Giles Sparrow is adrift in the vortex

If I wanted to watch a massively disappointing game of rugby that leaves me feeling degraded and dirty then quite frankly the 6 nations has started

The remarkable thing is Labour have basically made 'anti-child poverty' and 'climate change' the two core missions or this Government and...

... basically refuse to talk about one or them. Genuinely bizarre.

Don't knock it - some dude called Bradley Brantley Bradworth just doubled his fanbase.

i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!

an irate goose inquires persistently about Green Day's choice of song.

So it’s come to this - the DVD of Doctor Who: Timelash, plus viewing assistance provided courtesy of Messrs Jameson…

The things I do for @somethingwho.bsky.social
podcast…

Inject that uber-woke net-zeroist rejoinerism straight into my veins

Second time in 3 days I’m posting this Vonnegut quote wrt AI.

i wonder what magic the tech industry will develop next. a calendar that is 75% accurate and gives you an eating disorder

The whole article is repulsive but this passage is at the core of it. She has no interest in writing books, she wants to win some kind of competition that nobody entered

They also do it in orange, so problem solved.

Well you've just successfully passed on the curse now, haven't you? 🙄

Casting the Runes, but with Ikea cat storage boxes...

(FFS they even do a ginger one... 🙀)

This series of articles by Peter Oborne is so spot on - withering about McSweeney - and his obsessive focus on party politics, scheming and tactics, at expense of policy conducive to the national interest - and in process ultimately ruining Starmer’s govt.

Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

<Braces for emergency podcast onslaught>

Right, but just to clarify, you did not appoint Peter Mandelson, because you were not Prime Minister.

The entire right wing relies on the British public not understanding:

1) Tax brackets
2) Inheritance tax
3) Inflation

And it works. Every time.

The cover to "Meat Is Murder" by The Smiths, except now it's Sweep wearing a helmet that says "Sausages are lovely"

Posted on my FB feed, without attribution. If you did this, let me know so I can credit / thank you properly...

The Home Office now describes asylum seekers as "illegal immigrants [living in hotels]" with no reference to the reason that these people are in government-funded accommodation is that this government has taken & will process the asylum claim from them in 98-99% of cases of unauthorised entry.

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

Concentration camps:

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit

Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’
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The panelist who was big 15 years ago, has since been using full professorship to investigate the field through a psychedelic lens, and is about to go very much off topic

Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this.

It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.

We mustn't get so focused on mandy & Andy that we let the WHOLE LOT OF OTHER DANGERS who are either British or have their grubby fingers in our infrastructure off the hook. That means the beardy bad cola merchant too.

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

Worth it for the comments.