And every AI poster is identical to the last. They're all giving 'uncanny valley' vibes.

Self re-share because relevant.

An orange and white cat is so proud of you.

it's a harsh world out there and not everyone is going to give you credit for all the great stuff you do. but Sandal thinks you have done awesome this year. he doesn't know how you do it.

he also doesn't even know how to open the refrigerator but that isn't important rn

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award,

"It's not lost on me why I might have won this award"

"Aside from presenting Match of the Day.."

"Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

When I was at Anglia TV about 25 yrs ago, a girl in our office sent out a team email that said, “It’s been a crap Monday, who wants to come to my flat for a smoke?” Sadly she sent it to everyone in ITV. Melvyn was one of the first to reply with “That sounds lovely but sadly I’m filming in Newcastle”

There was a quote on the BBC Sport feed saying that the fans can make a 10 man Newcastle team play like a 12 man Newcastle team and we showed that tonight. You can’t buy that with a single player.

For the most part I absolutely agree, but I will say I’ve watched some very sensitive, affecting documentaries recently around particular VAWG murders in the UK. Sky Docs channel and C4 tend to get it right more than the others - less sensationalism and more authenticity, and sadness, really.

So proud of them, and our fans for raising the roof. We rest, we recuperate and we go again.

I work in fostering and nothing gives you a fat dose of perspective more than children who’ve had nothing who are pushing on through life with hope & optimism. Some adults could stand to learn a lot from them.

Times: "Asylum protests swell across the UK " headline, reporting an underwhelming wave.

Leeds "draws 70"
Cardiff "disorganised + small"
Altrincham "*swelled* to around 200"
Cheshunt about 250
Chichester: about 100
Portsmouth: about 70 v 70 on each side

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Went to the #nufc exhibition at The Baltic.
This photo immediately brought tears to my eyes.
Lucky to have these two. They get it. With their whole hearts.
🖤🤍

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Robert Jenrick, the Tory Shadow Justice Secretary and former Home Office Minister, joining protesters outside an asylum hotel is one of the most disgusting acts by a frontline British politician in living memory.

in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...

CLICKHOLE LIFESTYLE Groundbreaking Discovery: Paleontologists Have Agreed To Start Saying That Stegosauruses Had Beautiful Singing Voices Because It's A Nice Thought And It's Not Like They're Hurting Anyone OCTOBER 16, 2017

this is where i'm at mentally these days

I once heard Eric Adams described as "trying to win every interaction on a moment to moment level, leaving the overall experience incoherent and him coming off worse" and I sometimes wonder if that's not a good description of Starmer's government.

These problems require considered, intelligent solutions.

Any “tough on crime” policy which does not have this as its centrepiece is a distraction.

A con.

Don’t let con artists and hatemongers distract from the real issues.

There are significant problems with the way that sexual violence is dealt with in the criminal justice system.

There is chronic underreporting.

Investigations take years.

The court backlog means several more years before a trial.

Complainants give up.

Prosecutions collapse.

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

“You don’t owe anyone anything”

Sting surveys his rolling acres wrapped in shawl nursing a cheeky glass of red

"well it's been a canny day down the allotment, I've banked up me leeks they needed doin' as before ya know it'll be the show & that, we've been at our Jean's caravan at Seahouses so I've neglected 'em, anyway pets have a grand evenin' & that, just ganna watch the sun go down w'me glass of vimto..."

It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?

Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up

I don't know Jess personally, but for pretty much the entire time I've been working professionally she has been widely regarded as a valued and respected figure in the British theatre sector. That it has taken a Labour government to force her out of work is an indelible mark of shame.

Woman on the radio complaining because someone getting PIP was able to go on holiday. Ffs, begrudging that.

Maybe they had a biscuit too. Maybe they went to the cinema. Maybe they had a tiny bit of joy.

just going to take a stab in the dark and suggest that these risk factors are enhanced by the complete inability to get a diagnosis / suitable treatment for said autoimmune disorders 🙄

Local, middle-aged woman outside the Europa Hotel in Belfast just now: "It's called 28 Years Later but I don't know what it's about - is it the Good Friday Agreement?