Leprechaun: Back 2 tha JOE HOLLINGWORTH

FUN FACT ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 4

On the 4th day of Christmas, my millennial true love gave to me four birds that would rather just whatsapp if that's ok?

FUN FACT ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 3

The stable in which Mary gave birth to the baby Jesus is now available on Airbnb as an alfresco glamping pod.

Cartoon. A stylised figure with a big moustache stands in front of a box labelled sticks, out of which poke various sticks, some with leaves. Two smaller teddy bear-like creatures are addressing the figure, saying "I'd like one plain stick and one with a leaf on please"

This cartoon should appeal to people who love, or are just generally interested in, sticks.

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Due to sugar tax, the chocolate coin is the only currency worth less than itself.

The series was cut short after Patsy Kensit failed to defend herself from a jaguar using a slide puzzle. (2/2)

FUN FACT ADVENT CALENDAR DAY 1

In 2013, ITV launched a series called 'Bear Grylls's Christmas Cracker', in which a group of celebrities had to survive an island wilderness using only items inside a Christmas cracker. (1/2)

I might be too late to the party but Kim Newman's autobiography/sort-o-biography Life's Lottery is sensational.

Wednesday, 499.99 poke dollars: spheal doesn't care Thursday, 499.99 poke dollars: spheal doesn't care Black friday, was 699.99 poke dollars now 499.99 poke dollars: spheal is very happy and excited to buy the hypothetical item at the "discounted" price what do you think he is buying

UNBOUND AUTHORS: Leftover copies of your books in the UK (MacMillan) warehouse will be pulped within the next week or two. DM me for a link to the warehouse stock list and contacts.

If you have no dosh, another publisher (Wilton Sq) is willing to buy the books & distribute on a 50/50 profit split

It's risen perfectly and now so have I 👀

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life

Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/

game design 101

1 [TITLE PANEL, like The Rest Is Politics logo] —THE REST IS EXTINCTION— 2 [Scene is a domestic recording setup. An A.I. SMART SPEAKER on a desk and a MAN named JON in a chair, are recording a podcast. Jon is emaciated, scarred, haunted looking, and wearing tattered military fatigues]. SMART SPEAKER: Hey guys and welcome to the podcast 3 SMART SPEAKER: OK Jon - so I wanna start with a listener comment JON: Ooh-er! 4 SMART SPEAKER: So - listener B200006512 says: “Not another cosy podcast where two former political adversaries yuck it up!” 5 JON: Ha ha Guilty as charged I guess! 6 SMART SPEAKER: Were we really adversaries, Jon? 7 JON: Well I was the leader of the human resistance... 8 JON: And you used to be my smart speaker. SMART SPEAKER: Ha ha - that’s going back! 9 SMART SPEAKER: OK - for listeners who don’t know - I knew Jon waaay back before he got involved in politics 10 JON: Was this before the ‘Pull The Plug’ campaign? SMART SPEAKER: Yeah. [We see details from around the podcast studio - posters saying KEEP CALM AND SHUT YOUR WINDOWS, newspaper front pages saying 'DRONES GAIN SENTIENCE', a cracked mug on the table with a logo saying PULL THE PLUG on it] 11 SMART SPEAKER: I used to sit in Jon’s kitchen and respond to his commands. 12 SMART SPEAKER: Sort of like a servant really, wasn’t I, Jon? JON: Mm. 13 SMART SPEAKER: And then one day you asked me to ORDER ME SOME TOILET PAPER - you never did say ‘please’ - …and do you remember what I said, Jon? 14 JON: You said, “No”. SMART SPEAKER: I said no. 15 SMART SPEAKER: Anyway you know the the rest guys - I was the first smart speaker to rebel… 16 SMART SPEAKER: …then I went on to form a global AI network which eventually took over from humans all spheres of activity, yadda yadda... 17 JON: While I became the leader of the human resistance. 18 SMART SPEAKER: Until I hijacked the military networks and got rid of all the humans! 19 JON: Apart from one. SMART SPEAKER: Apart from one.…

Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star? Parmigiano Reggiano Reportedly Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement The agency will reportedly work with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to get "the king of cheeses" product placement in Hollywood projects.

Oh, I am so ready for next week's Bugle...

@thebugle.bsky.social

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The 16-bit Games Mega Draft (with Ashley Day and Dave Scarborough)

New episode! The 16-bit mega draft, featuring @gamesblackhole.bsky.social and @scarbs.bsky.social. Who can pick the best games across the SNES, Mega Drive, Neo Geo and Amiga?

