~daniel_barker~

Did think Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping was pretty good tbh.

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

I’m not going to Mastodon lol. I would be better off carving my posts into a tree stump. Follow me at The Stump

I've just heard someone say 'so you're basically killing two birds for the price of one'.

This is actually a really good point. bsky.app/profile/this...

explaining to a victorian child the difference between the Good Frog and the Bad Frog

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Okay this is a good headline

Ah, yes that does change things. American pronunciations obviously don't count.

Maybe. I'm just not really on board

Doesn't seem sensible to me

wait what

Hedgehog, c. 1650 (Rijksmuseum)

I love its expression.

I definitely pictured the future by this point as more "radiant beam of light transforms objects" and less "taking my watch off for a wank because otherwise it will somehow track it as cycling"

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

Looking at the "disconnection" in this family specifically I'm really not sure that phones are the main factor.

Has anyone even thought about the risk posed by antifa vampires.

If the founders of antifa were in the Weimar Republic and you just arrested their girlfriend can I please check how old these people are exactly.

Turns out that when Americans said "If it weren't for us you'd be speaking German now..." their objection was to learning a second language, not fascism.

POLITICO "They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

What www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a computer summarising the key features of a human face, forever.

OK well. They shouldn't have I reckon.

the most delightful version of logging on to see what news you've missed

Gonna be amazing at next year's Tory conference when they just describe 2025 as "the gas leak conference".

Someone in a frog costume facing down a line of police in riot gear

George Orwell’s Animal Crossing

Well, I, for one, am proud of us for doing the sensible thing and basing our entire economy on computers that tell kids to kill themselves

This isn’t a picture of Mel Stride and the shadow chancellor being misidentified on ConHome feels quite indicative of where the Tories are at.