At my job, a signage company, we get a lot of jobs for Retirement Villages, with images of old people playing tennis and swimming, and all I can think is anyone who still has that level of mobility would never head for a facility. They'd stay at home until they're rolled out on a gurney.

Chris O'Dowd has created a new show called Small Town, Big Story, and in the very first episode he references Boyle, the town from his other show Moone Boy, and of course where O'Dowd was born. I think Moone Boy was semi-autobiographical.

There's a guy who gets on my bus who looks like Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. I may get his number for the oncoming apocalypse.

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

As a flinty Gen Xer, I’m constantly embarrassed by the men of my generation who have embraced the worst possible politics. The only cool thing about our formative 80s decade was the counter-culture — everything else was about money and getting ahead.

(1/3) Bartholomew was a scarred cat, or in his case, a scaredy mouse. Nonetheless he had decided it was time for him to have a grand adventure! First, he sat a date for it, and after pushing the date just 10 times he finally mustered enough courage to go on his adventure. (...)

It wasn't until series 13 or so that I realised the Taskmaster contestants don't know who they are playing against until their first Team Task. But even then they only know their team-mates, and not the rest of the five. Do they meet them for the first time at the first Studio record?

This looks amazing.

Tech people always build things to do A, B, and C and users use it for X, Y, and Z, and the techs freak out and try to force people to stop doing what works for them and just use it as intended. Sorry, but your baby belongs to the world now. You can't control that.

I could easily see myself voting for someone who runs on abolishing ice and prosecuting every single one of them and the entire administration free campaign idea to good home

Daylight Saving kicks in over this weekend. Evenings will get longer and lighter, yay, but at first the mornings go back to being dark. Boo.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

This is Denni. She took an unexpected babysitting shift when she found a baby koala in her yard. She cheerfully delivered the joey to her human, who put them back in the tree to be reunited with their mom. 14/10 (FB: Steve Lamplough)

I tested Sora's AI video "guardrails" and I'm honestly shocked how much OpenAI allows. Really, really bad www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/

🚨TODAY IS OUR 100th Episode of @thatsabsurdshow.com !🚨 We answer tons of questions in a wild thunder round, have tons o' guests like co-host Sophie Shrand, and experts @alexdainis.bsky.social aka #blimplady and STEM hero and Mythbuster @karibyron.bsky.social!!! listen: pod.link/1680094699/e...

The social media ban is the 2025 version of telling women not to walk alone at night. We're regulating the behaviour of victims and potential victims, instead of addressing the people causing the harm

Afternoon hike in the Niagara Gorge. Beauty of a day.

I didn't have any of these toys when I was a kid, so the nostalgia is lost on me. I doubt Lego is ever going to make a ZX Spectrum or a Commodore Amiga.

It's usually easier to get 3-4-5-6 on Quordle Sequence, because they deliberately choose words with shared letters to make it a tiny bit simpler. But they didn't do that this time. Daily Sequence Quordle 1347 3️⃣4️⃣ 5️⃣6️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/

I'm glad cheese was invented. Or discovered. Or formulated. Or accidentally formed. Whatever happened, I'm glad of it.

Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for how A.I. could be used in Meta's universe. But the actor and filmmaker Joseph Gordon-Levitt is here to point out a flaw in the technology: an apparent lack of guardrails around how the company's chatbot interacts with underage users. nyti.ms/3ILwCNo

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It's important to call this stuff out.

I hate that I make such an effort to create a safe spot for AusPost to leave parcels out of street view, and they just ignore it and mark it a failed delivery.

Disgusting. Selling out your citizens to appease a bully.

This whole section really.

On a recent camping trip in Togwotee Pass, Wyoming I saw these things in some of the trees. Does anyone know what they are?

It's October tomorrow. This seems too soon.

I have enjoyed The Morning Show but this season is already overwhelmed with enough backstabbing to compete with an 80s soap.

It's that time of year again. Happy Michaelmas to all who celebrate. youtu.be/WDXLxpQdIUQ

"AI is the asbestos we are shovelling into the walls of our society. Our descendants will be digging it out for generations." "AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job." Oof. pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Loved building this MOC! It's a reboot of the classic City set 1592 (Town Square Castle scene). I found the original while doing research for my "As time goes by" series and just had to remake it. More pics: www.instagram.com/p/DPJyhpRjBR... #lego #afol #moc #legomoc #legocity #legocastle

I got a 3-4-5-6 again! A good start to the day. 🙂 Daily Quordle 1344 5️⃣3️⃣ 6️⃣4️⃣ m-w.com/games/quordle/

I'm going to make a very bold claim, with no evidence to support my assertion. I think there are very few Tiddlywinks players left.

Yes it does have small patches of trees, however the majority of the tree cover that did exist was pretty much eliminated by the grazing of sheep - they eat the young saplings preventing regrowth.

This particular set is not what I typically build. It's not a Lego knock-off, it's a MOC built by a fan who sold their design to an Alt-Brick company. It's called the Juliet Balcony, designed by Fanpeixi, distributed by Free Tribe, and I got it from Marstoy.

I am watching Superman. It's so ridiculously comic-booky it's kind of silly. Also, like every single superhero movies, it ends with two people punching each other in the sky.

#AllCreatures is back, and they've skipped to "...Five Years Later" I guess so it isn't all miserable war stories.

I wonder if the Count would enjoy doing everybody on Sesame Street's taxes. And also their blood tests.

Five novelty songs from the past (approx) fifteen years.

This is a picture of the composer Glenn Miller. He died in a plane crash when he was just 40 years old. Which means in this picture he is in his 30s.

A case in point of the weird crap that gets recommended on my YouTube feed.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

I didn't realise Mackenzie Crook was developing a new series. Here's some info. Looks promising!

What an accolade!

Why?

It's quite stunning just how monumentally stupid the US Government is. They're not just mistaken, or fallible, or misinformed. They are low IQ ignorant, with no intellectual curiosity or self awareness. It doesn't seem possible that anyone can be this dumb, but time and again it's proven.

We just had a practice fire drill at work, but the alarm doesn't sound in the warehouse, and my emergency exit leads to a locked gate. So I'd be doomed.

In order to suddenly claim Tylenol leads to autism, we would need better data.……data we do not currently have. Declaring that tylenol use in pregnant people can lead to autism, with the available evidence we have now, is scientifically irresponsible.

This week is going to be a short one, as someone important, presumably in a drunken stupor, decided that the day before a football game is worthy of time off. It's not even considered proper football, outside of my city. Definitely not as good as [fill in your local version of football here]. Weird.