The US Ambassador to Iceland saying he’s going to make it “the 52nd State” good luck with that, they regularly provide about half the competitors for World’s Strongest Man despite having a smaller population than Stockport and beat Britain TWICE at Naval warfare despite not having a Navy.

This notion of “convenience at all costs” in consumer goods and services was always a little demeaning, but it’s gone from vaguely irritating to “We will assume you can’t tie your own shoes or open doors on your own” levels of insulting.

There is such a wild disconnect between companies obsession with forcing AI in to everything & the public’s hatred of it.

I saw a post the other day that said something like “every use case of AI boils down to imagine you are in a situation and you are an idiot” and it is so true.

why is every company trying to make nonconsensual porn of my family. i just want food.

LLMs are spam generators. That is all. They're designed to generate plausibly human-like text well enough to pass a generic Turing Test. That's why people believe they're "intelligent". But really, all they are is spam generators. We have hit the spamularity.

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves. Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

Incredible piece of Search Engine Optimisation

This Tom Waits?

A bizarre, brief, astonishing period when you could stick BBC2 on at 7pm and find yourself watching Butthole Surfers or Napalm Death or Nitzer Ebb while you ate your tea. What a show.

Starmer has put people in charge of Labour's electoral and comms strategy who are entirely clueless about, indifferent to and/or openly contemptuous of Labour's electoral base. If Starmer will not change them - and he won't - Labour's only hope is to change him.

Reform is a private Limited company majority-owned by one man, in the interests of making money for that man and the shareholders. We should casually talk about the inevitability of a Reform government the same way we’d talk about casually selling the country to Dyson or Wetherspoons.

Number of cats I own: 0 Number of cats fighting in my living room: 2

Another great win for Trump’s trade policy.

1982 Roy Batty: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… 2026 Studio Exec: thanks to AI special effects, we’re proud to announce Things You People Wouldn’t Believe: The Adventures Of Young Roy Batty-

This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

A key point that always gets missed here is that you need 1k streams *per year* to keep receiving anything from spotify. It's incredibly hard for DIY artists to hit that threshold once, let alone repeating it every 12 months just for a tiny payout. Whole thing is fucked.

Things I have seen on social media this morning.

This is pure evil

I find Gmail’s new “write this for me” feature deeply sinister. They’re trying to convince you that you are dumb and helpless. Don’t let them steal your ability to formulate thoughts and communicate. You were capable of writing an email in 2022 and you’re capable now.

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

Holy shit, that’s just actual theft.

Starmer's Labour is now a grimly unpleasant anti-immigrant cult.

You can’t give away a Nobel Peace Prize, however you can give away every shred of your dignity & integrity.

transformation

It is essentially Wiki going "we can't put the genie back in the bottle but we can damn sure charge him rent"

This man is apparently one of the country’s top political journalists. Embarrassing.

Have kids, they said. It'll be fun, they said.

NEWS: We’re taking a step back from making records & playing live shows in order to focus on our music production workshops for young people facing barriers here in Leeds. We’re currently running them in two very different neighbourhoods and both are yielding positive outcomes for the young folks 🥰

Then: constitutional law should be boring, not exciting. Now: constitutional law should be boring, not terrifying.

Dropkick Murphys are releasing a new song called "Citizen I.C.E." The lyrics go: "Too scared to join the military/ Too dumb to be a cop." consequence.net/2026/01/drop...

We're a windy little shit-tip

Woman in Stoke Newington: If they can clone dogs, could I clone my cat? Man: I doubt it. Woman: Why? Man: Everything's more difficult with cats. Art by BECK. Words by me.

Immigration has been nothing but a net benefit to this country for decades. We need it to keep the country functional.

There was a tweet years ago that was something like "you'd have to be incredibly stupid to care which patch of dirt someone's parents fucked on" and that has always stuck with me

A real cunts gallery.

Why?

Reform should buy the whole album in one go because its cheaper than buying individual tracks.

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been

Sure. AI companies have ALWAYS been training their models on Wikipedia content, which under the free and open access model is available to anyone — including AI companies. Agreements like these require AI companies to limit and offset the strain they place on Wikimedia infrastructure.

Imagine if there was a controversy involving Cards Against Humanity and a journalist interviewed a deck of Cards Against Humanity cards.

It’s funny really. Extreme left wing generally means we want nice things for everyone, working public services, equal opportunities & the like. On the other hand, extreme right wing means deporting your neighbours, taking away your human rights & privatising the NHS. Tough choices.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Getting the feeling that Jenrick’s copied much of this speech from Father Ted’s Golden Cleric acceptance…

Reforms key message is now you absolutely can get exactly the same politics as the last losing Tory government only under the auspices of the somewhat invisible MP for Clacton. Some real strong positioning here

🥂 Dry January is a positive thing for our bodies and minds. Less booze. Better sleep. Clearer heads. We’re all for that... But it’s also a really tough month for grassroots music venues, where margins are already razor-thin - and quieter gigs in January can tip things over the edge.

he's resigning to follow his dream and become an ACTUAL clown

"And what would YOU bring to Reform, Mr Jenrick?" "Glad you asked, Nigel. My special skill is being outmanoevred by Kemi Badenoch. Twice."