Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

It’s cool, mate: We know a majority aren’t on for this horrorshow. You’ll be fine.

New Model Army

Been years since you've thrown a punch but you still don't think people should go to a match without expecting it. Your portfolio, put together on a dare by making the most cynical investments possible, is doing well. Yours is a strictly "no paw patrol" household.

500 games of the Lionesses — by those who played in them Before England’s milestone World Cup qualifier against Iceland on Saturday, players past and present reflect on team’s evolution since FA’s ban on women’s football ended 55 years ago

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i'm just worried that keir starmer is going to fire *everyone* who knew that peter mandelson was a wrong'un, and the unemployment rate in the uk will reach 99.99%

For me it's a toss-up between Human League & Duran Duran (who I like more than a Mark E. Smith fan should)

State Library Victoria Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: ‘a lost masterpiece’ Last year marked the 75th anniversary of the publication in Melbourne of a novel compared by some to Leo Tolstoy’s 'War and Peace', and described as ‘a lost masterpiece’. The novel in question, 'Tomor...

“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”? blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/...

AI is great for spotting typos, but following its stylistic suggestions tends to flatten out the quirks that make prose interesting. It’s a bit like putting someone’s voice through a modulator that makes them sound like someone else? Not great for forming a connection between people.

Yes, as a Lambeth resident and Labour Party member I sadly have to agree with you

It occurs to me that there are Republicans in Congress who assured themselves a year ago that they’d be able to shut it all down if things ever got wildly out of control, not realizing that when things are wildly out of control is exactly the time that it’s hardest to shut it all down.

At least we can protest without getting shot in the head, but you do you x

Cath is 11% German, 22% Autistic - not often I score lower in the latter scale than her 😀

47% German, 11% Autistic: “I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and I'm apparently just German. Kant would approve. german.millermanschool.com/%E2%80%9C

This is absolutely true, and in no way crazy. In most European countries you even need your boss’s permission to go to the lavatory, whether you are in the office or not. In my own country, the UK, a week’s advance notice is generally required.

An enduring classic

•(.Zannah.). :: [manic pixie robot girl] @zannah This is the scale that I will be using for everything from now on. Boasting a guest verse from Dr. Dre, what classic '90s R&B hit features Blackstreet singing, "I like the way you work it"? A: No Diggity B: Hardly Any Diggity C: A Fair Amount of Diggity D: An Overwhelming Surplus of Diggity

Replacement likert scale just dropped

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[Scene is a MOON BASE on the moon. The Moonbase has an AMAZON logo on the top of its domed glass roof. From inside it, we hear a voice.]: WHEEEE Cut to interior scene. We see it is the voice of a man in a space suit, bouncing around in the low gravity, having a great time. We gradually realise that this man is Jeff Bezos. Boing haha. Wheeee! [close in on Jeff's face] JEFF BEZOS: Alexa! Set gravity to ‘Earth’. ALEXA HOME SPEAKER: Sure! Ending poverty on Earth now… JEFF BEZOS: No! Alexa, *stop*… Set gravity levels to 'Earth'. ALEXA: Sure Jeff. Whum. [Jeff gently sticks to the ground] [Pause.] ALEXA: Jeff - would you like to continue with: 'End poverty on Earth'? [Jeff thinks about this for a very long time, his face in a rictus of awkwardness. His eyes dart left and right in his head, while he is frozen in thought. This goes on for many panels.] [in the final panel it just cuts to Jeff bouncing again, saying "Wheee"] [Ends]

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A friend went round to his neighbours’ for Eid last night and apparently the wife slightly panicked about hosting white people because she disappeared for a couple of minutes and came back with half a pint of whisky for him. This, to me, is multiculturalism

Folks, I regret to inform you: This design was OK'd by the Citizens Coin Advisory Committee in...October 2024. Its design was set in place when Biden was in office. The designer left out the olive branch to symbolize the colonists' not yet achieving peace, but hoping for it. Trump didn't do this.

I see similar tendencies in ethics with some adherents of effective altruism and their efforts to optimise through a utilitarian lens. Derek Parfit disparaged this as overuse of the “Linear Model” - not everything is best thought of as being on a numeric scale, to compare against other numbers.

The Indian plate is part of the Indo-Australian plate, which underlies the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal, and is moving north-east at an average of 60 mm/a (0.075 in/Ms).

I can overlook millimetres per year, but what utter anarchy of a unit is inches per megasecond

I've seen a lot of posts recently about whether LLMs can be conscious. I think not, due to their static nature. This paper argues my position very well. To the many who will find it hard going, I recommend asking ChatGPT to summarise its arguments: it does an excellent job.

arxiv.org/pdf/2512.12802

I will unfollow, mute or block rather than scream or yell. But ultimately it’s just very hard for me to take anyone who thinks this seriously.

Many have probably blocked or muted you TBH. I use LLM technology heavily, have a pretty good grasp of how it works, and I don’t see how anyone with that knowledge can claim this technology can yield consciousness. To me it’s like sticking googly eyes on a rock and then conversing with it.

Grammar Schools: 8 Conclusions from the Data - The Education Policy Institute ⏱️ Estimated Read: 11 minThis morning, the Education Select Committee will hold an ‘Evidence Check’ session in which they will question Nick Gibb (the Schools Minister), the Chief Analyst at the Depar...

Go have a look at the data and then opine. This is very weak. epi.org.uk/publications...

I read the article. I can’t see anywhere where she actually says “bourgeois support”? It seems like an interpolation by the subeditor. I think Labour policy sucks, but this feels like bait by the Times rather than Mahmood actually telling people like me to eff off from the Labour Party.

Just read the article. Can’t see anywhere where she actually says “bourgeois support”? Seems like an interpolation by the subeditor. I think Labour policy sucks balls this feels like bait by the Times rather than Mahmood actually telling people like me to eff off from the Labour Party.

I’ve worked in finance all my life and am a mathematician-cum-engineer by trade, but this obsession with quantifying the ultimate worth of everything in terms of market value drives me around the twist. Lazy, reductive, harmful.