Imagine being the first ever royal to not fully get away with being a sex pest. How embarrassing
October 17, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Imagine being the first ever royal to not fully get away with being a sex pest. How embarrassing
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For no particular reason, here's the Best UK Politics Meme Ever
January 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
For no particular reason, here's the Best UK Politics Meme Ever
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this must be the large language model everyone's talking about
I thought the worst thing about it was the ridiculous hyper-airbrushed texture we’ve come to expect from this nonsense technology and then I saw the actual full ad and apparently this fake woman made of environmental ruin and stolen art is about eight feet tall
July 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
this must be the large language model everyone's talking about
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English political establishment up in arms because an Irish guy said something it didn't like.
Then a Black guy said something it didn't like.
If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.
Then a Black guy said something it didn't like.
If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.
July 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
English political establishment up in arms because an Irish guy said something it didn't like.
Then a Black guy said something it didn't like.
If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.
Then a Black guy said something it didn't like.
If a dog says something it doesn't like, that's all of us on the sign accounted for.
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Last day of Pride month, remember that tomorrow we switch back to Wrath.
June 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Last day of Pride month, remember that tomorrow we switch back to Wrath.
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Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
June 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
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James Bond will return in "Enormous Symmetrical Thing in Midair While Someone Pitch Bends a Synthesizer"
June 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
James Bond will return in "Enormous Symmetrical Thing in Midair While Someone Pitch Bends a Synthesizer"
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For the bored. Thousands of innocent children’s deaths ignored. Not a word from your speakers or billboards. There’s silence about violence from your corporate vocal cords.
May 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For the bored. Thousands of innocent children’s deaths ignored. Not a word from your speakers or billboards. There’s silence about violence from your corporate vocal cords.
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
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Several areas of England now run by the worst people in a golf club.
May 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Several areas of England now run by the worst people in a golf club.
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Omelas could work if the kid sucks
March 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Omelas could work if the kid sucks
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The full Scarred For Life show with the full SFL team of me, Dave Lawrence, and @bobfischer.bsky.social, will be dropping into Leeds Old Woollen like a 3 megaton bomb on Thursday 27 March! Not so much a comedy show, more a support group...
Tickets: tinyurl.com/24373ns5
Tickets: tinyurl.com/24373ns5
February 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The full Scarred For Life show with the full SFL team of me, Dave Lawrence, and @bobfischer.bsky.social, will be dropping into Leeds Old Woollen like a 3 megaton bomb on Thursday 27 March! Not so much a comedy show, more a support group...
Tickets: tinyurl.com/24373ns5
Tickets: tinyurl.com/24373ns5
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So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...
Vince Gilligan Calls for Writers to Cut Back on Villain Stories Amid Current Political Climate: “They’ve Become Aspirational”
The 'Breaking Bad' creator said in now looking back at Walter White, "I think I'd rather be celebrated for creating someone a bit more inspiring."
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 18, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So I read this, and as someone who's spent their entire career in the trenches of "how do we keep the tension between Good Guys and Bad Guys interesting," I have Some Thoughts www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/v...
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This is the review that got me blacklisted by EA. Some shitbag executive wanted me fired.
February 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is the review that got me blacklisted by EA. Some shitbag executive wanted me fired.
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An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger
February 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
An astonishing exchange today between Pete Hegseth and a European reporter who has no time whatsoever for his bullshit. How I wish American media had an ounce of this steel. #hamburger
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oh hey, @unwoman.bsky.social who wrote the Cool People theme song is on bluesky now and you can follow her.
February 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
oh hey, @unwoman.bsky.social who wrote the Cool People theme song is on bluesky now and you can follow her.
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We're just twenty followers off 2,000.
We'll give away ten of our favourite books of 2024 when we do.
Follow, re-post, repeat!
We'll give away ten of our favourite books of 2024 when we do.
Follow, re-post, repeat!
Follow, re-post, repeat.
When we hit 2,000 followers, we'll give away ten of our favourite graphic novels of 2024 to a UK follower.
OK Comics is a tiny little book shop in Leeds specialising in comics and graphic novels.
When we hit 2,000 followers, we'll give away ten of our favourite graphic novels of 2024 to a UK follower.
OK Comics is a tiny little book shop in Leeds specialising in comics and graphic novels.
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
We're just twenty followers off 2,000.
We'll give away ten of our favourite books of 2024 when we do.
Follow, re-post, repeat!
We'll give away ten of our favourite books of 2024 when we do.
Follow, re-post, repeat!
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And now for Tomorrow's Government
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[Title panel like old Tomorrow's World ident font]:
TOMORROW’S GOVERNMENT
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KEIR STARMER [dressed in 70s suit as old tomorrow's world type presenter]:
Government, government, government. Why's it so *hard*, Rachel?
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RACHEL REEVES:
Haha it is Keir, isn’t it? Well, maybe not for long…
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REEVES:
In the future, a new invention called ‘AI’ might make it sort of not hard in a vague way possibly.
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REEVES:
AI is named after its inventor, Alan Illintent - who’s joined us to demonstrate his machine
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[We see a TECH BRO called Alan Illintent, next to a massive 1970s type computer with a big black screen and two buttons, red and green, for a keyboard. At the back of the machine is a big black cloth]
REEVES:
So Alan's going to climb under this cloth here
[Alan climbs under a black cloth at the back of the machine)
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REEVES:
And then you simply speak your wish into the machine.
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[KEIR leans in close to the computer's microphone]:
Ahem
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STARMER:
Please can you grow my economy.
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ON SCREEN - in green letters on black screen
INPUT ALL NHS DATA?
Y/N
[Keir tap's the 'Y' button]
TAP
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REPLACE ALL JOBS?
Y/N
[Keir tap's the 'Y' button]
TAP
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GIVE ME YR MONEY?
Y/N
[Keir tap's the 'Y' button]
TAP
STARMER:
Is it working?
ALAN ILLINTENT [popping out from under his sheet]:
You’re doing great](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreicu3ge45jtfu5m36wzkjwdul5woq4iemgzjmoi2y6p4ze66t2ealy@jpeg)
February 2, 2025 at 11:25 AM
And now for Tomorrow's Government
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"this other LLM is cheaper" isn't actually good, given the actual problem of theft, putting people out of work and not actually being any good at what it does, but I will admit I am here for Sam Altman having a really, really bad day.
January 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
"this other LLM is cheaper" isn't actually good, given the actual problem of theft, putting people out of work and not actually being any good at what it does, but I will admit I am here for Sam Altman having a really, really bad day.
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We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
shatterzone.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...
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Endure. Persevere. Survive. Help your people. Get a little tougher and meaner but don’t let it poison your heart.
January 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Endure. Persevere. Survive. Help your people. Get a little tougher and meaner but don’t let it poison your heart.