Humanity is good, actually.

Sitting with the fact that this casino hotel has an area called the North District.

All in on goose horse.

Starting the year with water coming from the ceiling, which hopefully is not how 2026 is fated to continue.

Happy new year, everybody!

Kings of Leon did predict this tbf 😬

Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up https://theonion.com/australia-admits-all-those-animals-made-up/

TIL: Before Hans Asperger or Leo Kanner, a Jewish-Ukrainian psychiatrist named Grunya Sukhareva defined autism in 1925. Both men did not cite her work. She also had documented how it affected women and girls, where the men did not. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunya_...

Given that this is clearly a picture of Stacker Pentecost, I assume that the war in question is "giant robots versus Godzillas".

I mean, I have no idea how you get to "lower air pollution" as being "woke", but this is maybe the clearest statement of a design for life ever produced by the Guardian's "Dining Across the Divide", which is generally one of the worst newspaper features ever to exist.

Society breaking down completely on this first-day-back train to London, but of course the real cause of the scarcity is that 40% of the train is first class, and almost empty. To the gates!

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Amazing.

And Jamie's bit, which did NOT die...

I just finished this and it's delightful!

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Merry Christmas, Bluesky!

Merry Christmas! On my way to the butchers to get the biggest goose in the shop, been saving up all year. I assume nobody else will suddenly purchase it out from under me

They used to "laugh and call him names." Now they're all dead

Just for the record, I would be bang up for losing £32m if I was also allowed to keep £68m.

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

Genuinely interested in the possibility that universities may need to add a column to the speaker spreadsheet saying "Will report us to the OfS and possibly sue if their speech is not advertised heavily enough".

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So, from having rewatched a few episodes, the basic plot of Star Trek: The Next Generation is that the Enterprise comes to a planet, makes things worse by its presence, and then leaves without doing anything to resolve the issues its presence exacerbated?

Fight, indeed, the moon.

'apogee was inducted into the shareware hall of fame, by the shareware industry awards foundation, as part of an initial group of 52 inductees. apogee was awarded this honor for "valuable contribution to the shareware industry."' (1997) web.archive.org/web/19990125...

I quite like it!

Interesting from a proofreading perspective - the reason the Guardian is calling Sex Matters a "rights group" now rather than a "women's rights group" is that they are, from a litigious perspective, men's rights activists.

Video games can just look like this.

I mean, I don't think people will be queuing around the block to employ her as a nurse, after the whole harassment thing, and the Pakistan floods thing, and the "name for Chinese people" thing, so I guess this is her job now?

“Did you like that necklace I got you? You don’t remember? I gave it to you last week. You said you loved it. You really forgot that quickly?”

OK, but what if they are _union jack_ face masks? How about then?

I think UKGov might have discovered a very specific subset of nudge theory, which I am christening Nudge Nudge Wink Wink Theory.

This feels like it might potentially not be optimal.

Unironically can't believe I missed Finnish independence day!

The thing about Omelas is that it is a great place to live, but you don't want to be talking to Isaac Chotiner about your role in urban planning and design _in_ Omelas.

Did someone just _shush_ Edward Adu on the Today Program?

Open question: what, in your opinion, does the BBC do better than anything in the private sector? Not necessarily for your benefit, but what does the BBC do that means it or to exist in its present form?

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Impressively, not only did the tribunal find that she had harassed her coworker, but also that she was untruthful on the stand, her lawyer asked bizarre questions and her star witness was not answering questions candidly. Quite a lot of texture in that ruling, quite a lot of very smooth reporting...

Wow.

Robocop 2 (1990)

Well, that's my evening, then.

Apart from the strangeness of the language - "non-biological people" sounds like a woke term for AIs in Black Mirror - this makes clear that Baroness Falkner came into her job at the EHRC believing that the net amount of human rights in the UK was too high, and that her job was to lower that amount.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Repeatedly asking the supermarket staff for a 'chocolate battle pass' and feigning misunderstanding when they ask if I mean 'advent calendar'

As we celebrate Cyber Monday today, please save a thought for everyone responsible for bringing it to us.

But surely that would make the criminal disqualifyingly easy to identify?

"A late contender for the best single issue of 2026." Bam Smack Pow on their books of the week, specifically The Power Fantasy #13.

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