Rob

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

Wrong fucking Home Alone 2 actor goddammit.

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

Nothing has highlighted just how technically illiterate the senior business management and political classes are right now as the whole AI thing.

Just an entire generation of "leaders" incapable of spotting a bad sales pitch because of some woo woo tech words that sound cool.

The cast of Only Fools and Horses pictured like they are in the shining

🎶 we got a snow drift,
Danny’s gift
and plasma from the bloody lifts
axed doors,
maze tours
and creepy twins you can’t ignore,
red rum, scared mum, barman chum and you must say
when he’s typing all the day
it’s all work and never play
play, play, play, play, play, play, play, play. 🎶

Government to offer free training to all adults to help them learn to enjoy the smooth smooth taste of Benson and Hedges

Comic, first panel is two sports broadcasters with one saying "Sports fans - this is a world first" The second panel is the football on the turf w/ legs and a face now beginning to crawl with stunned onlooking football players. The broadcaster continues "The ball is evolving to walk on land!"

Super Bowl prediction

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step.

1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish.

2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Batman – “Batcraft parts” For Jon Ritman, playing Knight Lore for the first time was a revelatory experience. As he later told Retro Gamer, when he first saw Ultimate’s isometric 3D platform adventure game, his jaw hit the …

ICYMI, my post this week was on the first Batman computer game. Read about:

- How Ritman & Drummond built on Knight Lore to make an isometric classic
- DC's intervention to tell them "Batman doesn't take drugs"
- Their follow-up Head Over Heels, a "very wonderful ticket to runny-jumpy-avoidy city"

I WAS JUST CHECKING THE WEATHER MOM, JEEZ DONT COME IN MY ROOM

I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
On the Muppet Show tonight

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Batman – “Batcraft parts” For Jon Ritman, playing Knight Lore for the first time was a revelatory experience. As he later told Retro Gamer, when he first saw Ultimate’s isometric 3D platform adventure game, his jaw hit the …

Jon Ritman was amazed by Knight Lore, and set out to make his own isometric adventure. Ocean got him the Batman licence to use.

With Bernie Drummond's art and some forward-thinking gameplay ideas, he would do much more than just make The Dark Knight Lore.

New post on Batman (and Head Over Heels):

🎶watch us wreck the mic
Watch us wreck the mic
Watch us wreck the mic🎶

Actually I'm not even sure it will make the images invisible in the UK. AIUI the geoblock only applies to image creation, not to viewing images created elsewhere.

Readers were confused by this cartoon bully – lots broken, nothing added (3,5)

Poster for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple Pilots

I must not add the word PILOTS to these posters around London

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Someone's just 1.27 centimetred my joke about cockneys and the metric system.

This is LinkedIn’s Bowie death day

If he'd just gone the way of Watterson, Breathed, Larson, etc he'd likely be greatly mourned today. Instead he chose to be a ridiculous, malevolent Too Online Guy and that's how he'll be remembered.

I’ve got something to show you. Feat. @brettdomino

guys stop telling people London is safe we have enough sourdough bakeries we don't need people coming in opening any more ffs

Worth noting that X hasn't even made the Grok nudification feature available to paying users only. Any user, free or paid, can still use the tool on Grok's dedicated site; the bit that's behind the paywall is specifically being able to tweet @-grok to generate pics

I am reminded of the German vampire version of this song.

youtu.be/QJURjF51LFE?...

Before streaming, if you wanted to hear a song you had to take a record off the shelf, remove it from its sleeve, place it on a hand-cranked turntable, then carefully position the long beak of a prehistoric bird in the groove