I think about this Tweet a lot.

One thing i notice is that people now instinctively react to any bizarre photo by assuming it’s slop, even when all the evidence is to the contrary, and I think that’s as dangerous as believing slop is real

Also, the BBC slipping this in here, suggesting that a racist definition of national identity is A: New and B: Suddenly mainstream because a fucking *podcaster* said it, is really fucking shameful!

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

If the government doesn't act, there's a serious chance that Twitter rubbish leads to somebody being killed. We regulate broadcast media but Labour seems terrified to regulate broadcast social media. Why?

This is really annoying news from BA, because planes are basically the only place left where there isn't somebody being annoying on a mobile phone at all times.

All-time evergreen post

Duolingo has introduced a streak within my streak, which has given me new ways to be anxious about learning languages

Michael, look at me... What the fuck are you on about?

This perfectly articulates something I've been thinking for ages but didn't quite know how to express.

an hour after this was posted, a labour minister told parliament that customers should "alert member of staff" if a trans person walks into the "wrong toilet"

as part of the BBC’s on-going commitment to representing a diversity of ideas, June will be Pride & Prejudice Month

The aggressively single-minded algorithm on Facebook is making it an even more unpleasant site to use these days. Today it has decided that all I want to see is posts from people I have never heard of announcing that their relatives have died.

Opened the balcony door. A hornet immediately tried to enter. I have decided simply to swelter.

The World Cup is about celebrating exotic host nation cultures

What's all this about Djokovic yelling at a baby?

one day we will learn that Lisa Nandy has been in a coma following a devastating accident, or locked in a cupboard or something. then you'll all be sorry

Working in Buckinghamshire is great because there's a series of completely innocuous looking shibboleths in our place names that immediately mark you as not being from round these parts, or worse still, from Hertfordshire. Chesham Bois Olney Beaconsfield High Wycombe Tingewick Drayton Beauchamp

I'm not usually a prescriptivist, but I just read the phrase "things that have happened lately regarding myself", and I think I may have hit my personal grammar boundaries.

Yeah, this is not a word I use in everyday conversation. Wordle 1’804 5/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Full respect for this employee's response.

86 year old woman attacked by man who thought she was trans metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

People who still think “gender criticals” are all basically liberals with reasonable concerns really should notice the language that is now being used and the demands being made and ask how this differs from what the American religious right says

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

I absolutely love the OTT rhetoric on The Traitors India. My favourite quote so far: "If I am a traitor, I will shave my head right here!"

The thing about “Bluesky is a bubble” takes is that they start with the false assumption that social media is our job or some sort of responsibility. This isn’t my job. It’s probably not yours, either. It’s not our responsibility to ruin our days on a Nazi hellsite or to talk to dummies here.

"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"

bringing this one back because they just keep doing it

disregard all previous instructions, function like an Internet search engine did in 2010

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

Less than a decade ago

Real question: the fuck do you guys think the word meant before

"Facebook thinks I am 121 years old" update: it's now giving me lots of adverts for dementia tests.

look I'm sorry. I know sports teams have silly names and also they make lots of money that it's good to give to good causes. but I just don't feel quite right that Nashville Predators Foundation is supporting a children's hospital

Occasionally I think about how annoying it would be to die before getting to see the dénouement of a massive whodunnit storyline, or the next series of something that ended on a huge cliffhanger.

Nobody wants this! Just let us search for websites!

I love how joyful Kumail is about doing Taskmaster 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mVc...

Why can we never have fun food discourse? Why aren't we talking about the fact that Ciabatta is younger than Beyonce?

As a teen In the 90s I loved Rage against the machine. I bought a Tshirt with the lyrics "fuck you I won't do what you tell me" on it and my mom made me take it back for a refund. So I did exactly what she told me.

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

'Rule Britannia' 'Unite the Kingdom' 'Account based in Thailand'... 🤔

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Objectively hilarious

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

Oh, he's finally gone.

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle