They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

I'll be singing this all day now.

It's like when you get a line from a Cranberries single stuck in your head.

In your head

In your head

Look everyone it's an ACTUAL Lab Leak

*cough* that's a firebird. Explorer is more pointy. Think that's a Firebird VII - three pickups and the vibrola

Christina Hendricks Spun a "Shoe Pop Dream Gaze" DJ Set at a San Diego Bar on April Fool's Day Mad Men star Christina Hendricks was no joke during her April Fool's Day DJ set at San Diego's Part Time Lover, spinning "shoe pop dream gaze" vinyl.

@mrsimonraymonde.bsky.social @abbey808.bsky.social assume you've already seen this, but just in case...

consequence.net/2026/04/chri...

"rail replacement service"

Cannot believe “man who has never run a profitable company shovels mountains of cash into a bonfire“ isn’t a viable business model, what’s the world coming to

I hope we're all enjoying the experience of living in the first 15 minutes of a 1980s docudrama the BBC is only allowed to air once.

BuzzFeed Nearing Bankruptcy After Disastrous Turn Toward AI Three years after its pivot to AI, the writing is on the wall for BuzzFeed. The company said there's "substantial doubt" it can keep going.

Who could have ever predicted this? (All of us, immediately) futurism.com/artificial-i...

Native British Animals you say?

Ron Cobb, near-forgotten genius political cartoonist.

He also did visual design of technology for the first Alien film and countless other scifi movies in the 70s/80s. Including the Weyland-Yutani Semiotic Standard - a visual language used for Nostromo signage.

...and there will be more from Prolapse Harness in session later on...

I've been listening to an audiobook about airships (zeppelins, dirigibles, or blimps, depending on locale), and how they NEVER really worked, but governments had invested so much in them that they were determined to MAKE them work, wasting fortunes & years & lives

This post is not about airships

Great fun. Before 1300 it's pretty much incomprehensible, and even before 1600 you're spending so much time making sure you understand the words that the story gets a bit lost.

Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

A parody of Wes Streeting's Guardian article with the headline changed to "Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Dick Dastardly. And I never wanted to stop the pigeon - Wes Muttley" "I knew him but not well, and worry now that he thrived in the Vulture Squadron. It was not just failed vetting: there was a failure of moral seriousness." Streeting has been photoshopped with an aviator cap and goggles, along with a red aviator scarf.

Something compelled me to make this

I hope Nigel Farage gets an intact cardamom pod in every mouthful of rice he eats from now until the day he dies

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

The most irritating lib big brain bollocks and you see it ALL the time. Peter Mandelson was a man who lived his entire life bitter that he didn't have even more money. There would have been no salary high enough for the cunt. And he isn't an anomaly.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

SSE Airtricity I Account Balance h Submit Meter Read * Retrieve Top-up Code I would like to disconnect my gas supply 09:47J/ I'm really sorry you're feeling this way, but I'm not equipped to help with this. It's important to talk to a mental health professional or reach out to a trusted person in your life for support. @ Message U 09:47

An attempt to disconnect our gas connection earlier today👇
SSE Airtricity’s AI chatbot is going a little out of scope 😬

Not painted; more like a bad photocopy of Piers Morgan on an *over-inflated* ballon

I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.

I read an article about that; according to the props people, they frequently get told "this photo will only be seen for 3 seconds in a wide tracking shot" or something, & then on the day the director decides, "no, let's do a long lingering close-up of the terrible photo instead" (or so they claim)

Government to offer free training to all adults to help them learn to enjoy the smooth smooth taste of Benson and Hedges

AI Lobby: go all in on our shit product that steals from people & wrecks industries!
Gvt: k!
AI lobby: nobody’s using it 😡
Gvt: why?
AI Lobby: everyone knows people only don't like our product because they're TOO STUPID to understand how great it is.
Gvt: k!