For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR. This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

Penn Jillette and Teller, who have been performing for 50 years, were inducted into the Magic Circle, the exclusive private society of magicians based in London on Friday.

What is it about 'digital' that seduces every political party into abandoning points of principle? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

The problem with this isn’t that it’s wrong: very clearly, it’s correct. The problem is that our entire political/media class is pretty clearly resigned to what comes next, if not actively choking for it

"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy #uspoli #fascism

Good morning A timely thought from F. Scott Fitzgerald

SORRY, YOU'LL FORGIVE ME FOR ASKING, BUT HAVE WE ALL OF A SUDDEN DECIDED THAT IT IS WRONG TO COLLECTIVELY PUNISH A CIVILIAN POPULATION FOR THE ACTIONS OF A BODY THAT CLAIMS TO SPEAK AND ACT ON THEIR BEHALF?

This dog led an officer to his leash while being rescued from his burning home. 14/10 for all (IG: aurorapoliceil)

We could be 5 to 10 years from toothpaste that can regrow tooth enamel. The scales are beginning to tip in favor of Mars once sustaining life. We’ll potentially know for sure by 2040. The blue macaw is up to 160 individuals from an all-time low of 7, and confirmed to be breeding in the wild.

pig mirage

"There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People." Umberto Eco, ‘Ur-Fascism’

Not quite verbatim as represented, but not far off.

New precise measurement of how online you are: I am “I know about the Fuentes-Kirk feud, I know what groypers are, and I recognize the Pepe meme” online but not “recognize the video game references” online.

Nigel Farage, the man who whipped up UK riots, tells Talk TV the death of Charlie Kirk is "a wake up call" for people in public life, "that we have to behave with responsibility." "It's not just the left that say constant abusive things. There are figures on the right that do the same."

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

@tetrino.com @thepotatocat.bsky.social ?

Doctors ignored my reports if pain for years. In high school my mom would have to come pick me up because I was puking from agony. I'd pass out at work. I was told some discomfort is normal. At 23 a (cis woman!) doctor told me if I did not stop complaining the only solution was a hysterectomy.

- you clean up that banksy? - sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Yaffle: I can't go on like this Bagpuss: That's what you think. Yafffle: If we parted? That might be better for us. Bagpuss: We'll hang ourselves tomorrow. (Pause) Unless Emily comes. Yaffle: And if she comes? Bagpuss: We'll be saved.

"Bagpuss and his companions, including a woodpecker called Professor Yaffle and Madeleine the rag doll, will "stir from their slumber to find themselves in contemporary Britain"" My god, the cruelty. That is utterly inhumane. You've sent Bagpus to Hell you monsters.

Today I learned there's a giant Utah Teapot in Dublin! www.sculpturedublin.ie/the-lord-may...

More fear and the stoking up of prejudice causing fear and danger in Nuneaton as American footballers are targeted as asylum seekers www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-n...

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

😂

THEY'RE CALLED MECHA, COOP. REAL WACKADOO STUFF THE BOYS BACK AT LANGLEY HAVE BEEN COOKING UP. ENORMOUS ROBOT BODIES THAT'LL WIN THE NEXT TEN WARS. BUT HERES THE KICKER: THEY CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY MALNOURISHED TEENAGE LESBIANS. TRANSGENDERS TOO IF THEY'RE MALNOURISHED ENOUGH.

With alt text:

I am calm. I am breathing deeply through my nose. I am counting to ten. I… WHAT, ARE YOU AFRAID YOUR DOG WILL INFODUMP TO YOU ABOUT THE FUCKING BALL?!?

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

I seem to have something in my eye.

Rule Britannia is just Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for people who love Top Gear.

An age verification provider is potentially leaking information about people visiting pornographic websites https://alecmuffett.com/article/114807 #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #agego #censorship #porn #privacy #surveillance #vpn

"How can you take on Man City when you want to score goals against them and they want to score goals against you? These are opposites!"

you can’t just *oppose* Reform that’s cheating!

I look forward to every media outlet that platformed Nigel Farage and Reform for the entire summer now giving us wall-to-wall coverage of Zack Polanski and The Greens.

As if I couldn’t love him more, Ncuti Gatwa trying to explain Ribena to his American co-star is the joy we all need in the world today. You’re welcome.

This is a prime example of: -misleading headline -missing context (gives rate of false negatives but tools with high false negatives are used in medicine all the time, so that rate might not be significant) -use of "AI": conflating generative AI with the analytical AI that's widely used in medicine

Another day, yet ANOTHER stupid, pointless announcement on immigration from this stupid pointless government. Today: you are a student - we're going to write you a stern letter about how you better not be thinking of staying! Insanity. Racist, cowardly, insanity. #r4today

Rewilding against a Russian invasion @peatlandcymru.bsky.social

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

Yesterday, at approximately 9:30pm U.S. Central Daylight Time, somebody aboard the International Space Station rocked an astronomically impressive piss:

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published. To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

When grappling with these "unsettling questions", it helps to sometimes to read about how GPTs actually work. You'll realize how mindblowingly stupid and simple this whole thing is. Like how there are literal "stop talking" tokens in the training data. www.louisbouchard.ai/how-llms-kno...

This framing is a rare example of good journalism and it would be great if national outlets would take note.

Now that there's (at LONG last) some recognition that the Good Friday Agreement makes leaving the ECHR effectively impossible, it's time to move onto the next obsessive fantasy.

Look, it’s definitely in a smoke filled alleyway in New York City at around midnight and a couple of trash cans got knocked over in the process 😂 #80s #nostalgia #synthwave #musician

A great many more people protested the plight of Sheffield Wednesday this month than have attended any protest against asylum hotels www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’ve documented protests for decades. The asylum hotel protests I’ve photographed have all been very small. When I first turned up at the Newcastle protest, and asked the police where the protesters were, they pointed to one man and said he’s over there.