Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

Maybe I'm an authoritarian at heart, but this is something (along with illegal number plates) I'd come down hard on. Use ANPR as much as we can. Make sure it gets enforced.

Remembering that Jimmy Tarbuck stole Terry Thomas' cigarette holder for a pub quiz might be the intellectual highlight of my week.

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

Screenshot of Elmo next to his pet's fishbowl in Elmo's World. The subtitles say "We. Dorothy's been thinking abou and down to what’s her daughter."

four birds in a cartoon from Sesame Street, with the caption reading "Oh, shit"

Another Sesame Street cartoon saying "Oh shit"

Screenshot of Big Bird in Hooper’s Store with live human Alan and a flying red bird. The subtitles read: "Time for the birth of terror. Me"

Do not watch Sesame Street on Tubi with the subtitles on 😭. I swear, I didn't edit or add anything. Is it hilarious? Yes, but also, they need to fix this immediately. Absolutely incomprehensible and bad

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

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A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

"Kansas firefighters rescue chubby cat trapped in massive recliner while trying to hide from the vet"
God speed, chubby cat.

FT Correction: Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

something powerfully depressing about "seeing your friends" and "cooking food" apparently being seen as "making life harder"

I hate it here!

Flying into Heathrow at sunrise is a good reminder that the South of England is a) beautiful and b) pretty empty.

I wonder how many copies of The Sims they'll find this time.

Aarghh!

Air and space museum by Dulles airport

Having a religious experience

@oldenoughtosay.com

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

The seller has a good line of haunted objects
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What it should've said

"Subsequently, 1mL of the final solution was added to 20mL of the skin sample and exposed to light for 7 min."

The final (reaction) solution!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeesh

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So, about those Eid prayers in London...

"What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?"

"Nelson's column, innit?"

"And the highest thing on the column?"

"Nelson."

"And on Nelson?"

"His hat."

"And the highest thing on his hat?"

"That bit that sticks up."

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Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story Bettors are using death threats to try to get The Times of Israel's military correspondent to change his report on a missile impact in central Israel. This is his alarming account

Crazy crazy story. Times of Israel reporter ( English language Israeli news site ) gets escalating death threats to change story that’s at center of big polymarket bet. www.timesofisrael.com/gamblers-try...

Ah shit. An absolute titan. My favourite story about Hoare: he needed a sorting algorithm while working as a student in Russia the fifties, so he quickly wrote something that seemed to do the job. It’s now called Quicksort and it’s so elegant and powerful it’s still taught and used today.

What. A. Match.

A metal cylinder sticking 10m out of the ground, in the middle of a road in Osaka.

This large metal cylinder in Osaka is not connected to the road overhead. It's new sewerage, and the top is supposed to be at road level. For reasons no-one can yet explain, the pipe rose 10m overnight. www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/202...