Condolences to MBS, bin Hamad et al; your visions of transforming the Gulf into a real estate/crypto/data centre/capitalist theme park tourism bonanza are being fed into the woodchipper so your vital strategic partner can create a permanent hellscape on your land and sea borders. Thanks for playing!
Prices are up 30 cents since this post and the nearby liquor store has taken down its decade-old Trump Wine display this shit is so monumentally over.
Buckle up. Investors have realised the economy's collapsed, AI is a bubble, and Iran has a war plan but America doesn't, and they're cashing out.
www.huffpost.com/entry/blackr...
2 photographs of a biography of Marty Feldman. One has googly eyes added but it looks virtually the same.
Every time we see this Marty Feldman book it reminds us of that time we stuck googly eyes on it but all that happened was it looked even more like Marty Feldman. 👀
So freaking happy with these maps!
So when eating healthier, you invariably run into what I call Bean Fudge recipes.
“Mash a can of beans! Add melted chocolate! It tastes JUST LIKE FUDGE”
It does not.
Anyway, new variant spotted: all pizza toppings on cottage cheese instead of crust.
Ai boosters are misinformation peddlers who have been lying about this since 2023 when they lied and said gpt 4 tricked a Taskrabbit into solving a captcha (it didn’t do this btw). These lies have enriched other liars and killed people and they are responsible
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
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tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.
child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.
Graph: “The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent”. Arrow pointing at the cliff face drop off since 2017. Text added by me: Something decisive must have changed here. But what?
I won’t keep you in suspense: the answer is “Politicians and their media friends realised they could just say and do whatever the fuck they wanted to - no matter how wildly irresponsible and damaging - and nobody would be able to stop them, because they were holding all the microphones”.
It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace.
Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime.
SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats.
If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.
Ben Judah @b_judah Follow The shift from an industrial society with mass parties whose culture was based around books to an internet society with fandoms based around content is the mega trend of our times. It ticks through political fandoms going viral, only to pop, without the slow thinking, slowly buildup party formation to be able to truly reform or govern. This isn't, of course, the only thing behind the bubble politics of recent years — Corbyn, Brexit, Boris, Farage, Greens — but it is an important and little recognised background. Politics beats like the internet. And now Polanski has gone viral.
The Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West
Luke Tryl • @LukeTryl • 3h X We're obviously used to it by now, but the speed and acceleration of the collapse of the two party system remains striking. In our latest poll the two main parties received just 37% support between them. The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent
I see that “we’ve become a post-literate society” in the first two images here is now the explanation for the absolutely comical polling nosedive in the third one. How about this instead: “Your leaders tried to prop up an obviously broken system, and clowns like these two helped them”?
The three ages of British nerd are 'that Top of the Pops set dressing has been in Doctor Who', 'on a rewatch, The Tomorrow People is shite', and 'oh God, I'm older than Richard Vernon was when he played Slartibartfast, which tbf is younger than you'd think'.
this is the clearest black and white picture of how the US is fucked. illegal unprovoked war at the height of financial, healthcare and employment crises by a rogue pedophile president and it has 3/4ths approval from the "opposition" party.
I think AI bros maybe need to start taking some classes in Medieval philosophy. Because they are making the same arguments for the consciousness of AI as Anselm and Abelard made for the existence of God.
This is honestly one of the best line readings of the decade
And there are *a lot* of these voters you say? Greatly outnumbering the ones they’re losing to Reform, indeed. And they want Labour to take a more moral stance against racism, Trump and “the super-rich”. Well paint my arse and call me Patsy
Geology specimen photo
Amazing piece of opalised wood from the Eromanga opal fields. Check the growth rings, there have obviously been good years and bad years.
📷 Boulder Opal
#minerals #geology
These baby goose are going to have real jobs (being geese) while Kristi Noem will have some fake loser job working for an unpopular president, while completed locked out of the room.
Good for the goslings.
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
🚨 THIS IS NOT A DRILL. kristi noem is doing a live speech right now and doesn't know she was fired. 🚨
Does noem get her old face back
between Walter Matthau’s face and Walter Matthau’s hair there is a gap of staggering antiquity….
The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.
Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!
This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲
Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.
From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400
📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn
#Archaeology
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Yo, here's the Q2 fan-edit of TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME, with all of the deleted scenes from THE MISSING PIECES, mixed in where they belong according to the shooting script. It's cool as Hell, and very long.
#TwinPeaks
#FireWalkWithMe
#InternetArchive
#DavidLynch
