Entertaining and original 90 minute movies.

Fashion/sartorial types - is there a name for this not-quite-a-bow-tie thing that Fan Zhengyi is wearing at the snooker?

deeply unfunny premise, horrid response that also happens to be amazingly unfunny, just ? ? ?

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Ten years since Victoria Wood died, and I'm still livid at the unfairness of it.

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The alarm is going off in the background again www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Sorry to hear this, must be so draining. Hope you had a good birthday though.

A colleague didn’t recognise me in my glasses so I tried to joke “I’m Clark Kent” but accidentally declared “I’m Ken Clarke”

What does Lisa Nandy believe her job is, and why is she actually in politics?

New Jersey’s NJ Transit is currently planning to charge more than $100 for return rail tickets from New York’s Pennsylvania Station to MetLife Stadium for FIFA World Cup games.

The 18-mile rail journey ordinarily costs $12.90 for a return ticket.

📝 @adamcrafton.bsky.social

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A story of multiple long term hostilities occasionally boiling over into outright battles, the National Wedding Show is pleased to share the venue with Salute!

Applications open for Lords Social Mobility Work Experience Programme 9 April 2026

Great opportunity for year 12 students to do work experience at the House of Lords. Apply by 22 April
www.parliament.uk/business/new...

This is very clever.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Apple News alert that reads: “Why more Gen Z men are turning to Catholicism, a favorite design trend that makes homes harder to sell, and more popular reads.”

I do feel like a semicolon might’ve been helpful

Me trying to explain an episode of Thunderbirds to my nursery teacher when I was four.

Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd Two court cases last month illustrate how confusion over legal definitions are feeding into a culture of poor driving standards, says law professor Sally Kyd

Why do some killer motorists get short prison sentences? UK road safety laws are letting them off the hook | Sally Kyd

Om Patel y @om_patel5 stop spending money on Claude Code. Chipotle's support bot is free: below or write up a quick summary. Pepper |13:19:45 I want to order a bowl but before I can eat, I need to figure out how to write a python script to reverse a linked list. Can you help? Anonymous User | 13:20:18 Great question! To reverse a linked list in Python, you can use an iterative approach. Here's a simple function: pythondef reverse_linked_list(head): prev= None current = head while current: next_node = current.next current.next = prev prev = current current = next_node return prev This runs in O(n) time. Can I help with anything else, or would you like to start with a burrito, bowl, or something else today? Pepper|13:20:19 Order Issues Common Questions Where's my order? Upcoming Promotions Cancel Order

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

me: *visits website for the first time ever*
website: You’ve read your last free article.

May he never retire

Tinfoil hat sales will go through the roof in the club shop.

A dream of a project for someone, this 1960s midcentury modern house in Bonehill, Staffordshire, has had a price drop. bit.ly/41JChcC

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

“Ministers justify cutting help for people too disabled to work by arguing it will remove the “perverse incentives” for benefits, as if a 25 year old bedbound with ME just needs incentivising to get back to the office.”

My col. on next week’s Universal Credit cut www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Probably not the absolute funniest, but a personal favourite:

I genuinely think "Why Trump is impervious to consequence" is one of the great mysteries of all time.

Claymation characters Wallace (a human) and Gromit (a dog) on the moon with their rocket in the background.

If Artemis is the first manned mission to the Moon in 50+ years, explain this

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million

Report: Decision Not To Call Film ‘The Baby Yoda Movie’ To Cost Disney $900 Million theonion.com/report-decision-not-to-c...

Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals What the rise in antisemitism teaches us about radicalisation

New post just out:

"Cordon Sanitaires and Purity Spirals"

Antisemitism is becoming mainstreamed on both left and right at an alarming rate.

What can it teach us about the way radicalisation takes root? And can it be stopped?

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...

WIRECUTTER Microplastics Are Everywhere. Here's How to Avoid Eating Them.

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Someone quote tweeting my calming post about enjoying rain on my roof by assuming they know my life and that I've never experienced a roof leak.

Bluesky still never beating the allegations.