Time for this reminder again. “It wasn’t blokes in tracksuits that ruined the country, it was blokes in suits" Very powerful words by @emmetkirwan.bsky.social

This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.

Going to the gym is the atheist equivalent to church. It's Sunday and you'll feel guilty if you don't go.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Since the whole Grok CMAS thing blew up, there's a situation from maybe 7 or 8 years ago that's been on my mind Because someone predicted what we're seeing now with uncanny accuracy and the attitudes it revealed horrified me. And I didn't know what to do with it then and I don't now 🧵

Not to derail your night, but: opendomesday.org

This will sound like a joke, but it's not. When TWO "Minnesota Nice" politicians drop the F-bomb in front of live cameras, we're at Defcon 1.

Danish PM statement

What‘s the last car you stopped to take a picture of?

I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were: MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles) Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna) MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls) MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)

"I'll be interested in AI when some product of AI makes me cry." - Brian Eno #quote

Asimov had us dead to rights, and the social internet just turbocharged it.

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

Merry Xmas!!

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Imagine going in here oot yer nut

These are great.

For the first time on Bluesky, here are two mixes of lesser known Christmas carols which I made a long time ago and have become the traditional soundtrack of our household at Christmas. soundcloud.com/digitonal/lu...

never forget...

He's not, because the processing of Santa Claus's own "naughty or nice" data is necessary for the performance of a task carried out by Santa as a competent authority. (DPA 2018 s35(2))

Last years Eurovision winner Nemo sending back his trophy in protest of Israel’s continued inclusion in the contest

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

This is the best expression I've ever seen of why populism exists.

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

Grand opening, grand closing. X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.

I really loved this conversation with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social - I've thought about it lots ever since. Hope you enjoy it too! youtu.be/3xx6lNFx8tI?...

Control of your own devices is temporary, but surveillance is forever.

Golden light this afternoon...

At the

#NowPlaying Tomorrow's Harvest. It's so long since #BoardsofCanada released their last album that I'm starting to think I bought it on 8-track tape.

Crime: Man steals bus with passengers on board. Canadian Crime: He still makes the scheduled stops to let passengers on and off. Canadian Crime Bonus: He denies boarding to one passenger because his bus pass had expired. globalnews.ca/news/1152251...

I love Neil Young because he'll make a song where he mumbles "Got mashed potatoes/Ain't got no T-Bone" over three chords for 9 straight minutes and then insist you listen to it on the most high-resolution audiophile equipment possible. Happy 80th, king.

I’ll put it more simply: my first (and best) aerobatic flight instructor looked me in the eye before our first lesson and said: “remember, airplanes really like the ground. They really really like the ground.”

Good morning. I don't know who did this, but I love you.

dealingWithSafariAsAWebdev #programmerhumor #reddit source: reddit/r/programmerhumor

Oh I wish I’d looked after me works And not left me legs buried in dirt Look on them there And ye mighty, despair Oh I wish I’d looked after me works

This is the moment for me that Claudia Winkleman became one of my all time favourite faces on television and all she says is “stop speaking”. youtu.be/cPpac4QGmXE?...

British.

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It still shocks friends from other countries when I tell them that mainstream drag and camp artists were pretty much standard fare on weekend primetime national telly.

« Bombardier Global 8000, the World’s Fastest Business Jet, Gets Even Faster With a New Top Speed of Mach 0.95 » Almost as startling is the 8,000 NM range. Not bad for a company that starting out making snowmobiles. 😉 (📸 Bombardier) | 🛩️ 📰 🥇 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 bombardier.com/en/media/new...

I cannot sit alone with the fact that the inventor of the carabiner is an early 20th century German mountaineer who went by Rambo Herzog

Björk’s Vespertine (who then later made a masterpiece divorce album lol)

This guy has some of the most incisive no-bullshit reporting on Ukraine I've found.

This is a party with virtually the same number of MPs as Reform (4 v. 5). The way the BBC is treating Reform, compared to the Lib Dems and the Greens, is a dereliction of their duty as a public broadcaster.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Still struck by a Merriam-Webster IG post I saw on legal doublets: artefacts of the bilingual Norman legal system. The English synonym went first in the pair law (English/Germanic) & order (French/Roman) cease & desist all & sundry lewd & lascivious breaking & entering free & clear will & testament