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I still think about this a lot.

Old tweet from @shelfcomedy: me: god, why must you give me your hardest battles god: i don't. you are my weakest soldier and these battles are so easy. it's an email why are you crying

The morning so far

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

If the Spice Girls taught us anything it was that 40% of women are named Mel.

BREAKING Irish Govt to move Grok to another parish.

A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk

The first two hours this morning

Electric Boogadune

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

It's an artistic representation of a circulatory system walking through a kitchen, as drawn by Dave Gibbons and written about by Alan Moore. It happens a lot 'round here.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

nothing says "we care about your privacy" more than sharing your data with 222 partners

a man with a beard is pointing a gun at the camera Alt: Dramatic slow mo of Hans Gruber (Alan Hickman) falling from the top of a skyscraper from the movie 'Die Hard'

Pretty sure that's what Hans Gruber was saying

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

A.I. won't replace you. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton will replace you.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...

"There is nothing fair about being born into chaos. And there is nothing just about a society that blames individuals for what they’ve had to survive. Structural disadvantage isn't a moral failing, yet we continue to moralise poverty, addiction, homelessness, and mental health challenges."

At least make it play "Kilometers on it"

A Corporate Memphis style version of “Saturn Devouring His Son“ – a meme critique of the art style (attributed to Twitter user @clayohr)

Great read on how "Corporate Memphis" (the long-limbed blue skinned illustrative style) took over the corporate world webflow.com/blog/corpora... #design

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Cartoon for St George's day by Stephen Collins for the guardian. Script as follows: Scene is outside a cave, ST GEORGE in armour etc is confronting the DRAGON while the CAPTURED PRINCESS looks on. DRAGON: So let me get this straight. DRAGON: You’re hoping to reinforce ‘helpless princess’ tropes… DRAGON: By publicly stabbing an *endangered animal* to death with a *sword*… DRAGON: So you can force a whole Syrian village to convert to Christianity…. DRAGON: And become a nationalist icon for a colonial state… DRAGON: Through the cultural appropriation of ancient medieval dragon myths.  DRAGON: You’ve not been *online* very long, have you? GEORGE:  I have been quite surprised by the comments. GEORGE’S SOCIAL MEDIA ASSISTANT [who is filming this encounter on an iPhone]: I told you it’s problematic, George. DRAGON: Problematic? It’s a *bin fire*! DRAGON: OK. Here’s how you turn this round -  CUT TO a YoutTube post called ‘MY JOURNEY (An apology)’. GEORGE is crying to camera, Dragon in background. GEORGE:  I am *so sorry* guys… 

Happy St George' Day!

Quitting twitter for bluesky

Screenshot of trending topics on bluesky, with the number one spot reading "Pope Francis" with a badge that says "Hot"

Hot

"NYT Opinion: Beeves and the Butthead" by James Kelleher

There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’

“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’”

My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’.

I bring receipts:

This is excellent.

Screenshot of a tweet saying "graphic designers reacting to chatgpt images right now" with an Ai generated version of the meme of the "this is fine" dog. The tweet has been quote tweeted with the text "His arm is his leg". On closer inspection, the image has multiple errors including the dog's arm and leg merging, the coffee cup has two handles, etc

New phone, Houthis

Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)