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I'd never seen the parallel between AI and Horoscopes before: the ability to get it just vague enough, and truth-adjacent enough, and with the right balance of positivity, to be an acceptable answer for anyone

Perhaps he's talking about all the people flying out to Eswatini and Equatorial Guinea

He was Home Secretary under Thatcher, maybe you've Hurd of him

Unexpectedly positive news!

Liz Truss energy

"based on the condition of their diesel refineries"... Lol Just hope Europe keeps supporting Ukraine rather than panicking over the impact of the unending Iran war

I was today years old when I discovered Tom Baker, (yes, that Tom Baker) was the evil jafar/sorcerer in the classic Harryhausen film The Golden Voyage of Sinbad!

Fiji is experiencing an alarming HIV outbreak at a time when we have more tools than ever to diagnose, treat and prevent HIV. It is a warning that progress against HIV is not self-sustaining and to end the epidemic we cannot become complacent bktitanji.substack.com/p/hiv-is-not...

Zuul: Choose the form of your destructor! OpenAI: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man

Is there a blue tinge to his skin under the presumably fake tan? I wonder if he's on colloidal silver!

New rule: you only call it Super Intelligence if it's smarter than you

NEWS! Scientists reclassify the shortest measurable unit of time as that which occurs between Tommy Robinson's mate being arrested and the launch of his fundraising page buff.ly/pQI5HD4

This is great, though I suspect experiencing the waves for real would not be as calming!

I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

Difficult to imagine a less useful mnemonic than this Not only does the "A" really mean "Cover", it's not even an ordered sequence of actions. I wonder if @rlssuk.bsky.social can shed light on whether this mess was a consequence of AI or "committee brainstorming"? Difficult to tell

The most revealing thing here is the applause. These people only speak to vetted, friendly audiences

Left out "and my kids have rickets" but otherwise a perfect distillation of the end point of any "make x great again" movement

I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.

Astonishing concept for an eclipse photo montage!

Are inapt metaphors the new click bait? Are the navy feeling jetlagged?

So, what did that UK emergency alert say? I was too busy stabbing at the phone to make the awful buzzing sound stop that I didn't read it and then it vanished with no apparent way to view it in silence

NEWS! Nigel Farage celebrates successfully spending £250,000 of our money to pause investigation into his finances for five weeks newsthump.com/2026/08/14/n...

Most succinct summary of this shit show I've seen so far...

I also think the comparison of vaccine hesitancy, as a consequence of misinformation, with hesitancy around antiretrovirals for HIV is extremely apt given the terrifying parallels between what's happening in the US now vs South Africa's murderous descent into AIDS denialism 20 years ago

Made myself a pinhole camera for the eclipse today. Should've done the maths first. Needed it to be over a metre long for a reasonably sized image! Oops. Still, fun craft project

Almost total solar eclipse in UK this Wednesday at ~6pm. Woo!

I'm closer to saying "OFFS" than "Oops", but oops also works on multiple levels

Fucking fucks

My worlds have collided. An @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @zeteo.com team-up open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

My kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now the Saudis have a nuclear program.

NEWS! 'If we let them tax people worth more than £10m, where does it end?' asks Reform voter still two years from paying off his sofa newsthump.com/2026/07/24/i...

The Establishment vs Comedians never gets old #countbinface

Trump: The Strait of Hormuz is open! Shipping:

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

At least if one of them crash lands on the mall no tourists will get hurt.

Essential reading in anticipation of whatever tomorrow will bring

I had a dream where Trump died today (3 July) and Pirro got a grand jury to indict every democrat who set off fireworks tomorrow

And a dangerous joke when"you fuck one couch..." would slay them

Almost called it. Thought Kavanaugh might have the balls on this case, but turns out he's more akin to Hitler than I realised

NEWS! Nursery teacher says woke brigade 'has gone too far' after toddler identifies as a little teapot

Sorry, America, but you're going to have to have a TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM when this is over just so you've got somewhere to dump all this shite