It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Trying real hard to passive voice terrorism here.
Tuesday March 10 page of The Far Side desk calendar. Featured cartoon shows two cows sitting on a couch watching TV when a rotary phone on a side table across the room begins to ring. they stare at the phone and one says to the other, "Well, there it goes again... And we just sit here without opposable thumbs."
happy tuesday
Umm, does anyone at @societyofauthors.bsky.social want to walk me through why using an AI-generated picture* to illustrate the countdown to their anti-AI watermark was a good idea?
(*it looks like to me, anyway)
humanauthored.co.uk
Yep. Corporations defanged the one minuscule sanction consumers have — not choosing their good or service — if they can convince us that expressing dissatisfaction will hurt a worker and not the company. It’s a neat trick.
Megacorp is proud to announce our new billion-dollar sponsorship deal with beloved internet character Milkshake Duck. In statement, Duck said he'll use the money to "expand his collection of World War II memorabilia" and set up an educational foundation.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster
Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies.
🧵 1/3
Misread that as Mel Brooks. Got a feeling that idea's going to be staying with me...
I am a weary traveller, and I should like to exchange some of my gold for your wares...
Clockwise, from top left: Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. None of the worlds is to scale, but all are imaged with JWST's near-infrared (NIRCam) instrument.
The giant planets of the Solar System, by JWST.
Yeah, had this with the BBC News last night. Sure, report what's *actually happening* of course, but what's the point in hanging on the latest incoherent ramblings from Florida like they have much bearing on what will happen tomorrow?
I missed this news last week: the DART impact not only changed Dimorphos’ orbit around its primary Didymos, but because of the volume of material blasted entirely out of the system it minutely altered Didymos’ orbit as well. Writeup by Marcia Dunn for AP: apnews.com/article/aste...
"Didymos now has the opportunity to do the funniest thing..."
Ed Miliband, famously closing coal mines as a 14-year-old minister in Thatcher's government during the miners' strike
"We thought the wallet inspector was going to be focused on wallet security and that seems to be the opposite of whats actually happening"
🚨 UPDATE: fireball over Europe – 8 March 2026
At 18:55 CET on Sunday, 8 March, a very bright fireball streaked across the skies of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, glowing for around six seconds before fragmenting. 🧪🔭
🎥 Allsky7
A miniature of the construction of the Tower of Babel, from Boccaccio's Des cas de nobles hommes et femmes (Add MS 35321).
The British Library’s Medieval MSS team now have a presence on Bluesky @blmedieval.bsky.social
Follow for updates as we restore more of our digitised content online!
I, too, can make up numbers about stuff I could "theoretically" do. Don't even need to steal the world's intellectual property and despoil the environment to do it.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
Start the Week at 9 on BBC Radio 4: we are deep in the oceans, the 900,000 miles of cable that pulse with the world’s information, and the San José, a billion dollar shipwreck, sunk by the British in 1708. The modern world is built upon the sea.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
the whole purpose of the post-menopausal woman is to prevent the rise of generative AI
A man sitting on a big chair, his hands are folded in praying. Four other men are around him, spitting on him. This is a detail from the Speculum humanae salvationis (1471 printed in Utrecht, nowadays the Netherlands). https://data.onb.ac.at/rep/10036309
Dealing with #hatespeech before the internet.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.
I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.
If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.
Printing the T-shirts as we speak…
Yeah the UK #eurovision entry is a banger, isn't it?
We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.
