God, this is like an open spot night and that bloke (always a bloke) who assumes that the reason he bombed is that he’s dark and edgy.
At last, the 'toonz' with punchlines about updating your CV that we've all been craving. I think it's great that no one has imposter syndrome anymore, look what we'd be missing out on.
To quote David Mitchell in "Last One Laughing": "It was like we'd gone to a place where laughter didn't even exist"
I'll wager you'll get this one. #Keywords > 5 August 2026 I found all 5 words! 🟩🟩🟩🟩 1✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩 2✗ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ✓ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 1✗ 💡 🏆 Win streak 2 🔥 Play streak 3 keywords.bagpuss.org
Love the chutzpah with which this email is written, esp given the content of the PDF book of cartoons attached. (I left out the most racist*, fatphobic and sexist-bordering-on-misogynistic ones.) * believe me, the cannibals one is relatively benign in comparison
Rozanov: "There's nothing easier than to quote a text precisely, you just have to check books. It's far more difficult to assimilate a quotation to the point where it becomes yours and becomes part of you." (via Czapski in Lost in Time (NYRB 2018) p 22, note.
The bit no one wants to say is that the average person has bad taste when it comes to writing. By definition, lowest common denominator is what is most popular, and that is what AI produces www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
Most people prefer AI-written stories – and can't tell when they are made by humans | New Scientist
People appear to prefer short stories created by AI over those written by humans. They are also no better than chance at telling which is which
newscientist.com
“It’s hard to know whether Rimini is satirising retrograde sexist hokum or enacting it, with the sort of pornographic sex that we haven’t seen since the heyday of Shirley Conran or Jackie Collins.” Me on Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s RIMINI (tr. Elena Pala):
An Eighties bonkbuster set in sun-soaked Italy
Translated into English for the first time, Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s 1985 novel Rimini gets all hot and sweaty in a sexed-up Italian resort
thetimes.com
“It’s hard to know whether Rimini is satirising retrograde sexist hokum or enacting it, with the sort of pornographic sex that we haven’t seen since the heyday of Shirley Conran or Jackie Collins.” Me on Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s RIMINI (tr. Elena Pala):
An Eighties bonkbuster set in sun-soaked Italy
Translated into English for the first time, Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s 1985 novel Rimini gets all hot and sweaty in a sexed-up Italian resort
thetimes.com
*walks into room, writes "Jaws" on the whiteboard* *looks at execs* *adds "es" onto the end of Jaws so it says "Jawses"* *execs are cautiously interested* *draws a line through the last S so it reads "Jawse$"* *execs lose their minds*
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
I know we attribute a lot of wrong to social media but I’m pretty sure there was once a time when someone apologising was grounds to sheathe your weapons, not stick the boot in.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
My Ceefax Grimoire - Luke Haines (2028) Cerne Abbas Man Signs On A National Trust History Of Roy Castle M25 Ritual Circle Anglia Water Board Boogie Pick 'n' Mix Apocalypse Nationwide Regional Cop Out Watch With Mother (Weep With Father) Cairn Lodge 3am Communion The Man From The Pru (Never Arrived)
No, AI subtitle generator, Tom Waits is singing not clearing his throat.
Someone, is getting dunked on this website. And I'm reminded how out of proportion these things are due to network effect / going viral. They need two people going "oh fuck off mate, you're talking crap" and they get 600 as everyone sticks a boot in a drive-by kicking.
Good morning. 4 weeks after publishing Post - it Notes from Underground by Simon Crump We've pressed the reprint button. I love it when a book finds its readers. With a little help from @john-self.bsky.social & @thetimes.com Marvellous.
Me, a very online person seeing that the top story on a website is still there an hour later: “Are you STILL going on about that??”
I feel delivery companies overestimate the number of emails and text messages the average customer wishes to receive about each delivery.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN DINNER MEANT EVERYONE AT THE TABLE… NO PHONE ALLOWED, NO DISTRACTIONS, JUST TALKING ABOUT YOUR DAY WHILE SLOWLY, IMPERCEPTIBLY AT FIRST, MORPHING INTO WINNIE THE POOH CHARACTERS? ANYONE REMEMBER THAT??
Jesus Zoidberg: 40s is the new 20s.@jesuszoidberg.bsky.social · 5d agoOk, this one might be my favorite, haven't stopped laughing
My longer-than-usual Letterboxd review of Ghostwatch puts it in the context of Paul Daniels faking his own death on a TV magic show, Alexei Sayle and his false starts and ends, and The Day Today. boxd.it/byUdjh
A ★★★★½ review of Ghostwatch (1992)
I don’t do this often but please indulge a multi-paragraph essayette on this one. The BBC played some dangerous games with pastiche and parody in this period, as a generation of writers, directors and...
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This is a compelling video-integrated report from the FT on how 60,000 Moroccans swam to Ceuta yesterday.
How 60,000 people swam to Spanish territory
Migrants spent days preparing to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco
giftarticle.ft.com
