YOU - What is beauty? KLAASJE (MISS ORANJE DISCO DANCER) - “When you have the fewest deviations from the norm. I've been told it's a type of mediocrity that I possess.”

Did a bit of weekend re-reading of the collected Judge Dredd epic story Origins ! From @2000ad.bsky.social originally published in 2006, written by John Wagner with art by Carlos Ezquerra ! Twenty years on and this story packs a bigger punch now due to the current political climate !

If you stood on Briggate at 8am on a weekday in 1957, and stood there again in 2026, in which year could you reach more of the city in half an hour? Samuel Bancroft has crunched the numbers. Since the 1950s, Leeds has got bigger - but the city has effectively shrunk.

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Wait the king has a special room to eat takeaway?

LOL they did it, they finally silenced Steve Bray

I reckon everybody has something that brings out the puritan in them. For me it's not drink or drugs or smoking or teenage social media use, etc. It's the astonishing spread of sports betting and prediction markets. Just seems really bad for individuals and society to turn the world into a casino.

Reference critical hit tables.

Mastodon was of course made to be too difficult for journalists to use which explains everything.

If England get to the Final, but do not actually win, are we getting another bloody awful play?

The gap between hype and reality for AI is vast. karlbode.com/the-ai-hype-...

The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us

The massive chasm between AI hype and reality is finally reaching the breaking point.

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Your regular reminder that cryptocurrency does in fact have a use case and that use case is crime

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Miatta Fahnbulleh is my outside bet for the next chancellor.

In today's episode Maurice Glassman is quoted as saying polling in Makerfield showed it was overwhelmingly proBrexit which is completely incorrect. Only 34% still back Brexit pca.st/podcast/1599...

Politics At Sam and Anne's

Sky News’ Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy with what you need to know about the day ahead in British politics. All in under 20 minutes and in your feed around 7.30am.They're across the key inter...

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This seems politically appropriate somehow music.youtube.com/watch?v=JoI7...

Right Back Where We Started From

YouTube video by Maxine Nightingale - Topic

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Apparently there is a cool Irish version of boring English Tom Nealon. www.hilobrow.com/2026/06/22/t...

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Every one of these is wallpaper material! The Eidolon interstellar vehicle, by Vanlaukaus. #space #art Album: imgur.com/a/eidolon-is...