You might think there couldn’t be a less-convincing portrayal of the Fab Four than that Doctor Who episode, but you’d be so, so wrong.

Far more recently though, out to dinner at some friends’, we used their SodaStream to turn an uninteresting box of Italian wine into something indistinguishable from Prosecco.

Burgers on the grill tonight, and eldest made this amazing Big Mac-style burger sauce. That, sliced raw onions and a slice of pickle is all I want in a burger ever again.

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

UK needs to uncover and forensically dissect the finances of every politician that has received money from Putin. It's ridiculous both how stupid, how many and how CHEAP these bastards are.

Eldest needed help downloading some books onto her Kindle. Only my usual cable wasn’t having any of it. So I used another one, successfully. Afterwards I showed her how my MacBook just will NOT connect to my Kobo, but while I was still using that same new cable… and it connected immediately. 🤦‍♂️

Hey, wanna guess who met a skunk this morning?

Imagine missing your own son’s wedding so you could go surrender to Iran

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

remember when you used to learn this information quietly and at the age of roughly eleven

80% of Reform's funding comes from people who avoid tax by hiding money offshore. Our idea of true patriotism is to hoard money while contributing nothing towards public services. Just ask Richard Tice.

It is fucking hilarious that the Trump administration needed to tell Iranian officials to not pay attention to senile grandpa‘s unhinged posts because they are mainly for “domestic media purposes” and should be ignored. And yes, this is fact.

I'm flabbergasted. I went to trump's truth social page to see what the dumbass is posting. I get a pop up ad about farage which sends me to a fake website with AI imagery pretending to be the BBC with a made up event that never happened on Question Time. So many morons are gonna fall for this.

Remember how the Boston transport authority put the cost of taking the bus to the stadium for the Scotland World Cup games up to $80 specially to gouge at the tournament? The Tartan Army have done a deal with the company that runs the local school buses and hired the fleet for $40 a head.

TOO HOT AM DED

Unsure which is more surprising, the fact that Finland had a pop magazine called STUMP or that the Fast Show's Jazz Club presenter (you know, the one who says "niiice!!") appears to have actually existed

The more we learn about Reform's Makerfield candidate, Robert Kenyon, the more deeply unpleasant he becomes.

Farage plans to ditch workers’ rights, cut the NMW, scrap the Equality Act, legalise discrimination, take us out of the ECHR and have a deregulation bonanza to remove our protections and make it easier to exploit and endanger us… for profit. He couldn’t give a shit about working people.

Here’s just one detail from @thenerve.news #HarborneReceipts timeline. On the *exact same day* Christopher Harborne gives Reform £3m, Nigel Farage says Reform will lift cap on stablecoin ownership. Where does Christopher Harborne’s money come from, you ask? Stablecoins!

Have you heard the good news about our Lord and Saviour, Nutella Calzone?

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Makerfield, constituency voting intention: LAB: 43% REF: 40% RTR: 7% LDM: 4% GRN: 3% CON: 2% via @Survation, 18 - 22 May www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

England Completes Mostly Successful World Cup Campaign [Excepting you-know-when, this can be applied to every World Cup, even the ones we didn’t get to the Finals]

Not too bad actually. Temp left a bit too high once the stone was up to temperature. Think the ideal setting will be somewhere between seven and eight o’clock on the dial.

prince andrew completes mostly successful BBC interview

Roses are red, I swear on my mum's life...

Nobody: Strange New Worlds:

Once again we’re trying to make pizzas in an Ooni oven after such a space of time has elapsed that we can’t remember any of the knack for it. We’re like the Funkes with their “It never works / But it might for us” meme.

This is very very good and makes me both more optimistic and more concerned about Burnham as PM. Every PM is reliant on their team. He will be more so than most - and for someone who will ask the hard questions and join things up

Vivien Mansbach is now a graduating senior at Oakland School for the Arts. Their dad Adam has a new book out called — you guessed it — “Go the F**k to College.”

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

Not how Butcher would put it.

I started watching Star Trek with my dad when I was three or four years old. Then didn’t see many episodes for many years after. There were scenes I’d vaguely remember without context, until I’d see them again (or read the James Blish novelisations). 🧵 #StarTrek

I’m really not opposed to urban foxes in general. It’s nice to see them playing in our garden, especially with cubs. But there is also occasionally galling reality to deal with, like when one of them does a shit in our basket of clothes pegs.

Reform don't actually want to govern.

People got really angry at me when I wrote this on Mastodon a few years ago, but it's true: post-consumer plastic recycling is functionally a myth, not just in the U.S. but globally. Odds are vanishingly close to zero that your plastic, faithfully put in the recycling bin, will ever be recycled.

This Twitter post about him is never not funny.

Feathered evil youtube.com/shorts/YEgwn...

As a science fiction writer I really fucking resent tech bros for ruining the phrase "artificial intelligence." 80 years of it being all about cool androids and interesting computers destroyed by five years of "Spicy autocorrect making everything shittier for money." NEVER FORGIVE.

Rubio says that US-led peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine "were not fruitful." Not fruitful? ​Let’s look at facts: your negotiators visited Russia seven times, and Ukraine zero times. You demanded concessions from Ukraine before negotiations even began, and throughout the entire process.

First Brexit, then immigration and now this. What, if anything, does Andy Burnham actually disagree with Keir Starmer about?

british fan chat

Lads, Harry Hill is a legend

*If you're an AI oligarch and you can't ignore, dismiss or repress NAIMBY, what do you do about NAIMBY "Well, of course you covertly suborn some existent NAIMBY, or create your own Astroturf-NAIMBY, to hamper rival AI groups *When will this become obvious #predictingthepresent

*I know this sounds Machiavellian of me, but anybody could just ask Claude how to do it *Claude would generate a slop-website for it, complete with bullet-points and coherent action-plans, in maybe ten seconds

Further to the quoted... This is becoming a sort of national psychosis. I mean, look at defence. 😂

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This means that if someone comes up to you and says hey, there's a tranny using your loos, kick them out, you may have to ask the customer discreetly "hey, sorry, I got a complaint. Can you confirm you're using the right loo?" and if they say "Yeah I am" you are DONE. That is all you need do.