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Little girl on the train: Uncle Mallory died. Her mum: Yes. Little girl: So he won't feel anything now. Her mum: No. Little girl: Which is good because the insects will be eating his eyes.

Here a compilation of stupid things library consultants have said to me in solidarity with library pals at Lambeth Libraries where genius consultants has decided that a qualified head of library service post isn't really essential.

⚡️BREAKING: A Kansas state court just permanently struck down a long list of abortion restrictions, ruling that they violated the fundamental right to abortion, and health care providers’ right to free speech under the state constitution.

Guests arrive at a house, carrying flowers and wine. The door opens and a ginger cat runs out. Man from inside: Mell! Mell! Mell! Come on Mell! Mellster McAdam! You know you're not allowed out the front (pause) we've got mackerel! (the ginger cat slinks back inside)

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

🧵3 month assessment on the Australian social media ban is in: very little change, and no change in practical outcomes for children and young people - no mental health or family relationship improvements, no differences in leisure time, same degree of harmful access, like loosing sleep to scrolling 🚨

Jeff "Monoman" Connolly of Boston's legendary garage rock band the Lyres has died. Around here the Lyres are spoken of in hushed tones to this day--a wildly influential band. They played often at the Rat right near a record store called, you guessed it, Nuggets. RIP.

more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice!

We've thrown our hat in the ring! The Prince Charles Cinema has officially applied for The Academy inaugural Marquee Theater List, celebrating 50 of the most remarkable cinemas around the world.

Important to note that Bev Craig, the new Mayor of Greater Manchester, won her overwhelming victory on a platform of trans inclusion, as an out lesbian. A stark reminder to the GC crowd that a) transphobia is a losing policy, and b) the vast majority of lesbians support trans inclusion.

I used to do some work on the ethical use of satellite and drone imagery for aid and disaster response, and it is genuinely hard to express in words what a dangerous, stupid thing Google is doing by making it easy to use GenAI to create faked satellite imagery:

How to plant a nuclear plant in IranThe question is: what on earth is Google doing?www.digitaldigging.org

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

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After my parents were visiting set for the first time, I asked my dad what he thought. He said “I didnt realize, it’s like you’re building a house, and once an hour good looking people run in and put on a play for five minutes. Then they leave and you go back to construction.”