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This new Amazon Prime series looks shite.

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Looking forward to the Bond Cinematic Universe. Spin off series for all the 00 agents, origin story movies for every villain and eventually, as the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own lore, retconning by having Q invent time travel. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/fe...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We're making amazing progress by chaining multiple stopped clocks together. We just need to remove that last step where a human checks the final answer and we'll have a fully autonomous clock agent.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Volunteered to manage social media for my local paragliding club and My God, I'd forgotten how grim Facebook Business Manager is. Nothing works, it's just a horrific mess of broken stuff and hidden settings.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That's the second time this week I've had to check it's not April Fool's day.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Now I've heard there was a secret CHORD! That David played, and it pleased the LORD! But you don't really care for music DO YOU? It goes like this, the fourth, the FIFTH! The minor falls, the major LIFTS! The Beastie Boys are rapping HALLELUJAH!

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is true. A pal of mine who is a policeman went to a Scottish island recently to investigate a missing person and when the locals found out he was a Christian they stuck him in a giant human-shaped willow branch construction and burned him alive.

submitted 6 days ago • 166 comments

Yes they are. You can argue about who should have citizenship but once you grant it, there's no quibbling, which is why it's such a big thing. It's like being knighted, the sword touches your shoulder and you instantly gain parity with all of the other knights.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Somebody just hacked the Twitter account for my Premier League prediction model - I got an email notification of an unrecognised login. Hasn't been used in ten years and had about 30 followers so things are obviously going well over there.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

At some point (not too far away imv) the financial markets are going to go completely bananas.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

This is the Brexit plan again. Burn it down; deploy elite geniuses; profit. Stage 2 will go better this time, honest.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"YouTube is something of an edge case in the social media debate; because of its sheer scope in terms of users and use cases, it often gets a legislative pass." Yep. We need to stop doing that.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Cheeseburger eating surrender monkeys www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Forming a theory of organisations that there are three types of people: Clients, Architects and Builders. Clients draw a house with crayons, architects turn that into an actual plan and builders build the damned thing. You need one client, one architect & lots of builders.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

We did not get spanked by Forest. Bravo City, that was a tremendous effort.

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City's big night tonight. We're going to get absolutely spanked by Forest but it's always a proud moment when our fan owned club makes it onto the tellybox.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Must be fun being an economics student at the moment. When I studied, a lot of work felt very remote and you had to try to imagine what Keynes or Adam Smith were talking about because those debates were old and settled(ish). Trump's speed-running basic macro-economic theory on a daily basis.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Lessons from running your own business... You need a good to-do list and an immaculately managed calendar. Not good enough so that workday you is confident it's under control, good enough so that just-woke-up-at-2am you is 100% sure you haven't missed that tax deadline and you can go back to sleep.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Both of these teams are awful but at least one of them is trying.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute genius! Fantasy Map Simulator plays out a strategic fantasy wargame as your desktop wallpaper. Set it up and let it go, nations rise and fall while you work. Well done Helvetias, you were never winning that one. store.steampowered.com/app/3035500/...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I refuse to believe that 10% of the UK population has any idea who Stephen of Blois was, never mind a view on whether he was a good king.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

'Shaping our future' says the Census Scotland website. Meanwhile, they still haven't published data from the 2022 census.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

AI has enshittified eBay. Instead of a line or two with the condition of the product, descriptions have turned into lengthy paragraphs about something that you already know what it is or you wouldn't have searched for it.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Art of the Deal my arse. Trump's a poker player who goes big on the flop and then backs off.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I think this is one reason why the BBC's coverage is so poor. It has to bend away from reality for fear of sounding extreme. The truth is that a delusional old man and an insane billionaire are executing an unconstitutional power grab at high speed but saying that sounds hysterical.

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

Yanis Varoufakis points out on World at One that Trump has to go to Congress for tax revenue but he can spend the revenue from tariffs however he likes. Suddenly the grift makes sense.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Increasingly worried that asking me to forecast Trump's use of tariffs is a bit like asking an aviation expert to predict the behaviour of a knife wielding pantsless man on the bus just because he happens to be raving about chem trails.

submitted 20 days ago • 22 comments

Presenter: "Trump said he'll do A Thing. We have four guests with us to discuss what that means." Three Guests: "We have no idea if he'll do The Thing." Tufton Street stooge: "I don't know either but he should do The Thing. "Thanks everyone, see you this time tomorrow for more Trump Said a Thing"

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

I passionately disagree with Will. There are at least 7 great ironies of Brexit. His is a corker - but here are six more... 1/7

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments