It runs like it’s got a turtles head happening and the nearest toilet is miles away

A little girl in the doctor’s waiting room asks her mum if she can get something out of her mum’s bag. Her mum: What, here? The girl nods. Mum: Oh, alright then. The little girl takes a full-sized, old-fashioned police helmet out of the bag, puts it on and smiles.

Me trying out something new that everyone else is enjoying

Peter mandelsons entire career is like a cursed pharaohs amulet that kills everyone that tries to use its power and every other week some Labour party idiot picks up and goes have we tried using the pharaohs amulet

President Zelensky and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden discussed cooperation on Ukraine’s future air fleet and strengthening its skies with Swedish Gripen fighter jets. Sweden is also providing €4 billion in aid and will assist in training Ukrainian pilots for the Gripen.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of deaf; I shall hear no evil.

Wife is asking me if Starmer is about to lose his job and I’ve been busy so wants the consensus here are we yet again applying a higher moral bar to a labour government than a Tory one?

Increasingly the news cycle just feels like it’s reminding us about stuff that happened less than 12 months ago

I’m like that old fashioned Turkish delight advert baby *flutters eyelashes*

JD Vance seems relaxed about taking on the Pope but you'll never see him come after The Menswear Guy.

I have had this post bookmarked for over a year as I could confidently predict needing to find it again. Someone get Haiminh: pixelation is going to be required.

Tonight someone asked for a selfie after the show. I caught a brief glimpse of his phone wallpaper. It was a photo of a big bowl of penne with a tomato sauce. Absolute respect.

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

It’s interesting to slowly see the cracks form in the right wing opportunist global alliance

To no one’s surprise china ran the blockade & told everyone about it

At some point we have to have a serious conversation about how the media interacts with economics & politics in what I lovingly call “a shitty venn”

Things that should delight you as a Brit: Boris Johnson turned into fucking vapour & never appeared again

Were Were those the only two options

OK, who’s great at low(ish)-poly 3D modelling? Just lining up possible candidates for a chunk of work that should arrive in next month or two, going to have a polished, fairly minimalist style with restrained texturing (rather than messy, organic, etc)

Huh. Some of the old twitter magic is still in there - The joy of watching a PR person slowly lose control of the narrative

Football fans from around the world are going to come back from this Festival of Copious Capitalist Excess and demand instant global communism.

It’s really amazing how we have even crisis actors being deployed now for Trump

I didn't know Google could do that

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“Wibble” is the only appropriate response this.

Trumps double embargoing on Strait of Hormuz is the equivalent of Bush Jnr demanding the US airforce fly a further four planes into the wreckage of the world Trade Centre on September 11.

checkmate, fellow terrorists

Not sure I want to try that ingredient...

“Google has created a misinformation crisis. Studies have shown that people tend to trust what AI tells them without question…Another experiment found that users still listened to AI when it gave them the wrong answer nearly 80% of the time—a grim trend the researchers dubbed “cognitive surrender.”

On one hand: Developers are infamous for not scoping or supplying what community infrastructure is needed or delivering very watered down supply. On other: Developers aren’t good at hiring doctors & it’s a bit more complicated than building them.

one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result: Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine

Reminder: It is easier to replace a CEO than 6000 employees

But but the economy and inflation and prices how can they make so much money?

Trump takes his peace time lazy bully business tactics into the global arena & just makes America look worse & worse. Running a fraudulent realty business & a global super power are two very different things & Trump still has not learned this

We've finally found a real-life crisis actor!

My bike was stolen from Ealing Broadway bike racks right under a CCTV camera - understand that the police can’t look at hours of footage for every theft. But how can I get access to the footage?

(Looks meaningfully at past post once again)

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Iran condemned Trump for insulting the Pope and when I read this I just let out a bark laugh as I could feel myself losing an already tenuous grip on reality.

Someone’s been looking at Bluesky

AI directly flies in the face of nearly every economic model & I simply don’t think people understand just how impractical it is.

This feels like the beginning of a reboot of democracy’s genuinely hope it is.

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

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The extent to which Netanyahu has detroyed Israel's global reputation is hard to overstate.

the chicago pope is over on twitter being christlike and everyone's biblesplaining him in the replies lol

I'd forgotten this one, an important twitter text.