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Football Old Firm fan violence branded 'completely unacceptable' by Scotland's first minister 1h ago

once again a politician passes up the opportunity to say football violence actually very cool and acceptable

given that the text is obviously AI generated too I’m not sure you’d be punishing an actual reporter!

Panel 1: Man at his computer, his phone vibrates Panel 2: Man looking at a headline on his phone that says “Endless hell grows again!” Panel 3 & 4: Man puts his phone down and continues working, looking perturbed

Morning all

A Kākāpō chick being weighed in a bag. Credit: Andrew Digby

A Kākāpō chick being held during a health check. Credit: Andrew Digby

A health check for #kakapo chick Tiwhiri-A3 two nights ago. This is a genetically valuable (rank = gold) chick, so it gets more frequent health checks. It’s doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

is it too much to ask that I don’t have every decade of my adult life blighted by some dipshit politician making some epic blunder that destroys the economy or indeed the planet

I don't know anything about oil/the oil markets/the oil trade (be warned: I am not asking you to explain these things to me) so would say my life online right now is "child of probably divorcing parents senses that maybe the vibes are becoming increasingly off at home?"

FUN FACTS:
🍖 the animatronic Paddington consumes forty pounds of raw meat per day!
🪄 Before every performance, the warding circle around the stage must be carefully re-engraved!
🔪 After each matinee one lucky theatregoer is randomly selected to meet Paddington!

In retrospect changing the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War was a bit of a red flag

the actual plot of the sequels is just 'can we possibly escape from the trap of prescience and live in a world where stories can exist again', Herbert strenuously trying to write his way out of the most carefully-constructed anti-writing machine yet devised in fiction

Yep. I know Herbert had this line about messianic leaders but his own rules and worldbuilding mean this ... doesn't work. Instead the warning read to me as 'you better hope God doesn't show up because as soon as he does that's the end of meaningful storytelling. It's all written and binds even him.'

yeah I think this sums it up pretty well

Thomas Frank

It was Mark! But today I learned Dean exists

speaking of sporting nicknames my fave is former Australian cricketer Mark Waugh. He was a great player but his twin brother Steve was an all time great, which lead Mark’s Essex club colleagues to call him ‘Afghanistan’, ‘the forgotten Waugh’

A+ nickname

this is like when I bought that Fibonacci pasta

really can’t stress enough how there needs to be a whole Nuremberg situation for all this

London Zoo has two, Kiwi and Gizmo

A poorly taxidermied fox sitting on a chair looking baked

Someone posted that it was an artistic failure because some people regard the main character as heroic

Yes I have had my eye on this! Bryan Fuller, Mads, Sigourney, it’s all my faves

Dr Hauschka Soothing Cleansing Milk

I wondered why this was so disgusting in a latte. And so expensive!

saw a poll the other day that said that in America it is as popular as the Vietnam war was at the *end* of that war

just apropos of this latest jeremiad in Thinking Man’s Fascism Weekly

redshirt

please could the conservatives and reactionary centrists make up their mind about whether the threat from Kids Today is post-modern moral relativism where nothing is true and everything is permitted, or crushing Manichaean moral certainty enforced by brutal cancel culture commissars

Instagram, which I use to post pictures of my dinner or to look at pictures of tigers, keeps sending me ‘notifications’ where I go ooh has someone liked my dinner and it turns out it means that ‘someone has said something on Threads’

Under the Official Secrets Act 1989, Chapter 6, subsection 1, a person who is or has been; (a) a member of the security and intelligence services; or (b) notified that he is subject to the provisions of this subsection is guilty of an offence if without lawful authority he discloses any information, document or other article relating to security or intelligence which is or has been in his possession by virtue of his position as a member of any of those services or in the course of his work while the notification is or was in force. I hereby agree to abide by the provisions of the Act. Signature Date

Heh