Weird branch

Some music from Somalia. Dur Dur Band and Sahra Dawo. Listen to it once and you'll listen to it another fifty times in a row. I think this has become a slightly viral thing, according to my son. Just shows you how beautiful music doesn't fade. youtu.be/4DFSK-lyUXQ?...

Can you imagine if someone released a computer game, or a musical album, or *whatever*, that was designed to sexual groom children, or encourage them to commit suicide or any of the things LLMs are doing on a daily basis, how quick the media and political condemnation would be?

Normalising multimillionaires made billionaires acceptable (even though the difference between £10m and £1bn is basically...£1bn). Normalising multiBILLIONaires has now made the idea of a TRILLIONaire acceptable. It's not. It's obscene.

Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

people outside of Ireland will have missed this, but I think it's important for them to learn that a former sportsman has been found guilty of defrauding people out of millions while pretending to have cancer by sticking a phone charger up his nose

Giraffic Park. same movie except giraffes instead of dinosaurs

hey cool starter pack am i in it oh i meant shit then

informing the panel at my job interview that the mask stays on til I know they're cool cos I'm about to say some freaky shit

remember when jedward beat that guy to death at a foam party so glad they got their shit together in the end

everything went to shit when we all stopped doing the macarena

giving Coldwater a go even though everyone says it's shit

😦

sandwich guy: all i ask is my sandwich wife and i now be allowed to get on with our sandwich lives in private

The sky tonight is amazing.

ibuprofen gel nails is that anything

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

These are my copies. Excerpts from the week he sat in for Danny Baker on the R5 breakfast show in July 1992. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry9y... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gZ...

just heard an arts journalist say biopic like myopic

FIFA Peace Prize when

what i bring to the team is loud breathing and questions about lunch

Corgis! I can make most pets/strange felt things for your Christmas tree. Just ask #felting #corgi #Christmas

I'm sorry I just don't think sandwiches are something to joke about

daniel day-lewis on front row, they played a clip of his new film, dialogue wildly, wildly bad

helluva day lads, ngl

never in dought

RFK sees him go down and heads straight off to grab some cutlery, you even see him lick his lips

what if we did it in mcdonald's hats

no, everything *was* better before miles jupp quit the news quiz, stop lying to yourself

I am going to break one of this account’s cardinal rules, which is not to have political posts on here, especially not about *them*. But I was intrigued by the erotic novel at the centre of the story and went to see if it was any good. (Spoiler: Ha ha ha ha haaaargh)

the stylised calm control of david lammy's speaking mode always sounds to me like a kidnapper explaining how thick these walls are as he zipties your hands to the back of the chair

We need to, as an experiment, make one Poet a billionaire to see what the money does to their craft

Low bills & clean energy. This is the future that Reform is trying to thwart

merry christmas btw just in case i ascend to my pure light form between now & then

how is it only 9.33 feels like 9.36

forgotten uk garage duos #609

OLIVIA

just deleted a sentence on the advice of a fly

interviewer: jocelyn in chicago wants to know what is your birthstone? tim minchin [suddenly looking up and locking eyes after a full minute licking his fingers then smoothing his toe hair]: humanity

the sensory calming of a train ride through the rolling english countryside behind lightly closed eyes

bluesky in its mary whitehouse era

welcome to Yamaha. do you want a piano or a motorcycle?

guy who calls you professor cos you don't watch eastenders

why is it still thursday this is intolerable

okay think we've got our wires crossed, when i said i'd double your turnover i meant staff

I wish I had known in high school that sandwich law was a career path available to me

*theme tune kicks in* *Christopher Lloyd, Danny DeVito and Judd Hirsch's names appear on screen* "CAMEL IS FILMED IN FRONT OF A LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE"

try again, but harder

Some personal news: I have mistakenly freed another prisoner.