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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
January 7, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Snuff
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If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."
"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.
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A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
A picture is worth 1000 words...
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
This appeared on the BBC News today, showing the increase in solar electric generation in the UK.
Not sure who produced it, but genuinely think this is a genius piece of scientific communication - the construct and choice of colour scale is near-perfect.
Chapeau!
Someone who a) writes for a living b) on politics, and he can't parse this, wtf.
But can anyone tell me what this bit means? “For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty.”
January 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Someone who a) writes for a living b) on politics, and he can't parse this, wtf.
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
I Talked To 50 Dads at the Taylor Swift Eras Tour
YouTube video by DARK WEB | Paul Scheer & Rob Huebel
youtu.be
December 22, 2025 at 4:54 PM
In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
youtu.be/R9XN1iOungs?...
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We've done some boxing by mistake
December 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
We've done some boxing by mistake
Home Alone...I should be so lucky.
December 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Home Alone...I should be so lucky.
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A gay friend of my dad's came back from holiday, having seen NFL and excitedly declared, "I've discovered 'Rugby: The Musical'"
December 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A gay friend of my dad's came back from holiday, having seen NFL and excitedly declared, "I've discovered 'Rugby: The Musical'"
Took me a second to get it but this is 😘 👌
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Took me a second to get it but this is 😘 👌
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Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Clean electricity is officially growing fast enough in China that the level of fossil generation is falling, even as overall demand rises. They've gotten over the hump.
This reminds me: my eldest has expressed interest in getting into D&D, and we'd like to try it as a family (adult*2, 12yo, 11yo). Are there any resources or tips for how to start, having never played before?
1/ So many thoughts on this, but the tl;dr is that these gatekeeping dweebs can go screw themselves with a +5 Vorpal Longsword.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
Dungeons and Dragons and tabletop roleplaying games more generally are wonderful, and it's brilliant that more people are getting to experience them.
A game where you can do anything and they’re mad that people are doing anything.
November 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This reminds me: my eldest has expressed interest in getting into D&D, and we'd like to try it as a family (adult*2, 12yo, 11yo). Are there any resources or tips for how to start, having never played before?
Always had this sense that Blue Labour was a loosely socially conservative faction within Labour. This is absolute cookoo.
Not sure - 14 years into project - Blue Labour ever previously set out actual proposals before, so this is new
1. Abolish Treasury
2. Leave ECHR
3. Closr/refound half of unis
4. Double army size for anti-EU alliance with Ukraine
5. PM to lead grooming inquiry with arrest powers + televised trials
1. Abolish Treasury
2. Leave ECHR
3. Closr/refound half of unis
4. Double army size for anti-EU alliance with Ukraine
5. PM to lead grooming inquiry with arrest powers + televised trials
November 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Always had this sense that Blue Labour was a loosely socially conservative faction within Labour. This is absolute cookoo.
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Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Forced an involuntary whoah out of me
November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Forced an involuntary whoah out of me
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reality show called 'We Can Always Tell' where you drop terfs on an island and tell them that one of them is secretly trans. every episode they have to vote on who it is and obsessively transvestigate one another - her height! her forehead! she's suspiciously perfect, it's surgery! they are all cis
November 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
reality show called 'We Can Always Tell' where you drop terfs on an island and tell them that one of them is secretly trans. every episode they have to vote on who it is and obsessively transvestigate one another - her height! her forehead! she's suspiciously perfect, it's surgery! they are all cis
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Reminder transphobia affects more than just trans people
November 18, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reminder transphobia affects more than just trans people
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I still haven't got used to ribbon menus so this confirms my status as a fossil.
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I still haven't got used to ribbon menus so this confirms my status as a fossil.
I don't think I've ever felt as broken from a tech problem as I do now. Two hours trying everything I can think of to transfer my son's minecraft worlds off his (kids profile) amazon fire.
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I don't think I've ever felt as broken from a tech problem as I do now. Two hours trying everything I can think of to transfer my son's minecraft worlds off his (kids profile) amazon fire.
Even as someone who recalls Joe Marlers record, it was hard not to feel it watching his heart break in full public view.
November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Even as someone who recalls Joe Marlers record, it was hard not to feel it watching his heart break in full public view.
Is there some polling showing that this was the high salience issue? Cos, you know, double-yew tee eff, mate.
www.ft.com/content/8669...
www.ft.com/content/8669...
November 5, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Is there some polling showing that this was the high salience issue? Cos, you know, double-yew tee eff, mate.
www.ft.com/content/8669...
www.ft.com/content/8669...
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Outstanding. This entry is a journey.
November 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Outstanding. This entry is a journey.
Wait what. People don't join professional services firms in the expectation of staying on a graduate wage.
City bosses warn on pay as minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries - on.ft.com/3JivCRk via @FT
City bosses warn on pay as minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries - on.ft.com/3JivCRk via @FT
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Wait what. People don't join professional services firms in the expectation of staying on a graduate wage.
City bosses warn on pay as minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries - on.ft.com/3JivCRk via @FT
City bosses warn on pay as minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries - on.ft.com/3JivCRk via @FT
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The British public implicitly believe if that if you are renting with £1m in the stock market you are wealth and if you take that money and buy your flat for £1m you suddenly have zero wealth. That’s bizarre and funny!!!
October 29, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The British public implicitly believe if that if you are renting with £1m in the stock market you are wealth and if you take that money and buy your flat for £1m you suddenly have zero wealth. That’s bizarre and funny!!!
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I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).
October 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I was opening a bunch of PDFs in acrobat yesterday and my computer's fans were going wild. I have a lot of RAM so this was surprising to me. Turns out Acrobat now generates AI summaries by default when you open a file, instead of just asking if you want one (which I never do).