Peter McGladdery

British Bobby "Oi! You got a licence for that encyclopedia?"

There's that old quote about sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic. Same seems to be true about incompetence and malice.

Withnail & I meme. "We've implemented draconian censorship by mistake"

I think it helped that almost nobody in the UK (government and population) seem to know it was happening or what it actually was going to entail.

trash movies from the 70s are art
trash movies from the 80s are camp
trash movies from the 90s are fun
trash movies from the aughts are nostalgia
trash movies past that are trash

There should be an update for RDR2 where you can hunt and kill the characters from HBO’s The Gilded Age

*Futuropolis

I'm typing one-eyed diagonally under a duvet

YouTube video by trumbledore Futuropolis

Futuropolus 1984
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Riding a wave of 4am consciousness by lying on my side & imagining my duvet is a large regal or imperial cloak sweeping down across the bed from my neck

top 10 cited sources by LLMs as of june 2025, by percentage - reddit 40.1 wikipedia 26.3 youtube 23.5 google 23.3 yelp 21.0 facebook 20.0 amazon 18.7 tripadvisor 12.5 mapbox 11.3 openstreetmap 11.3

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A handwritten envelope with a stamp of King Charles. The address reads "To the Astronomer Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland". In front of some books.

Well #RoyalMail have outdone themselves: look what arrived in the mail! Turns out you can send me a letter with only "The Astronomer Royal, Edinburgh, Scotland" on the address!

🙏 to 95yo Mr Pritchard: a very lovely letter about telescopes 🔭 and his childhood ambitions to discover a new star 🥰.

I don't know what you mean

Children ‘badly shaken’ following arson attack police are treating as racially motivated Window smashed at property and graffiti sprayed during incident on Saturday

Three young children traumatised by an arson attack on their home by legitimate concerners in Newtownabbey.

"Move out or be burnt"

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#Ireland #Racism

Thrilled to share that I posted this selfie to Twitter and caused a former chief economist from TD bank to tank his own career ❤️

He's gone off a bit. So maybe just Grey-ham

Poundstretcher shop sign

We also have...

Snjffing round the toilet stalls

Bigoted, athropomorphic pig police officer called PC Gammon Lineham

Paul Burston is the founder of the Polari Prize and a supporter of LGB Alliance. Malcom Clark is a founder of LGB Alliance, and he is currently using transphobic slurs and calling trans women who have an issue with the Polari Prize "freaks."

That is what you support if you support the Polari Prize.

Live in the moment.

Take me down to the pair o' dice city
Where the Craps baize (green) gives me Snake Eyes vict'ry

Take me down to the paradox city
where the grass is green and there is no city

Original painting: art, deliberate, soulful

AI 'exploration' of original painting: not art, ghoulish, inhuman, emperor's new clothes

Putting the Doom UI over it: art, intentional, hilarious, human, quietly profound

The Polari prize First Book longlist with crosses over authors Jason Okundaye Sacha Coward Sanah Ahsan Amy Twigg Mae Diansangu Ciara Maguire To indicate their withdrawal

The Polari prize Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola Robert Hamberger Rhian Elizabeth To indicate their withdrawal

There's been yet ANOTHER withdrawal from the Polari Prize.

From the First Book longlist:
Jason Okundaye
Sacha Coward
Sanah Ahsan
Amy Twigg
Mae Diansangu
Ciara Maguire

From the main award longlist:
Olumide Popoola
Robert Hamberger
Rhian Elizabeth

From the judging panel:
Nicola Dinan
Bob Hughes

Introduction The Civil Justice Council (CJC) is currently seeking to recruit 7 non-judicial members: Consumer Academic Welsh interests Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Insurance Housing Solicitor

apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8875?t...

Be nice to get people who actively want to make things better to apply for this

Introduction The Civil Justice Council (CJC) is currently seeking to recruit 7 non-judicial members: Consumer Academic Welsh interests Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs): Insurance Housing Solicitor

apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8875?t...

You folk need to keep morw hydrated. I can literally hear your eyes rolling whenever I post

My girlfriend? Yeah, you wouldn't know her. She's hosted on a different server

Facebook marketplace advert for a Samsung TV with Gregg Wallace burned into the screen £30

Our first guest spot over here comes via @curtissparkles.bsky.social

Old wooden gatepost. Square cross section. Pyramid top. Rusty gate hinge & lots of rusty staple where posters and flyers once were. Paperscraps pinned under some of the staples

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