“We have totally obliterated the uranium. But we are launching this illegal war because Iran is days away from launching a nuclear strike on the West with bombs made from that uranium.”

"Ukrainian hackers broke into the conference feed with explicit threats, warning participants they had been identified.

“All your faces are recorded, so watch your backs. You, the bald one, first,” one of the hackers said."

Give that hacker an award.😂🤣

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Reform UK candidate says women should stay at home and look after the kids Martin Shipton A Reform UK Senedd candidate shocked those attending a hustings meeting by suggesting that women should stay at home and look after their children instead of going out to work. Mark Law...

Reform showing their true colours on the campaign trail in Wales

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We need to overwhelm the BBC with complaints about this. This is the most egregious breach of their own impartiality guidelines I can remember. They’re no longer even trying to hide it.

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Godless heathen joins sacred cause shock...

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

The General Magazine Vol1i1 : Thomas N. Shaw : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The Avalon Hill General magazine.

Page 3: archive.org/details/Gene...

Artist Darcy Perry has recreated a classic John Blanche piece, a warhammer fantasy battle scene, replacing the original warriors with anthropomorphic ducks.

I have added colour to this pencil drawing from 2020. This is my tongue in beak tribute to the great artist, John Blanche, whose masterpiece adorned the original Warhammer Fantasy Battle whitebox in 1983. #art #fantasy #duckquest #procreate

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Press cutting Lancashire Telegraph, 20 April 2008: Shepherd's pie recipe rumpus. Subhead: Petrol bomb threat in tomato topping row. By ANDREW BELLARD A dispute over the contents of a shepherd's pie proved to be a recipe for brotherly disharmony. Blackburn magistrates heard that John Garvin thought that the pie his brother Michael made should have been topped with tomatoes but Michael disagreed. The upshot was that John, who was hit over the head with a shovel, reacted by threatening to petrol bomb his brother's flat. And he ended up spending a night in custody to allow tempers to cool. John Garvin, 47, of Montague Street, admitted a breach of the peace and was bound over in £100 to keep the peace for 12 months. Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said the brothers lived in separate flats next to each other. On the day of the culinary dispute they had been drinking together since 7am. "The argument started because there were no tomatoes on the shepherds pie that Michael made for tea and John thought this was wrong," said Miss Allan. John called his brother an offensive name and then said he was going to petrol bomb his flat. "Michael was concerned by this threat because on a previous occasion John had started a fire in his own flat," said Miss Allan. Liz Parker, defending, said her client did not accept making a remark about petrol bombing his brother's flat. "He does say that his brother hit him over the head with a shovel and it is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing," she added. (The article has a pullout quote which says “It is very clear there was a lot of trouble over nothing” - LIZ PARKER in large letters) District Judge Peter Ward, who imposed the bind over, asked in court: "You can make shepherd's pie without tomatoes can't you?" But 'legal' opinion at Blackburn magistrates, where the issue became quite a talking point, was divided. A female defence solicitor said it should be made with lamb and topped with sliced tomatoes and that a pie made with b…

And lo, it came to pass that the 18th anniversary of the greatest local news story ever told came upon us, and we were sore amazed

I’ve had the same editor since 1967. Many times he has said to me over the years or asked me, Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon? And many times over the years I have said to him things like: I will never speak to you again. Forever. Goodbye. That is it. Thank you very much. And I leave. Then I read the piece and I think of his suggestions. I send him a telegram that says, OK, so you’re right. So what? Don’t ever mention this to me again. If you do, I will never speak to you again

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Dedication from a 1948 book: To my very dear wife in just one of the constant succession of moments of affection.

Dedication 🥲

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

A soldier swings a hammer at a statue of Jesus

An Israeli soldier smashes a Jesus statue’s head in southern Lebanon.

Maybe he thought it was Trump.

Photo by Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi.

Magician, WW2 vet, Dixieland jazz musician, raconteur, inventor of precision polyhedrals — truly a many-sided life

Companion piece, posted three below in my feed

The lovely Lee Gibbons

AI ruins so much.

Wait until you learn about “vegetative electron microscopy.”

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

A little girl in the doctor’s waiting room asks her mum if she can get something out of her mum’s bag.
Her mum: What, here?
The girl nods.
Mum: Oh, alright then.
The little girl takes a full-sized, old-fashioned police helmet out of the bag, puts it on and smiles.

Today, we launched The Trench Wire, our new community channel covering all aspects of Trench Crusade, from rules and lore, to hobby content, interviews, & more! What's more, we're excited to have @lylelowery.bsky.social as editor in chief of The Trench Wire! www.trenchcrusade.com/trench-wire/

IT is really important because without it Isaac Newton would just have discovered gravy.

When a person loses 1 sense the others are heightened. That's why people who have no sense of humor have an amazing sense of self-importance.

Me too ;-)

Ironically the BBC stumbled on a really important story: Desperate asylum seekers being forced to turn to fraudulent fee-charging “advisors” to navigate a system that is intentionally impossibly baroque and from which all sources of free advice have been removed.

But no: they chose Fake Gay Panic.

Always a fun day when one gets to introduce Osascomp to someone for the first time.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: scene from the movie Aliens; Ripley is in a mech suit and delivers her iconic line: “get away from her, you bitch!” Panel 2: the xenomorph queen lunges at Ripley in the robotic suit and they engage in a fight. Panel 3: later, the xenomorph queen is standing in the shower, mid wash. She says, “‘it takes one to know one, honey.’ That’s what I should have said.”