"President Donald Trump’s rhetorical knots fit well with his style of dictating America’s information diet, but fall flat when they hit the gritty reality of conflict," writes Nick Paton Walsh. | Analysis
(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.
The album cover for the record "Live! In The Air Age" by Be Bop Deluxe
Oh, never bettered. Oddly enough I knew that photo for *years* before knowing where it was from -
If you see this, post a robot.
I think this might be relevant to your interests: LEGO Tintin Moon Rocket www.lego.com/en-gb/produc...
All those religious types go on and on about detaching from material possessions because they cause nothing but suffering and then you see something like this
The cover of Andrey Gugnin's recording of Russian ballet suites arranged for piano, released on Hyperion
Oh, this is good. I've just heard a passage from 'Nutcracker' which I swear made me levitate briefly.
The choice meme: the red button is labelled BETTER THAN THAT, and the blue button is labelled NEVER EVEN HEARD ABOUT IT. The lower image is of a hand slapping the blue button.
[checks own venue]
I found this poem read on YouTube by Stephen Fry, which... which... ...
From D H Lawrence's poem The Oxford Voice: We wouldn’t insist on it for a moment but we are we are you admit we are superior. —
Oh, very much. Reminds me of D H Lawrence on The Oxford Voice -
An outline of the UK overlaid over the Strait of Hormuz
Those little trucks and tankers don't quite give a fair idea of the scales involved
An outline of the UK overlaid over the Strait of Hormuz
That's approximately John O'Groats to Dover.
And if you think Roger Livesey's characters are punchable, Eric Portman is going to be such a *treat*!
Had to go and look at your feed, because I didn't remember Citizen Smith having such a downbeat ending
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To be fair he definitely didn't get the job on talent, so
That reminds me [as the staff behind me at the care home exchange glances] of Danny Baker's great story about when his dad went to see Tarbuck...
If they absolutely have to respond with some fact, why not a neutral or nice one, matter-a-damn whether people already know it? Jimmy Tarbuck worked in a hairdressers with Mike McCartney and Lewis Collins.
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)
My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):
LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING
sweepthestrait.com
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Still from a promotional video under a tweet from Kwasi Kwarteng: Kwasi Kwarteng We are delighted to welcome @Nigel_Farage and @blockchain as strategic investors in Stack. Nigel's long-standing support for British business and his belief that Bitcoin will play an expanding role in global finance align closely with...
A detail which would have been rejected by any self-respecting writer as too on the nose: his promotional video spells "credibility" wrong:
Years ago I heard of the guy who filled the tub he'd been given, took it on the Tube to the hospital and gave it to the receptionist. Who told him.
"You want some Cuba? Why you've barely finished your Iran and Venezuela."
A list outside what's presumably a convenience store, advertising: "Mobile accessories Cold drink Confessionary Xerox Ice cream Food to go"
Three Hail Marys, a USB cord, Häagen-Daz, and a Coke. Copy that
Come to think of it, give it eight hundred years or so and the story will be that the Devil went into the church because he needed a bit of a sit down, but the Archbishop threw him out and St Joseph made him a bench so he wouldn't try it again and they sell facsimiles in the gift shop
Hope to god they never look too closely at some of the medieval decorations in cathedrals
