Let's stop doing party tricks journals.lww.com/anesthesia-a... Final draft: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

At the ___ Journal of ___, it's always too late to correct the scientific record.

Ome Sweet Ome

Online panel surveys reach their logical conclusion. I'm not sure how much worse an AI participant is than one doing three surveys at once on multiple screens. Cf steamtraen.blogspot.com/2015/06/mech...

I wrote to the EU contact centre about their Schengen stay calculator ec.europa.eu/assets/home/.... Feel free to do the same. european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/w...

The U.S. Department of Justice has reached a $15 million NIH grant fraud settlement with Dana-Farber Cancer Center. This resolves a False Claims Act qui tam complaint that I filed on behalf of @sholtodavid.bsky.social in April 2024, with Gregg Shapiro as my co-counsel.

Can't wait to see what exciting rewards are available to me with this balance

Fake data is to real data what plastic surgery is to natural beauty. The initial impression is "wow", but when you look closely, stuff just doesn't fit together, and you can see the joins. Whereas with real data, nature takes care of all of the correlations effortlessly.

These people are obsessed. 😉

Just saw someone describe Tommy Robinson as "the far right's Greta Thunberg" and that seems pretty accurate.

lol wut @jamesheathers.bsky.social kepmas.hu/hu/fozes-psz...

I want to replace this 12v adapter (pic 1) with a USB cable. But the end (pic 2) is strange—shorter than a standard 5.5 x 2.1 x 11mm (pic 3)—so the device doesn't work. I have lots of barrel adapters but none looks like this. Short of cutting the cable and splicing the wires, what can I do?

Can anyone explain why the importer of this product to the UK is listed as HMRC? Surely an importer is a private company and HMRC is just there to check, inspect, maybe collect taxes, etc?

That phone number tho

It's not difficult to work out where most of the money is going to end up. 🙄

I don't usually keep my conference name badges, but I might make an exception for this one. #InternationalManOfMystery

Web of Science now requires me to thank them when I dismiss a pop-up message. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Wij van WC-Eend adviseren WC-Eend. #IYKYK

Smash the pastryarchy

Reminds me about the old joke about the baker being asked for a dozen, "and make sure they're all boys". Baker: "But there isn't *snaps fingers* that much difference" Customer: "Mebbe, but there's *snaps fingers* that much more gingerbread!

Life imitates art

We're putting the band back together

Curtains for Zoosha, etc etc

When navigating through the website of a bank or other place where you have a lot of information stored, it's fascinating* to see the switches between "_My_ account", "_Your_ balance", "_My_ profile", "_Your_ rewards", etc. Changes of marketing emphasis, or just flip of a coin by coders? * 🤓

Support the EDLF* (Em-Dash Liberation Front) — you know it makes sense! *Avoid the splitters of the MDLF!

It's 56 years since we put a man on the moon, and the app in which I'm placing an order still loses all of its context when I switch away from it for 15 seconds to do the bank authorisation.

Is there a single word that gives away LLM writing more than "beloved"?

When your loyalty program is run by the Klan. 😳

Booking a hotel room in some currencies can be slightly scary.

The struggle is real

Tough choice...

I'm guessing she's from Glasgow or Australia, and this is just a cultural misunderstanding about terms of endearment.

To the average European, US online discussions about health insurance are basically "Curtains for Zoosha? K-Smog and Batboy caught flipping a grunt."

This is unbelievably creepy. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The status of US college sports is a complete mystery to people in every other country.

We've agreed with the leopards that they won't eat *our* faces.

We now go live to Pete Hegseth's office.

If this van was a postage stamp it would probably be worth a lot of money.

After a very long meeting, it was decided that 5 digits, rather than 6, would be sufficient security for logging in to your airline account for the first time.

I would like to take a moment to approve of Etihad's dropdown list of titles.

O O O O O Canada