Pugh! Pugh! Barney McGrew! Cuthbert! Dibble! Grubb!

Boba Fett: He's no use to me dead. Darth Vader: We're gonna stick him in carbonite. It won't matter. Boba Fett: But I need him alive to get the bounty! Darth Vader: How's anyone gonna know he's alive or dead in carbonite? Boba Fett: There's a thingy on the side. Darth Vader: A thingy? 1/4

In 1966 Joseph Weizenbaum developed ELIZA, a chatbot. He programmed a doctor script that simulated a therapist by rephrasing replies as questions. In 1976 he wrote the attached quote in his book. Whenever someone says they asked ChatGPT or Claude I think of this quote.

is it this one

That song is "Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine. Both sides are united that it sounds great. One* side would be horrified if they actually tried to understand the lyrics (*both?)

This seems... bad?

Every time I open Bluesky,

The planted documents ultimately deceived the Germans by identifying all the right boats, but not necessarily on the right border.

What if Starmer just utterly ignores this?

"These are all good reasons for me to remain in post, but as you know from our conversation earlier this week, having lost confidence in your leadership, I have concluded that it would be dishonourable and unprincipled to do so." "Luckily, because I am dishonourable and unprincipled...."

Notice how you’ve never seen Wes Streeting and an Easter Island head carved out of spam in the same room?

you: please act normal Ed you need these people to like you me: ok! people: hi Ed nice to meet you me: There is a genus of spiders called Predatoroonops and every species in it is named after one of the characters in Predator (1987)

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

If a leadership election for Prime Minister would "plunge the country into chaos", surely that's an argument that far too much power has been concentrated in one government office? What would happen if he got hit by a bus? Retired for health or family reasons? Absolute clown show.

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

ALLONS-Y

Mesmerizing first trailer for "Wildwood", the new stop motion feature film by LAIKA Studios. Full 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne...

Anybody ever played the card game Illuminati, by Steve Jackson games? Each player spends the game building an outlandish coalition of disparate groups of maniacs. Alliances are formed. In the closing stages of the game, somebody will make The Big Play to meet their win condition

Can parliamentary reports use phrases like "Dodgy as fuck"?

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

Gary Larson talking about the time THE FAR SIDE and DENNIS THE MENACE switched captions.

The free owl, obviously

If I can't see the election results they can't see me

The leadership battle makes me hate what Labour have become even more. They're full on Tory, power hungry incompetence in every way. Just shut up, accept you're disliked and fix the fucking pot holes. No one wants another leadership battle.

Kicking Screaming Clawing Biting

There it is!

Actually, which people aren't frustrated with him?

All of my policies are good, actually, and everyone loves them. I'm just not doing them fast enough.

Unless Starmers speech is about bring back the free owls policy I think he is toast

There's been a Terrible Mixup and Andy has to run a tourist "ferry" from Arbroath to Carnoustie during the high season. There's an ill-considered subplot about plans to turn Montrose into a freeport.

Ever read a post where your only thought can be "this person knows so much more about this thing that I don't even think I could have a proper conversation on this subject"?

“Do you believe in elves?” “No, of course not.” “So we can pave over the elf hill?” “Are you INSANE”

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

A coffin creaks open. A taloned hand emerges. Is it Tonty Blair time yet?

Oh if you liked that, you'll *love* this guesstheparty.co.uk

Off the back of Maul : Shadow Lord I just rewatched Solo Still stands up. Still fun. Still gets to the absolute heart of things - everyone wants the Millennium Falcon.

Hey. Hey! North East Scotland here. How did that "Both votes SNP" go for you? 88 THOUSAND votes and not one list MSP. We've got 2 Tories and 2 Reform on the list on 60k each. You absolute fucking clowns. At least try to understand how our electoral system fucking *works* Fuck's sake.

Labour's only hope is to push through proportional representation IMMEDIATELY, and to outlaw being a bald man with a dog as your profile picture.

Gladiator Lancer (1995) this might be the coolest single object i have ever made

Absolute horse—

A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

This is how every other country imagines life in America

Yeah, things are going great at the minute, thanks for asking

Reminder - you *don't* need photo ID for the Scottish Parliament elections