you let trans people on the podium and harassed and cut our mics in front of the entire crowd when we started to mention our mistreatment

“Why can’t I blow up boats in international waters if I want to?” For the same reason I can’t put a knitting needle in your eye for calling me the n-word. But if we’re opening these things up to interpretation, I know which of us is getting their wish first.

“We need an image to go alongside the gig promo” “Oh, just get AI to do it” “Alright, how’s this” “Looks fine to me” (This was ACTUALLY used on a Facebook post)

The thing about these "debate me" ppl is that I actually have debated them. when you present them with facts, the information bounces off their head and back into your face quicker than an Andy Murray backhand return

stop, stop, it’s already dead

This basically means I’m gonna start calling out AI shit when I see it.

They are doing so because they are being told their jobs depend on it and do it or be left behind.

If we're starting "what is a Christmas movie" discourse early this year, I will tap the sign

Glorious. 10/10. No notes.

Airplane (1980)

it’s funny how when people who own big houses are alive they had nothing to do with its value, but when they die their kids shouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax because they worked VERY hard all their lives for it

What a great headline

"Gary Sambrook eats big dinners"

Sometimes I scoff at video game bosses with obvious weak spots in plain sight, begging to be attacked, then I remember my fragile human balls dangling about.

really went dark for the sequel

SCENE: Windswept mountaintop BLOKE: ‘Scuse me mate, can you tell me where the nearest cafe is? ME, WEARING A WINGSUIT: [points] Yeah it’s just over theAAAARRRRGH….

I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.

We’ll never sort anything out in this country until we start thinking of our homes as shelter rather than as the only method of social mobility and wealth transfer available to most people - and no government is brave enough to do it

Thinking about opening a chocolate cake cafe for people who’ve moved away from Greek islands and calling it ‘Ex-Cretians’.

“Mirek, could you provide a photo of you looking anxious” “Sorry I only have this”

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

Wore my shoes that I broke my ankle in, not worn them since Feb. My ankle *felt nervous*.

This is the thing to hang onto - I’m glad people are appalled by Farage’s Nazi sympathies now, but the fact is, he was able to present TV programmes and constantly appear as a sofa guest for decades, booked by people who knew it all. We must reckon with that.

Excited to see lots of op eds in the broadsheets saying it's not fair, actually, bc the author has a £2m house but is actually very poor & it turns out they're a minor aristocrat due to inherit 1/2 of Cheshire & the clothes in their 'poor me' photoshoot cost more than my car

Just ambled over to the kitchen to wash my hands, looked out the window, and saw the woman whose garden is across the way juddering like someone being electrocuted in her kitchen window. I think she saw my stunned silhouette because she suddenly stopped and turned the kitchen light off.

jesus honly christ

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?

If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy. As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero. And that's noteworthy too.

Meet Smeena, your helpful AI assistant! From Crowley Time Episode 40 with special guest Paul F. Tompkins. crowleytime.com @pftompkins.bsky.social

Grok please jangle some shiny keys in front of my face. Nuance level zero

‘Grok do a vulgar roast of this guy’ Grok: ‘He looks like the kind of deeply sad, deeply lonely creep that would use Grok to facilitate his gaping lack of humour or basic human qualities.’

Ever wondered what shit I would get up to when I used to have inspiration? linktr.ee/mrjohnmacleod

Unreal

Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Remember when the entire RW UK press & the now LOTO believed this completely because they'd seen some school bullies say it in a tiktok & it was front page news on the Telegraph for like a week & the now LOTO set Ofsted on the school who came back & went 'nah turns out that's bollocks'

"No Officer, I'm as surprised as you are. There was a dead body in here when I closed the boot!"

Shot + chaser

There are plenty of links between the anti-trans “women’s rights” movement & anti-feminist conservatism. And opposing abortion is a logical conclusion for a movement that says no, you should not have agency over your own body; no, you do not know best about yourself; no, you have no choice.

Zohran coaxing out smiles Eric and Don Jr. have never seen

I find Christmas music soul destroying for reasons I can’t quite fathom. The forced cheer, jangly tone, something makes me want to put my face in a shredder. It’s not “being a grinch”, it’s something intrinsic to the music, I can’t stand it. If I had to work in it for 8hrs a day there’d be crimes.

When I ran a chain of record shops, I have no regrets about discouraging Christmas music being played. “Everywhere else is playing this shite, and we’re a fucking record shop!”

Today in Hearing One Half Of A Phone Conversation: a woman on the train going 'all the more reason to empty your freezer, then. ALL THE MORE REASON.'

"Sir Keir told the BBC: 'Every minute that is spent talking about anything other than cost-of-living is a wasted minute in my book.'" OK, so why does his government keep banging on about immigration? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

23000 lives could have been saved if we hadn’t put an appalling narcissist in charge of government during a pandemic. I hope the report brings some comfort to the families of the bereaved but I doubt it will. Johnson still gets to profit from his obscene failures as a leader.

lmao, but aside from that: 👌

People who think this man would have been any better as PM during covid - did you listen to him in that era?