"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."

The PhD position within my research group is still open. This project is joint with Profs David Mills and Nik Kaltsoyannis looking at the synthesis and bonding in main group heterobimetallic dimetallocenes. Closing date 6th March www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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.

Given economists' track records at making accurate predictions, maybe *they* are replaceable by AI...

Take a minute to marvel at the ineptness of this AI and to enjoy everybody dunking on it in the replies but, once you have done that, I have a serious point. The racist arseholes *have* to turn to AI for their vision of the past because it is *fictional*. Genuine stock footage doesn't support it.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

This (about the 'new' Grammarly AI toolset) is absolutely terrifying, not because the tool is good, but because it is an easy, all-in-one, way to avoid thinking any thoughts or doing any work at all *and 3000 universities say its OK to use*. www.carleton.edu/ai/blog/gram...

There's a Mack Forehand competing in the skiing. With a name like that, I would've assumed he was a Toast of London character...

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country? Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

I’m not a fan of these rationalisations of Ratcliffe’s outburst. 5D chess this isn’t. He’s an unabashed old-fashioned nativist cunt.

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

PwC somehow more lucid on AI and education than most university leaders these days

Almost impossible to get across how strongly a former foreign office head must feel about Antonia Romeo's potential appointment as cabinet secretary to make this intervention (from 11 mins in or so) youtu.be/4QCFOKd8hlg?...

Seems like a slow way to achieve gentrification in Birmingham. Probably easier to start by emptying the bins, and/or a live test firing of a Trident missile.

... says UK tax-avoiding immigrant to Monaco. Prick.

Is that the "coming-of-age" that means he'll stop coming across as a dickhead aspiring-politician sixth-former?

As something of a specialist in mitigation, “Actually I took my children with me to Paedo Island” is not what I would open with.

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Seriously? Starmer may be shit, but Streeting is *a* shit. I wouldn't trust the smarmy bastard as far as I could throw him.

Is she going to unveil a deceptive and nonsensical bar graph? Apart from propping up the occasional evil Tory government and Ed Davey going surfing, I'm not sure what else they do.

Seriously, if you’re on #ChemChat or #ChemSky and not following @inprep.bsky.social I don’t know what to say Best chem satire this side of @chemscrapes.bsky.social

He could easily live a life of joy, but he chose power instead.

We won’t take instruction on freedom of expression from a regime that censors research, attacks universities, deploys lawfare against the media and kills protestors in broad daylight.

A year to the day since Mandelson told the FT that their questions about Epstein were "an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off." I wonder if the paper sent him a card, @pickardje.bsky.social?

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

in *2018*

Reminded of the time that a BBC World Service presenter asked their guest how long there had been a Latino presence in Los Angeles and I yelled at my car stereo, “The name of the city is **LOS ANGELES**!”

"Dad, open your Christmas presents!" "Not now, I'm emailing Jeffrey Epstein."

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago