Perhaps the unlikeliest of comedy sketches to crop up in 2026, but also one of the funniest:
British Pork: It’s Got the Lot | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Don’t have to be a scientist to realise this conspiracy theory meltdown from the US health sec is dangerous anti-science twaddle
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago😳 RFK Jr's epic CNN crashout 😳 Dana Bash pressed RFK Jr on Trump's culpability for mishandling covid and the misinformation he pushes about vaccines, and the segment wound down with him getting mad and barking at her like a rabid dog Here's the full thing:
It’s where I proposed to my wife. 29 years ago.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 3d agoFor #AncientSiteSunday let's go to my favourite #Roman site: the temple complex of #Baalbek, located in the Bekaa Valley, #Lebanon. The breathtaking site contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built. The so-called Bacchus temple is one of...🧵1/2 📷 Rami Rizk 🏺 #archaeology
“Buy with 0% interest...in the future of [the planet].” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Christopher Harry on buying an SUV – cartoon
The new Mega Behemoth XL car – available at 0% interest in the environment
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The megaphone given to an extreme-right framing of this incident by supposedly centrist politicians is a gift to their harder right political competitors
I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Left: Nigel Farage says the police should act because Zack Polanski refuses to apologise Right: That time Keir Starmer asked Nigel Farage to apologise for when Reform UK's Deputy Council Leader in Lancashire shared a death threat against Natalie Fleet MP, he refused to do so
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
holy *crap* "One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months" full story here: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
When the first step goes wrong, bad results follow.
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A white Christian leader killed his wife & 6 kids. Why is no one asking: -Is this an honor killing? -What is it about white culture that creates this violence? -Where was he radicalized? Imagine he was Black, Muslim, or an immigrant. This is how media enables white supremacy & fascism. Reject it.
Škoda is getting some heat for the one-week renaming of the Peak District to the Peaq District, a nod to its new electric SUV. Here, from 1895, is the first Škoda vehicle:
My drone shot of the excellent cycleway beside the singletrack A27 near Lewes is in latest @cyclinguk.bsky.social mag.
Elon has been melting down and raging nonstop since his interview with The Economist and Chef Andres is one of the best and kindest humans on planet earth.
Had a private trip around Charles Dickens’ house at Gads Hill yesterday. It’s been a school since 1923. Loved these fake books the great writer had installed in his study’s door.
Only one country voted against a UN declaration to reduce crash deaths. Want to guess which one? Info: www.linkedin.com/posts/overwh...
"Hi Brenda? Hello mate. Could you pop into my office when you get a sec, please - just got a small favour I need to ask you. Cheers"
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
1) This is more epic than any running shoe ad has ever been. 2) We need to know who this extraordinary woman is and where she got her indestructible ankles.
𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2w agoA Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵
If Brit billionaires can afford cunning stunt surgery (story in today’s Times) they can afford a wealth tax (story in today’s Guardian).
