Plus they need an election first to make their preferred candidates eligible.

Whoever wins, we snooze

An envelope marked 'BRITISH — THE SMELL IDENTIFICATION TEST'.

<sniff> <sniff> No. Don’t tell me. Smells a bit like... a plastic bag caught in a tree? No, wait: is it the whiff of people complaining about Gen Z? No, hang on — it’s the heady waft of someone going too fast on an e-scooter and nearly hitting you, isn’t it? No? Oh. OK. Is it Laura Kuenssberg?

I’m half convinced Microsoft’s assertion that co-pilot is for ‘entertainment purposes only’ is part of a legal play to have the whole technology classified as parody fair use.

“Here we go! The woke…”
[wheel spins, audience ooh]
“RNLI!”
[audience boo]
“Won’t even let you…”
[more wheel spinning]
“Say Bangers & Mash”
[gasps]
“Because of…”
[clickclickclick…click]
“Cyclists!”
[loud jeering]
“Let’s hear how party leaders respond to these claims, straight after Right Said Fred”

I think GBNewws are missing trick by not making the construction of these outrage claims part of their programming. Big glittery set. 3 Wheel of Fortune style random topic selectors, celebrity spinners, live band, panel of pundits for instant reaction. It’s ratings gold.

If generative AI means that all the jocks can now skip art class, it’s completely fair that robots allow all us nerds to skip PE.

Running a marathon is exactly the kind of horrible laborious task that humans shouldn’t have to perform, and I for one am very happy to get a robot to do it for me.

You don’t get it - the robots do the marathons so we don’t have to! With the onerous task of running 26 miles delegated to the robots, we can finally sit back and compete our 2FA tasks for the week.

I feel like we’re getting into “Will no one promote this turbulent priest?” territory.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MAC AIR

I guess the sad thing is it might not really matter. Maybe for most part it does its job ok. But I’m a firm believer that audiences have a sixth sense for how much care has been put into creative work. We can read telltale signs of human thought and attention, and feel it when they’re missing.

Pigeons on some steps by water

Pigeons on steps by water

There’s a nice Seurat vibe to this

Stuff like this just makes the statement “we didn’t take much care with this, because it doesn’t really matter”. It’s the opposite attitude that any creative feels about their own work.

Humans

Why don’t the US simply set MrBeast the challenge of reopening the Straits of Hormuz?

Michael Caine in The Swarm

The bees have always been our friends

A mannequin is dismantled ‘neath a sign reading “looks we love” near the entrance of a Macy’s

Looks we love

Fond memories of this show, and the theme music.

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It’s not just that we’ve sent an object so far into the universe that amazes me. It’s that we can still *talk* to it. 130 years before Voyager launched, human beings could only send messages as far as they could see (without getting a person/pigeon to carry it). Voyager I is *15 billion miles away*

Every solid object I took to school had been permanently and prominently labelled with this device.

Grease Megamix

Action Comics number 1, featuring superman smashing up a car

Can’t believe it’s been 88 years since Superman smashed those slags’ car. It still freaks my nut out to this day.
#SupermanDay

Looks like he’s been shot in the hair

International shipping being directed down the newly open Strait of Hormuz

A pink cherry tree in full blossom against a blue sky with white fluffy clouds. A black crow sits on a branch

A crow is sitting in this fabulously pink cherry blossom tree cawing loudly and regularly. Excellent goth energy.

Really hope he’s giving his Welsh again 🤞