Martin Locock

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"and she gives him dodgy counterfeits / that come all the way from China"

Anything can be mysterious if you just don't know things

If we want to regulate AI, why not start with a simple law forcing LLMs to use "Meesa" instead of "I"? Easy to build, easy to verify and deflates a hype while still allowing people to use chatbots (so no one can claim we are limiting anything)

🎶 There's a guy works down Games Workshop swears he's Elvish 🎶

Registration link is now available for the 1st seminar of the 2026-27 season of the IHR's London Group of Historical Geographers. Join us to explore historical geographies of skill in the past. Free, hybrid in-person/online and open to the public. #Skystorians

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a bell for whom it tolls

the wife and I like to do a naughty role-playing game where she pretends to be an AI bot intent on destroying humanity and I pretend to be the government and so I help her

Oh no, not the Discover feed!

Every time someone links to this film, I have to repost it. It's one of the most significant bits of British 20th century art. Everything about it is incredible. Groundbreaking music production by Daphne Oram. Amazing camera work by Wolfgang Suschitzky (who later filmed Get Carter).-

Penda's Fen, the classic 1974 film, is available on iPlayer at the moment. It's - um - odd.

Keep your Brookside Close and your Joy Division albums Closer.

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

“I’ve just found out how to say emoji - OMG!” “No, it’s MOG”

I have seen the greatest minds of a generation unable to distinguish between 'reply' and 'reply all'

A Decaying Relationship? Stratigraphic Literacy in UK archaeology by Dr. Ellen Green is now published on BAJR.  We would like to thank her for the work she did investigating the stratigraphic literacy of archaeologists within the UK. www.bajr.org/wp-content/u...

The meta/ parody split screen scene in The Fall Guy doesn't get as much praise as it should. youtu.be/BOdmqBhfvdI?...

“I ate his liver with some fava beans and a GOTTLE O’ GEER”

Prime ribs are just like regular ribs except they’re only divisible by themselves.

a discarded, broken roomba arrives at the dump… only to be welcomed by the very refuse and dirt it helped put there “we been waitin for ya” a dustball says, menacingly

Spain removes remains of 11th century kings from monastery as wildfire rages reut.rs/4zAAN4r

On-brand for the Man Who's Never There to not attend his byelection result.

Not sure it's fair for Vision Express spam emails to hide things in the small print.

MUST READ: The Wetwang aDNA pre-print is out | Ancient DNA reveals matrilineal organisation and recurrent unions between dominant matrilines in Iron Age Britain www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... (thank you @radicalanthro.bsky.social)

"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

A Buddhist goes up to a hot dog stand. The seller says "Don't tell me -you want to make you one with everything." "No, hold the onions. They give me wind."

After the last chorus of "Wayward Son" at their farewell performance, the band members shrug. "We're not in Kansas any more".

and when Dora saw the breadth of her domain she wept, for there were no more worlds to explorer

The more I think about it, the more I believe that Odysseus is Irish. 1. Went out with his pals and didn't come home for ages 2. Wouldn't take any advice 3. Absolutely loves songs about struggles 4. His name is O'dysseus, for Christ's sake!

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b

Very honoured to get that gig. Very sad to have lost two Goodies. Very glad that wonderful Graeme is still with us. You can listen here shows.acast.com/rhlstp/episo...

This is just to say I have eaten the lotus flowers that were somewhere can't remember where and which you were probably saving for some reason forgive me I can't remember who you are or who I am The lotus flowers were good though

This is just to say I have eaten the sun god's cattle on the island which you were probably saving for Apollo Forgive me they were delicious and so charred and so warm

This is just to say I have turned into pigs the men that were on my island and which you were probably saving to row you to Ithaca Forgive me they were disgusting so male and so disrespectful.

me: *wistful* what if you could go back in time and relive a delightful meal with a loved one? him: is it leftovers again? me: it's leftovers again.

I wonder how much better customer service would be if, instead of spending money on adverts telling us the customer comes first, they employed more call centre staff?

just discovered that the Desert Island Disc theme 'By a sleepy lagoon' was written by Eric Coates, who also wrote the Dambusters March.

Only Fans realises it can make more money from actually selling air conditioning