Pet Sounds is the better album, but this probably holds up better 60 years on.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 20h ago

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Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

thenerve.news

Adam Collins is on the tour and given he had a go at pronouncing this guy's full name, I'm sure he'd give it a try. https://www.cricinfo.com/cricketers/i-l-bula-24046

Iceland Cricket@icelandcricket.bsky.social · 10h ago

When we play the MCC from 14-16 August, the matches will be played at Tungubakkavöllur, Mosfellsbær. If the MCC beat us, we will ask their squad to pronounce the venue, and if they do not do a satisfactory job, we will declare 'a moral victory'. We will judge them fairly.

A writer goes in search of her most vicious online troll and finds a middle-class 74-year-old woman who has made more than 120,000 trolling comments on the Daily Mail alone, but sure, it's teenagers who need their online experiences surveilled and censored. Archive link. archive.ph/pPrha

Apparently not The Onion.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 13h ago

BREAKING | An out-of-control SpaceX rocket has collided with the Moon READ MORE: trib.al/mGkWuJh

BREAKING: A brand new “Christian men’s gym” in Georgia that bans women so pious men can have “lust-free workouts” lasted just 6 days before three men were caught “violating Leviticus in the locker room.”

He pushed his pregnant girlfriend down the stairs.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Glad there's photos, otherwise I'd have several to choose from.

cricketerik.bsky.social@cricketerik.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spending a few days in a city with a t20 side that has never played in that city.

New: France Cricket's chairman appears to have kept from his own board government letters confirming his organisation had lost official recognition. www.france24.com/en/sport/202... @france24.com

France Cricket implodes: letters hidden in a drawer and a board at war

France Cricket's chairman appears to have kept the sports ministry's letters – confirming the body had lost government recognition – from his own board, which is now in revolt. The International Crick...

france24.com

That's enough of that.

Imagine if the biggest story in football right now wasn't the whole situation with UEFA and FIFA but instead was someone diving to win a penalty in a Sunday League game in Skegness.

The Cricketer@thecricketer.com · 6d ago

"Despite the cheap laughs we've all had at Saltburn's expense, the "click" puns that flow so quickly and easily off the tongue come with a tinge of sadness too." READ HERE → tinyurl.com/4xtw8hna

Good for UEFA, and I only wish cricket had someone similar to stand up to the ICC and ECB. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Fifa World Cup: Uefa to boycott tournament if Gianni Infantino's investment plans go through

Uefa's 55 member associations vote to boycott the World Cup if Fifa proceeds with its plan to sell stakes in its competitions.

bbc.co.uk

The fact that this non-story gets more column inches than the ICC screwing over the associates with the new ODI World Cup format is why the sport is in such a mess. Get a fucking grip.

The Cricketer@thecricketer.com · 6d ago

"Despite the cheap laughs we've all had at Saltburn's expense, the "click" puns that flow so quickly and easily off the tongue come with a tinge of sadness too." READ HERE → tinyurl.com/4xtw8hna

If pocket calculators regularly and randomly gave you incorrect answers to your queries like ChatGPT does, we would have left the technology behind, not insisted that 2+2=5 is HERE TO STAY, BABY.

Uncle Fuzzzy 🦆@unclefuzzzy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Funny, that’s what we thought about pocket calculators in 1974

If cricket media covered the ICC with the same fervour they're covering this story we'd have a much healthier sport. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/cricket-seaside-town-reacts-to-clickgate-cheating-saltburn?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

‘Saltburn are the Argentina of local cricket’: victims and neighbours on the ‘Clicky Ponting’ scandal

Laughter, disbelief and outrage over video appearing to show Saltburn player tricking umpire into giving batters out

theguardian.com

Scary scenes in a women's T20I between Uganda and Tanzania the other day. https://ugandacricket.com/victoria-pearls-awarded-victory-as-capricorn-t20i-quadrangular-match-ends-in-forfeiture-following-player-injury

Victoria Pearls awarded victory as Capricorn match ends In forfeiture following player Injury

A severe on-field collision and subsequent match forfeiture brought a sombre conclusion to the clash between Uganda’s Victoria Pearls and Tanzania in the Capricorn T20I Quadrangular Series

ugandacricket.com

As usual during the Commonwealth Games, I have become obsessed by bowls. Especially this cool as fuck guy from Botswana.

Me: We should ban AI because of the amount of water it consumes AI kool aid drinker: Well actually, most AI data centres only consume as much water as a golf course Me: We should ban AI and golf then. I don't see any downside.

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

We’re now a month away from the scheduled start of the European T20 Premier League. Two of the teams don’t have a full squad (one not even a full team), there‘s no way to buy tickets, no schedule, and their socials are riddled with AI slop. This isn’t happening is it?

Their socials are full of AI slop, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence that the league is going to happen.

Andrew Nixon@andrewnixon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Zoom in on Livingston's hand. Seems like an unfair advantage.

Zoom in on Livingston's hand. Seems like an unfair advantage.

It's 12 minutes of Harry trying to persuade the Hogwarts toilet inspector that he needs to go into the girls toilets to rescue Hermione from a Troll and that he shouldn't have to show them his genitals first.

One of the reasons I left Twitter was because I didn't want to read about what Elon Musk had to say. You can just ignore him...

Per capita, more trans women have died of HIV/AIDS than gay men. All the anchors in the ocean haven't sunk this low.

this isn’t even the first time a crypto org failed to do basic due diligence about using the word Nonce

David Bennett@toosurreal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Poached from reddit

Our men's national team are next in action in just three weeks against the MCC, the owner's of Lord's and guardians of cricket's laws. It is the biggest series ever held in Iceland. Will the MCC conquer the land of fjords or will they be the frauds from Lord's?

In the Just Good Friends Christmas Special from 1984, there is a joke which amounts to ”imagine if a 99 cost a whole 99p omg!” But the price coincidentally hit 99p around the late 80s/early 90s when a lot of people who are 40/50-something today were kids.

Not to be Captain Skeptic about this. But a 99 Flake isn’t called a 99 because it was meant to be 99p. (Despite the howls of Reform voters incensed by the price of Freddos and ice cream.) 🍦 Leaving aside that they were introduced before decimalisation, in the 70s they were 10-15p.