I just don't think you can learn things about actual people without involving actual people.

on second thought maybe it was a mistake to put obvious morons in charge of everything

Hey what's up guys it's Mr. Beast and if this AVATAR OF YOUR TRUE SELF can live for A THOUSAND YEARS IN A MOMENT inside this INFINITE LABYRINTH OF MEMORY it wins five hundred thousand dollars!

It's a lovely 6th Day of Christmas at my true love's house, and you are six horrible geese

Family duties done, now back home after two nights sleeping in a strange bed, with two weeks off to come. And relax

It's your birthday, Duane.

There was a wonderful interview with the veteran pro wrestler Minoru Suzuki about five years ago where he said that all the genuinely great wrestlers are bad at some aspect of being a wrestler. Someone who was an 8/10 in everything would be the most boring performer in the world.

Signs and portents

they're calling it the worst take of all time

Alison Bailey told me pro-trans lawyers keep eating her legal fees so I asked her how much money she has and she said she just goes to JK Rowling afterwards so I said it sound's like she's just feeding money to trans lawyers and now Helen Joyce is crying.

Okay so this is actually good and I don’t understand why they’re not singing from the rooftops about it

Distracting myself from an imminent stressful visit to my family by watching Marcus the Worm videos is a perfectly fine and normal thing to be doing

if you ever, at any point, thought marjorie taylor greene was maybe secretly a good person get your instincts checked

Feel like this headline would have more meaning if people hadn’t regularly been expelled from Labour on the slightest pretext over the last few years

Well this is lovely

😍We are rejoining Erasmus. Official announcement tomorrow😍 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Tonight, finally, I will see Mr Blobby in a wrestling ring at Riot Cabaret

Observational research, broadly speaking, seeks to expand our knowledge of the the data-generating processes underlying reality. Research using synthetic data expands our knowledge of the process that generated the synthetic dataset. They are explicitly, trivially, and facially not the same thing.

Watching the episode of Blue Lights where two characters get sectioned

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

Also we've fetishized "debate” in these spaces as some kind of civic good, when what matters is competence, trust, shared purpose. Medicine, engineering, boardrooms aren’t organized around debate or requirements of false balance. We've poisoned public discourse by insisting it be adversarial.

If, like me, you’re finding the winter darkness oppressive, and you’re a night owl, and you can’t wait until the shortest day of the year to start feeling a sense of optimism again: Today is the day of the earliest sunset. The evenings get longer from today. You’re welcome.

i love "Terracotta mask in the shape of the head of a fox, dog, or bat ca. 600–480 BCE" so much he's so perfect

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

Glad to see this flopped. From what I could see when down there earlier it was a mix of sad old men with beers and a few young guys looking for trouble, but by no means any kind of critical mass

This weekend has so far involved going to a squat party and an anti-fascist demo, and so has ended up with unexpectedly late 80s vibes

The bones of Santa have been leaking liquid for 1,700 years.

the land raider and land speeder aren't called that because they go over land they're called that because they were invented by a guy named arkhan land. dees favorite joke about this is the emperor is named jimmy space and those are his space marines

Can’t believe Elvis got away with ripping off Shakin’ Stevens for so long

Been travelling around different towns quite a bit lately, and I’ve noticed that the one thing that predicts somewhere being kind of bleak is having a honking great motorway through it

First off calling yourself “Alvin and the Chipmunks” what a fucking joke, YOU ARE A CHIPMUNK ALVIN, you are not a man.

Pitch: the Trainline app not to give you twenty pointless pop-ups when it’s within five minutes of the train you’re trying to buy tickets for

Well that’s the Christmas spirit I guess

Seconding this and adding "even if you suck at it, especially if you suck at it"

Lichen collage. On lakeside rock, Northwest Territories, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends

Singing the “Like Kurosawa, I make mad films” line from One Week, but meaning Kiyoshi Kurosawa, ahhh

Hey fellas is it free speech when potential owners compete to gut their news channel in return for the president’s approval of a deal?

MONDAY

i think if you have a juicy enough tale therapists should give you the session for free because let's be real they love that shit and ought to be paying you for the experience

A gallery of Cephalotes turtle ants, denizens of the treetops in tropical American forests.

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

Well this is lovely

Kind of fascinated by the Warhammer nostalgia accounts that FB tries to throw my way: “Ah, good old 40K Rogue Trader, back when your bins got collected on time”

I stumbled upon this Instagram account where a guy goes into ‘haunted’ spaces and plays loud music, confidently taunting the spirits to respond, and I know it’s just silly fun, but there’s something quite liberating in the attitude. Going somewhere we’re told is scary, and taking ownership of it 👻

Surprised to discover that v few non-fancy restaurants in Soho appear to take bookings. Appreciate no-shows are a pain etc, but it makes it quite hard to suggest somewhere to meet people before a show

It’s almost impressive to write a statement that will make every single European who reads it think “oh, get fucked”

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO2F... Check out this distinguished bear

As someone who went to an unpleasant English public school, it's notable how remarkably racist you would have to be for people to remember it specifically against the general backdrop of racism

I guess this is ultimately the conservative project in a nutshell: make up or drastically exaggerate the scale of a problem, then use it to justify whatever authoritarian measures you want to take against the people you’re opposed to

It’s only a Butlerian jihad if it’s from the Butlerian region of the universe, otherwise it’s just sparkling Luddism