gym folk get really irritated when you say "look buddy, just tell me the exact number of situps i need to do to get a six pack" I've noticed
James Felton
@jimmfelton.bsky.social
Author/annoyance from The Bird Site
Come and see me tell jokes on tour in the UK! bsky.app/profile/mist...
Alasdair Beckett-King@misterabk.bsky.social · 3mo ago👑ALERT! ALERT!👑 I've just added extra UK tour dates for my my ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ show King of Crumbs. From Sept-Nov 2026 I'll be coming to NEW places with the SAME jokes. Hop on my autumnal leg! www.mickperrin.com/tours/king-of-crumbs
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’
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Neptune’s inner moons are unlike anything in the outer solar system. We might know why and we can blame a captured dwarf planet! 🔭 www.iflscience.com/neptunes-inn...
Neptune’s Inner Moons And Rings Might Be Left Over From A Cosmic Game Of Marbles Caused By The Capture Of Triton
Evidence suggests the giant planet captured its largest moon, then things went sideways.
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The point isn't to produce essays, it's to teach students how to think for fuck's sake. The minute you automate that, it's over. You might as well close the course. Which they're also doing. This is an attack on learning, and everyone is just shrugging.
It's a point I've been trying to make for a long time: there is no good way to meet even 10% of current demand for animal products. They trash the living world, whichever way you do it. If you want to reduce your impact, switch to a plant-based diet. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
Adopting organic free-range model in UK could lead to greenhouse emissions equivalent to 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2, study suggests
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So glad I will get to experience watching The Odyssey as someone who doesn’t care that it’s a poem or whatever, you won’t catch me caring about its faithfulness, I will simply be whispering to the person next to me “that’s the horse” when the Big Wooden Horse appears
Self-employed people! Sorry to put a downer on your Sunday, but in case you'd not seen, the Government wants us to pay our tax *monthly* like we're employees or something With the World Cup and all the politics, I'd missed the consultation they put out last month, which is here: 1/
Timely Payments in Income Tax Self Assessment (ITSA)
gov.uk
I’m at the level of amateur astronomy where they have to write this on the telescope
Meta are sending Fucko the Knife Robot to stab you in the knee. To disable go to Accounts> Settings> Robots> Knife Robots> Fucko> Opt Out
I keep thinking about a woman on the other place years back, who came into my @s about her little whatsapp school gate clique getting a drag artist cancelled from her kids school. She DESPERATELY wanted absolution rom me. She knew what her gang of bigots had done was abominable. Shun these arseholes
Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 3w agoAs a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...
As a queer children's author, this is a deeply unsettling trend. www.thebookseller.com/news/lgbtq-a...
LGBTQ+ authors see rise in cancellations of school visits after 'complaints from parents'
Authors of books featuring same-sex families, gay characters and other LGBTQ+ themes have told The Bookseller they have had school speaking events cancelled, or pupils withdrawn, amid complaints from ...
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Every one of the Argentinians should be assigned his own referee
A musician friend of mine also has synaesthesia. Consequently his song-writing looks like this.
decided to finally write about a type of synesthesia i have, please don't be weird about it
I Have Auditory To Motor Synesthesia. Here's What That's Like
The synesthesia many people are aware of is where words are experienced as colors. There are arguably much stranger versions of the neurological condition.
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The great thing about Britain is you're free to think whatever you want to think and say whatever J. K. Rowling's lawyers permit you to say.
as I thought “the scorer looks young” they cut to him celebrating with a little shoulder ride from one of the daddy footballers
Right, thanks to [redacted] and a little exercise and therapy I am feeling a lot better again. Trying to decide if this means I am good to post more crap on social media, or I was right to stay the hell away. Reckon I might start posting a little nonsense every now and then and see how it goes.
“Thought you were supposed to be against hate and intolerance” nope. I’m for justice, and that requires hating injustice and those who seek to uphold it. You can’t be tolerant of people who are intolerant of your mere existence, because that’s not tolerance, it’s submission.
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
Worth reading the thread and realising that we're all the same, just a few thousand years later.
James Felton@jimmfelton.bsky.social · 4w agoI find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
Love how the human response of piss-taking goes so far back
genuinely actually wonderful, this makes my life better
James Felton@jimmfelton.bsky.social · 4w agoI find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
I find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
Hegelochus: The Ancient Greek Actor We Only Know About Because He Really, Really Fluffed Up His Line
Around 400 BCE, Hegelochus really messed up his line. We only know about the actor because he was mocked about it for centuries.
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