Ricardo 🇵🇸

It’s either that or your pillows. Possibly both.

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

As ever... the vast, vast majority of people don't want the hellscape the right is forcing on us. they really are the minority viewpoint. vocal? yes. powerful? unfortunately, yes. But there are so many more people who don't want to live in the world they're trying to make.

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Jasmine with a long cake with large spiky shards of hard caramel sticking out of it

Long cake, full length

Close up of caramel shards in cake

#gbbo Jasmine’s cake looks the most dangerous cake ever made. Has it been risk-assessed?

"Do you recognize that sandwich?" is an all-timer cross-examination question.

Samir Zitouni

Bloody foreigners coming over here and saving peoples lives.

Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.

Been deleting every ad I get in Gmail that mentions AI for some time. Today the "bin" icon by ads has disappeared. I wonder if they're getting fed up with people doing this so have removed the bin function completely, or if there's just a limit to how many ads you can delete.

‘Pariah’ Carey is incredible subbing work, 10/10 no notes.

Can only speak for iPhone, so probably no use whatever, but copying & pasting images doesn't work - you have to save the image to photos and then insert into the post. Works on desktop though. (You do get a "copy" option when pressing on the image on iPhone but it's only its URL that is copied.)

Well, that’s just showing off. (Yum)

Funnily enough we say the same thing on 1st January

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) ⭐ 7.4 | Comedy, Drama, Music 1h 39m | PG-13

Saw this at the weekend - lovely film

m.imdb.com/title/tt2767...

Despite my last repost about the non-pun title of the show, this review by @dempster2000.bsky.social is absolutely exquisite. “Daley’s role in the show is a loose-fitting, off-the-shoulder sort of thing. He is essentially a floating omni-host, a Winkleman-without-portfolio.”

I am so unsettled by the title of this show. It sounds like it should be a pun. It is not a pun. Becoming increasingly distressed by this as my brain tries and fails to bridge this gap.

This is an incredibly dull recommendation but I'm 99% sure my office chair is from Argos - I've spent 8+ hours a day on mine for about 15 years and it's still comfy and supportive. Solid as hell, a workhorse of a chair. The current equivalent seems to be www.argos.co.uk/product/6179...

Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.

Pathway between a fence, hedge and tall maple tree with brown leaves on the ground and yellow and green leaves on the trees, the sun shining from behind the tree

Nice out there this morning

It's hard to be an artist, even harder to not be one

Dreamt Mandy Patinkin impressed Woody Allen with his puppeteering skills.

Cool 😃

Is that an optical illusion there or are you taller than the door?

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So sorry to hear that’s still the case, especially with such a good book. Do you not have the right to reissue your work through a different publisher? Showing my ignorance of contract law here probably.

Giles has aged quickly.

Was doing up my trousers in a works bathroom which had a sloped ceiling and a mirror at waist height. I am a short person so couldn't check my trousers in the mirror, so jumped in the air to get a quick look. Turned out not to be short enough not to bash my head on the ceiling.

Andy Windsor is the bloke from head office with a vague job title who comes in unannounced every couple of months and cracks loads of "jokes"