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Susie Dent's place in UK culture is so weird. Do other countries have a beloved human dictionary?

Ad saying "raise a glass in remembrance" with a pic of Ross Kemp holding a pint with a poppy on it up

People will mock this. But something to note:

When Remembrance Day was introduced, this is EXACTLY what many British WW1 veterans did on it.

They would meet up with old friends and colleagues from their units. Talk. Laugh. Cry. Toast those not there and get joyously, and utterly shitfaced. /1

My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Just learning that John Candy was born on October 31st, which technically would make him Halloween Candy...and that brings me joy.

If AI was as good as they pretend, it could create images/videos that were both realistic and easily verifiable as AI

Two texts from the same person. The top one says "it's going better than my wildest dreams". The second one says "*my wildest dreams on this specific topic".

The most important caveat

While Musk mentions "hard men" it's a good time to remember that he's afraid of Mark Zuckerberg.

Abcnews graphic: surreal moment as coyote drinks water from skylight window on top of Los Angeles hair salon (Image of exactly that, except the framing is canted and as a result it looks like a coyote imprisoned in a glass square a la the phantom zone from Superman)

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Cornish mining firm makes lithium hydroxide breakthrough The product is a key element of lithium-ion batteries and is found in electric vehicles.

A green lithium mine that will earn the UK money through our new sovereign wealth fund? This sounds too good to be true

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Give without taking

It's time to stop calling it Twitter. It's never coming back. You're just giving the old brands value to the new thing

My niece had to interview her hero for school and she chose me!!!!!!

Suck it other uncles! This is TOTAL UNCLE DOMINATION!

Tax bands should go up with inflation

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

There are so many super villains these days, but still no super heroes

journalism is dying for economic, technological, and cultural reasons, but most of all it's dying because the bad guys can't even be bothered to hide their dastardly deeds anymore, because nothing happens when they are revealed

In most cases, I would go home rather than going big.

Occasional reminder that Cleverly, not Kemi, would be Tory leader right now if he hadn't got his maths wrong and knocked HIMSELF out of the race.

(He/his team, shifted too many supporter votes to Kemi, trying to game her into second place behind him. They thought she was the easiest to beat)

Use hummus instead of mayo or butter in sandwiches

Idea: Minecook. The functionality of Minecraft but with the plot of Delicious in Dungeon

It's been a long week

Colourful cubist style painting with semi abstract rectangular forms which suggests multiple buildings in a cityscape

City, 1913 by Avant Garde painter Alexandra Exter #WomensArt

"Oh what a feeling! / Dancing on the mycelium."

Fungi throw quite the shapes....

My wife claims that cheese and crackers is the western version of sushi.

Full Saturday in Autumn vibes

It was fun hearing a Minnesotan swearing.

Especially as he made a point of calling out the current trend of politicians swearing to sound tough.

Steve Waluigi's time has finally arrived!

Is it just technical issues you are worried about? I'm not downplaying them, I was just wondering if there is anything else

There is in fact a magic money tree to fill the hole in the budget, and it's just a technical fix.