Your regular reminder that there's no such thing as a good billionaire.

I've read 9 of the 100-21 guardian best books of all time. I suspect 20-1 isn't going to hold much science fiction, horror or fantasy (Dracula at 76, Frankenstein much higher)

If Dilbert Stark is a trillionaire, you could take 99% of his wealth away and he'd still have an unimaginable $10bn.

Xi Jinping deliberately placed Trump and his lackeys in front of the COMMUNIST FLAG!!

Re-reading the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (first adult fantasy series I read in about 1986 (when I was 11). Have only had about a dozen "clenches" at this point ( cf www.youtube.com/shorts/5YtjQ... ).

watched some animated Star Wars thing with my lad the other night. Set before A New Hope. Have to say Vader's lightsabering skills went to shit pretty quickly between the two.

Any other Aunty Donna fans? Particularly like the musical numbers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_7W...

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

USians: you get to sneer at our broken polity's practice of appointing people called Sir Cholmondely Chortlemuffin as Second Groom of the Back Staircase when your broken polity stops doing whatever the hell this is.

Nigel Farage insisting "I cannot be bought," after being exposed for secretly trousering £5 million from a crypto billionaire, buying a house with the money, and then immediately launching a lobbying campaign for the crypto industry, is quite something

"I need the most on the nose statement of populism you have"

More genius for Octopus. Solar install yesterday, this morning an email telling me they're upping my monthly payment by £50. Can't change to a solar tariff with them until they issue the MCS certificate.

I got to pick our work's book group read this month. Flowers for Algernon which definitely be a change of pace and genre for me and the ladies!

This might very well be the most deranged piece of cold calling/emailing I've ever seen.

How could any club actively consider buying this player? Mbappe is poison to a squad, goals or not, he makes a club worse.

If you’re more upset about your tax dollars going to buy newborns diapers than about them being spent to bomb a girls’ school, there is something seriously wrong with you

We all have occassion to say this a lot in this era, but seriously this is the craziest goddamn thing I've read in a very very long time abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

If you're tone policing on here, ask yourself a question: do I have a worthwhile job? If not, get one! You'll see how meaningless it is to mewl about people's word choices. Go on, surprise yourselves. Do something for the community rather than your shitty tedious bastard friends online

GILLIBRAND: What is your record?! I don't want to just hear about what you don't like about the Biden administration SCOTT TURNER: During the Biden administra-- GILLIBRAND: Stop talking about Biden! Talk about your record TURNER: During the Biden administration-- GILLIBRAND: Oh my God!

People leaving Labour because of; Transphobia............7% (Streeting) Immigration ............18% (Mahmoud) Ableism...................16% (Streeting) Gaza....................... 19% (Starmer) By contrast; People leaving Labour because it is Too Left/"woke"........ 2% (All of them)

Jenrick listed the money as coming from 'Spott Fitness' - a company which had no employees, had never made a profit and carried debts of over £300,000. In reality it came from Gary Klopfenstein, a Chicago-based investor who pled guilty to wire fraud and misappropriating funds

Started playing Super Woden Rally yesterday. Looks lovely, already getting the hang of the handling. Can see me putting a few hours into this.

I'd read there is a rush on to sort the (crooked) settlement, before the judge throws the case out. Madness. Complete madness.

The Met chief is now threatening Jews. A new low for the Met.

Not saying it should disbar him or anything but I've always thought Streetings eyes are too close together. And beady.

8 solar panels and a 10.43Kw battery now installed *turns all the lights on* Just as well as the 75inch LED telly guzzles the 'leccy.

Sounds (hoho) legit

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

I covered that march. Here's the first paragraph of the story I wrote about it: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

One last push: This video, thus far, has died on it's arse. So please, go watch it if you haven't already done so. Share it if you haven't already done so. Like it, hype it. Help a small YouTuber fight the AI drenched algorithm. youtu.be/IsxLZTq4qSE

Interesting advert for botfarm technology popped up on Facebook just now. Guess they're happy to take the money

HAVE I?! youtu.be/O2C5R3FOWdE?...

Roses are red Matt LeBlanc was in Friends

Roses are red Existence is fleeting Time is too precious To waste on Wes Streeting.

Rewatching 30 Rock and I think this is still possibly one of the best constructed jokes in anything, ever.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Since today marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Top Gun, I'd like to salute the star of the film: the F-14 Tomcat! Sadly though, I regret to inform you that since the F-14's first flight was December 1, 1970, it's actually closer in time to WW I's Sopwith Camel than it is to us. #AvGeek

When bsky doesn't like my posts

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

All the developers 404 Media talked to were excited to try using LLMs at work at first, or were at least curious about them. Their feelings about the tools, based on their personal experience, are now overwhelmingly negative. AI is rotting their brains www.404media.co/software-dev...

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Utter insanity.

Guillermo del Toro's LaLa Land no mk

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

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Me for the first 17 minutes of payday