EXCL: Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members. And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Post a tree you photographed.

Rob Grant, one of the two creators of Red Dwarf has died. Smeg. #RedDwarf www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/1719...

Oh smeg. 😢

And while we’re on that… 🤣

Yep, that’s quite fun. @andr3wsmith.bsky.social

“Many contracts just rollover, just like the public authorities that let them.” This is a salutary article about public procurement, written by a lawyer who has worked in the field. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

Share a TV show that raised you.

Bravo. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

I have *no words*. 😵‍💫

Happy Valentine’s Day.

I’ve always liked to imagine they were larking about in a Zero Room.

And not for the first time… 🫩 www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/c...

Hello, old friend. cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is...

Taking a beat.

Tim Curry. Jane Tranter. Phil Wang. (One of which was *very much* a TIL.)

Thank heaven for Ikegamis! #totp #thestranglers

"Well, there it is." (smiles benignly through awkward truth-bomb) "There it is."

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

But the rewards… the REWARDS!! 🥹

Evri work on quantum principles: they can tell you the velocity of your parcel, or its position, but never both. If they say it's on its way, they've no idea where it is. If they know where it is, its stuck somewhere and not moving.

I’m no fan of our endless tendency to try and ape American culture. But I can’t say I’d object to British politics adopting some of *this* energy…

I know everyone on the Cool Internet hates AI, but does anyone know where I can find the Even Cooler Internet where everyone still hates AI, but more importantly DOESN'T EVER POST IT?

The government’s suggestion that rolling out 20 minute courses on writing “AI“ prompts, sponsored by Google, Microsoft and Amazon, is somehow comparable to the founding of the Open University (the Wilson government‘s, & Jennie Lee’s, proudest achievement), is an insult to our human intelligence.

Where my brain goes *straight away*. #Blakes7

Blakelikes? 🤔

It’s certainly a good start IME.

Quote post with a picture of you being a dork

Delighted to have played a small part in Tim’s epic quest. Now to find someone with with one* they want to sell… 🤨 * five seems greedy

Feel like I just got a *tiny* step closer to pinning down the bucket seats that were used to dress the Scorpio flight deck. Wrong bolsters, but I've not seen another headrest quite so right. cc @thetimdickinson.bsky.social (who's probably ahead of me already) www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16783909... #Blakes7

Good heavens! cc: @robertpopper.bsky.social

I've been leaning towards Tubi being the streaming service, and now I think it's official: they have Season 1 and Season 2 of one of the best science and technology comedy shows ever made… "Look Around You". Thanks, Tubi. Thubi. tubitv.com/series/30001...

There is a passage from The Ministry for the Future that keeps coming back to me, where Kim Stanley Robinson explains that there are only 500 or 1,000 powerful people in the whole world who are preventing us from properly fighting climate change or simply striving for a better world.

See also: Matthew Rhys as Avon? #TheBeastInMe #Blakes7

If you see this, post your green.

Also: don’t forget to make it endlessly, *insanely* memeworthy.

This is pretty awesome to see too. Thanks to all the guardians of the memory of BBC TVC, and all who sensed I was in need of cheering up today. These have certainly been a very welcome shot in the arm. ☺️

Wonderful. 🥰

I mean, it’s not like it’s an *especially* wide field for me, but it has been a while… 6itbb.com/tvc/b7-d13/

So many I could watch - and occasionally have watched - endlessly. But none I love quite so much as The Leisure Hive.

Still entirely valid 2½ years on. Not that I’m going to hold my breath.

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

This is a fantastic article with a lot of simple explanations in it of everyday counterintuitive bullshit, just as you’d expect from Cory Doctorow. Yeah AI is a bubble. But what sort of bubble? Who puffed it up? And what do we do? www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Heck, with Tim Kirkby lined up to direct, why stop there? 🤣

european-alternatives.eu For people who don’t want to depend on US technology

Great thread. As in so many realms, “doesn’t matter” is so much more usefully framed as “doesn’t matter as much as you seem to think”. Everything matters. But balance is everything and I’m instantly wary of anyone suggesting we should bump *people* down the list.

Same. 🥲

There’s only one downside I can see to this plan : if it nixed the prospect of our ever seeing Paul McGann return as The Doctor. Also, heck - Hugh Laurie as The Master. Just *two minor* flaws. I’ll come in again.