I gave Livejournal annual tiny £ so I could have cover my stuff in 100x100 nonsense I made in GIMP for lols. Someone should study how much they really have no idea what was fun about the internet

30 years ago I closed my revision notes mid-finals to nip downstairs to where some lovely friends had kept a seat for me on the sofa right in front of the common room TV. Doctor Who: The Movie, aka Paul McGann and a terrible wig. Watched it. Went back to the library. Got a first. There you go.

I remember when the government suppressed that report on the impact of climate change a few months back. We still haven't seen it. We only saw the highlights and that was that it was essentially an existential crisis. It said it was the biggest threat we face. Fucking silence though.

I had a bath last week. A BATH. Imagine.

This entire thread, off you go

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

It’s so illogical to me that there are grown adults with proper jobs who quite happily square their belief that charities and human rights experts and so on can be right about everything apart from trans rights and that fascists and dictators can be wrong about everything apart from trans rights

and ideally, for this the captain is wearing booty shorts at some point

Before Thatcher around 42% of people lived in council housing. No mortgage, they could pass it on to their children, rental income bolstered local services and housing benefit didn’t enrich parasitic landlords. She destroyed that so now we have a housing crisis and rent purely for profit.

🔴 Wes Streeting has said that Palantir is “absolutely critical to the future of the NHS.” But Palantir’s £330m NHS platform is “slow an clunky” and eight to ten times slower at analysing data than the current NHS tool in use Massive scoop on Democracy for Sale: open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

All up on iPlayer now www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

PSA: A Very Peculiar Practice starts on BBC Four tonight.

oh fuck OFF

“Let’s use the Iran crisis to subsidise the aggressors in the Russia-Ukraine war” is immoral and stupid policy

to create is to love

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

Money has its own gravity. If you don't have enough, it swiftly spirals away into nothing. If you have more than you need, it begins to attract yet more to itself. Billionaires are like super massive black holes, sucking all the life out of any economy foolish enough to allow them to proliferate.

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Cheers to the folks who were singing the praises of this week's SNL UK. Hannah Waddingham brilliant of course and the political stuff all landed, but the peaks were where it just went confidently unhinged. What a treat.

We all need a boost today. So as a special treat, we’re unveiling in public for the first time, The Daily Tism book, illustrated by the incredible @smolrobots.bsky.social , coming out for Christmas! Crowdfunder with pre-orders coming in the next week, so keep your eyes peeled!

I always love behind the scenes special effects photos where the artists look like giants.

Everything is awful. Here's a baby goat with a tiny bouquet of flowers picked right out of the lawn at The Beer Garden

For anyone interested in the anti-trans movement in the UK, here's a thread of all my investigative work on the topic. 🧵 Starting with Bayswater Part 1: How the Tories let abusive anti-trans parents dictate education policy www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2024...

Fixed it for them

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

swear to god nothing has radicalized like me like watching rich men burn our planet, dry up our freshwater and poison our kids to invent the world’s most powerful technology — a robot chick who laughs at all their jokes

Do you get whats coming? #SolarHockeyStickOfHope bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Someone posted a still image from Tescos of this uncanny fruit monster the other day and I regret to inform you it is now alive and, uh, is everyone ok at that ad agency youtu.be/3CYzNYeG3Kg?...

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

Comforted by the number of people I follow who have shared this (Team citalopram here but it's all brainweasels innit)

I think all of us born between like 1975 and 1985 need a support group for the fact that living through a rolling apocalypse, living with long covid, and starting menopause apparently all have the same symptoms.

ADOBE: welcome to photoshop. what would you like to do. here is an AI tool ME: i would like to draw a rectangle. i am selecting the rectangle tool ADOBE: did you say AI? ME: rectangle please ADOBE: sorry but i can only do that in an insane way now. here is a new layer and a vector for some reason

Happy 75th birthday to the great Peter Davison. Wrote a thing: paulkirkley.substack.com/p/the-secret...

Just invented a new kind of revolving door with a horizontal axis instead of a vertical one. Not only is it inconvenient and dangerous, it's also considerably more expensive.

New @stand.earth: Microsoft's 3 new gas data centres will - Increase Microsoft's emissions 160% - Have higher emissions than power sectors of each of Greece, Ireland, Sri Lanka, NZ etc... - Have higher emissions than pwr sector of 15 lowest-emitting countries combined stand.earth/press-releas...

Oh Gravy You came and you gave without taking, But I sent you away Oh Gravy You kissed me and stopped me from shaking, And I need you today Oh Gravy

The thing is, even though Magyar Sucks Too, the *hope* is that the outright, foreceful rejection of Orban's authoritarianism will be seen as an indication that Hungarians were prepared to do almost anything to get rid of him, even voting for a barely-lesser evil.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

This is more than three-quarters of the way there! Just on the offchance I have any followers with decent incomes: if you'd spend £5 on a pint tonight, could you swing £5 to a trans woman building a safe home in the UK after seeking asylum from Jordan? Thank you!

Putting aside Sam Altman just continuing to emit huge lies constantly, this is an amazing example of what I mean when I talk about how GenAI is replacing *extremely low energy* digital tasks with *WAY WAY HIGHER ENERGY* replacements that *do not even work* Why TF is anyone using ChatGPT as a timer!

Okay, so this is a VERY interesting story on - allegedly - the impact of AI on an accounting firm. Would like to see how this one develops because it's about a legitimate but perhaps counterintuitive focus on talent pipeline giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

Confident in my ability to properly ship, I take the strait. I smile at my opponent. Supreme Leader Khamenei does not return the gesture. He’d be prettier if he did, I think. He fires. The rocket passes cleanly through my bridge, killing me instantly

And no, you cannot rewind time When you listened to someone else’s idea and things didn’t quite turn out how you planned but it’s definitely not your fault By Steve Pottinger

"The world asks, as it asks daily: And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?" - Jane Hirshfeld, "Counting, This New Year's Morning, What Powers Yet Remain to Me"

Muriel Rukeyser, always but especially today. Full text at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47657/...

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.

I am finding it hard to concentrate on my work today and god I wish it was because it's really sunny

THREAD. Substack is evil. I can't emphasise this enough. Their line that anyone can leave easily & take their subscriber list with them is bullshit. I left & it cost me a large sum of money. It forced me briefly back onto Substack to try to clear up the mess... tomcox.substack.com/p/an-explana...

Oh my gd, the Artemis II crew doing a parody of a bad 1980s sitcom intro from in space. Source: www.instagram.com/p/DWwuHPfCZ8Z/