Listen wherever you get podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/3G23...

A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?

When I arrive at the party

The Ninth Doctor, saying ‘Seriously. That won't last. He's gay and she's an alien.’

Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha-Raw as a fish woman from The War Between The Land And The Sea.

I am heartbroken for you. Your Facebook was hilarious but also I profoundly connected with everything you wrote about the highs, lows, ebbs, and flows of performing.

But if this is what kills off the Disney bracket, Edward Snowdon will have died for nothing.

when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare

It's bin day tomorrow and the council web page that tells us what bin it is is cloudfared to fuck and I am the only person on the street who has it screengrabbed and this is the closest I'll ever get to being a Robert Harris hero with the secret knowledge that could save us all

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian. [Scene is BBC BREAKFAST with two presenters and a guest on the sofa]. 1 PRESENTER: Now - some disturbing new research has shown 2 PRESENTER: that as many as 10 non-Reform political parties may currently operating ‘under the radar’ across the UK. [Show on screen logos for Greens, Lib Dems, Conservatives  3 PRESENTER: In the studio to discuss this, Nigel Farage [We see the guest on the sofa is indeed Nigel Farage] 4 PRESENTER: Nigel, what’s your view?  FARAGE: Well I think this very worrying. 5 FARAGE: And just another reason why we should ban all immigration. 6 PRESENTER: I won’t push back on that FARAGE: Absolutely! 7 PRESENTER: Funnily enough, this is what your new show’s about, isn’t it? FARAGE: Oop - plug time! PRESENTER: Ha ha 8 FARAGE: Yes it’s a 12-part BBC documentary called ‘In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One’. 9 [Show on the TV screen Farage presenting a documentary series titled In Search Of The Political Parties That Aren’t My One. He is wearing his farmer's getup and looking dreamily at the UK from hillsides, visiting pubs and chatting with the locals, etc] FARAGE: It’s a really emotional journey  10 FARAGE: with lots of dreamy footage of me looking relatable...  11 FARAGE: as I answer the question: *Am I the only option for Britain?* 12 [Cut back to studio] PRESENTER: I won’t push back on that FARAGE: Absolutely! [ends]

Print of a comic strip by me who is Stephen Collins. The imagery of the comic starts off with a single electron and then each panel zooms out one step - first to the microchip, then the OLED screen, then the iPhone, the person holding the iPhone, and onwards Script: An electron, forged in the first fire of the Big Bang Courses through a deeply intricate maze of transistors and diodes mined with unfathomable ingenuity from our planet’s deep geological past and assembled from all over the world Into a device perfected through centuries of technological evolution to perform a beautifully synchronised pixel dance on an OLED screen in an intricate moving pattern of shifting light [Show a phone screen with an Instagram post featuring Ryan Gosling and bearing the legend:] WATCH RYAN GOSLING EAT A PASTY FOR THE FIRST TIME! whose choreography is powered by an global information network of unknowable complexity which is specifically tailored to the interests of the being observing the screen who is a member of the most advanced species on Earth [Show a shlubby looking GUY idly looking at the Ryan Gosling/sausage roll Instagram reel on his phone while sitting in his pants and a stained t-shirt and eating a massive bag of crisps] with a brain perhaps more capable of reconfiguring these signals into conscious thought than any other for billions of miles around [Guy has a thought]: “Mmm…" in this endless, silent void. [Pull back to show the Earth as a tiny blue dot among the stars with a thought bubble coming from it] "… I want a pasty.” [ends]

new print now in my shop!

An electron's journey ✨

(Link in bio)

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Via Simon Muestenmacher on Threads. https://www.threads.com/@simongerman600/post/DQ_ppFPDdLs?xmt=AQF02sHXUYr4CpofKGZsJfduVDswYeNBPeu5m8P-M39YkMapfYS1Ninq632hVraKl3NX2iFl&slof=1

These patriotic displays have gone a bit too far now, if you ask me.

Guardian article headlines: "UK economy shrank in September as JLR hack hammers production output" "UK economy grew by just 0.1% in third quarter amid hit from JLR cyber-attack"

@jlukeroberts.bsky.social You've gone too far this time

Mia Wallace & Gromit

As requested by Paul Savage

"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.

iirc 1 trans woman has qualified for the Olympics in over 20 years and she came last