Barry R

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

How can you hold a pen like that though?

"We're the Sweeney, and we 'aven't had any honey"

Are you team Hula Hoops or team Tyrrells Posh Crisps?

Hula Hoops vs Tyrrells (Posh Crisps)

A Google alert announces Chappell Roan concert tickets, but the image is of Weird Al

You sure about this, Google?

Something something trouser snake #willthisdo

He's pointing at the UFO there.

Must be chaos in her house if she's got an Amazon Smart Speaker.

A white cat with black markings snoozing on a wooden garden table in a shop full of garden things.

A white cat with black marking including a little chin patch on a wooden table surface. Cat is stretching out front paws and twisted as sleeping cats are wont to do

Happy International Cat Day from the hardworking staff cat at Ashton Hall Garden Centre.

That's in The Spy Who Loved Me movie novelisation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(J...

I'd forgotten this existed: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mon...

@number10cat.bsky.social not doing his job!

If someone posts an AI-hallucinated list of incorrect things or a map that looks like the cartographer had a stroke YOU DO NOT HAVE TO then redo the exercise with every other AI system, either "for a laugh" or "but this AI gets it right".

Just wait a few years and we'll be back living like it ourselves.

A shitty map created by ChatGPT5. it purports to be US States with an R in their name, but it's wrong and dumb and worthless just like LLMs.

My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.

Newsnight got in an expert on tourism, was saying things like "maybe we'll have to go on our hols to Spain and France around the mid summer heat instead", and not "STOP FLYING TO SPAIN TWICE A YEAR FOR YOUR HOLIDAYS"

Just what is their problem with lingerie shopping?

Can someone explain to this UK resident why Texas Democrats had to leave the state in order to stop this gerrymandering vote? Couldn't they just not turn up to vote? Or does leaving Texas put them out of some jurisdiction for not doing their jobs?

Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2025 Winner! Oh wait...

They say the biggest problem with the study is it being observational and then literally fit models with different "potato consumption" values to show what would happen if it was purely causal. Oof. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Massive wildfire in France, and Newsnight are discussing it in the context of increased heat spoiling our holidays...

Normally I wouldn't celebrate the death of a sentient creature, but its what he would have wanted.

"and also add 'hahaha no of course I didn't get AI to write this' on it too"

A set of five OMD album covers under heading "Compilations" including the self-titled first album, "Organisation", and "Architecture and Morality".

I wondered why Deezer didn't have the early OMD albums in the albums list and turns out they're below Singles, EPs and Live Albums in the "Compilations" section.

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Ah that's lovely news.

metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

close up shot of origami birds, various colours

chains of origami birds on a concrete wall, many colours

a cabinet containing origami cranes and a screaming figure saying "No War!" made from coloured origami cranes.

The word "PEACE" and a rainbow made from thousands of origami cranes.

Memorial cranes at #Hiroshima The children who made these are grown-ups now, probably all still wishing for peace. December 2005.

A concrete arch mid frame. In front two wooden tables, one being adjusted by a man in a blue uniform with cap. Trees in the background, through the arch a ruined building with the skeleton of a dome on top can be seen.

The #Hiroshima cenotaph. It frames the "Atomic Dome" building that you see in post-bombing shots of the town. There's a flame to be kept burning here until the last nuclear weapon is decommissioned. Took this in Dec 2005.

Two rooks sitting on a "Welcome" sign to the RSPB reserve

Nice to see the parking enforcement officers in their smart black uniforms at @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social checking the car park yesterday!

The stairwell at the Renold Building, Manchester university UMIST campus, in a photo taken by Mark Waugh.

Very happy Manchester's Renold Building is grade-II listed, thanks to heroic efforts of @c20society.bsky.social, the late Elain Harwood and Richard Brook after — what else? — resistance by its owners. It only took 20 years' work.