Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

Honestly, what's the point of saying they have to do this to prevent Reform, when outcome is effectively mass deportations by the back door and removal of rights anyway. More people becoming undocumented, which Labour's policies guarantee, lead, because of Labour's policies, to more deportations. 4/

Covid vaccines for anyone that wants them should be an absolute no brainer. Successive governments being so disinterested in the physical wellbeing of its working age population is a fucking travesty.

This is it, really.

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

he is paying for his sins

In memoriam...

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I’ve been a millennial, a geriatric millennial, now I’m a paracetamol baby!

There was a time not so long ago that being a flag-shagger was seen as being in the realm of absolute weirdos and people you definitely avoided eye-contact with. What happened!

Washington Speedboat

Can’t have awful dreams if you don’t fall asleep

One of the few things I really enjoy about modern football is turning the sound down when Guy Mowbray or Peter Drury are on

Ahh, less than 10 minutes into watching my first bit of live football this season and it’s a “Your support is fucking shit” chant audible in the telly. Lovely stuff. #CHEPAL

There’s misogyny at every level of cricket, whether you’re a fan, staff, media, player, coach, anything. It’s making women unsafe. It’s making them abandon the sport they love. If there’s no place for this in cricket, what are you going to do about it? daisycutterzine.wordpress.com/2025/08/07/n...

Commentators talking to players during the game is the most profound evidence yet that you shouldn’t give broadcast/creative control to 5 year olds #TheHundred

I don't know if it's even hating art so much as hating *artists*. It's the train wreck of entitlement crashing into media illiteracy. I was speaking to someone after a film screening last week about how we all have that one piece of art or media that gripped us in a way that made us realise...

Step off the train Miss my air conditioned environment again

The secret German weather station on the Arctic island of Svalbard. Part of the 'Weather War'. The team, led by Lieutenant Wilhelm Dege, were the last German troops to surrender in WW2, finally doing so FOUR MONTHS after Germany had officially surrendered. It was not for want of trying. /1

I’d have given Baynton’s Butterflies 1 point for trying too hard

Annoying bird, I am the great Leon!

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

in an ideal world there'd be consequences for "we just made it up"

on a purely theoretical level, the failure of the Club World Cup is fascinating you have famous teams, committed to winning because of the prize pool, in new and unusual matchups, a set of brand new underdogs, playing in cities where high-level football is rare and no one cares

lmfao here come the 6D-Chess Guys

This was in the EXPRESS what

lol

Mission Control were preparing for the lazy guy to go into space. They were ready for takeoaf.

'Actually it's just some guys' strikes again. www.ibtimes.co.uk/builderai-co...

Convinced my idea for Linear TV Summer Camps will avert civilisational collapse and I'm not even slightly joking

Britain's future is in Jamster subscriptions, and if they aren't allowed to have all of your music to sell as ringtones then Jamster and therefore the UK will fall into bankruptcy and ruin. I've never used Jamster myself, but the executives I met yesterday were very clear about this.

My latest for @nowthenmag.bsky.social. "Mainstream British transphobia has been concocted by several dozen powerful actors who are socially positioned to access the stony-faced operators of the parliamentary sludge machine." nowthenmagazine.com/articles/the...

I feel like Jordan Pickford is basically life president of Everton at this point

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever

I sorted by latest 👀

apparently Elon's gotten so mad about Grok not answering questions about Afrikaners the way he wants, xAI's now somehow managed to put it into some kind of hyper-Afriforum mode where it thinks every question is about farm murders or the song "Kill the Boer"

Convectional rainfall, is it? Ok then.

It’s the Freemasons song, except instead of “so much love to give”, it’s “so few fucks”

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Had to take a step out of my sports writing comfort zone this week to say a thing that needed to be said. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

any excuse to repost the greatest Tetris story ever, when a reporter went to cover early e-gaming championships and discovered that his wife was unknowingly *the world's greatest Tetris player* by a huge margin archive.boston.com/news/globe/m...

Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.

There are so many people out there that are genuinely baffled by the existence of banana sandwiches

The problem with wearing a hat (as opposed to a baseball cap) is that people automatically think you’re making a statement by wearing one. But, like, I absolutely have no statement to make, I just want to keep the sun off my face AND neck.

It’s the stainless steel motion that I get from Harrison Ford