Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK IT DOESN'T WORK THE UNDERLYING TECHNOLOGY DOES. NOT. WORK. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills

Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign

The AI evangelists want us all to conveniently forget that they were all telling us we had to buy bored apes or we would be left out of the Economy Of The Future four years ago.

The thing to remember about Suella Braverman is that not only is she nasty, untrustworthy, and full of hate and anger, but she's also abominably stupid.

ex-tories explaining why they’re joining reform

ICE training

We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.

At some point enough once-in-power Tories will move over to Reform for it to be renamed to The Bloody Same, right?

The right to bear arms…NOT THAT GUY

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Imagine thinking it is safe to come to the United States as a foreigner to watch the World Cup

US government rn

The nurses are pissed

James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.

The BBC is lost

Democracy is alive and kicking in the UK I see.

Trump one week ago: "It's a good thing for him [Carney] to sign a trade deal. If he can get a deal with China, he should do that." Trump today: "If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A."

The latest Google Pixel update seems to be to do random shit in your pocket and generally act up. Cool.

It had to be renamed Climate Change because thickos couldn't grasp how warmth would lead to extreme weather in all directions.

Harry Hill's Podscarf

Poignant, lovely thread.

I wasn't paying attention .... Did anyone see how Ubisoft going all in on NFTs go?

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Thinking about how bsky has the most horrible setting turned on by default that says "i don't want to see any other languages except English" and if no one tells you to put it on "no selection" you straight up won't see posts from people set to different languages on your TL.

You know what's good, honest manual work with your hands? Guillotine operator.

Without comment

The chief of the burglary corporation says stop being so down on burglary and also please buy this stuff we made from the stuff we stole from you that is burning the planet.

“We’ve invented a machine the destroys our own planet, drives inequality and the rise of global fascism, destroys truth and veracity, undermines all of human achievements in knowledge, science, medicine, arts and culture. And frankly we’re upset that you’re not that into it and call us names.”

Can't wait for absolutely fuck all happen because of this.

i honestly burst out laughing

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Stressifily

Watching old Airline. A man couldn't find his bag or traveller's cheques. He found his bag at lost property and the traveller's cheques in his pocket. "All's well that ends well he said". Simpler times. Better times.

Blockchain 2.0.

Valve effectively making their own Quest 3 headset won't look so silly when Meta brick all the existing Quest 3s.

DOES THAT MAKE YOU HORN(B)Y, BABY

New Last Of The Summer Wine looks fucking *intense*.

who would even think to question The First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Seems the problem at X/Grok is they tried to remove the child abuse and predatory behaviour prompts to avoid being banned in the UK and it basically lost its reason for being and died.

It's as if millions of bots cried out at once

Facebook keeps sending me shorts of people who hate poor people. Am I the bad guy?

protestors have painted what appears to be a tunnel on the side of the mountain, causing ICE agents to run into the mountain at full speed. disgusting.

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...