As ever, happy birthday to all June-14th-ers, except one.

The Socceroos are a true reflection of what Australia is. People from all over the world and different backgrounds trying to make a better life for themselves. We should be very proud of that. Those racist grifters who try to sow the seeds of hate and division will never succeed. 🦘💚💛🇦🇺

Please read the whole thing. It's absolutely worth it.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

My coping strategy: mentally replace 'AI' with 'the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'Let's speed this up using the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy.' 'As always with the boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy, make sure you check twice.' 'Start again. The boss's 8 year-old nephew, Jimmy, fucked it up.'

Men and their Ducks Part One

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

Special report: the great World Cup rip-off - Fifa's central role beyond tickets - Fifa REJECTED similar plans in 1994 - all decisions from president's office - Fifa, the "safeguards", usher in a model club owners crave - Fifa going against own statutes www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...

These numbers should be amplified everywhere there is a flat surface. The 3,000 person sample size was statistically significant. The direction of travel is positive but runs directly contrary to the perception born in the echo-chamber of Twitter-brained media and politics. (H&CC is a client)

www.maptap.gg April 27 94🏅 99🎯 99🎯 92🏆 96🔥 Final score: 955

28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans. This (long!) thread recounts the events surrounding the flight, capture & execution of Mussolini (Photo: last known photo of Mussolini alive, as he leaves Milan on the evening of 25 April 1945) [Thread] >> 1

Very much open to correction but think I might've found Peig. #1926Cencus #TheStoryOfUs nationalarchives.ie/collections/...

The 1926 Irish census was released online today. An amazing resource and very easy to use. Found all of my grandparents and great grandparents relatively quickly. Very poignant to see the actual handwriting of my great grandparents 100 years ago. #speirgorm nationalarchives.ie

If you seek an explanation though, the replies on this page suggest a man called Gary Dawkes was “the journo responsible for this tomfoolery back in 1978 when I was a young reporter on the Peterborough Standard which began using new OCR [optical character recognition] technology”

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

This is an actual photo of the future Pope when he was in the seminary. Apparently he was a big fan of the Blues Brothers.

Caught a bit of that Yesterday movie on TV last night. Made me realise that I really do like the songs. It's the fucking Beatles I can't stand.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is the good shit.

This may be on the final exam, good luck! (No seriously, an excellent go at summarising a truly batshit number of years of history)

Excellent thread by @ksadjadpour.bsky.social:

I downloaded the high-res version of this amazing picture from the Artemis crew and did a little edit to make it look more like what the astronauts might actually see! Enjoy the picture and then check out the thread below explaining what you’re looking at… 🧪 #artemis #artemisii #space #moon

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

That time Ronnie Drew was nearly driven mad by a parrot in Dublin zoo

It's the birthday of Douglas Adams! Time to share favorite quotes!

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

A savage, magnificent, virtuosic and unlikely to be surpassed evisceration of "Mummy's Favourite". www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It will take more than one post to list all the ways in which the right have no media literacy whatsoever. They love the noise & sound films & TV make without understanding what any of it means. So anyway, let's go through some of the clips they used in support of their illegal and immoral war. 1/7

But what happens if the sex overruns? The itinerary is ruined!

Haven't been able to get this one out of my head. Magnificent writing. Harrowing. RFK Jr has a lot to answer for! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

Our statement regarding last week's proposal to introduce a mandate on helmets and high-visibility gear for people who cycle 🚴‍♂️ Such a measure would be folly - for everybody on the road. Helmet and visibility mandates do not make cycling safer. Transport planning centred on people, however, does 🌍

It will very much be worth your time to read this.

VIEWER'S COMPETITION SHORTLIST: we're posting two of fave #ceefauxviewscomp entries each weekday and will count up the most likes/comments/reshares in 24 hours. 3/20 by @nedkelly.bsky.social

I'm trying a new "see how well AI image gen is" test. This time I'm going to ask it to draw a map of the world, and then zoom in to Europe, the UK, Yorkshire and York to see when things start to get hazy. All of these are with the free models using the smart/thinking variants. 1/n

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

This is incredibly well done, and totally damning. Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

This Fred Astaire bit is incredible. The timing and precision. www.youtube.com/watch?v=34vi...