So we continue our run of “replace our prime minister with someone who is exactly the same but with a different haircut and/or glasses”

Lotta Burnham chat on the news sites, but has anyone heard anything from Rayner?

mathematicians discover that the set of integers isn’t infinite just really big

"Mediocrity at scale" is such a good expression for a very real cost

@thecidershedpod.bsky.social so... how will people change the topic now? #TheArchers

This remains one of my favourite videos on the Internet. You dont have to be a fan to enjoy the humour of song after song being rendered in his highly distinctive distorted style, and the subtle implication that is what <everything> sounds like to him youtu.be/7O0-NdVXZvw?...

This feels Suez-y. Historians, is it Suezesque?

Never occured to me before, but it's quite possible the first moon-base personnel will be of a generation such that they are walking around singing "we like thaaaa mooooon cos it is close to usssssss"

11 years later and this photo i took in a utah gas station is still circulating lol

This one is a stone cold classic

<with a note of panic> given the size of space, that's nowhere near enough

Thesis: headlines have a distinctive aesthetic beauty, stemming from being a deeply statistically unlikely series of words

Something of a deep cut, but I can't help but read this as Dethklok: MURDER! MURDER! MERMAID! MURDER!

Was not prepared for how much Kurosawa looked like the Deal With It meme

Big iced tea matchup on Friday

How long do you have to be on this platform before you stop reading it as Blueski?

The two genders

Bob Dylan voice:

Very much enjoyed How To Get To Heaven From Belfast, but perhaps the highlight was the brief cameo of My Lovely Horse

Help me out quant psych hivemind. I have two competing SEM models fitted to a dataset. They are fairly unconstrained and I established the factor structure in a separate data fold. As a result, both have excellent fit (non-sig chi-sq, CFI/TLI > .99, RMSEA = .02).

Submitting this abstract to "Accelerationism Revisited", a symposium in Dublin. Mapping psychoanalytic topology in LLM base models → instruction-tuned → safety-tuned models. They progressively "displace" (in Freudian sense) censored content into adjacent semantics, even across hidden model layers.

My favourite of these: Black Sabbath's debut album release is closer in time to the end of World War <One> than it is to the present day

The Very Khornate Catepillar

Absolute scenes on Gorton & Denton. Takes you would not believe.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Hey, what's your favorite album cover? Doesn't have to be your favorite album, just a cover you never get tired of looking at. I'll start:

Well I just met you And you're a whale But here's my number Call me Ishmael

An extremely hot take: appropriate cognitive surrender is actually an integral part of an epistemically virtuous life; the problem is surrendering to what is in essence an auto-complete algorithm

I urge Reform to campaign on "regulating the sexual economy", a very normal sequence of words they definitely shouldn't run past anyone without a Twitter account before putting it on the side of a bus.

<Zoolander voice> What is this, a job for ents?

You know, it may not be the only example, but La Marseillaise really shows that - even in a national anthem - mentioning the nation is very much optional

Culturally appropriating the UK is quite the Uno Reverse card

Free idea: "Auntie vs Zojirushi" story in the mode of John Henry.

The bulletmogging of Jesse James by the discretionmaxxer Robert Ford

An unexpected take-away from the Behind the Bastards Epstein series: every news program should pay @whysophiewhy.bsky.social to "ewwwww" at appropriate junctures. Sometimes it <really> needs to be said.

OBAMA CHOOSING A FURSONA: Uhhhh…let me be deer

this does explain imo why the Frasier reboot didn't work. the fun thing, and the thing that would've differentiated itself from Frasier the way that show did from Cheers, would be to lean into the fucked up pessimistic insanity of our current age and show how a dandy like Frasier Crane copes

Xin nian kuai le to all celebrating! #YearOfTheHorse

Shot

Some drunk woman in her 60s had wedged herself in the doorway of Tesco in the gay village in Birmingham like a cat refusing to get in a box. All four points locked in to stop her husband removing her. In the end a woman off the street lured her out by going “come on bab, we’ll get you some shots”

Secretary Rockzo

Excuse me, what? youtu.be/gfVkRaT9ZkY?...

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

In England they call him Naughty Rabbit

If you're looking to pre-fill your summer reading list, my colleague here @monasloane.bsky.social has a new book available for pre-order: "Predicted: How AI Is Restructuring Social Life" www.ucpress.edu/books/predic.... Release date: May 12, 2026. You don't want to miss this one.

Italians, your white card has been revoked. Stefani Germanotta is a perfidious latin

While I heartily agree with the sentiment, for Black Metal specifically it's advisable to do a quick Google Translate before getting too emotionally invested

A calmer, no-drama Starmer seeking karma as a llama farmer