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Italians, your white card has been revoked.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

Look, to reduced everyone's cognitive load, maybe we could look into merging a few stories. For example, it would definitely tie up a few loose ends in one go if Labour selected Bad Bunny as a new leader.

there’s a word for something most people generate about once a day and it’s not “book”

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Geoff Leppard, Fred Zeppelin, Jack Sabbath, Judith Priest, Brian Maiden, Seb Pultura.

"network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other" Zomg it's a digital Junior Ganymede Club

Spurs fans absolutely <fuming>

#Wooltonmaxxing like an utter chad

Midnight Mass II: Genesis 3-19

Me happily running my linear models while everyone else is getting all excited about ML

Once pulled a muscle in my back so badly I had to lie on the floor for 30 minutes. What mighty physical feat was I undertaking to incur such an injury? Moving a salad to the dining table.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

First assembled by a Dr. F. Crane in Boston

This seems like <exactly> the sort of messaging that should be used in opposing Reform

Sat in the fading sun next to the harbour at Kaohsiung, while the craft beer bar blasts off-genre Xmas tunes. So far we've had ska Oh Tannenbaum and chiptune Comfort and Joy.

And this is coming from The Joker...

Psychologists when n > 10k

Never Mind the Pollock

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Just Normal Software Engineering Error of the Day: [DAEMONIC PROCESSES ARE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE CHILDREN]

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Reading this entire article adding "Parkrun!" after every sentence www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Major end-of-Downfall energy on this

<Yakov Smirnoff voice> In capitalist America, social media is addicted to you!

A tangential point, but why is he aging into looking like HP Lovecraft?

We've gone through reality-as-scripted-by-Armando-Iannucci, and have now hit [email protected]

The rarely-spotted Divine Acyclic Graph

H. P. Lovecraft: "Huge and inhuman, you say? Might they also be coldly indifferent?"

Calling myself a Technical Expert based on extensive knowledge of the metaphysics of the Eucharist

Excuse me, <what> kind of philosopher?!

Bonus points if you can fit the last four lines to Firestarter

Turning undead and also some heads