Simon Fraser 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺💙🔶

The cult at its devotions.

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

I have to say the Post chose a hell of a moment to lay off all their foreign correspondents

Maybe it’s a trick of the light, but I see a sort of crater where a finger should be. I thought maybe an AI defect?

Anyway I feel uncomfortable mocking, especially since the pic may not have been consensual.

And I’d never have guessed from your profile pic.

But … but …

What in God’s name has happened to her hand?

I’m with MW. If I read “the backseat” I am expecting the next word to be a noun, like “driver”.

Never underestimate the stupidity of people etc.

I imagine it in the thunderous Ulster brogue of the late Rev Ian Paisley.

Even the real title has so much to unpack, as they say.

Can a corporate body commit a Freudian slip? Why yes, yes it can.

Rob Moore In the U.K. it's now... £6 for a loaf of sourdough bread £7 for a pack of butter £8 for a pack of Salmon £21 on just three items of food... To make a f*cking sandwich This reflects the current state of the U.K. & it's only getting worse

I don't think this is a parody account

In short, if you repeat a lie often enough, AI will serve it up as the truth. Worth the read.

Kevin Nguyen @knguyen ... Tried to add "12 Years a Slave" to Google Calendar and it created a 12-year-long event called "a Slave" • a Slave Tue, February 25, 8pm - Wed, February 25, 2026, 8pm Delete Edit event » 5:27 PM • Feb 23, 2014

It’s finally over

Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? Don’t get me wrong, I’m as invested in keeping my job as the next weaver. When the boss brought in that big new power loom, I was pretty skeptical....

"The new waterwheel they built to power the loom made the river undrinkable, and when the boss cut my hours in half, I couldn’t buy food anymore, which really made the whole rickets situation get out of hand. But that’s exactly the sort of time you need a laugh, right?"

Man, this one splits the arrow.

Cover of illustrated children’s book titled “Brenda’s Beaver Needs a Barber.”

You see her and your heart
Fills up with lust and ardor
You take her to your bed
But that’s where things get harder
You find that there’s a wall
A dense and wild arbor
You need sonar and a map
To bring your ship to harbor
Things have gotten out of hand

That is not what happened to horses.

I was going to write something about the State of the Union address today, but Jonathan Bernstein did a way better job of nailing it:

A scary but essential long read.

Tfw you didn't study much medieval history at school

Absolutely masterful understatement here.

But how do you check it?

Well, she hasn’t cut the cost of living and shouldn’t pretend she has. She’s cut the rate of the increase in the cost of living.

Poignant and brilliant. Bravo.

Whenever two or more Reform UK people gather in the same
Place, a brawl will break out.

Oh yes, I remember the huge Churchill coin well.

I mean. Pinker. Dawkins. Dennett.

Yes indeed. Read it. Then consider how much pseudoscience you might have to eliminate from your mind.