Which means that the next story about a suspiciously large short position in oil should drop in 3, 2, 1...

90% of British BlueSky after getting *that* BBC News alert just now

If you use AI as a search engine or fact database you’re going to get burned. I love how people treat it as a real person but without applying any of the judgment they learned their whole lives to apply to real people.

Reminder that we are still sending out anti-ICE whistles to anyone who needs them! Any quantity from 100-3000. Free. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Actually said "fucking hell" out loud when they explained why they hadn't allowed her the opportunity to have a friend, TU representative or colleague in the meeting. Christ, they are going to lose any lawsuit badly. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Count Binface actually sat in the Lords until 1999. It's a Norman title originally, 'Bien-fache,' 'of good countenance'

Cartoon from 2005: Ann Widdecombe and her High Church Mice

Wheeling out this classic. RIP Anne "Bone Farmer" Widdecombe

Nothing can tarnish Count Binface, he's galvanised the nation!

Also, #britishlibrarycrimeclassics, republish Lois Austen-Leigh's other book, you cowards:

Entertainment.

So much radical. So much populist. So much anti-establishment

In my experience, scholars of a particular historical period are the LEAST uptight about "accuracy" in fictional representations of their period, which is why, as a medievalist, I can assure you that A Knight's Tale is the greatest movie set in medieval England that has ever been made.

I think people have a hard time intuitively understanding that this method of inquiry is far more effective than debating fascists. They're all bad faith crazy talkers. You gotta uno reverse that shit.

If any of you are on LinkedIn - first, I am sorry. And second: I have been cajoled into writing things about the ares of law I do actually practice in - commercial and media law. And so you can sign up for a new stream of my drivel here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/mercan...

When Lucy from Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, was victim to shoplifting people told her to install CCTV. Instead she put this ancient book thief curse on the wall from the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona so book stealers would be consumed by "the flames of hell" with "their members blasted".

"Can you give us an example of a time you had to adapt and accommodate rapid change?"

The true reason for Social Media is revealed, to get clips like this

🎶I'm a bitch, I'm a mother I just ate Brian Glover I'm a xenomorph in space Look at his gurning face🎶

Living the dream.

My "Bridget Philipson is actually bad on more than just Trans rights" take is holding up pretty damn well

“We used to think AI-generated fiction would always be obvious, and we were not prepared.” A small press was nearly tricked into publishing AI-generated stories. This is how they fought back. An essential read. www.bona-books.com/news/we-boug...

I think the way I resolve it in my mind, is that the fact Farage felt able to call such a by-election says everything you need to know about the mess the Tory Party is in. A healthy Tory Party would be too much of a live threat in Clacton for Farage to even think of giving them a free hit

Having failed to interest any papers in this story, I resorted to writing a letter to The Times, like in olden times. So when all that's left to watch is NASCAR racing sponsored by Cheetos, I can at least say I tried. #ITV #Sky #Comcast

My mom's super active in a lot of Disney park pages where she'll find threads of people asking about hotels, parks, planning, and offer advice. And more than once it's crossed my mind that this sort of thing could once have been a paid position with a company.

Saw a meme of GenZ baffled by how pre-internet travel worked, and realized we’ve crossed an enshittification threshold where IRL services that once seemed outdated, like travel agents, now seem luxurious: “You meet with a human expert who plans out your whole trip with you” sounds incredible now tbh

lots of new people on my feed because of yesterday's jeremiad... and i feel some duty to give a little bit of a pep talk, because, yeah, i get it, that shit's kinda dire, so buckle up, here's the part where i tell you why it's worth it to deal with all the slings and arrows...

Zelensky is a comedian who ran as a joke and ended up fighting a superpower in the bloodiest war since WWII. I hope Count Binface is ready for that responsibility.

A good day to remind you all that you can spend £5.50 on a 28mm @countbinface.bsky.social model from Troublemaker Games, £3 of which goes to NHS supporting charities Now who is selling some frog faced fiends and a scale model pier for them to fight over? www.troublemakergames.co.uk/product-page...

It's been a point that's been argued to a brick-wall my entire professional life but if you take a cold hard look at the relative successes, compounding economic benefits, and global standing of British industries the treatment of the performing arts is a completely mad kind of self harm

In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope

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I once asked a priest to bless a printer that I was in the middle of fighting with and he went "I only bless things when there's a chance it'll take" and then turned and walked out of the room.

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

when i was young they had these people called “investigative journalists” who could find out stuff like if a senator was dead or not

Just a re-up on how very safe London is, whether you're wearing a watch or not

I verbed a noun in Reno, just to stick it to l’Académie Française.

Live your life so that at the end, when you are hospitalized and people are debating if you are dead, very nearly dead, or brain-dead but still breathing restfully, the matter isn't an endless source of internet comedy, contempt-filled criticism and weekend-at-Bernie jokes.

If you missed it yesterday, I added some new - and HIDDEN - paths to i will strangle a horse! It leads to an announcement for something brand new. I think one person has found it so far... (I also fixed a couple of typos and definitely added one, but sonit goes) Anyway! Can YOU find the new path?

My next #CommandoComics story, #5975 Harrier Squadron: Ghost Flight, is out this month! "Across battle-scarred Europe, the fragile peace is under threat and only Harrier Squadron — an international allied task force — can prevent a flight of bandit 'ghost fighters' from re-igniting the conflict!"

See? If they hadn't been so intent on getting the suspension suspended the USA could have gone for years with a sense of grievance about what could have been if only Balogun had been allowed to play. Injustice is a basic fuel of football, allowing the imagination to soar, creating dreams of what if.

Somewhere out there is a football fan in Britain who composed a devastatingly insulting chant about a rival team's midfielder's recent divorce, set to the tune of an aria from Carmen. Imagine the disgust on their face when they see this mockery of an ancient tradition.

Two chants I always remember as being top tier are "we're actually winning, you must be shit" and "we get beaten every week, you're not special'. Like, there's an actual depth of humour and personality there.

Steve Hoffstetter on the Belgian match...

I had a long rant about this, but honestly what’s the point? If in the year of our lord 2026 you’re still convinced by Musk’s lying and bullshit, you’re either a fellow traveller or a sucker.

Why I can't bring myself to read Neal Asher these days.

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/