Of all the things to admit on the internet, “I don’t know how bananas work” is one of the funniest

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 11h ago

Spoken like a man who has never had to shop for himself.

You can/should read Emily Wilson's latest take on the Odyssey, but I'm logging on to convey my hairdresser's reaction. She was AGHAST that Nolan, with his million $ budget, gave Matt Damon ONLY 6 hair extensions. As a result, his hair did not blow around properly, & that ruined the film for her.

I don’t understand why some commentators seem to think Badenoch is doing well as leader, when everything I see her do fits exactly this description. Sorry, she just comes across as very stupid

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 7h ago

Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight

Yesterday's market close figure vs pre-market opening today for SpaceX 🙃

All of the licensed Drive music elevated the film from Nicolas Winding Refn's usual low-to-middling output into something much better, especially the opening scene with Kavinsky's Nightcall (I like the film but the music really makes it)

Ryan Gosling's Night Drive

ALT: Ryan Gosling's Night Drive

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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 15h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Movern Caller - Some Velvet Morning, the strings fade in and almost sound like they’re coming out of a supermarket PA system. A lot of justifiable Samantha Morton love going around at the moment but this is how you have a character make a entrance. No matter how mundane the setting.

Sophia_Nyx 🏳️‍⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 15h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.

Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.

The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed

The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.

bloomberg.com

Can one image make you cry? It might.

ivyteas@ivyteas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

requiem for vanished birdsong

Happy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.

Oh dear gods, public procurement is hard enough for the purpose of public procurement, let alone as a device for economic policy.

Lucy Fisher@lucyfisher.ft.com · 17h ago

EXC: UK govt is “stripping back” onerous public procurement rules in pro-growth shake up of system, Louise Haigh tells FT Overhaul will make job creation/skills development the only ‘social value’ requirement for biz competing for Whitehall contracts worth £90bn annually www.ft.com/content/9878...

Developers will offer anything other than a reduction in the headline price www.housingtoday.co.uk/news/berkele...

Berkeley offers to pay private school fees for buyers of homes in north London estate

Housebuilder looks at incentives for people to buy

housingtoday.co.uk

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

I've never used ChatGPT. If I'm absolutely honest, although I've heard of Claude, I'm not 100% sure what it is. I've never knowingly used an #AI tool. To me, this post reads like 'If pre-sliced cheese was suddenly banned, would you even know how to slice cheese manually?'

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 16h ago

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

This story is alarming because of the sum involved I know the bins outside Waterloo station - they are almost always overflowing! This does suggest enforcement officers are hanging around waiting to catch people out Either hang onto your rubbish or make sure it is properly inside a bin

I was fined £500 after putting a coffee cup in a rubbish bag next to a full bin

Reader expresses consternation after enforcement officer issues penalty notice outside station in London

theguardian.com

Another day, another 'strange person entering someone else's hotel room in a Travelodge' story

Couple woke to find shirtless intruder in Dundee Travelodge room

Kim Hutchison says she was "petrified" to see a man in just shorts at the end of her bed in a Dundee Travelodge.

bbc.co.uk

I've seen enough Bond films to know that if the follically challenged head of a corrupt organisation invites you to a meeting in an exotic location, you do not go. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Gianni Infantino latest: Fifa chief calls executive meeting as criticism mounts

Gianni Infantino summons senior leaders to a meeting on Wednesday, after facing more fierce criticism of his plan to sell off Fifa's commercial and event operations.

bbc.co.uk

All these dark clouds hanging around but still no rain? Rude

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

It isn’t possible to teach someone how to be this funny

Los Angeles: sports capital of the world@theamitie.bsky.social · 10h ago

There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this

Lidl is back doing the free baked good thing again lads get on it www.moneysavingexpert.com/deals/lidl/#...

I've just added another 25 paintings to the print shop I'm trying out after a year of no income, which brings the total number of paintings there now to 50. I'm not yet committed to it, but if it goes well I will add more paintings. #SpéirGhorm fineartamerica.com/profiles/4-l...

eolaí the artist@eolai.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm approaching the anniversary of the last time I received any kind of income. Having to cancel my annual sale of original paintings and close my print shop, it's been not great for an unpaid carer. So over the next couple of weeks you'll see me push unsold paintings and try out some print options.

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 20h ago

Liquid Menace

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Star Wars dubbed into Welsh for first time for S4C broadcast

Rhys Ifans, Matthew Rhys, Aimee-Ffion Edwards and Mark Lewis Jones among actors voicing characters from 1977 blockbuster

theguardian.com

You are not prepared for this

ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · 2d ago

If you've ever wanted to live in a MagicEye house... www.anthonywebb.co.uk/properties/2...

*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 ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

'Dante' is riding a bike to deliver me some groceries, I hope he's not bringing any sins with him

Looks like there is some rain in London on the radar???