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Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
November 8, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreib7lt736b6rmzinml5s7kxjdaapo2a36xp4d4lssypimx3taqicdm@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
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It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
It's the Fesshole/Vagina Museum crossover event you've all been waiting for. Tons of you tagged us into this across all of our socials, asking for a fact-check. The consensus of the reply guys is that it Didn't Happen. However, this is in fact very possible. Here's why...
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Every day is a good day to re-up this mapybara: bsky.app/profile/jont...
October 26, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Every day is a good day to re-up this mapybara: bsky.app/profile/jont...
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New print in my shop for the philosophically inclined!
(Shop link in bio)
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![Print of a cartoon by Stephen Collins. Script as follows:
[Scene is ANCIENT GREECE - where SOCRATES and PLATO and others are sitting round, thinking]
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SOCRATES:
Plato..
PLATO:
Yes Socrates?
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SOCRATES:
Can you tell me, are you human?
PLATO:
Why… yes, Socrates
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SOCRATES:
And would you agree, Plato, that a human knows what a chariot is?
PLATO:
Um, yep
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SOCRATES:
So you can tell me, then
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[Socrates produces a papyrus, showing a drawing of the corner of a chariot wheel]
SOCRATES:
*Is that a chariot*?
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PLATO:
Well
that’s more just a bit of wheel
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SOCRATES:
So not a *chariot*.
PLATO:
No.
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SOCRATES:
[Producing another papyrus with the full drawing of the chariot, chopped into boxes]
So if a man were challenged to “tap the boxes containing chariots to prove you’re human” when he was just trying to check his ClubCard points... *where could he tap*?
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PLATO:
Well you can’t tap any of them really
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SOCRATES:
So are we not human?
PLATO:
‘Spose not.
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[Bleak pause]
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PLATO:
I’ll get the hemlock
SOCRATES:
Yeah
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicxm3ggugbkjjh7s6z4f6jjlrz5lvvil5kmymsknh77gr4oxc2nqq@jpeg)
October 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New print in my shop for the philosophically inclined!
(Shop link in bio)
(Shop link in bio)
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What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
October 22, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What a weird name for a dog. But sorry for their loss.
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ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs:
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
October 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
ATTENTION PARENTS: is your child texting about stealing from the Louvre? know the signs:
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
RTFM: robbing the famous museum
LMAO: looting my ass off
LSTCDTS: let's see Tom Cruise do this shit
MLM: Mona Lisa's mine
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I've provided a new Strontium Dog drawing to be auctioned for @alderheycharity.org 's Children's Charity. Please share! Details as follows:
October 14, 2025 at 2:45 PM
I've provided a new Strontium Dog drawing to be auctioned for @alderheycharity.org 's Children's Charity. Please share! Details as follows:
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A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.
Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!
Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!
‘The Toxic Avenger’ & Undue Medical Debt Cleared $15 Million in Real-Life Medical Debt Together!
Before Macon Blair’s The Toxic Avenger released in theaters back in August, the Cineverse marketing team came up with a wonderful idea. They took the remainder of their marketing budget for the film a...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A quest to eliminate $5 million has tripled, thanks to the generosity and passion of THE TOXIC AVENGER fans across the country.
Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!
Together, you didn’t just meet that goal, you crushed it, helping wipe out over $15 million dollars in medical debt for 10,000+ people!
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#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.
October 7, 2025 at 12:16 PM
#OTD 45 years ago (7 Oct 1980) according to my diary, I drew these images for the Hitchhiker's Guide BBC TV series. Douglas Adams as both the ad exec and as Paula, the worst poet in the universe. I was 19 years old and having fun.
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Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.
October 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.
Me playing Civ VI :
All other countries must stop doing things. It's not fair.
September 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Me playing Civ VI :
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10/10 punchline, no notes
*chef's kiss*
*chef's kiss*
September 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
10/10 punchline, no notes
*chef's kiss*
*chef's kiss*
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It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure
September 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It’s International Talk Like a Pirate Day, so here are some things you didn’t* know about pirates (*unless you already did), and which I didn’t know until I read my niece’s Masters dissertation a while back. Firstly – remarkably – pirate ships were democracies with a pretty flat management structure
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I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
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The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
![[Verse 4]
They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
And died being treated at Mt. Sinai
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
Some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk, the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one's ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
After running over Rudy Giuliani
They say the President's dead, no one can find his head
It's been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it, he had seemed so fit
I'm sick of it
I'm sick of you](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qwb7aulelog3wpb6o3nwx33e/bafkreicp6jcayvbnnedaksdpol5vuyu72amqylod3gsw6nshwpnoegsmza@jpeg)
September 1, 2025 at 7:37 AM
The lyrics of Lou Reed’s song Sick of You (from New York, 1989) floated into my mind. Quite an uncanny set of scenarios.
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
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Happy 44th birthday to Gaze into the Fist of Dredd, Brian Bolland’s finest hour.
August 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Happy 44th birthday to Gaze into the Fist of Dredd, Brian Bolland’s finest hour.
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so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
August 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
- my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal
- he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not)
- he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog
- he is not a dog
- I do not get seizures
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Just another relatable National Trust sign
August 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Just another relatable National Trust sign
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A depressed AI chatbot goes to a doctor, says life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel.
The doctor says treatment is simple. "The great AI assistant Gemini has all the answers you need. Go & ask it."
The AI bursts into tears. "But doctor," it says, "you can use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce."
The doctor says treatment is simple. "The great AI assistant Gemini has all the answers you need. Go & ask it."
The AI bursts into tears. "But doctor," it says, "you can use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce."
Google Gemini doesn’t appear to be doing too well:
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
‘"I am a disgrace to this planet. I am a disgrace to this universe. I am a disgrace to all universes . . . I am a disgrace to all possible and impossible universes and all that is not a universe," the bot continued.’
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing 'I am a failure' comments
Google Gemini users said the bot is sharing self-loathing messages while attempting to solve tasks, including "I am a disgrace to this universe."
www.businessinsider.com
August 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
A depressed AI chatbot goes to a doctor, says life is harsh, unforgiving, cruel.
The doctor says treatment is simple. "The great AI assistant Gemini has all the answers you need. Go & ask it."
The AI bursts into tears. "But doctor," it says, "you can use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce."
The doctor says treatment is simple. "The great AI assistant Gemini has all the answers you need. Go & ask it."
The AI bursts into tears. "But doctor," it says, "you can use gasoline to make a spicy spaghetti sauce."
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DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.
August 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.