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New Scientist gets me excited for a second before I realise it's cut off.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

sorry i haven't been posting much today. the data center that generates my posts has been destroyed

Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly

LOUIS THEROUX: (shouting at ceiling) Hi Wallace, it's Louis. Are you coming down? V.O.: I'd been told to expect the unexpected when Wallace came down for breakfast. WALLACE: Be there in a minute! Enjoy the show! LOUIS: (to Gromit) Is this normal?

uhh i was digitizing a box of old VHS tapes for my uncle... you guys ever hear of something called "The Mayonnaise Channel"??

Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer xkcd.com/3304/

PAUL: What’s in the box? REVEREND MOTHER: Pain. [PAUL hesitantly puts his hand in the BOX, then FROWNS IN CONFUSION. He pulls out A BAGUETTE.] REVEREND MOHER: Hōn hōn,

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20?

THE GREAT BRITISH SEWING BEE: oh my this is fun, oh what larks THE GREAT BRITISH REAPING BEE: well this is a spot of bother and make no mistake, what on earth

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 29,1947

consider: ashton jeanty saying “football” over and over again

Good morning.

Oh I am very pro a good footnote!

Don’t boycott GTA VI. Fight for justice for the people who made it: youtube.com/shorts/hhIES... T-shirt preorders open now! All proceeds from the t-shirts, which are ethically made and designed by us, will go towards the fired Rockstar workers’ legal funds. bit.ly/4xLc4IP

I just don't get how people find fish-out-of-water-stories heartwarming. What's so life-affirming about "Fish Asphixiates"? :(

i wrote this months ago. might have some edits to make

They keep telling me media literacy is dead but then I see videos like this and I know it jot to be true

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

Another Bonnie Tyler centric comic. Myself and @julesscheele.bsky.social did a piece about the Thought Bubble Dancefloor a few years ago, and the oral history of those joys, and various magical moments. Here's the Total Eclipse of the Heart climax to the whole thing.

surprise! we just dropped episode 5 of THE HISTORY OF CHARGING THE MOUND on youtube youtu.be/JcW5Ks8Xt9M?...

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

A francophone laughing affirmatively

You never like to think about it, but at some point you realise you flamed your last lips.

Good morning! It's hot and so it's time for my favourite literary quote ever: "Eh, it’s ’ot," he said, his accent at once betraying him for a Yorkshire man. " ’Ot for this time o’ t’ year it is."

Today is a momentous day for the workers of Arena! After months of planning, waiting and organizing, our dream is finally a reality; the votes have been counted, and our union of UWOTC-CWA has been officially elected. From this day forward, we have a union!

Important information.

Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number...

I love this kid vomiting up FIFA

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

I am so proud of my colleagues who have continued the fight - and immensely grateful too. without their support there's no way us dismissees woulda made it this far ✊ solidarity works!

The animation chat has me thinking one telling thing - in the years since AI arrived, there's not been a ground-up indie phenomenon, like we saw with earlier tech (Flash, etc). It hasn't unlocked anyone's creativity. For all the anti-gatekeeping rhetroic, nothing anyone cares about has been born.

Meet Whooper

People over on Facebook/YouTube/elsewhere on bluesky/reality have been mocking this, but these are all totally genuine and highly advanced GMing techniques pioneered in obscure corners of indie rpg design in the early 2000s. Let's go through them one by one and learn together.

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i believe that harnessing solar energy is immoral. that energy does not belong to us, it belongs to the sun, and it's going to come back to get it when it consumes the earth in several billion years. don't take what isn't yours. you don't need lights at night if you just remember where everything is

To celebrate Star Wars day I write up what lessons you can learn from Han Solo when wanting to play a character who really doesn't want to go on this adventure, thank you very much.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com