What the fuck

Fantastic news in the UK today - the government has apparently ditched its plan to force creatives to 'opt out' if they don't want AI companies training on their life's work. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog... 🧵 1/4

I'm not sure how I feel about these t-shirts.

Timothee Chalamet was justly punished for being ignorant about opera. That's carmen for you.

Yup

Oh I'm a padel wanker now. For all you fad trackers out there.

@superblouse.bsky.social how was Evita? Did the outside thing work or was it annoying? Hello!

WE’LL BE LESS ACTIVIST IF YOU BE LESS SHIT

This is the chump who has committed to playing padel at 6pm on a Friday.

Shout out to this insane tweet from a few years back about Chris Pratt refusing to observe our holy days.

Been following this animator turned dev for a bit, and the flow they've got goin' on so far is unreal. www.instagram.com/jankyanims

no really, holy shit

It’s going to be an awesome season of F1 and the secret is everyone forgot how to build a car

This infographic was produced in order of MP’s money earned from other jobs. Ooh look who’s front and centre, it’s “man of the people” Nigel Mirage. Not often seen in his constituency but topping the charts of additional earnings.

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old. Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes? From Treasure magazine, 1965 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one?)

It's OK if you don't know anyone on the lineup. That's good. I know some of them & they're great I know one of the writers & she's fucking brilliant I (like most of the comedy industry) applied & didn't get it so if anyone has the right to bitch about it it's me It's not a celeb going on holiday

My culture is not your prom dress

I don't have kids so I dressed up my book as a child for world book day

The UK press in full cry demanding entry into a war with no aims, no strategy and no legality is quite a sight.

Latest blog post - much delayed by surgery. And I continue to be writing in delay, so it’s lucky I have a good memory. Here I muse on the stress of waiting… #ovariancancer open.substack.com/pub/janehill...

We got y'all somethin' good for De La Soul Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

One of the funniest things to come out of this are the brits who won’t leave Dubai even as it’s being bombed. One influencer adjacent guy went on a live stream on his balcony and said he’d rather be killed by Iran than go back to Wigan

Please would you share this if you can. Catherine is married to Mat’s cousin, Marcus. They live in NZ, so we can’t help in person. I know I have quite a few followers from NZ, and if it’s anything like Wales, some of you may know Catherine. Thank you x givealittle.co.nz/cause/please...

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Stockport: deeply into the ironising phase of its revival

Perfectly put.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Accidentally put on cbeebies radio instead of classic FM. 👀

‘hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

Tell you what Labour ought to notice: It’s a sign of how desperate left-of-centre folk in this land are to hold onto something they consider progressive that they’re prepared to ignore the fact the leader of the party they’ve landed on claimed he could hypnotise women’s tits bigger. I mean.

Has there ever been a more graceless and divisive concession? Showing exactly why voters in Gorton and Denton rejected him tonight

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? 😊

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

Eliminating the Impossible xkcd.com/3210/

Sun: I’M BACK Fine layer of dust on everything: YO YO YO

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

so… is there a… *mister* conduct in public office…?

His Nan bought off an Epstein victim with £12M of taxpayer’s money. They should be gone. All of them.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history. #WorldBollardAssociation

There are not many politicians (or people full stop) who have had a life like Labour's Naz Shah. She tells me all about it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hahahaha

A short story which doesn't go anywhere near where you think it will go 😬

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Hope you’re having a good Thursday evening.

For any non-Brits watching this, it is absolutely inconceivable that members of the establishment face consequences, get arrested etc, unless it is so nakedly corrupt and illegal that it threatens the whole rotten edifice.

Give us a day off like when the arseholes get married.

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Why do the quote marks make it seem like people are being homophobic to the beavers?