In memoriam...

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

A new Archbishop of Canterbury will be announced today, so in the meantime play my stupid game

to avoid confusion I have made a little table of Mitford siblings

Nicole Kidman Retires Drag King Persona ‘Keith Urban’

First of all we already have an AI actress and have had one for years. Her name is Gal Gadot and the results have not been great

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

"Creepy technology made by creepy people" is spot on.

My favourite Barry Cryer story is his account of Nicholas Parsons asking Ross Noble who his favourite comedian was. "Richard Pryor" Noble replied, "Genius! So sad he set himself on fire while freebasing crack cocaine". Parsons, visibly upset, asked Barry later: "did you hear about Richard Briers?"

10/10, no notes.

No matter what any of us do, we will never be as incredibly cool as these working Newfies, who launch themselves off speed boats and out of helicopters and swim long distances to rescue swimmers in Italy. NEVER

Canaries were used in coal mines MUCH more recently than you might think (1986!), but I have a really neat artifact to share with you & I hope it brightens your day. Canaries were used as indicators for clear & odorless carbon monoxide (CO) gas that was a hazard to human health in deep coal mines.

More of this pls people. It doesn't take long to send in a complaint.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

David Cross folks.

The bees have discovered Brutalism

The Brit card is an awful idea but I don’t hate the design.

Excellent thread from Tanja on the nasty attitude of the Labour government towards people who want to come & work in the UK.

There are no words to describe how happy shit like this makes me. Absolutely masterful set-up and reveal from 1:07. I howled

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

Ian McShane is 83 On how he came to be narrator on Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm: ‘I was in a chip shop with my wife Gwen, & Trevor Horn came in, who I’d known forever. He said ‘Ian, what are you doing after supper?’ ‘Why?’ ‘Well, I need a voice & Orson Welles is dead.’ youtu.be/nAerTAjLpF0?...

Just a head’s up that I’ve continued making updates to this guide: most recently, to remove the caveat on Here WeGo for not having CarPlay, adding Citymapper, and a suggestion to try the DVD/Blu-ray section at your local library as a streaming alternative. More to come!

“My wife went to Riyadh to see an edgy comedian” “Jimmy Carr?” “No, she went of her own accord”

The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

Spoiler: Rip out your liver, douse with strong black coffee, sprinkle with green powder paint and roast on a low heat for 45 minutes. Good as new.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

@theblueststar.bsky.social 19 short 🙄

Are you a science and technology aficionado? We are looking for someone to report on anything from astronomy to archaeology, particle physics to synthetic biology. Apply by September 28th:

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

@theblueststar.bsky.social 28 eggs…?

This whole article is brilliant. The subjugation of women (and enough women’s ‘buy in’) is essential to fascism (including abortion bans). Women are sold an idea of freedom from the rat race. The reality is they can then be abused with no means of escape www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Bookbanks, the brilliant charity putting books into food banks is recruiting for a North-West Regional Lead forging new partnerships with food banks and authors, publishers, booksellers and the book industry. Details in link here : static1.squarespace.com/static/6525a... www.bookbanks.co.uk

Oh boy

Sound up.

Timeline cleanser 🐈

Autism causes vaccines

Yep

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I'm going to start calling all staircases "fatal funnels." "Do you want to take the elevator?" "Nah, I'm going to go up the fatal funnel instead."

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I don't know if it's true. I know it's funny.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

The execution on this gag is *superb*.

I assume you know the greatest title ever given to an academic paper (chapter 8): store.york.ac.uk/product-cata...

YES

Fucks hake.