Sad now more than ever that people slept on the new Mission Impossible, where Tom Cruise is told that total AI control over finance and culture is inevitable and the only way to avoid being left behind is to influence it ourselves and his response is “nah I’m just gonna kill it”

When the lion roars at the start of the film? Love that for him.

That’s a funny way of saying ‘we have taken urgent stopgap action to remedy a danger we insisted didn’t exist and which our chair got a railway engineer fired for pointing out’

the time in Turkey is called "Turkey Time" btw

Academic twitter today is this incredible mix of "this is bad", "this tells us a lot about [thing]", and "thrilled to announce our recent paper".

I'll miss this place

Minute’s silence at Big Tesco. Someone is singing along with the bugle. Hungover guy needs approval for paracetamol at the self-checkout. Sound levels weird so Tears In Heaven starts slamming out of the speakers immediately afterwards.

if this is the core of the next album im going to fall into such a deep depression that you guys will never see me again

People who went to Oxford will be like, “this cold weather reminds me of Oxford, where I attended the University of Oxford, as a member of the University of Oxford”

winner for me was this one

Beautiful people 🧵 1. Go Willie!

I’ve done full headshot sessions with less usable pictures than Luigi Mangione being perp walked

first good ai joke

Therapist: “Tell me where your trust issues began.” Me:

This is ridiculous

horse on roof perhaps installing solar panels

me after conclave

of course there’s a gap in the literature. that’s how the light gets in

He's doing it, the absolute mad lad, he's retconning 'Labour' to mean work instead of workers. Incredible stuff. Will the press let him get away with it? Absolutely. Will they enthusiastically join in, even? Also absolutely