Patrick Moore

Just imagine the Dangermouse theme tune. It'll all come back soon enough.

And tbf, this what I thought the door bell would sound like too.

“Delete your old emails to save water” isn’t bad because it’s individualising the climate crisis, it’s bad because it’s complete nonsense from top to bottom. It’s like saying “eat less lettuce to save water”, you can see the thought process but it’s that of a child who knows two facts

Crossbows and catapults the game. Nothing has even beaten twanging tokens to knock down your opponents castle

This was peak tabletop war gaming.

I will not be taking questions at this time

#Nerdlings

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a young man in a sleeveless shirt sits in a cluttered room, saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." Second, a group of friends gather around a table, one explaining "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history." Third, the same group listens as another person adds, "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

I guess they weren’t lying when they said it’d be like having your own PhD student

Entirely this. Doesn't stop me lusting after new toys though :)

don't wish to pile on but I do think that when it comes to teens, when there's a will there's a way - I spent probably *hundreds* of hours socialising on park benches, drinking at bus stops (!), sometimes literally just sitting on the pavement, the internet is the main culprit here imo

This is wild.
I can't believe all of us annoying nostalgia millennials were right: cartoons actually used to be better before the efforts of this group dumbed everything down and made that defacto for cartoons in general. How interesting.
I hate how one little group can destroy so much

Of course not, how would Focus groups know what they liked if it wasn't built around things they were already familiar with. We can't train AI on opinions which haven't been had yet.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Screenshotted post- "Like I am very much rubbing in the salt here but I am also objectively correct, the conception of modern computing is tied, at the waist, to the industrialization of mass murder. that is why humans created computers, it was to quickly generate artillery tables and then the atomic bomb."

Except in Britain, where it was developed to ensure an adequate supply of teacakes

I have a pavlovian response to the Poirot theme tune of sadness for the passing of a weekend.

Fanny Avenue

Morrisons Van

Well, I'm caught one more time
Up on Fanny Avenue
Oh yes, I am
I'm caught one more time
Up on Fanny Avenue

In a stunning moment of erotic fervour, calculator demands BOOBS.

Comic strip by Stephen Collins, it begins with a nighttime city scene. In the next few panels, a mysterious figure, giant in the moonlight, walks towards us through the skyline. His feet echo "boom, boom" in the empty night. A large title panel declares this character's name: THE TW*T COLLECTOR. He stands, giant, unseen in the empty city night, wearing a big pointy hat on his head, and a sort of long smock. He is carrying a large sack in his hand. Slowly, he raises his arm, his arm extends, freakishly long, longer still, through the open window of a tower block. It reaches inside someone's home, and slowly withdraws, now clutching a protesting, terrified man. The man's wife comes to the window to watch his departure. slowly, the giant raises the little man and inspectes him in his hand. After a pause, the man says "b-but I'm not a tw*t!" There is another pause, after which his wife, calmly from off screen, says "you are a tw*t, dear". The Tw*t Collector summarily throws the man in his bag, which we now see is full of screaming people and is labelled TW*TS, then stomps off into the distance, through the moonlit city.

Sometimes, I long for him

It looks so hot on that court. If I was playing this match against Sinner OR Alcaraz, I swear I wouldn’t win more than one game at the most.

Road sign, two directions: "doing what you need to do", and "doing what you want to do", car underneath between the two directions upside down and on fire, "ADHDers somehow doing neither"

Help

It's just right. Unless you want more.

Please enjoy this genuine phone conversation that was broadcast on Gerry Anderson’s BBC Northern Ireland radio show involving a hypnotised chicken & a tragic accident involving the Child of Prague.

A dramatic recreation of the conversation was later produced using claymation and it is glorious.

EL34 single ended.

Seems crazy to change the format at this late stage though.

A photo of cat sitting in some Venetian blinds they have just destroyed with the text JOY DIVISION at the top and UNKNOWN PLEASURES at the bottom

This might be my favourite cat meme of 2025 so far

A bloke on the telly was saying "Why would you go abroad when the weather is like this"?

Some of us don't go abroad for the sun. We go abroad for the food, drink, history, culture, architecture etc!

The greatest bonus panel of my career is here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/crystals

#smbc

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'Vacations.'

The word is 'vacations.'

*drooooolz*

Why? Because neoliberalism replaced empowered freedom with economic freedom, it hollowed out the democratic functions of public life, while at the same time failing to deliver, and even betraying, those functions at the institutional level.