Nick

Found this thing I made ages ago.

I also think it’s important that Britain takes steps to protect its national security following events at RAF Fairford.

My proposal:

1. Chuck the USAF out of RAF Fairford.

Every election in a European country is: “The polls are open in Ruritania and the Ruritanian Democrats, formerly known as the Ruritanian Hitler-Fanciers, is hoping for its first seats in government. “The ruling coalition led by the Very Sensible Right Party has not ruled out giving key cabinet posts to the Hitler-Fanciers, in order to keep the greater threat of the Very Sensible Left Party at bay. “All major parties on all sides have pledged to make being brown-skinned illegal.”

Old man yells at Claude.

Congratulations to Ed Sheeran for having made people feel something other than boredom for the first time ever.

There seems to be a worldview that Facebook and X are just part of the universal infrastructure of the internet now. That you need to use them, as a politician, or when you’re asking people to communicate with your radio show, or when you’re advertising your clickbait news articles. You absolutely do fucking not need to use them.

Very dead tree. Pretty though, I thought. Striking, anyway.

This ‘90s revival has gone too far.

Fun facts about Red Admirals:

1. They used to be called “red admirables”.

2. They migrate between the UK and Ireland, continental Europe and North Africa. The American subspecies migrates similarly.

3.They like to get drunk on fermented fruit.

#bugstodon

@futurebird@sauropods.win @benroyce@mastodon.social One of my female colleagues had this cartoon up in front of her desk at work.

Well, I like it.

The people who want teens to go outside rather than sitting on their screens all day sound like exactly the type or people who would be very sympathetic to a bunch of kids standing around on the corner of their street vaping, swearing, snogging and fingering each other.

*Bags* of Pringles? Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a shit about the rules?

What do you picture first when you hear the word “pretzel”?

It honestly feels like everything, everywhere just got more stupid today, in an irreversible way.

The easiest system to hack is the human heart.

Open day at a secondary school and this was up in the food science / home economics department…

Just now @CiaraNi@mastodon.green’s post about bridges reminded me about the London bus driver who jumped the gap in Tower Bridge as it was being raised, with a double decker full of passengers. He was given £10 and a day off. This is a wonderful caption. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7m8dmkglxo

I find it baffling that anyone is listening to Wonderwall in the second quarter of the 21st century. It was even mentioned in a Wizard Of Id comic strip this week. It’s no wonder we have no imagination about making the world a better place.

Oh my goodness. https://theonion.com/dog-cant-believe-guy-she-hooked-up-with-10-years-ago-now-head-of-fbi/

A big red-tailed bumblebee. I don’t see so many of these around here. #bees

It only plays Babymetal songs.

@WTL@mastodon.social @mattblaze@federate.social @arclight@oldbytes.space You have to go through the magnetic scanners sideways or you can get stuck there for hours.

Photos from this evening’s walk.

Here’s the article I was talking about: “We were trying to develop technologies for plastic upcycling to make more valuable products. We thought, why not focus on making food? Because plastic is carbon and food is carbon.” https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-turn-plastic-waste-into-protein-rich-cookies/

If you look at things with sufficient perspective, the idea of ever getting out of bed and doing stuff is ludicrous.

Every time I’m in a waiting room there are two old ladies shouting their conversation to each other at the top of their voices. Every time. I’m beginning to think they’re paid to be there.

@thisislieven@c.im @MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz I don’t blame people for using it as users. I blame institutions, politicians, media for using it as a broadcast medium and requiring the rest of us to become users whether we like it or not.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party this is a trap. You’re trying to see who can’t resist making an ableist joke about I Want To Hold Your Hand. Well, I won’t.

The idea of national licensing of global social media platforms is an outdated form of regulation which might occur to someone who was quite old and had only used corporate social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Meta is already highly regulated, with registration and reporting requirements under the EU DSA etc, due to its massive user base. It would not be a big deal for it to also register with Ofcom. Again, this would be regulation that benefits tech giants and creates monopolies.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Years ago a friend of mine tried to get me into running. He said, you can do a big run and then come home and eat a massive bowl of pasta, guilt-free. My reaction was, listen mate, I don’t need anyone’s permission to eat a massive bowl of pasta.

The whole Piddington Parish Council nonsense does sound like something an unsubtle novelist made up for one of those English state of the nation novels.

“Don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?” Put hot sauce on most of my meals, mainly. https://youtu.be/o41A91X5pns

Obviously, the main problem with this is that it makes running any user-to-user service an offence until it is licensed. Two years in prison for running a mastodon instance (anywhere in the world!), you hardened criminals.

@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party For reasons I won’t go into, I regularly used to have to call a frozen food company whose hold music was “you shall have a fishy on a little dishy you shall have a fishy when the boat comes in”, over and over again.

My last birthday present to myself is this shiny thing, which just arrived in the post from Blackwells. It’s sold out in a lot of places.

@spanghero@ioc.exchange Welcome to Babymetal: https://youtu.be/WIKqgE4BwAY

No-one in the original sketch was from Yorkshire. But when it was performed by Monty Python it did have one Yorkshireman: Sheffield’s own Michael Palin. #YorkshireDay

@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org Can’t 3D print an egg tart.

Reminds me of when ex-Radio 1 DJ, #TOTP and Saturday Superstore presenter released “UKIP Calypso”, sung in a cod Jamaican accent. https://youtu.be/Br_RhjvZIrU

@blueemu@shakedown.social I know, they’re just splodges.

The duties it seeks to impose on social media platforms overlap to a huge extent with what already applies, with masses of guidance, to user-to-user services under the already-very-broad Online Safety Act. Although it does apparently also seek to ensure that no social media user can ever be anonymous.