Matthew Gaskin

A cartoon of Charlie Brown saying to Linus "If you believe that teaching about God in public schools will improve people's morality, you first need to explain why it doesn't work in churches."

A Liz Climo cartoon showing a rabbit and a bear using a ouija board. The board's pointer slowly spells out 'Let's order a pizza' and the rabbit asks the bear: "Are you moving it?" The bear replies "No, it was ghosts." Credit to thelittleworldofliz.com

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

A picture of a giant boulder emblazoned with the words 'Scientific evidence for man-made climate change'. And two tiny people next to it saying 'That proves nothing because it was really cold in Indiana last week'.

A picture of two paint containers, one of raw umber and one of burnt umber.

Nobody can cook umber properly.

i only took this job in sales for a global prosthetics company so i could tell everyone that i was an international arms dealer

Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.

A screenshot of Trump's tweet stating "He who saves his country does not violate any law" followed by near-identical quotes from Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco.

The Climate Game — Can you reach net zero? See if you can save the planet from the worst effects of climate change

Fun, and a serious message. ig.ft.com/climate-game/

A screenshot of a post which says: 'Every AI post is like "Wow, look at this!" and then somebody holds up the digital equivalent of a Big Mouth Billy Bass with dying batteries.'

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Incoming Asteroid xkcd.com/3049

Dalmatian dog sitting on some stones that match its colouring so closely that it's effectively camouflaged.

Stromatolites xkcd.com/3046

"...being told we should be worried about what authoritarian Chinese are doing by Silicon Valley authoritarians.
The choice is between being data-jacked and screwed over by undemocratic Chinese, or being data-jacked and screwed over by tech bros. It’s the old syphilis v Ebola choice."
~Marina Hyde

"Our user growth is stagnant, revenue is unimpressive, and we’re barely breaking even." Elon Musk, about Xitter. What a terrible shame. Anyway.....

I’m really not crazy about Twitter’s new logo.

Any chance of you making it over the pond to the UK some time? We'd love to see you.

We were hoping you'd come back to Evesham - without injuring yourself this time - but I have heeded your advice and we will be seeing you in Tewkesbury instead. :-)

2025 in a nutshell…

No one tells on themselves like middle aged men on TikTok “Oh my god! Another [slur for trans people] this whole app’s full of them!”

Sir, I know this is going to be hard to hear immediately post orgasm when you’re full of shame, but the algorithm serves you content you repeatedly interact with.

User "Annie Wu" says "this tweet is my Roman Empire," along with a screenshot of tweet from @PerthshireMags that reads, "climate change will manifest as a series of disasters as viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it."

We don’t have to choose this fate. But I fear we will.

10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021 After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...

After Jan 6, companies promised not to donate funds to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election

Amazon and AT&T reneged almost immediately

10 who kept their promise:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
General Mills
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
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