Pete Birkinshaw

Well, *white* men are...

YouTube video by BBC Archive 1976: BIG JIM's Big BOOZY Bike Trip to Braemar | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive

I'm just going to keep posting this once in a while, because it's epic.

#BeMoreJim

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I'm impressed by his whisky caches

Thinking machines are absolutely a thing that does not exist and will not exist for a long time, if ever - he may as well say "I don't eat meat because the toys in my cupboard would be upset" while pointing at an empty cupboard.

. One penny .
=
Two Halfpennies
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Four Farthings
(feorthing, a forth part)

Greens lead crossparty MP bid to force Keir Starmer to scrap digital ID plans

A Green MP has launched a bid to stop the Labour Government’s plans for digital ID

Exclusive: Manchester Pride is on the brink of collapse The Mill understands that the organisation is about to go into administration

Exclusive: Manchester Pride is on the brink of collapse.

Two people with direct knowledge of the situation have told us that Manchester Pride Ltd, the organisation that runs the event, has run out of money and can no longer pay its bills.

manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-ma...

Something to cheer us all up! 🥰

Amazon has good USB3 to headphone jack adapters for £4. Bluetooth headphones cost about the same as a pizza

Jinx the black leopard at Florida Big Cat rescue absolutely tearing into a pumpkin. You can read more about Jinx (and his rescue story) here: https://bigcatrescue.org/jinx/

The news in the world is awful, but it's almost Halloween, so let's talk about pumpkin enrichment for big cats.

This is Jinx the black leopard (Big Cat Rescue, Florida) enjoying shredding a pumpkin.

Me too, although I also have a 2.1 (hons) in Economics

I may have got my time periods confused. Might delete

I watched this and thought “those completely unguarded whirling blades are very… libertarian” which surprised me because I assumed it was Japanese, but they’re actually by a notorious libertarian/fash American techbro

Government: “Growth! Growth at any cost!”
Me, paying the cost: “So how much growth have we had?”
Gov: “0.1%”

Sora is a paper machete. It is low-quality, impossible to make consistent or reliable, while also being incredibly expensive to run. Every single “good” video you’ve seen is cherrypicked from dozens of terrible ones to make you feel scared that this can create entire movies’ worth of content.

Da iawn chi, Caerdydd.

There’s a Batman University

If nothing else it's embarrassing

I know why the No Kings protests are called that, and it's a good name because of that historical context, but it's still rather ironic that the countries with actual kings are doing a lot better as democracies. Where people aren't ignoring the national constitutions.

I had no idea what "rusticated" meant until I looked it up just now

I made a joke that this would be mostly just sugar AND IT ACTUALLY IS

Nobody needs to know this but nevertheless Apple TV has a set of slow-mo drone video screensavers, and one of them is of a Chinese national park with dramatic mountains, and one of the mountains/rocky outcrops is remarkably phallic. I don't think anyone walking past could do so without mentioning it

It took me a moment but I think I remember that one!

You can probably guess how Korean Jamie Oliver’s “Korean Fried Rice“ is.

I’ve stumbled across the Uncle Roger video of Jamie Oliver’s “Korean Fried Rice” and… what is wrong with Jamie Oliver? Is he trolling? Is he actually stupid? Is there some weird personal philosophy behind his bad cooking?

Given how toxic literally every other output from generative "AI" has been, how well do you think this will go?

Five times now. How can they fail to deliver to their own official parcel collection agent? It's a newsagent. Even Parcelforce could manage that.

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

Royalty or PM in Manchester today judging by the cars and whistle tooting police outriders

He's only 65?!