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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 28m

Good to see the Giant Pumpkin of Leighton Buzzard is still there and still larger. It has now had its bird-protection canopy removed, presumably because unless they’ve introduced Andean condors to Bedfordshire recently, nothing is getting off the ground with it.

Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · Aug 31

For big vegetable enthusiasts who travelling on the West Coast Mainline anytime soon - there is an astonishing pumpkin growing at the south end of the allotments on the right hand side of the line (heading north) just before Leighton Buzzard station. It must have the diameter of a bicycle wheel. 🎃

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1h

The era of "It isn't fair to pick on him, he's just a kid, he didn't choose to be in the limelight" is definitely over, so feel free to say he looks like he throws pets into a woodchipper with an expressionless face and a heart rate of 60bpm.

Trump's weird, serial killer-looking son might get a top job at TikTok.

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DIO @danielirizarri.bsky.social · 1d

I think what's impressive about TRON is that, visually, it's still so much more interesting than any of it's sequels. It's crazy that they tried update this digital world by making it as 'realistically rendered' as possible. It's a complete misunderstanding of the original's charm.

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 43m

Those were the days! I think I recall you saying this at @media in London one year? Or maybe I was remembering that blog post.

Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 10h

He is such a loser.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 13h

I love this image.

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 17h

When it all comes crashing down, somehow the people at the top of this will remain exactly as rich as they were while the rest of the world fights over scraps in the gutter.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 18h

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals on.ft.com/4q0tjCV

How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals

The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world

on.ft.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 21h

"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me. And we're having a dance party"

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 21h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 1d

Please be patient with me I’m from the 1900s

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Saimi Hanma ⚔️ @saimihanma.bsky.social · 1d

I can confirm this works. I've been feeding my crows on my daily walks for a couple years and they know me, hop along with me, land right next to me, sometimes even brush me with their wings. They also follow me until at times I get 30+ crows flying after me, which makes me look like a total badass

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

As you are getting to know them, don't watch them or the food you've offered. Drop or place a peanut and then walk on like Lot fleeing the doomed city of Sodom, never looking back. This reassures them that it's not a trap and that you don't mean them harm.

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 20h

Good for you! It's weird how we get all wound up, assuming we're being a nuisance and they'll assume we're a fraud. Then people are all "OMG let me help!" and it's such a relief 😂

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Nick Walker @nickwalker.bsky.social · 22h

Academy Award level intrigue raised by the police and ambulance outside and the passing comment "The vegetable aisle was closed".

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 23h

It seems Trump was never, ever going to "win" the Nobel Peace Prize. I know headline-writers are having fun with this, but putting aside how absurdly unfit he is to be picked - nominations (338) closed in January, and I think Trump wasn't included? So they'd have to BREAK the rules. Pls report this!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

ME: Now Mom, just remember, there's a lot of disinformation and AI in your social feed and your friends' Facebook.
MOM: I know! My friend sent me this crazy post where someone used AI to make an image of a giant frog fighting Army troops!
ME: ... okay, no, that one's ... goddamit, Portland.

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 1d

We're ruining (or improving) Bond posters on @b3ta.com this week

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1d

All my comics have happy endings!

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 23h

I worked there for a while. Autograph hunters don't usually have much luck at the Leicester Square entrance, because there's another way in for those who want to avoid getting mobbed by fans - an unmarked door on another road that appears to go into a completely different building.

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 1d

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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American Association of Wine Economists AAWE @wineecon.bsky.social · 2d

"No more than a liter of wine a day" - In the early 1950s, when French wine consumption was 140+ liters/capita, France launched the campaign "Santé Sobriété" to limit alcohol consumption. In 1954, Philippe Foré became the chief designer. #WineHistory`

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Dave Falconer @dmfalconer.bsky.social · 1d

Found the poster:

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Mount St. Helens in 1980 @mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 1d

#MSH45 | Richard Lasher
You've been at a job long enough to know a decent colleague to chat with.

The more you get to know them, the more they share. What's fact or fiction? You don't know, but you listen.

Then there's one story that's so over the top—a bona fide lie. But then, a photo appears.

A red Ford Pinto hatchback angles across a narrow gravel forest service road, a blue enduro motorcycle on a rear hitch carrier. Tall firs frame the view. Beyond them, a towering ash cloud from a pyroclastic density flow billows skyward. Photo by Richard Kent Lasher, May 18, 1980.

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 1d

Questions to which the answer is "No, because they're a bunch of fucking idiots."

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Nick Fitzsimons @nickfitz.bsky.social · 1d

This seems to be annoying a lot of people, so here's my hot take: pronunciation often changes over time; and the dictionary is descriptive, not prescriptive. So it should say something along the lines of "It used to be pronounced 'PRIMM-er' but seldom is nowadays."

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”