a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead
Who could that Labour source be, saying they need to continue beating fuck out of refugees? Luke, who would say something like that?
Being told I might be partly to blame for the state of the country (in elections I mostly couldn't vote in) by a journalist in a British newspaper
"mob justice" is when you get processed through the actual justice system (for once) and the general public 'mob' want it, rather than five journos at The Telegraph
I think what Mr. Rodent is getting at is that there *is* no other response that's productive. That's how the Internet is: to try to change it yourself is to piss into the wind, and to blame a specific demographic is just columnists trying to indulge a weird chip on their shoulder
They've got you going down a Silent Hill 2 staircase in your dreams? Damn
Looks like I've got more in common with botanists than I'd have thought. Fun tool!
p<0.01 burger
A news article made for exactly 8 people, and I'm happy to count myself among them
The use of the generic term AI in this headline is obscuring the point somewhat. It was specifically the use of a branded product made by THE BIGGEST NAME IN SOFTWARE, which is being bundled into everything and rammed down our throats. Microsoft Co-Pilot.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3...
Slender glowing ribbon of gas, tilted like a narrow pencil, stretches diagonally through the deep space. Delicate red and blue threads weave and shimmer along its sharp form, brightest at the upper-right tip. Distant stars dot the void behind, dominated by the red of ionized hydrogen.
What is this? Maybe a painting?
No!
It's about NGC 2736, or Pencil Nebula, a small part of the Vela Supernova Remnant. π
It's thought to be formed from part of its shock wave, plowing through interstellar space at over 500,000 km per hour!
Image by Greg Turgeon & Utkarsh Mishra
π§ͺ #science 1/3
A meme of a skeleton lifting captioned "my clustering algorithm is a machine that turns (picture of data) into (picture of data with clusters)"
don't know what we'd do without clustering algorithms
How did it go?
Good for them. Just thinking of all the frontline NHS workers who worked countless hours during Covid without PPE masks to protect them; who died in their droves while fraudsters made millions from the public purse by supplying faulty masks. Good for them.
Number crunching: Individuals arrested within five days for suspected manslaughter after fire apparently related to building materials ripped through seven Hong Kong apartment blocks v individuals arrested over Grenfell
From the new Private Eye, out now.
There are people thinking about direct detection via just gravity, but this looks to be many decades in our future and will take a lot of R&D to take shape: arxiv.org/abs/2203.07242
LZ and our contemporaries also assume dark matter interacts not only by gravity but also by the weak nuclear force, since this particle would also be able to resolve long-standing tensions in the standard model
for the emperor
Getting 5 extra minutes on an exam is not going to lead to a degradation of society
"Computer-Generated sports" comes close to describing Blaseball
![Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicnzdnpjdz4clfa2uhx6isbdwgu72oku5pee4av7paavbjmqpyoiu)
Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.
Beam Dump
xkcd.com/3168/
Hope I didn't miss any important news in the last 3-4h while I was watching and then thinking about Pluribus
Pluribus has to be some of the finest television I've seen in a long while. Refreshing to see a show where the writers have clearly sat down and thought through the full implications of the premise, and it's always great to see Rhea Seehorn. Go watch it!
me with a blue funnel like hat, with a stick out the top holding a red ball on a string. I have on a red capelet and am carrying a letter with calligraphy and a seal in my crooked beak. I've got a badge with a symbol on it
the guy from the original painting that's got on my outfit except it's wearing tan turnshoes
it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
Nuclear science week tip: do not fall into the reactor pool!
www.michiganpublic.org/news/2025-10...
The album cover is the opening "Skeet Surfing" bit from Top Secret!, right?
got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a LeberkΓ€ssemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast
