Not a bad evening stroll either

Speaking as someone who has hired Rob twice, I would strongly recommend that you hire Rob.

What the people who criticise Grok for creating child porn are forgetting is that the users who ask Grok to create child porn for them are very happy to be getting the child porn that Grok is creating, I bet you hadn't thought of that

🎵 When your coach has been sacked For a year that has lacked That's Amorim

Apart from the malicious "lol people are gonna lose their jobs" vibe, a zombie apocalypse is an apocalypse *of* zombies, in which the number of zombies increases, not an apocalypse *for* zombies, in which the number of zombies falls

Wow, EU priorities have really changed since Brexit

Not a bad morning stroll

No need to take this Christmas tree down

Jeepers it's cold

I think what China understood and the rest of the world has been slow to do is that Trump is running a protection racket more than a trade or foreign policy. He wants the payoffs more than the invasion or regime change.

A piece of purest fence-sitting that carefully avoids saying anything about what Trump has done. There'll need to be more than this.

Of course, linguists typically distinguish between the good syntax of civility and the good morphology of civility.

Welcome to the Twituation Room

Canada must be absolutely gutted to have missed the chance to become the 51st state

*picks up phone* Get me a time machine, an unlabelled map, and a meeting with Kemi Badenoch

My condolences to the Maduro family on his forthcoming suicide

Excellent piece on the need for governments to understand why and how to fight political battles - and the importance of identifying the baddies howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/governing-...

Maduro is a corrupt authoritarian thug who has trampled on his people's rights and used sham elections to stay in power. Trump probably just wants to get some tips.

So... is there a FIFA War Prize

Hi, I'm the bit in Toy Story 3 where they all hold hands in the furnace

I bought a double pack of chocolate hob nobs in the supermarket earlier and the robot checkout only charged me 10p when I scanned it, and I knew that couldn't be the right price but I didn't say anything, and I'm kind of feeling a bit bad about it. But luckily I have some comfort food

The fact that it's Majel Barrett's computer voice saying "Previously on Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "And now the conclusion" implies that the entire series is a holo-deck simulation

Dead right. Grok cannot "regret" or "apologise" or even "say" anything. Every post that goes out in its name should be treated as a public statement issued by X Corp. If Musk has chosen to delegate the making of statements (and images) to an LLM, that doesn't get him off the hook for the results.

OH I DID IT I FIXED IT OH THANK FUCK I GOT THE DAMN THING CLOSED! Scrubbed every part of it and WD40ed all the moving bits and somehow it actually closed. I will not now be opening it until spring.

The "Ovenden window" is the range of policies that I want to do but can't because other people don't want to do them

Well, this is perhaps not the ideal weather for my balcony door to stop closing properly

Classic crank behaviour here. Petty fanaticism, frustrated ego, getting nasty when unsolicited "help" goes unappreciated, and playing the victim when someone objects to the nastiness.

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

The song "Teenage Kicks" is actually about an extremely long pregnancy

Good sky work here

PREQUEL IDEA: Strange Things

Owning a dog is a pretty efficient way of letting your neighbours know how responsible and considerate a person you are

No way am I installing 2026 straight away. Gonna wait a while and see what problems people have with it, maybe some bug fixes get released

Aha, they're semiprimes! Thank you, Martin! bsky.app/profile/mart...

Is there a name for numbers that only have one pair of factors other than themselves and 1? (e.g. 2026, which is 1x2026 and 2x1013 but that's all) Sub-prime numbers? Anyway, happy new year.

If you start watching Casablanca at exactly 7:34:09pm today, you'll finish in plenty of time to get to bed nice and early

I think "bad tweets" and "being a dick online" are poor descriptions of incitement to racist murder. Saying something online is as real as doing so in person or in print. That said, I am an absolutist about citizenship: a UK citizen who's a wrong'un is still a UK citizen. He is, alas, our problem.

I've been to the cinema more this year than I did in the previous three years put together. Think it's largely because of people posting on here about films they've enjoyed. So, let's keep doing that, yeah?

My considered opinion on the honours system is that it's kind of a shame that "Sir Idris" isn't quite a palindrome

Who would ever have imagined that the centre right moving towards the far right while the centre and left cower in silence, would result in something like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I was walking through Kensington with a work colleague and at one point she said "I think that was Douglas Hurd we just went past" so I turned round, but he was walking away from us and I couldn't tell

I will not keep forgetting that the Wikipedia cast list for a thing I'm thinking of watching is liable to be full of spoilers. I will not keep forgetting that the Wikipedia cast list for a thing I'm thinking of watching is liable to be full of spoilers. I will not keep forgetting that the Wikipedia

FOTR: But they were all of them deceived, for another fucking ring was made. TTT: That doesn't make sense to me. But then again, you are very fucking small. ROTK: I am no fucking man.

Just had an idea for Lord of the Rings as farce, where Gandalf really is just a conjurer of cheap tricks who somehow gets caught up in this world-changing epic, but then I realised that's just Rincewind. Oh well, back to the drawing board

The C21 equivalent of "what did I come in here for?" is going to wikipedia to look something up but then forgetting what

Status: physically don't want to eat or drink anything else but morally feel that I ought to

And Thai-knee Tim, who did NOT shut up about the fact that his knees came from Thailand

Merry Christmas to all the strange imaginary friends who live in my phone, hope you're having fun doing whatever it is you do when you're not posting x

Really enjoying the sign on the lavatory door in my parents' church, which says: "Jesus Christ has washed away your sins but you still need to wash your hands"

And Ozymandias, who did NOT die, thereafter wandered around the lone and level sands himself, personally inviting any passing Mighty to look upon his Works and despair