I know that bluesky will be reflexively anti-AI on this one, but think of the number of times you've been playing a game you paid full price for and thought, "I wish someone could have my fun for me so I could get back to work"

I might be over-thinking this, but I was wondering whether the whole point of the Greenland thing might not be to drive a wedge between NATO / European countries.

Top Bluesky history bantz in the replies to this.

The thing I don't get is that the politics of banning X or Grok should be quite favourable. If there is one thing lots of the public really hate, it is noncery, so saying "we are banning the Nonce Porn machine" and then attacking e.g. Farage as pro-nonce when he criticises it should land quite well.

We frankly need a term for these neo-imperialist dreams that fail to take into account that it isn't 1600 and so end up throwing away a million lives and all the tanks seizing some farms in Ukraine, or wasting time with Venezuelan oil. I propose 'Idiotperialism.'

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Late to the party, but I am greatly enjoying Middle England by @jonathancoe.bsky.social Lots that is striking in it, but this sentence about the third biggest party having 12 per cent of the vote really leapt out at me as describing something from another era.

It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵

The funniest part is that the whole point of funding the crusades was to send your potential sources of domestic political instability (loud, violent lunatics) off on a mission where, worst case scenario, they were out of your hair for several years or, best case scenario, they died.

God: in my book I invented No Other Gods before me as a commandment American Evangelicals: at last we have created the Other God from the classic commandment Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me

I bumped into Mikhail Gorbachev in the doorway of Blackwell's bookshop in Oxford.

"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

Zootropolis 2 is bright and jolly and has quite a few decent jokes. It also has traditional "racism is bad" and "rich people are untrustworthy" messages, which you probably can't take for granted these days).

Frohe Weihnachten to all the deadpan absurdists out there.

My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day: Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu

I've got a lot of teachers in the family, so I'm pretty inured to some of the terrible names people give their kids but my 20 year-old niece has gone out for Christmas drinks with her friend Lolita and...

This is the 15th year of #DuvetKnowItsChristmas, which is preposterous. Rules: if you find yourself dealing with unusual / claustrophobic / gaudy sleeping arrangements this Christmas Eve, share a picture with the world. Use the hashtag (with capitalisation) and cc me if you can be bothered.

This is like a loading screen for a bad Hearts of Iron mod

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

So does anyone actually keep gloves in their glove compartment?

The first trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is here 👀 In theaters July 17, 2026

it me (though, for 'friend', read 'wife')

He's making a list, He's nailing it high, Indulgences, No longer apply, Martin Luther's coming to town

Last day at work vibes

me waiting for Santa

I am not quite sure why this weekend is "awful influencers being punched by proper boxers weekend"

Just seen Ickle Tommy Ten Names referred to as "Ewok Powell" Tremendous

Who pays to watch this stuff? I'm a rugby fan; can't imagine shelling out a few hundred quid to watch the South Africa team from 2019 play Old Bensonians. Joshua and Paul earn riches but deliver budget sporting spectacle - www.bbc.com/sport/boxing...

History doesn’t repeat, but Russia’s imperial wars keep rhyming.

With Walliams it's important to separate the art from the artist and remember that whatever he's done in his private life, his books are still absolute dogshit either way.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

The internet sucks now because everything needs to result in the maximal outcome so instead of seeing the Coldplay couple and going “lol pretty funny” we end up with this, everything is Qanon, everything is the Inquisition, when the fun of it should be “well, never have to think about this again!”

Imagine Scooby Doo saying "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". It would be terrible. In fact, I don't think that Scooby Doo should read any war poems out loud. He can respect the fallen in other ways.

The first Pirates film was really good fun. The third film, on the other hand, was the least fun I've had watching a film since I watched the 120 Days of Sodom.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Just to note that I live in Beer Heaven, or 'Belgium', if you must, and the top selling beer here is Jupiler, which is pish

Ordered some presents online to be delivered to my folks for Christmas and bloody hell online shopping in the UK seems to involve receiving an absolutely *fantastic* number of emails now.

this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever

Blimey, 2020 was...a good year for games. I think at the time I would have said TLOUII, because it was such a compelling story/experience first time round. Now? Probably CK3, narrowly beating Ghost of Tsushima. Honourable mention for the patched-up Cyberpunk.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Don't steal pies this Christmas.

Recently digitised - March 1945; at Mandalay in Burma, Lieutenant General Bill Slim arrives at Fort Dufferin for a ceremonial flag-raising, following the capture of the city from the Japanese. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2 Full film: IWM JIN 23 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

This totally got me, fried my brain for a few seconds.

JUNKIE COLT MEDINA

To say I am excited about this is something of an understatement.

I absolutely love the argument that this is somehow due to European warmongering. When the Cold War was over, Europeans couldn't wait to destroy their militaries and if it weren't for Russian aggression, the entire EU put together would probably make like 7 tanks a year

That sound you can hear is millions of right wing dickheads deleting 'Hero' posts on the socials

Fucking hell. This looked brave enough on the first video. But you can see from this video that he did this with the other shooter close by. And chased the first guy in order to throw something at him whilst the second shooter was still firing.