Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.

Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d ago

news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest

If my honesty offends you, just imagine how exhausting your bullshit is.

Lads Looks like we've got perhaps 18 more months of bad puns, American takes on things and some actual conversations before this place becomes a Temu version of X/Twitter

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

astronaut: houston we have a problem nasa: that's not the sort of language we use at this company astronaut: sorry, houston we have an opportunity to excel

"Hey do you want to hear what the CEO of..." No.

I don't mean to sound simplistic, but I always thought the thrill of the X-Men wasn't their torment, it was their survival. It was that they stick up for each other, they fight, but if you come for one of them, they will kick the living **** out of you and then go have a beer. 10/

Normalise calling "the RAM crisis" something else, like "the RAM piss take" or "the RAM swindle" or "theft"

Nice one, land of my forefathers

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Wales become first nation to drop support for Fifa president Gianni Infantino

they come into your mentions, unbidden, to “play devil’s advocate” and to explain “well, actually”, and then they fire up chatgpt to tell them they’re the handsomest boy on the internet

An account with this avatar was just blocked.

Setting aside the article entirely, anyone else find the stock pic weirdly upsetting? No-one bites into chocolate like that surely

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d ago

Readers reply: What is the true Breakfast of Champions?

Really need to get around to buying a Tom Cox book, consistently one of the best posters on here so stands to reason the novels will be quality

I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep after having seen that! Beats my holiday spot...

I now have an earworm of this fish's name to the tune of Mr Boombastic

Kory Bing@korybing.bsky.social · 4d ago

Just tried to look up the Ordovician jawless fish with the funny face and these are the things I searched for and got nothing because it was spelled SO wrong: -sacombabsis -sacombibabsis -sacobibastis The correct answer was: -sacabambaspis

There is no way on earth I am going to listen to that podcast, but curious to know whether Sopel follows up in words the contemptuous glare he is seen aiming at his colleague during the cutaway reaction ahot

Wilson said a week is a long time in politics, but it's absolutely forever in online discourse. How are we still talking about that Odyssey review

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

I don’t know what they’re drinking over at the Express but I would steer well clear of it… www.aol.co.uk/articles/and...

Andy Burnham dealt huge blow as new bombshell poll reveals who people truly want as PM - AOL

The newly crowned Prime Minister's Downing Street honeymoon could already be over, according to the latest YouGov poll.

aol.co.uk

Not sure what PETA’’s aim is here beyond “making men horny for lobsters”

Classic t-shirt slogan slop spotted in the wild today: THE VOICES IN MY HEAD are telling me TO GO FISHING

Finally an uncontroversial poll result

YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 5d ago

YouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Actual genius.

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d ago

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Seeing pictures of this guy all over the skyline is really making me want to listen to Stephen Malkmus

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 6d ago

24-year-old ex-OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner built a $20B AI hedge fund called Situational Awareness. He bet heavily on AI related stocks until this week’s selloff led to a margin call and he had to liquidate his public portfolio. Actually sounds like a lack of situational awareness.

Still digesting an interview with a well-known freelance tech journalist in which she both says that AI news aggregators have knocked a quarter off her subscription revenues and casually admits to spending *$300 A MONTH* on AI tools to research, edit and market her reporting

Spending my weekend in Bochum. Not because it’s necessarily been on my bucket list, but because following Sheffield United is a series of increasingly niche life choices.