So there are crazy headlines, and then there are "I'm sorry WTAF now?" headlines...😳 Yes, the Telegraph have deduced that Ed Miliband hates mothers because of some new legislation making tumble dryers more efficient and cheaper to run! 🧵 1/24

We've all had colleagues who are genuinely useless. Replacing a human being who can't do the job with an equally incapable "AI employee" is not thay much of a change. At least I won't have to pretend to respect the robots.

One minute, folks, I'm just going to have to test what happens when you put a negative number into a GoFundMe page...

I hope this was a direct quote from HM.

WOW: The UAE’s decision to quit OPEC looks like one of the biggest crude producers joining the “peak oil demand” camp. Here’s why: 🧵

I dunno, looking at the leaders of our political parties, I think I'd take to drink if any of them were my boss.

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In education, there has always been a tendency to brand those who rush to uncritically embrace technology as leaders. The sooner we reframe that, the better.

Immediately below this was a post about Russell Brand's appearance on Piers Morgan's show. A key change from Bee Major to See Minor.

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i don't know how to parody this anymore

I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

Glad to see he's taking the job of clearing up the shitshow he caused seriously and not just... Oh. Maybe if they mined the bunker on the 13th hole, rather than the Strait of Hormuz, he'd take it a bit more fucking seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Fascinating.

So the Trump administration’s two goals in peace talks with Iran are: 1. A commitment by Iran not to develop a nuke (This was part of the Obama deal that Trump canceled) 2. Opening the Strait of Hormuz. (Was open before war.)

at my first book launch I gave three of my closest friends minus ones (they could look at the guestlist before I sent the invites and remove one person each), think it should be a more widespread practice

The United States lost the war with Iran and is now also forcing the rest of the world to pay the reparations the US owes.

I am, and it is, and no, they don't

Chamberlain was famous for attempting to appease the Nazis. Surely that's *exactly* what Trump wants?

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

Well, if America would only see fit to actually make some use of their oft-vaunted constitutional checks and balances, we wouldn't be in this stupid fucking situation.

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

I would maybe argue that sending people on a lap around the moon is something you can do once you have a population that isn't at risk of bankruptcy from a bloody hospital visit.

Maybe if you held back from starting stupid fucking wars (that, incidentally, make life more expensive for the citizens of your country), you could afford to give a shit about your population.

I dunno, I generally think that being "fundamentally ignorant about teaching skills and pedagogy" is less of a bug and more a feature with *most* ed tech...

Every time you think we've hit peak stupidity...

We really need to be saying, "What a piece of shit this guy is" more often.

Sometimes you just don't *need* to check who is involved, do you?

I see that much like with the original SNL, they've opted to hire writers who... aren't funny.

"Open the Strait of Hormuz. You may not receive the help of any other sovereign nation. Fastest wins."

Ideally the President of the United States and the stupidest person on the planet should be two different people…

"Cod and chips please." "I already served you." "No you didn't." "Yes I did."

I look forward to Trump "showing some guts" and personally escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz, if it's so bloody safe.

“I have *massively* shat the bed. Please come over with fresh linen.”

I think I may have cracked it

Amused by the unstated implication here that there are people who are choosing to stay in a war zone rather than spend two hours on an Avanti train from Manchester to Euston.

Really looking forward to this exhibition at the Whitworth Art Gallery, from 14 March: Beneath the Great Wave: Hokusai and Hiroshige www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exh...

“HIELANMAN'S UMBRELLA” should be a new law of journalism, which states that if AI generated photos are used in a news article, all reporting from that publication should be instantly distrusted.

The Trump Administration's choice to end their "Shield for the Americas" summit with the Monty Python Flying Circus theme march is inspired. I take back everything bad I ever said about the regime (That ~2 second dropped signal is, I assume, some AV guy cackling as he zooms in on Kristi Noem)

CANNIBALS.

Statements like this are probably doing more for Starmer's popularity than anything Starmer himself has ever done.

*Please* tell me that this means we get all of Little Miss TERF's shitty franchise crap out of King's Cross Station...

What is it, topical sulfuric acid cream?

So the US asked Israel to launch the attack on Iran [which the two countries planned together], in order to give the US war dubious legal cover. Once Israel attacked, Iran was likely to retaliate against the US, ergo US attack on Iran is defensive. QED. Suez, the slapstick version.

"Unless it's in America, in which case it's probably us."

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He *is* a distant turd, though.

Lawyer: “Probably best not to dress like a sex offender when you’re heading into court.” Russell Brand:

Anyone remember the MOOC craze? Or “learning styles”? For a bunch of supposed academics, our “leaders” are amazingly credulous.