Steve B
@stevebasnett.bsky.social
Post other people's funny, gags from pro comedians, my own tat, and support the work of outstanding investigative journalists.
Pure Cremation did a fairly good job of my incineration. ⭐⭐⭐
"It would be the honour of my life to c̶o̶n̶q̶u̶e̶r̶ represent you." Hot off the press from Weeley Bin HQ (Weeley is a weel area of the Clacton constituency)
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · 8h ago53,800 of these bad boys are landing in Clacton. Ain’t they beauts? #VoteBinface
Steve's work attempts to lure him back in with free ice beer lollies
In Otter News@in-otter-news.bsky.social · 10h agoSteve is meant to be at work, but he's still refusing to leave the pub beer garden.... Any ideas?
Marina Purkiss: FFS we cannot keep doing this… A handful of the richest people hoovering up wealth from everyone else while quite literally making the planet unlivable At what point does someone grow a fucking spine and do something?!
Marina Purkiss@marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 10h agoThis is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
Separate post by George Monbiot: I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 12h agoMy column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Anton Shekhovtsov: …as a person who has studied Russian information warfare for more than ten years: none of the Russian disinformation campaigns linked to the Ceuta crisis can possibly reach the impact of one techno-oligarch spreading right-wing disinformation on the platform he owns.
Anton Shekhovtsov@shekhovtsov.substack.com · 12h agoThis is Elon Musk, a techno-oligarch with 241 million followers on TwitterX, spreading and amplifying Ceuta-linked right-wing disinformation, with one message reaching 9.9 million views and the other 7.9 million as of right now. 1/4
If someone wastes your time, time is shared by all of us, so they wasted everybody's time. *this post has been certified a self-referential autological tautology
God took him early because he wanted him pissing out of the tent.
If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.
This day in history. 1527. The first letter from North America was sent, to king Henry VIII from commander John Rut in St. John's Newfoundland. On the first page Rut described his discoveries and on the following eleven pages he complained about the mosquitoes.
My company just installed new keystroke tracking software to monitor our productivity levels and protect corporate data, which is great because now someone else is finally reading my screenplay.
You've made a loud but largely ineffectual enemy today, vending machine.
I like to think I'm middle class but then my mum calls san pellegrino "woke fanta"
Must-read level insight from Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net for @thenerve.news: "This has created a situation in which everyone – "boards, executives, employees, vendors, consultants" – has a strong incentive to lie about how much AI is delivering for their companies."
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
thenerve.news
It was called a 99 coz it was 99p, For Far-rage's Sake. But fret ye not, resmog-lovers, his days of yore fuckernomics will have it up to £99 at the flick of a frog in a liquidiser switch. Or, to avoid financial fatastrophe, vote Binface.
Count Binface@countbinface.bsky.social · yesterdayThanks for letting us know, Steve. I don't know what we'd do without experts like you.
Most succinct I've ever seen the point made.
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · yesterdayNot *your* free speech, stupid.
A stone cold classic I can’t believe I’d forgotten.
MꙬse Allain@mooseallain.bsky.social · yesterdayMy favourite is David Quantick describing Nick Griffin as looking like ‘a cunt’s butler’.
This isn't thread of the day. This is thread of the year. Take some time out and read the whole thing. Thank you, Graeme Swanson and everyone who has added their hilarious descriptions.
Graeme Swanson@swansonian.bsky.social · 2d agoWhat’s your favourite description of a famous person? I like Alan Partridge on Gary Barlow who described him as a “Wide hipped wealth enthusiast”
Anton Shekhovtsov @shekhovtsov.substack.com: Brussels' insincerity. Beijing's hypocrisy. Moscow's and Washington's defiance. How the great powers are killing off any regulation on lethal autonomous weapons [killer robots] - while the Russian-Ukrainian war trains AI to kill humans.
euobserver — EU news that matters@euobserver.com · yesterdayWhile drones already account for most of the bloodshed in Ukraine, the push to let AI, not humans, choose who lives or dies is racing far ahead of any global rules meant to protect civilians.
Didn’t expect this dinosaur bird to sound like this 😳
