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A new supplemental #ThursdayQuiz: thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2026-08... We have bags of cartoons. Football merch. Cycling. Crashes. Lynx. Andor. Swedish Royalty. Too much AI. And poo. Half the questions are about things outside the UK. But 100% of the jokes reference British culture.

“I don't understand why this record isn't a hit, everyone I know has bought it." "You know everyone who has bought it."

We're selling shares in the end of the world. Not so much late stage capitalism as final stage capitalism.

I want to know how the sun realises the clocks have gone back and that it has to set an hour earlier. Does somebody go up there and change a dial? 🤔

What's the matter, son? You're not playing with your cuddly syphilis.

Pretty much everything. We just refuse to accept it because we've forgotten all the bad things and magnified the few truly good things.

Very strong winds now, and I'm worried about the shed in my garden. I've never seen it before.

Finally! Steve can get back from the pub safely.

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Struck me today just how little we're going to remember Farage when he finally goes away. He's just... noise. No real ideas, no ringing phrases, nothing that will linger.

Medieval TV shows. Go: Z-Carts

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

My cackling with laughter at this just woke the cat.

Don't forget your #ThursdayQuiz: porridge prizes, tasteless T-shirts and a dog called Diesel.

I've always suspected the reason there were no subtitles for the Chewbacca was his dialogue was so expletive laden it couldn't be shown on a family film. Ditto R2

Bob Larkin’s cover to 1980’s Crazy #60 featuring Spock & Kirk from Star Trek and, from The Muppets, the Pigs In Space. It’s a great tragedy that nobody in power saw this & thought, this is exactly the kind of movie we ought to be making.

This is not just reactionary authoritarianism and clueless waffling; it's M&S reactionary authoritarianism and clueless waffling. (And Sainsbury's, too...)

How Tories have become the M&S party - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

One of life's great mysteries: a sausage is circular in cross section. And yet, when you come to cook it, it has exactly four sides.

You're regular reminder that #javascript `Math.random()` is not cryptographically secure. (Also, for 7 years, the code implementing Math.random() in Chrome lacked the entropy it was supposed to have.)

How do I know an AI isn't conscious? Because it doesn't gloat after I'm forced to admit that I was wrong and it was right... *facepalm*

I'm really surprised #Queen's "Machines (Or Back To Humans)" isn't having a moment. Come on BlueSky. Make it so!

I've had to tell off my Year 6 class for insulting each other when they make a mistake. The insult in question? You Donald...

My teacher brother has just informed me that his primary school kids now refer to anything shit or old fashioned as "Brexit". Which has made my morning.

Me to AI: DO NOT make values up. Use proven reference values. AI: I will use values from XYZ Me: That's great. Go ahead then. AI: <makes up a bunch of values completely unrelated to those in XYZ> 🤣

Don't forget this week's #ThursdayQuiz: "Superheroes, AI zeroes, and a very lost shark".

Manchester City cheated Premier League rules, the Commission found. Did it also cheat HMRC? We've examined the decision and leaked Mancini documents. We think City likely failed to pay £12m in tax. There should be a criminal investigation. Thread:

Druk druk druk

New Supplemental #ThursdayQuiz: thursdayquiz.org/quiz-2026-09... More current so should be easier. Questions about political inquiries, media bans, dodgy memoirs, arrests, Agatha Christie, ATC, and how many cows you can milk while DEFRA grants are available. All overseen by Lara Croft.

As I keep saying, not repairing a bridge imposes a cost on future generations, just not the kind of cost that is immediately visible in the accounting system

Seriously, "we spent all this money, and all we have to show for it is this worthless infrastructure that supports and enables the rest of the economy" is fully deranged. I hate it so much.

AI is a commodity. And yet the big firm's business model is based on ramping up prices in the future not reducing the cost of production.

I've been thinking a lot about friction, especially in recruiting. There are many situations where a certain amount of friction is required to prevent the system being overwhelmed. And we've made a lot of things too easy.

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There is a lot of misinformation about the UK social security spending. The chart below shows Total UK social security spending as a percentage of GDP, 2013/14 to 2030/31 (spending & forecast) 55% goes to pensioners, the remainder covers everything else. lordslibrary.parliament.uk/welfare-refo...

Here's Blake on the subject John...

Hampshire police say man was arrested on suspicion of destroying ships or endangering their safety under the Aviation & Maritime Security Act 1990, criminal damage, criminal damage with intent to endanger life, & conduct endangering ships, structures or individuals under Merchant Shipping Act 1995

Imagine what Orwell would say about Farage!

This new academic year, I'm starting a campaign for all university lectures to be made from the top of a 10' ladder with the lecturer wearing a hard hat and a high-vis vest.

I ordered a scratching post online, as Selkie and Phoenix have almost demolished the old one. I *may* have slightly misunderstood the dimensions ...

It's amazing how many job adverts essentially say, "Driver wanted. MUST have experience of driving a Ford Fiesta." (And will turn your down if your experience is limited to driving a Ford Mondeo.)

Personally speaking, I wouldn't have split the word like that...

No, I do not have a javascript function qw() so I can write qw`some words here` and get word tokenisation. No, not at all. #perl #javascript

Don't forget today is Thursday so it's #Thursday Quiz Day.

The first episode of The Tripods was broadcast on this day in 1984.

I'm not kidding: the people across the street have put up some Christmas lights.