A way i try to explain it to friends and family who visit is that London is 32 towns in a trenchcoat. The average Londoner spends little time in the bit outsiders see as "London" We live, eat, play and love in the communities that form its edges. Each of which has a culture and identity of its own

A cool halloween candy to give out would be pickled giant marine isopods, just putting out a big barrel of pickled giant marine isopods for children to dig through for delicious treats

I had chicken pox when I was, like, five (?), and I had fever for something like a month and spots in places I didn't know I had places. Then shingles in the face in my 30s, v v lucky the retired GP on call saw what it was

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Oh hey it's Chr*stm*s soon

trying to use the laptop for the first time in a week or so and it seems to have forgotten how

remember: if you start your day earlier, that’s more day you’re going to have to get through, what on earth are you thinking

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Natural Flavor was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Flavor, to control all others.

See also śmietana/śmietanka in Polish

Scientists? Everyone opposes this except the tech bruh nutter who came up with this.

thinking about this screenshot from Columbo that makes it look like a 90s point-and-click adventure game

Choose your fighter

The desperate need to accumulate more and more at the cost of everyone else’s wellbeing should be classified as a mental disorder, and I will absolutely die on this hill.

I knew they were monsters, but still using ready ground pepper in 2025? And what the giddy fuck are they drying their crockery with that 'I went to France and you won't believe what hipster thing I discovered' is a thing you can write in a newspaper like it's wild swimming?

Let's be clearer: not "most" but ALL

I'm sorry, what www.theguardian.com/thefilter-us...

Another hot take: NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE A COMMERCIAL PROPOSITION.

Anyone who says "I wouldn't class the comments saying 'there are too many browns on the TV for my liking' as 'racist'" shouldn't be allowed to leave the studio until they clarify why not. Like the entire schedule should be cancelled and they should have to sit there until they explain themselves

I'm sorry, what www.theguardian.com/money/2025/o...

Imagine even watching adverts, let alone caring about the precise demographics of who's in them. Fucking pathetic.

TOLKIEN: So then Turin, upon realizing he fucked his sister, killed himself. His father, broken by the tortures of Satan and mad with grief… Stop sobbing, boy. CHRISTOPHER: Daddy, I’m six. TOLKIEN: Oh fine, you little shit. Once upon a time there was a hairy little midget that lived in a hole...

'British Businesses set to benefit from deal with Open AI' I wish these cunts would just fuck off and die. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I found a capybara pebble🤎

For some reason the 'gram is obsessed with showing me videos of incredibly skilled East Asian (mainly street) chefs making STUNNING omelette-type dishes and, frankly, I need this extra hour

Wow, he looks young enough to date himself

#birdbot

Sexy crushed chipotle chillies

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

This might be the picture I’m most proud of this year.

Happy #Caturday everyone 🐾

Don’t look now…but I think BlueSky has pulled off an old-school Internet magic: a family member passed & left behind a sweet baby husky on the other side of the continent…and BS angels came forward to relay her to me in time to get her out of the shelter. I think my dogbaby’s coming home, guys!

Chippy tea

I try to avoid anachronisms in my translations: I've just swapped out an "on a loop" because someone in 1914 wouldn't have the faintest fucking notion of a looping magnetic tape

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

Look how happy he is!

“I am not interested, nor will I ever be interested. I'm 61, and I hope to be able to remain uninterested in using it at all until I croak. ... The other day, somebody wrote me an email, said, ‘What is your stance on AI?’ And my answer was very short. I said, ‘I'd rather die.’” 🫡

What a bunch of horseshit from the fucking Prime Minister

Why are they called worker bees and not swarmtroopers

I hate the clocks going backwards and forwards. When I was young, we didn’t even have clocks. If we got hungry, we ate each other. We were poor, but we were happy. Good times. Not that we had time. It hadn’t been invented. We had to make our own time out of string and cholera.

Hi! I’m not an illustrator but a graphic designer typography lover, and this is a M for meow:

Fuck yeah sign that document comrade

This sort of AI is an expert system, developed by applying machine learning to a specialist, selected dataset, and is designed for a specific, technical purpose. This does not require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property like the plagiarism vending LLMs.

Free will rules

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Robert Carlyle looking the most mid-90s anyone has ever looked in the mid-90s there..

'Harvest Fox Spirit' (messenger of Inari, kami of the crops) - Shoson Ohara, ca. 1910. #JapaneseArt #ukiyoe

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes