800 words on newspaper economics in a era where no one will pulp a magazine

Just finished this. An absolute joy to hear two people who just love films. Some of which are futuristic prison breaks.

let me tell you this: margaret thatcher would not have stood by peter mandelson for being friends with jeffrey epstein! she would have befriended epstein *herself*, had home over to christmas dinner several times, and knighted him against official advice!

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Also whenever you see that Epstein spent 13 months in jail for child sex trafficking , don’t merely be shocked by the brevity of the sentence , he was also allowed back home for approximately 12 hours every day

🇬🇧✊🌀 Ubisoft : enough is enough! Faced with the arbitrary decision of the CEO who doesn’t even dare talking to employees anymore, unions are calling for a strike on February 10th, 11th and 12th.

The extent of Renfrew Christie’s heroism, and what it accomplished, is astonishing!

THREAD. A collection of random dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside. You will find the captions to the photos in the alt text.

A big bumper anniversary for the strike map project and gang.

Me and my friends would’ve killed the Grinch with hammers I can tell you that much

I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.

Deeply sad news

I've included this as a reply to yesterday's post about the Rockstar comment, but here's IWGB's full response this morning.

AI Ghost of Christmas Future: You’re absolutely right, with some minor dietary adjustments and some targeted new year layoffs, you could definitely avoid this fate. Would you like me to work up a quick five step plan?

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Nigel Farage didn't racially abuse anyone in a hurtful way and Graham Linehan doesn't harass trans people. The UK today.

Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

I'm concerned that the prize fund of Come Dine With Me hasn't at all kept pace with inflation. Ignoring the inflation from the time of actually shooting the episodes until airing - the prize fund should be around £1785 . @channel4tv.bsky.social

Like film? In London? You should already know about this - but if you've not got your tickets, you know what to do.

Thank you to everyone amplifying this. It's massively appreciated.

More or less accurate than Timothy Claypole or Rentaghost?

We, the workers at Bethesda Games Studios, express our solidarity and support for the developers at Rockstar Games. Last month’s firings in the UK and Canada were a clear and disgusting case of union busting.

Got called a chubby lefty on YouTube, so proud - I used to be a morbidly obese lefty.

succubus - female demon that seduces men incubus - male demon that seduces women vengabus - non-binary demon that likes to party

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby] Christopher Robin, Shooting his mouth off while pissed in the pub with the boys, Nah, they're just toys

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there is actually an “extreme conditions” ikea lab in new york, where they test how hard it is to assemble the furniture in any given circumstance. they say that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.

So ghastly. So great.

I don't like to boast but also when you've really achieved something. It should be shared.

Beep booo apparently I'm an ai. Would you like to play a game?

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Google search's AI summary is like the loud confident idiot in the room who doesn't always know the answer to your question but HAS TO be the first one to reply to it.

People ask me when we'll know the alphabet town wars have started, and I say, when

What really undermines our movement is a Labour government that turns its back on workers and lashes out at unions instead of listening to them. This is a defining moment. Stop attacking those who keep our public services running and show some leadership.

I try to just be silly online but what’s going on in Gaza is just gut wrenchingly heartbreaking and it might be a drop in the ocean but we need to speak up and dissent. Compassion is one of our greatest gifts and sometimes it seems so absent. Humanitarian aid and intervention is needed now!!

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

The news media is looking at trans people for its latest (also, ongoing) target. The news media needs to be looking at billionaires instead. An actual threat to many of us, whose use of pretty much infinite money is keeping proper scrutiny/tax bills at bay.

The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵 1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?

Harris CEO is the highest-paid education employee in England, earning between £560-570K (total compensation) last year. His staff have asked for improvements to workload but the Federation’s response is that they cannot afford changes. This is a blatant injustice.

Something that makes me really sad is seeing the teachers who write the testimonials on AI edtech products having to get second jobs as stock photography models. Teachers like "Michelle (8th Grade Teacher)" deserve a living wage!

@davepikesheff.bsky.social welcome comrade.

@robshorrock.bsky.social Was unaware of your shark enjoyment - have you opinions on whales and other fat air-fish?

I leave this for others to say

Milton Glaser, Therapy with a Tomato, 1978