The Infamous Grouse

Calm down, Scotty. I've ordered a toaster, not a fusion reactor.

😅😂🤣 #EU♡CAN 🇪🇺🇨🇦

Warnings against creating the Torment Nexus will be doomed to futility while there is so much potential profit for those who create the Torment Nexus.

“O hear us when we cry to Thee, For those (but not THOSE) in peril on the sea.” 🤬

Me, fine-tuning my edgy neolib posts so they sit just right for the Bluesky audience

If this guy was British he'd have been offered a job as a Reform councillor before the plane touched down.

I had a grim realisation this weekend. Niemöller's "First They Came" is only a warning for those who can imagine being the Communists, or the trade unionists, or the Jews, or ultimately the narrator. But there are others who only imagine being "They." And for them it's not a warning. It's a plan.

Poorly timed notification from the range there 🤦🏻‍♀️

I don't think there should be a defibrilator on Snowdon. And that's a hill I'm prepared to die on

“Erm… guys, does anyone else feel as though we’re in the middle of a literal dystopian science-fiction metaphor? Like we should maybe stop for a second and think abou…” “You’re not paid to think. Shut up, bring in the next batch of books and pass the de-spining knife. The machine must be fed.”

The Travelling Wildberries.

Oh you sweet summer algorithm. @duckduckgo.com's Search Assist appears to believe that @xkcd.com's "shibboleet" is a real thing. If only.

The new Apple Devices app, a replacement for iTunes on Windows, takes 30 minutes to do complete a backup then reports that it couldn't start the backup it just completed. Never change, Apple. You set the standard for visually slick but shitty Windows apps, and nobody should ever take that crown.

Hey ChatGPT, write me the most Florida story in the history of the world. The headline gives zero indication of the idiocy that follows.

Your dog is sure to love Old Trusty Tit-Bits, especially when mixed with Old Trusty Climax! — a granulated food of the very highest order mentioned in The Old Trusty Dog Book, 1930 #dogs #food #vintage #anriques #ohmy

The more times I see the name "Palantir" the more I default to reading it in the same tone of voice Johnny Silverhand deploys when he says "Arasaka."

Of all the opinions they could have sourced for this story, the BBC chose to quote Marine Le Pen's X account. JFC.

For those of you outside Ireland, RIP dot ie is a death announcements website which receives two million page views daily. It is not, in any way imaginable, a dating website.

Brexit costs the UK between £180 billion and £240 billion per year, according to a huge study from Stamford / Kings. This is a bargain.

We've been wondering where Charles might find common ground over which to have a chinwag with Trump, and here it is: suppressing the growth of an immigrant population in favour of the indigenous. Donald will love it, as long as he doesn’t realise who the immigrants are. Make Arboreals Great Again.

The only thing that gives me hope is that we are living in the stupidest timeline. Because the thought that there’s another reality out there where humans are fucking things up even more than they are in this one is just too depressing to contemplate.

This sounds like the 70s TV movie “The Horror At 37,000 Feet”, minus about 36,994 feet.

Can't use scissors without injury. Too daft to keep spare batteries in a more convenient container. Angry at a theoretical parent they just invented in their head. Has no problem with a child choking. I'd say Daily Mail reader but the spelling and punctuation is too good. Telegraph?

See that planet in the distance? That’s us. ALL of us. Every living being we are aware of lives there. We are completely alone, floating in the great abyss of dark, infinite space. Life like ours is incredibly rare - perhaps even without precedent - in the Universe. All we have is each other… 1/

OK. My career just peaked.

I've just had an amazing idea

The reporter's name is Shawn McCreesh from the New York Times. .... More of this from all of you, please. Stand up to his bullshit! #ShawnMcCreesh 👏👏👏

Oh my word. Unhinged springs to mind!😱 Badenoch’s “only sensible candidate” won just 2% of the vote!

Wrong files, Donny.

Leading Reform politician Nadhim Zahawi spoke today of an horrific encounter with a man who looked tired and threatening, and who typified the dystopian nightmare that is Broken Britain… From the new Private Eye, out now.

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

did a blog post about how i am gradually switching to linux. hashtag bitching hashtag moaning www.joewintergreen.com/fuck-windows...

🧵

Spotted on Facebook- just had to share

Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social and after saying the name 'Douglas Carswell' immediately quipped 'What a Country' and I nearly spat my tea...

It seems as though there’s always a #Babylon5 reference these days, @straczynski.bsky.social’s gift for prophecy being proven increasingly and disturbingly on-point. (I understand the toy store folks are pushing back legally. Good luck to them).

As requested by Luke Hooverhead

In this mad timeline in which #Babylon5 is a playbook and not a warning, we are now deep in the "Point Of No Return" phase. Next we find out who in the military is prepared to follow illegal orders. And if we get to "Severed Dreams", that's when the President orders the bombing of civilian targets.