Chris French

"say what you like about nigel farage, but he has a habit of grabbing people's attention!!" squeal reporters. no; he has a habit of grabbing YOUR attention because you are lazy and stupid and bad at your jobs

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...

Huge canvas map of the London Underground in cross stitch

Recently a friend gave me the most incredible gift I have ever received. Would you like to see it? OF COURSE.

Here is the tube map... IN CROSS STITCH.

It takes my breath away that anyone could create this, let alone create it for me. She's astonishing.

🎵 Simply having a 🎶

Newsreader Martyn Lewis is standing indoors in an office, wearing a light blue dress shirt and a striped tie. He holds an open book in one hand, titled 'Martyn Lewis,' with his name and photo visible on the cover. In his other arm, he cradles a black-and-white cat, which looks directly at the camera with an alert expression. The scene is set in a professional office environment, with a desk in the background holding stacked papers, a bottle, and a window with partially drawn blinds. The humorous and charming moment captures both man and cat seemingly 'reading' the book together.

RNIB Library have been in the audiobook game for nearly 90 years. While there were many innovations in the recording process, book narrated by cats never really caught on.

(Narrator pictured moments before attacking the photographer.)

This shit needs to die a swift and very costly death so that no more idiot tech bros with no actual insight into the publishing industry every try it again. Horrible.

Bookseller article with the headline "New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone" 🤮🤮🤮

Why? Who is this meant to be good for? Nobody wants your shit AI books, never mind 8,000 in a year. Just a terrible idea and a horrible road the publishing industry is heading down.

Fuck these awful, awful people.

To be fair, the 300 Syrian refugees we're hiding under the mixing desk in studio 1 are being a bit noisy while I'm trying to record 🤣🤣🤣

The image is a screenshot of a Facebook comment thread: Top Comment: A user (name redacted) says, "I'll not give you a penny until you stop bringing illegal immigrants into our country." It has 5 likes and laughing reactions. RNIB Reply: The Royal National Institute of Blind People (verified with a blue checkmark) replies, "Peter, we're the Royal National Institute of Blind People." It has 5 likes and a heart reaction. Another User's Reply: Another commenter jokes, "RNIB he clearly needs your help," implying the original commenter misunderstood. It has 4 likes and laughing reactions. At the bottom, the post shows it has 90 comments, 1K retweets, 14K likes, and 318K engagements. The exchange humorously highlights the misunderstanding.

This RNIB exchange is doing the rounds, now with added alt text!

Being on bluesky without fighting through a sea of bots and ads made me realize I don’t dislike social media, I disliked not being able to be social on social media

Loving Arnie!

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Oh, it's just lovely scrolling here. It feels just like my Twitter feed used to before it all went to shit. Interesting posts, political posts, funny posts, nerdy posts - and no Nazi posts. Blissful. ❤️‍

Tweet from Andy Borowitz with image of Matt Gaetz’s face, reading “When QAnon said they wanted to bring pedophiles to justice, I didn’t know this is what they meant.”

Oh myyy

We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact.

Some tips on how to customize your experience:

What @bsky.app needs is a clearer verification process for organisations and media. Strongly suspect that is what is stopping those big beasts coming here - but if that is provided I can totally see this App eclipsing Twitter for good.

Trump has picked Robert Kennedy jnr to be his health secretary saying:

"He's going to help make America healthy again."

Here's a far from exhaustive list of what RFK believes.

Let's hope this works out better...

Hello darlings. Just landed here, thanks for all the follow backs x