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I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me but You snooze You lose

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

- How will I recognize you? - I'll be dressed as a Teletubby. - What color?

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

William the Conqueror: Hey you, write your name and address in the Doomsday Book Peasant: The what book? William the Conqueror: I mean the Happy Book... The Happy Book of Cuddles

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

[God creating the iron fence] God: LOOK WHAT I HATH WROUGHT!

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The devil has enough advocates already.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

No, I do not think we should use gAI to build literature reviews, and we definitely shouldn't be teaching faculty how to do this, this is not just some fancy new search engine, what on earth is wrong with you and why are you doing this ffs

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

The next Spiderverse movie should have a Spider-Woman named Charlotte who only uses her webs to tell people how great pigs are.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

A hill I will die on: Failed trials are a Good Thing. I'd be much more worried if there were no failed trials. That would suggest a lack of rigour. Related: so called 'blockers' (AKA 'enemies of progress') are secret allies for true innovations because they help stop junk getting rolled out.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

It’s ballyhoo. It’s bunkum. It’s bullshit. It’s a grift. It’s dangerous. It’s damaging. And it’s garbage. Leave us the big data mashing that might conceivably be useful in specific professional fields. Hoof the rest into the sea. Bin it if they can’t explain it.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Funerals should have a bit where they ask the congregation to speak up if there’s any lawful reason why the dead person shouldn’t be buried

submitted 30 days ago • 19 comments

and he would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids

submitted 31 days ago • 29 comments

Brusque would be a great name for a baby boy.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

ladies will be like “i know a spot” and it’s literally some blood they can’t wash off their hands

submitted 330 days ago • 14 comments

These have arrived! - the finished, hardback copies of a little book I've written about the joyfully unpredictable experience of producing Father Ted. Publication is Feb 20th but I'd like to give away two copies early - RT by Saturday 6pm and my dog Watson will pick the winners.

submitted 39 days ago • 25 comments

there are two durans inside of me and they’re both hungry like the wolf

submitted 47 days ago • 21 comments

In 1300 Harold the Dense destroyed his own castle in a gender reveal trebuchet accident.

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

As Badenoch, Farage and others seem to have forgotten - we already had a national inquiry in child sexual exploitation. It reported in Feb 2022. The Tory Govt responded in July 2022. When Badenoch was a minister. www.gov.uk/government/p...

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

Let me tell you about the weird business that delivers art into our lives, and the impact it has on the long-term careers of artists. This is a thread prompted by yet another article on authors' incomes, and the inevitable reactions from the 'people-would-pay-if-it-was-worth-it-to-them' brigade. 1/

submitted 49 days ago • 8 comments

here's my blog post about how people who use generative ai are deeply estranged from themselves and reality itself, their souls drifting rudderless in open water, asphyxiating www.joewintergreen.com/i-think-the-...

submitted 51 days ago • 47 comments

the little engine that coulda been a contender

submitted 56 days ago • 1 comment

David Chen's Random and Dubious 2024 Movie Awards open.substack.com/pub/davechen... - characteristically wise and witty.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

We got these gag gift boxes to put some of the kid's presents in. Can't wait to see their expression when they unwrap them 😂

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Suddenly mad that we'll never get a Discworld book in which the wizards invent something like Large Language Monsters that eat everyone's stuff before regurgitating it, and Vimes arrests them all for being bloody stupid

submitted 61 days ago • 75 comments

BREAKING: Millions of children will get a surprise this Christmas after autocorrect sent their lists to Satan.

submitted 62 days ago • 15 comments

kate bush running past sisyphus

submitted 63 days ago • 64 comments

ancient Greek youth priest: sits on chair backwards you know who ELSE flew too close to the sun?

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

One of the reasons LotR is such a turning-point in the history of Western fantasy is that Tolkien was one of the last Western fantasists whose touchstone was, not earlier works of fantasy, but the myths and folklore that lay behind them.

submitted 67 days ago • 7 comments

No one is as glued to any piece of reading material as a parent counting down the songs in the program of a really boring school concert.

submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

"Can you explain this gap in your resume?" "That's where Word decided to change the paragraph spacing for no reason."

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

It is once again that time of year when every Books Dad gets absolutely bodied by Molesworth.

submitted 74 days ago • 44 comments

I believe it comes down to drivers ignoring the speed limit.

submitted 77 days ago • 53 comments

I do not wish to be a lout but this is how 'Heroes' should be covered not with a choir and an air of reverence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J06y...

submitted 81 days ago • 50 comments

"Cooler heads will prevail," I whisper, as I place the last of the heads into the cooler

submitted 90 days ago • 4 comments

"I'm glad to be able to bring my whole self to work." "Not like that, Gregg."

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments