Danny Birchall

I've been on their trustpilot, many people feel the same.

Mystery Solved! Turns out it is "Webinar.tv" whose disgusting and unethical business model is: register for a zoom call under a fake name and email address, record it without consent and put it on a public website with genAI summary and everyone's names and faces and then charge for access. WTAF.

makes me sad to think of being too old to talk about whirligigs!

whirligig! that was it, thank you!

Thinking of a war where they bomb the LLM datacentres and we're all suddenly lost for words

me too, but I'm sure I recall people having sillier names. great tattoo subject too

skysters, what are your best & most fantastic childhood names for those lobed sycamore seedpods that twist in the wind when they fall from the tree?

What the actual fuck?

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Bridgerton of Spies

A Bridgerton Too Far

thank you for your service

The events of the past 48 hours have laid bare Keir Starmer's utter inability to stand up to Donald Trump - and this weakness could have serious consequences for the safety of British people.

I could watch F15s fall out of the sky all fucking day long and then some more

You're absolutely right, that was an F15, a plane that belongs to one of our allies, and I take full responsibility and apologise for any confusion caused. Let's try again.

Unpleasant-looking English couple

24/7 television coverage of the world's most unimaginative holidaymakers and fish-lipped tax dodgers

heading into the eighth hour ...

today is duodi 12 Ventôse in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating elm

Sorry I misunderstood this - you are the maniacs who started all this

Easy -- just don't be pals with the kind of criminal maniacs who started all this in the first place.

Is that an actual statue??

Oof, I'm sorry. I think we're still in the circle's waiting room.

Asked my kids if they knew where the terms 'left-wing' and 'right-wing' come from.

"Was Marx left-handed?"

luckily there's a war with a lot of updates going on at the moment! hope you're all ok now.

A woman keeps shouting something about hot milk and I can't help but think of Deborah Levy. A medical machine keeps bleeping the same tune that should be a Sweet Exorcist track.

A really fucking good book to read this year would be American War by Omar El Akkad

Salò, or the (120) Days of Summer

they walked so Trump could run

That might be .... *too* cool

I'm in A&E at the North Middlesex hospital (all ok) and I'm wondering what nickname to give it to make it sound cool like The Pitt. The Midd isn't quite cutting it