Neil Garrett

Mind-altering ‘brain weapons’ no longer only science fiction, say researchers UK academics say latest chemicals are ‘wake-up call’ and urge global action to stop weaponisation of neuroscience

So this is how the zombie apocalypse will start www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

(I would love to credit the original author but can’t remember who it was. If anybody does, please feel free to chip in!)

At times like this I’m reminded of the evergreen post from Twitter of old:

Me: I’d like to see Trump wriggle his way out of this!

*Trump wriggles his way out easily*

Me: Yes, well, nevertheless

But the BBC edited two parts of a speech together

Teenage metaller me would be absolutely reeling that you can now buy Megadeth branded beer in Tesco

Sexy lyrics to The Toxic Waltz by Exodus

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Took up #chess one year ago today according to chess.com. Currently sitting around the mid-700s, which feels pretty good for 12 months progress. Gunning for a four figure elo this time next year! #chesspunks

Partner dropped her scarf on our upright fan and accidentally created a new Star Wars villain

One decent use case for AI in the movie industry would be to make actors’ mouths move in sync with the audio in dubbed versions of films.

There is currently no finer lyric in pop music than “Doing a poo at your friend’s house is cunty.”

A shop with a vast amount of fruit on display in a Turkish town

A simply astonishing amount of fruit on display at this Turkish fruit shop

That is quite the cartoon

Lucy Bronze is the England women’s Terry Butcher

Six years of culinary school to get turned down cos you’re Comanche

Love this!

Tbf, that’s how all pandemics end

I would like to see Kier Starmer’s “appropriate” Glastonbury line-up. Pretty sure it would feature Westlife, The Lighthouse Family and for a little edge, Nickelback.

28 Years Later, then. It doesn’t match the original for sheer jaw-dropping, holy-shit-what-did-I-just-watch madness, it’s a pretty solid, well structured and very well acted piece. But what the fuck were the parkour Jimmy Savilles about???

Yes, but what should we do with him?

This is pretty great

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

This LA situation is going to be a very handy reason for Trump to cancel the midterms, eh?

These people. Finding themselves at the top, blind to the privilege and circumstance that put them there, they cast around for an ideological framework that would keep them in charge, squinting at options like fascism, dictatorship, and eugenics, as though they would somehow do them ethically

Ikr? Like the situation Winston Smith finds himself in in 1984… positively Kafkaesque

600 elo, baby! I’m the 10,672,731st best player on chess dot com! Woot! #chesspunks

Worth bearing in mind that the yellowish glow making up most of that galaxy is the combined light of 100 billion stars, each of which is the heart of a solar system with who knows how many planets orbiting. But we’re the only one with life? Yeah, right.

Just a baffling unit of comparison

If the jackboot fits…

Let them. They can harrumph and moan all they want, while the economy gradually picks itself back up and the benefits of a closer EU relationship make themselves apparent. Increasingly they’ll start to look like the isolated Japanese soldiers on those islands fighting a war that ended years ago.

Trump bought Starmer’s silence today, didn’t he. Britain will not be speaking out.