Good morning from the golden age of science fiction #PulpSabotage

Genuinely after a *long* time on this form of social media (I was something like Twitter user 10,000), I can *strongly* advise you to block early and often. You have no responsibility at all to engage with people you don’t like. If they’re someone you would avoid in real life, just block them.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

It did not end well. I have lost five tiny screws to the ether, and my patience. And my glasses still don’t fit right.

Have to perform a delicate unscrewing and rescrewing operation on my glasses. And I’m shortsighted, needing to wear my glasses to see close detail. So I’m wearing some five year old prescription varifocals. This will end well.

A live example of @smoothdunk2.bsky.social's always relevant comic about journalists, Twitter and Bluesky

“On crypto and stablecoins, as on too many other things, the hard truth is this: we’re being completely left behind.” – George Osborne, member of Coinbase’s advisory council, www.ft.com/content/3ede...

I have been using crisp sandwich photos from https://vole.wtf/buttystock/ instead of the godawful stock images in Sharepoint since 2024. Today was the first time anyone has asked why a technical post I'd written was illustrated with a photo of a sandwich.

how long did it take you to notice?

The Cabinet Office is so fundamentally broken that it cannot even let a standard service supply contract for pensions. Reorganisations, culture, SpAds with shiny boots and riding crops. All are irrelevant. If you cannot deliver basic capabilities then everything else is a distraction.

@mattround.com are you going to be releasing your lightweight CMS markdown editor separate from the CMS at all? He said, looking at overtype.

This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

We really do need to underline this for people - because somehow the prevaling myth seems to be Russia is winning: the invasion of Ukraine has been the largest political, military and strategic blunder by a state since the Franco-Prussian war. Maybe greater Russia has lost on every concievable axis

Meta have patented a Markov Chain generator.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

If anyone doubts Jason Statham’s ability to take the piss out of himself it reveals you have not seen the movie Spy, which is a crime that you should rectify ASAP

Case in point: While Watt was busy rallying BrewDog's loyal drinkers against big brew firms, he was happily sitting on £500,000 worth of Heineken stock himself.

Probably my final point on BrewDog for today, but a lot of the coverage has their "rise" the wrong way round. They 'broke out' because they won a NATIONAL distribution contract in a Tesco craft beer contest. Tesco birthed BrewDog, not Watt's 'shock jock' marketing approach. That came AFTER.

It is 2026, and I am seriously considering using jQuery on a project.

There are some who will hate you for who you are, for no reason other than you do not conform to their small minded notions. Do not let them sway you! You are a warrior, a person of honor and courage, not a puppet who bobs on the strings of their prejudices and bigotry.

Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Your poems are shit, and so are your stunts. You shout at hotels, you wife-beating cunts.

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people. 1. JK Rowling 2. Maya Forstater 3. Helen Joyce 4. Graham Linehan 5. Kathleen Stock 6. Posie Parker 7. Wes Streeting 8. Rosie Duffield www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

VC, founder, dumbass

McSweeney's doing ninety 'cause he's had the word to go - with apologies to Squeeze

Wow, the Tango ad got slapped with a graphic media warning.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Added a hidden “color stats for nerds” view to OKPalette. Built it for myself during dev, then spent a bit of time making it look decent and shipped it. Press CMD/ctrl + i if you enjoy staring at chroma + hue distributions way too much. okpalette.color.pizza

GUYS YOU HAD SEVERAL DAYS TO PUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ELSE ON THE FRONT OF THE MAGAZINE COME ON

No this isn't allowed. We aren't allowed to see systemic corruption in the UK. Once the designated fall guy is picked, we must focus all our efforts into him. Pulling on too many threads runs a risk of unraveling the whole thing.

Reason no. 35476543578 to abandon the Nazi newsletter platform of choice.

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone. He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein We have published it in full. www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

One of the reasons I so greatly dislike the “can men and women be friends?” nonsense (yes, full stop, shut up) is that it casts suspicion on people with opposite-sex friends instead of where it more often belongs: on people with no opposite-sex friends.

So while you're all shocked we need to talk about Arthur C Clarke...

For the House of Commons to swiftly and directly gainsay the Prime Minister on an issue of ‘National Security’ is actually quite a significant day in our recent constitutional history. For MPs to insist that a parliamentary committee has priority over PM is a pretty big thing. And a welcome thing.

"I was told you're a monster," the hero said. "So they say," said the monster. "But you're beautiful!" "Thank you." "Have you always been a monster?" "Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden." "And became a monster?" "Got named a monster." "What did you do?" "I hit back."

Reform proposal of keeping 450,000 children in poverty to save *5p* on the price of a beer is actually a perfect illustration of the sort of thoughtless vandalism and arbitrary cruelty we could expect from them in government, so this tracks. Hard to think of a worse idea than this in living memory.

Here’s what they found: Women are interrupted more often than men—by about 10–20% in economics seminars. Those interruptions are more likely to: - Cut women off mid-sentence - Come from men - Be adversarial rather than clarifying in nature

You can do this for everything too! If you think someone is full of shit, find a time when they spoke with equal confidence about something you know a lot about, and see how much they actually knew about that thing, then go back to the first thing with that in mind.

Every Lego catalogue, in full, from 1966-2015. At the link brickset.com/library/cata...

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

I try to have/spread fun on here, but fuck this guy, the horse he rode in on, and the guy who sold him the horse You’ve probably forgotten you’re following him because he’s been mercifully silent, but he’s trying to come back, so this may be a good time to unfollow (or just block him)

No one will ever succeed in convincing me that this comes from any kind of concern about reducing other human beings' pain. It's about reducing your down time from work, and/or making you "more effective" (substitute "useful to your boss"). All I can say, as gently as possible, is: "Fuck that shit."

They're all just a bunch of chasers and wanted to sex traffic trans women. Like that's the whole story. That's it. That's all of it. Pages and pages of my scholarly book just get deleted now because they're irrelevant. I don't have to prove or explain anything anymore. It's all just... there.

The British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history