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Steve
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Winner: Scotland's Most Best Face (23/24 season)

Icon: a smiling bearded man in a blue vest and white cap, a Mediterranean hillside behind
Banner: a frosty winter scene from up a hill, a low sun shining between low cloud and a layer of mist
I've spent longer this evening not doing the hoovering than just doing the hoovering would have taken... I don't seem to be getting off the couch... Still no
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Counterpoint: look at the fucking state of you
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:51 PM
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If they say "Loon" and "Quine"
"Fit like min?" "I'm fine"
That's a Moray
February 12, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’
February 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
The sun came out! The actual sun!
It didn't last long but it was lovely to see it
February 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
My eye is itchy, can it really be hay fever times already?
February 12, 2026 at 1:40 PM
They just did it again.

Abolish the BBC.
I just heard an advert for the Winter Olympic coverage on the BBC iPlayer that said

TRAILS
WILL
BLAZE

Which is infuriating because that word doesn't work like that. A trailblazer blazes a trail by cutting marks (blazes) into trees. At no point does a trail do any blazing. You lazy cunts.
February 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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One of the fun things about a potential D&D boycott re Hasbro buying the Harry Potter contract is that pretty much all the significant influencers/personalities in the D&D space have basically had alternative game systems prepped and published and seeded since a year ago.
February 12, 2026 at 12:16 PM
The only hope in the Threads story was "I hope to fuck this moves public opinion and decision makers towards desperately avoiding nuclear war".

There's no hope in nuclear war. This isn't a John Wyndham novel where a man in a chunky sweater sets his jaw at the end and starts rebuilding civilization.
the accurate figures from 1984 meant there would be no survivors. they scaled this back for being too depressing.

the version of Threads actually released *is* the upbeat optimistic story.

that’s your hope.
February 12, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD
The AI features added to Notepad created a critical exploit vulnerable to loading a compromised txt file.

The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.

AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...
AI-upgraded Notepad now exposes Windows users to critical exploit
A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the AI-upgraded Windows 11 Notepad has fueled renewed criticism of Microsoft's forced AI feature creep.
cybernews.com
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 PM
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it’s bad enough pretending you can meaningfully assign it a number, acting like it’s a number that you know to a degree of accuracy that allows for noticing a 0.1% change in either direction is absurd
February 12, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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It's too early to say whether this is an isolated incident or the start of something more serious.

"Only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been swimming naked."
February 12, 2026 at 1:36 AM
I just heard an advert for the Winter Olympic coverage on the BBC iPlayer that said

TRAILS
WILL
BLAZE

Which is infuriating because that word doesn't work like that. A trailblazer blazes a trail by cutting marks (blazes) into trees. At no point does a trail do any blazing. You lazy cunts.
February 11, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 10:37 AM
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You keep saying you got something for us
Something so that we won't cause you pain
You've been a massin' lots of lovely Danegeld
And now you'll never, ever get rid of the Dane

(R Kipling, N Sinatra, 1911)
February 11, 2026 at 3:20 AM
Never liked spargs; I try to be polite when given it because someone's gone to the bother, but it doesn't spark joy.

This picture though, I do like
February 10, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Fuck you need to know who's at the door for if you're not in? You're not in!

And if you're in, look through the little porthole thing.
i'm baffled by all the people in the replies to posts about the spy doorbells asking for alternatives. like... the alternative is a regualr fucking doorbell with no camera in it. or a door knocker. get you a weird gargoyle guy! you dont need a camera!
February 10, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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okay! so, The Milwaukee Road, America's Greatest and Stupidest Railroad, a mini-thread.

More properly known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (CMStP&P), they were one of a million midwest based mainline railroads, originally formed in 1847
February 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Those smearing me by saying I was "good friends" with Peter Mandelson forget that I do not feel human emotions such as "friendship" and was merely sucking up to him to advance my career and destroy anyone even vaguely left wing, hey why are you booing me | Wesley Streeting, right wing lickspittle
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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Anas Sarwar didn't manage to secure the support of Ian Murray. Ian Murray, a man sacked by Starmer *on the advice of Mandelson* and who lives for plotting and briefing. Cooked.
February 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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What's that you say, Anas? That you tweeted this last year in 2025 about your 'old friend' Peter Mandelson and now you think Starmer should resign but you should keep your job?
February 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
If you see this being posted, be aware it's bullshit. Matt Goodwin is a lying snake, sure, but in this instance the picture with him is real and the other is a clumsy fake.

If you see an account like this post it and then refuse to delete when the fake is pointed out, that's a worthless account.
Reform UK’s ‘Dear Neighbour’ Trick… MKII…

Goodwin just got BUSTED!!!!!!!!!!
February 9, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.

Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.

From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
With the good Tsar's evil boyar out of the way, he will finally be free to bring hope and joy to the people
FUCKING HELL! Literally five hours Pat McFadden was on #Kuenssberg saying there was no reason to get rid of McSweeney AND NOW THE QUIET LITTLE SHIT'S OUT! Gonna be a big diarrhoea week for Sir Keir, lads!

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Morgan McSweeney resigns as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff
Longtime aide departs after seemingly botched No 10 effort to shore up PM’s position against supposed plotters
www.theguardian.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:53 PM