Gavin Whenman

People defending this with technical explanations of characters and tokens. Fine, but the point is how can you trust its outputs when you need specialist knowledge to know not to ask it what appears to a lay person to be a really simple question?

Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.

Did a new one

COMPANION was marketed as a thriller rather than a horror, but it definitely has horror moments and a big satirical element I quite enjoyed

M3GAN (the original, haven't seen the sequel) is a good shout if you've not caught it yet

(I'd also say roughly the first half of HERETIC too, but after that it gets quite dark)

This is such a funny paragraph of a BlueSky-style "well actually" in real life.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Came here to say exactly this!

Anybody knowing the history of the Space Shuttle would not let these lads anywhere near a load of tiles

The people who are talking about this like Cain is all washed up as an actor are going to feel pretty silly when they learn that only two years ago he played "The Mayor" in R.A.D.A.R.: The Adventures of the Bionic Dog

That's nothing, I heard about an Irish department store that had literal priests wandering round the underwear department. Disgusting stuff

If you can’t do the cosy time, don’t do the cosy crime

Oop, I tell a lie: there are some showings at the Ealing Picturehouse and from Friday it'll be on in Brixton, but that's it, which still seems odd, right?

As far as I can tell, Picturehouse aren't showing THE NAKED GUN anywhere at all this week (at least, not in London) which seems... odd. Anyone know if there are Reasons for this?

they should talk to your boyfriend, hear he has experience in that department

For the last time, the definition of art is “something in a museum with a tiny explanatory sign next to it.” It has to be a sign that people kinda check out for a few seconds before getting bored and wandering towards the gift shop. That is art

just completely awful, down to the risible 'derrrrr what's da problem?' response from the police spokesperson.

[Johnson's formulating adult shampoo]

no. let them cry.

(I opened the QR code with Google Lens if that makes any difference at all)

Oh, weird, cause it doesn't for me - it seems to go to to the instructions you probably need: chc.gg/attachment/6...

(you've checked the QR code, right?)

Ken Livingstone on the phone

"Of course, there's one German who was famously a vegetarian..."

Climbers in a huge queue to the summit of Everest, rapidly running out of oxygen.

Thanks to this news image of climbers risking suffocation in the “danger zone” queue to the summit of Everest I have finally a FOMO event marginally less appealing to me than the Oasis shows.

I reckon we could rule out one of the candidates in this pic.

Impossible. His soul's been dead for years

Probably demanded by the same people who took the Tate Modern to court for having the temerity to be there first

Sign on a fence near a river reading "No Busking: This a residential area"

This outside the Tate Modern. IDK, maybe live somewhere else?

But the big animated rock who sounds like the bloke off The Bear, that's totally plausible

seeing a lot of reviews for the new naked gun talk about how in the original lesley nielsen played the whole thing incredibly deadpan. he did not and that's ok.

For students of the form, The "Best TV Ever" viral post going around this morning is an A+ example of making the original post have an obvious error (2 shows which are generally accepted to not be in the best 5 ever) to increase the interaction with it.

There are still shows with 22-ep runs, but they tend to be straight-down-the-line procedurals now (e.g. CHICAGO FIRE/MED, etc)