David Strathdee

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci!
ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Mark's fundraiser for Sands Help Mark Thompson raise money to support Sands

I am running the London Parks Half Marathon in memory of our first son Olly who died at the age of 9 months in 2012.

SANDS has been a wonderful support to us and we want to raise money for the charity to help others. Anything you can give will be welcome. Thanks.

www.justgiving.com/page/mark-th...

Hallo friends! If you’re seeing this please give it a bit of love for the algorithm.

Hey! I’m in London! I’ll be at Soho Theatre 6-9 August doing my very silly show A Passion For Passion and in Edinburgh after then.

🎟️https://www.alicecomedyfraser.com/upcoming-gigs

The question is, do I finally play the copy of Forza Horizon 4 I bought years ago, or do I play all my 90s/00s retro games at a boosted framerate…

I finally got a decent gaming PC capable of running titles from this century, just opened it up to install an extra hard drive and IT ACTUALLY WORKS and I feel like Alan Turing.

I love how big it is too. Apparently King Arthur was 8 feet tall.

Huge congrats to our friends at VGHF

Age verification: what's the harm? | Girl on the Net explains Age verification has hit the UK, people need to upload ID to see 'adult' content. What's the harm in laws like this, if they protect children? Let's see.

#AgeVerification: what's the harm?

In which I distill a lot of casual pub chats I've had with friends into a layperson's guide to the #OnlineSafetyAct. What it is, the problems it causes, and why you should definitely care.

www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver...

Very much enjoying the idea that there will be newspaper editors in Glasgow telling their photographers to 'get me pictures of Spiderman!'

Sausages and cheese, German supermarket

the scenario we all feared

Am I incredibly sad or did anyone else notice the framerate boost in the new update to NYT Connections

A picture of Esquie from the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. He is a large being with brown and gold medieval robes, a red scarf, wearing a sun mask with white mime face paint.

Also Esquie is the dorkiest Spirited Away reject I’ve ever seen. I love him and want him as a pet immediately.

The more I play of Clair Obscur, the more I fall in love, and completely understand why everyone thinks it’s one of the greatest games ever made.

I was stunned to see I’d sunk 14 hours into it already. As an adult with a job, most games I’d feel every minute of that – but the time has *flown* by.

seriously what is it with rich people and yachts? I've been on some fancy ones and they're just not that cool

It’s also proof that you CAN still make those old-school comedies today – no matter what (sigh) David Zucker thinks.

Just reached Act II of Expedition 33.

Oh. Oh my.

We gotta get humans doing the subtitles again, the chaos out there is daft

Every day, my refusal to use any of these execrable LLMs gets vindicated again and again.

watching a documentary on the history of Africa and, unfortunately, due to having the sense of humour of a 13 year old,

Crime and the perception of crime: @jburnmurdoch.ft.com via @stephenkb.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9623...

Mad Max movies, Fallout, etc, imagined a desert apocalypse as a result of nuclear war, grand hubris. Turns out we'll get to Fury Road by asking AI to write our emails for us and chatting with imaginary girlfriends.

Immediately had to check this hadn’t been doctored, but wow.

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Was it demolished by The Duffer Brothers

I spent far too long there going “an overpriced powered what?”

Just looked it up. Around 15% of the UK population were born overseas. This headline - depute intending to show a filthy foreign crimewave - actually indicates that Britons born overseas are statistically more law abiding than Britons born in Britain.

August is the Sunday of months.

Right now I just can’t find the will to leave my wonderful fiancée and impossibly cute cat, to spend £40 catching a 75-minute train to London to do 5 minutes of jokes in front of 12 bored people in a pub basement.