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Spider-Man: I like your hat Me: It’s a middle-aged Indiana Jones thing I think. Belle (from Beauty and the Beast): I hope you’ve found some treasure at least. I gesture at my daughter.

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

Always hard to celebrate the defeat of hard right wing candidate or cause in an election when the result is close enough that clearly more than the population are either voting against their own best interests or too apathetic to get out and vote.

we've identified another vulnerability leak. now hackers on the dark web have identified your bad knee and that weird thing your shoulder does if you sleep on it wrong. there's no patch available for this, they're now just keenly aware you feel like your career has stalled out

Ukrainian soldiers have become the first in the world to evacuate a wounded fighter from the front line using an aerial drone. This was reported by the 92nd Assault Brigade. They deployed a heavy hexacopter manufactured by Ukraine's Gurzuf Defence. t.me/brigada92_wa...

New England needs to be changed too. This will cause confusion so New Mexico will be renamed New South America which is too close to South America so it will have to be New South North America (Excl Canada But Maybe Incl Alberta).

I hope this was AI. If not, she's got more issues than toe-spacing.

cuck coding

I read one of her papers today (or tried to) and she was a pioneer for many decades.

You kind of have to hope that someone tries to update some legislation and suddenly the US converts all weights and measurements to SI.

Trump: "The White House considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

To paraphrase a joke, “I had lots of hit records but do they call me a pop star? I dated the ex-PM of Canada, but do they call me Trudeau’s partner? I went to space but do they call me an astronaut? But you make nuns homeless and see one die in court…”

The current state of the Green Party is a prime example of the curse of being on the left is that people claiming to be on your own side are often your worst enemy.

I received knitting needles for my birthday and I’m off to the local village hall on Friday to see if the craft group that meets there can teach me to knit.

“Children’s Bible Stories”. The large well painted pictures of Egyptian mothers wailing over the dead bodies of their first-born.

Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Pot Shards From Dwelling Of Earliest Known Klutz https://theonion.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-pot-shards-from-dwe-1827116788/

Paid for a usb stick with a file that I want but it's such a cheap mass-produced lowest-cost stick that it falls over and unmounts if you read it at full speed. Currently using rsync with a bandwidth limit to pull the data off it with --append-verify so that if it does unmount again I can resume.

Who said the Germans have no sense of humour?

Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family

I’ll believe in AI more when Shazam can figure out what the hell the song is that my four year old is currently singing loudly and repetitively.

Eating a mince pie in late September.

If you’re using AI it would be handy to know who is finding the strikes unexpected.

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

I hate anyone who designs a tap or shower without labelling the controls. As well as people who design children’s books with poorly contrasting text - parents read them in poorly lit conditions as children are falling asleep.

I’ve passed the midlife male stage of following carpentry and cabin building accounts on Facebook and I’m now deep into the autogyro following phase.

I used to live in Gosport. That place is so dense that it requires a lot of energy to escape.

God Horrified To Find Humans Eating Sacred, Omniscient Potatoes

Paging @ukcougar.bsky.social

This is a slightly unexpected story.

I kind of crashed out this week. Generative AI has made a lot of my hobbies and creative endeavours feel pointless, when I'm not in a good headspace. I had a good conversation with a friend that helped, so I wrote about it, so I can read it when it happens again. www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/0...

"For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. [...] But our industry is slowly realizing that making truly cutting-edge software still requires humans to think and work together, to maximize their skill sets and to practice their respective crafts."

We were an outgoing reckless nation with a varied cuisine before all the sensible men called Norman were thrown out of Europe and invaded Great Britain in 1066.

It seems like the world is either going to have several years of people like Musk and Trump getting their comeuppance while we all laugh and eat popcorn or it’s going to descend into a war-torn fascist nightmare with a disintegrating climate.

Daughter’s first ever day of school today. Tried to get the traditional photo of her smiling in front of the front door in her uniform and the only way to get her to smile was to tell her not to smile and mock tell her off when she did. Gorgeous little beast that she is.

Who would make the better PM? Burnham 52% vs Farage 22% Burnham 50% vs Polanski 8% Burnham 44% vs Davey 9% Burnham 42% vs Badenoch 26% Badenoch 45% vs Farage 16% Badenoch 39% vs Polanski 20% Badenoch 33% vs Davey 24% Davey 38% vs Farage 24% Davey 28% vs Polanski 14% Polanski 31% vs Farage 27%

There needs to be a Dewey Decimal system for household items so that you can figure out where weird items go when you’re tidying (spare duvet vacuum storage bags for example).

Lord, give us a…

This is just apocalyptic. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

I could quite happily listen to Islands In The Stream on repeat all day today.

No cheating. Share the last picture of the sky from your camera roll.

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

I had it on floppy disc. Took a fair while to install.

Not sure how Bieber will do taking over Ronnie Corbett’s role, but I wish him all the best for this unexpected reboot.

Not sure who decided to include four versions of Louie Louie on the expanded edition of Motörhead’s Overkill album, but I hope that you hear that song on a loop for eternity.

Currently resisting the temptation to throw open the curtains to see the rain with the same enthusiasm I would if it had snowed midwinter.