Disappointed Optimist

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

This appears to be a very friendly email from Melania to Ghislaine Maxwell:

Truly excellent but needs a 4k touch up now.

Started / Going

“I was just adjusting my shirt after I took my microphone off”

Lay back on the bed on your own in a Hotel room with a girl identified as 15 years old?

“Oh it was part of a comedy film”

Yeah but Guiliani didn’t know that

Periodic reminder that this former mayor of New York was caught on film with a woman who clearly stated she was 15 & the camera team cut filming early because they realised he was absolutely going to wank off in front of a minor

Chalk Farm fire disrupts Euston station services There is major disruption on all rail services between Euston station and Watford Junction.

Unfortunately it appears the fire that has blocked trains out of Euston today is in a building that houses a hot yoga studio that promises "controlled heat". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Black and white pictures of Charlie Brown (left) US pilot and Franz Stigler (right) German pilot

Today I want to tell you about the Brown-Stigler incident. 20th December 1943 these two pilots would be the centre of an episode that would last decades.

Thinking of writing some erotica but it all comes out with lines like “I close the space between us, drawing her towards me, feeling each other’s heat whilst also noticing the bed was not made & I could do with a few extra hours sleep.”

And February, that objectively weird short month where all the cool
People have their birthday. Just flits by every year, making way for the upcoming Easter & spring

I feel it’s somehow unfair that January manages to eke another Friday out of itself in 2026.

Like, you bastard, it’s STILL JANUARY for ANOTHER WEEKEND

Making Matt Goodwin your prophet is as bad as making Badenoch your leader

It’s really embarrassing. For us all

Well at least Amazon’s massive bribe to Melania and Trump is sending a bit of cash to the newspaper industry

Spot the difference

The Elon Musk of his time: held back only by Moores Law

Sir Clive Sinclair in a C5, looking pleased

I liked it better when tech entrepreneurs looked like this.

A set of four cake pops that read HAPPY VALENTINES DAY; The first has H, VA, and D; The second has A LEN A; the third has PP TIN Y; the last has Y ES <3. A cartoon below shows a very sad hamster holding up the one that reads PP TINY

I have been laughing at this for a solid five minutes.

BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case.

Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

I even caveat my prompts to what is or is not acceptable. Just wanted an attendee list for a workshop based upon email responses.

It literally made up one person.

Day 3 of an AI platform telling me it will complete the relatively trivial task I set it in 30 minutes

I think the idea of “social media” as a concept now is increasingly moot. It’s not social really anymore. Twitter, Facebook, instagram & even linked in are posture platforms. Absolutely about broadcasting yourself but not really
About engagement. I imagine tik tok is about the same

The disconnect from reality social media has with the real opportunities & issues is increasingly vast in the UK

Meanwhile literally on every instagram advert for solar panels are people saying they don’t work

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I keep telling people the media NEEDS people to be miserable

"how can we frame the drop in the murder rate as a bad thing?"

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

May as well dive right in.

Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball?

According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’”

Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

If someone makes you cry in the first month of seeing them you need to bin them off x