Chris Emerson

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 correct outcome. Can't rush these things.

It isn't what Twitter was in the best times, but it's certainly a lot better than it is now!

Like last year & similar to other meetups, during the quiet summer we are taking August off, but we'll be back with more great tech talks for you in September :) Have a great break!

13.14 SHOWJUMPING FROM EVEREST. Very limited highlights from the ill-thought out and, ultimately, quite fatal equine disaster.

Hillsborough bereaved urge Starmer not to appoint ex-Sun editor to senior role Labour figures also have concerns about appointing David Dinsmore as permanent secretary for communications

When we have a far right government in the UK , it will be because Keir Starmer has tried so hard to lose Labour voters - i am utterly bamboozled

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Why are the wealthy so well off? The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation

Why do the rich keep getting richer?

Because we tax work more heavily than wealth.

This explainer lays out how the UK tax system quietly helps the wealthy stay wealthy – and why that needs to change.

Prof Richard Murphy reports

YouTube video by Simon Clark You've been lied to about Net Zero

Let's talk about how the right wing lie about net zero

youtu.be/bX1n25rN8yg

WHEN IS IT NOT SMALL BOATS WEEK THO??
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When is it wealth inequality week, eh?? WHEN DOES THAT COME AROUND?

A Hider!

I'm afraid you flatter my knowledge of Westward Ho!

Westward Ho!?

Are you at the Eden Project?

Are you East of Bristol?

Are you inside the M25?

Claude has the spiritual bliss attractor, Gemini has… this

I found the story in the Chronicling America newspaper database at the Library of Congress website. It does not disappoint!

chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045...

App year 1: hey why not use our fun app, Sockr, to log your connection of novelty socks and ties. Share with your friends.

Yr 2: you can no longer share with your friends.

Yr 3: support for Ties is being removed.

Yr 4: Sockr is now merging with HitlerSpace!

CSS Has 239 Different Ways To Make Something Blue : dylanbeattie.net Modern CSS has 239 different ways to make something blue. No, really.

Modern CSS has (at least) 239 different ways to make something blue.

dylanbeattie.net/2025/07/30/c...

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

the onion 2 months ago

I always learned (somewhere) that units should be left off 0 in CSS... 0 doesn't have units by definition. Maybe the same applies to %, which is really shorthand for "divide by 100"?

A map of countries that recognise the State of Palestine.

You can now add France… but apparently not the UK, Germany, Canada of Australia.

Shameful.

The Sears Tower looking insanely creepy during a blackout, including the impression of a scary face topped by a crown of spikes. It looks like a giant humanoid evil robot or a demonic Minecraft creature.

"It's ok, honey. The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout won't hurt you!"

The Sears Tower experiencing a blackout:

Ugh, horrible situation. Hope you get it sorted out soon!

Tom Lehrer, who just died at age 97, outlived his New York Times obituary writer.

I also never knew, until I was poking around there a moment ago, that Lehrer also composed an "Aristotle Variation" of his famous song "The Elements". The complete sheet music is below.

What an absolute legend.

Horrible migrants are killing Europe, says horrible migrant arriving in Europe

Things In Rings game

What?? No! But I thought they were just legitimately concerned mums & dads, not like the rotten terrorists holding up bits of card saying "genocide's bad"