It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

Driving over the speed limit may kill a lot of people, but it also gets some people to work on time etc etc etc

everyone on one social media site uses all the other sites as derogatory terms despite the fact that theres like 5 websites left and people use at least 3 at the same time

just saw someone in a durham university college puffer jacket and not to get too snobby with it but they are not beating the allegations

“What happened to <insert public intellectual>?” Oh they’re stupid. They’ve always been stupid, in the sense that the ideas they have are bad. They experience the world in a stupid way and draw stupid conclusions because they’re stupid. People just think they’re smart because they had a blog

Did he get stung by a fucking bee or what

yeah I'm involved in unethical non monogamy. no no, nobody's cheating on anyone else; me and my polycucle just operate a whaling ship.

one of my favourite silly little Oxford things is the number of people who will use the ‘hearses at daybreak’ line completely sincerely. it’s always funny and it always winds up being true

i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer

global adoption of linux gets pushed back by 6 years every time a Linux Guy starts talking at me like max headroom

Elon Musk is getting straight-up outclassed by Chinese crank billionaires with equally insane breeding fetishes.

I’m thrilled that Dick Van Dyke made it to 100 years old, and I also find it hilarious that he’s apparently too old to play with LEGO. Him specifically.😆

new sleep paralysis demon just dropped. this will be appearing in the corner of your room tonight

mainstream liberal parties like the democrats are partners to their conservative colleagues in maintaining a misogynist/white supremacist system, & it is always odd when you see criticism of that system misread as what it is actually criticizing. it is 'mediocre white man' to not love chuck schumer

His life seems so cool, in like a happy-for-him way. One or two vacation movies on autopilot a year and every decade or so you make an effort and do an outstanding job.

kind of great to see “opuscule” in the wild

Well, I think I found the problem guys.

Amazing stuff.

"While the [Tai Po] tragedy itself was horrifying, the Hong Kong government’s reaction has been equally alarming. Instead of demonstrating accountability and responsiveness to public concern, authorities have adopted a defensive posture centered on political security." 💯🔥 Also THIS 👇

All monarchs are parasitic scum of course, but the Thai monarchy really goes above and beyond

Late but strong entrant for most naive post of the year

Thank goodness because I’ve felt crazy yelling at people that they were watching commercials and pretending they were fun

What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft? 'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social. New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2

If anyone remembers that list which said historians were second in line to be replaced by AI, I've had some thoughts about it... and how it relates to some aspects of public history and the current climate facing historians. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Justice Secretary is refusing to meet me to discuss the well-being of my constituent, Amu, who is 40 days into their hunger strike. I have written to express my dismay over the government's lack of urgency, care and humanity toward people at risk of death.

none of the ai slop commercials these companies churn out will have even one-tenth of the cultural impact as the folgers incest commercial and i think that's beautiful

The heist, "caught on film", had texture and warmth and an indescribable aura of authenticity that it would have lacked had it been shot with digital cameras.

This is incredibly fucked up

with the caveat that lizza is an unreliable narrator, its really hard make a case that nuzzi’s personal conduct in how she conducted the affair (and herself in general) is some tawdry distraction from The Bigger Issues (TM)

i think a lot of this throat clearing comes from an puritanical urge to scold people for eating up the story as a lurid personal scandal, but its far too late for that. the mess we are in is precisely, across the board, about influential people whose lives are public trainwrecks

ALSO THE SET DESIGN IS AN EARLY ONE BY THE GOAT KEN ADAM (who would go on to design every cool james bond set ever as well as the absolutely banging sets for chitty chitty bang bang)

Tonight you'll be visited by three spirits

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

Came across yet another "what about Sudan" guy who didn't know what the RSF was

You absolutely couldn’t write it better. Amazing.

Home Office Ministers state publicly, on the record, that they are deliberately making life worse for older people and people with disabilities who depend on care services, but it's worth it because it reduces net migration.

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honestly we gotta hand it to the french fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariann...

Yes, again, none of “democracy or freedom and equality” are compatible with systematically destroying a subject populace of non-people who have no rights, that you have conquered and now rule over and murder with total impunity.

a 'fun fact' about hk is that someone representing the big banks or travel agents and airlines can vote against a bill to grant same-sex couples married overseas the same rights as other married couples when it comes to hospital visits and medical decisions

only one place the country got it right. the people yearn for unigov en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unigov

Instant all-timer here:

If two cities are touching, that’s just one big city. If municipal boundaries don’t reflect that, they’re wrong and should be changed.

“Albuquerque is a more populous city than Miami“ is one of those true facts that prove municipal boundaries in the US must be destroyed

nearly two years later it's time for us to admit that if anything i think katie's rating is far too generous

Trump: I fucked your mother. Starmer: Thank you, I'm happy she has companionship in her old age.

> getting rid of jury trials [Labour] > deporting anyone found guilty of a crime [Conservative] > getting rid of ILR [Reform UK] does uh. no one see the gestalt policy that is being formed here?

The UK couldn’t have an Olivia Nuzzi situation because all of the columnists are already married to the politicians.

Tom Cruise:

It’s true there’s now more variation in pro-Beijing parties’ views. But we’re talking about them believing in stuff like ‘gay people should not exist’ at one end and ‘gay people can exist, but have no rights’ at the other. The whole spectrum is cursed, it’s not progress, we must not accept any of it