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Typical, here's me thinking I'm going to have a quiet weekend and then my great grandmother's amulet starts glowing.

An AI response to a search, illustrated with a mugshot of Bill Bailey: Alistair McGowan is a prominent UK comedian who has incorporated classical piano into his performance, touring with "The Piano Show". Other

His impressions are better than I remember

tech CEO in 2026: My computer has anxiety.
venture capitalist in 2026: Here, have 200 billion more dollars.

child in 2006: My NeoPet is angry at me.
mom in 2006: No it isn't sweetie, go to bed.
mom to dad in 2006: We have an idiot boy. Our boy is a little idiot person. It's too late to fix him.

Moby Dick (1956) - Father Mapple's Sermon YouTube video by Eros

This episode is about Father Mapple's sermon on the book / parable of Jonah. Here's the sermon (greatly abridged), delivered in proper scenery-chewing fashion by Orson Welles in John Huston's 1956 film: youtu.be/9DAQ8Az5Gpc

Magnificent. I’d be so proud.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

They were forbidden to pick up survivors after the Laconia incident: in which a couple of U-boats tried to pick up survivors under a Red Cross flag, and were attacked.

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

If it's on the way to a school, I'd suspect some dietary difference of opinion on what constitutes lunch

Man’s ‘disbelief’ after five-year quest for rare book ends in local Oxfam shop Paul Dixon had trawled bookshops and specialist sellers across the UK, and had even contacted shops on the island of Iona

This is so fun!

news.stv.tv/scotland/man...

Boom

So no written test I'm thinking

Students of ruthless internal restructurings will recognize this as the euphemistic 'special projects' role for the one that lost out.

Accidental Aardman.

Stephen Miller glitching

There's a curious glitch at one point where his cloaking device fails for a second

Store aisle shelves stuffed on one side with inflatable ducks faces the other, stuffed with inflatable flamingos.

some shit is about to go down

The Toy Story Everywhere meme, but it's Macneils

I have the vaguest memory of a phonebook for the northwest coast of Scotland using trades along with surnames, because there were so few surnames

Radium was the analogy I heard. Useful for watchdials, it was pushed into consumer products such as cosmetics and energy drinks before its dangers were understood. It's now restricted to a couple of specialised uses.

Indeed a land of contrasts. But in an increasingly changeable world, can Britain learn to adapt? There are lessons here for us all.

Take a bow, @privateeyenews.bsky.social.

I asked a BBC acquaintance years ago, "But didn't he have a brain tumour which severely affected his personality and caused him to behave badly later in life?"

"No, he didn't need any help at all with being an arsehole."

*Slaps roof of Klein bottle* this baby can- hang on

How I arrived on BlueSky

A laminated sign: BREAK DOWN CARTOONS AND BOXES BEFORE PUTTING THEM IN THE RECYCLE BIN.

“Ok so the basic premise of this one is that there’s a coyote and a roadrunner and the coyote’s efforts to catch the roadrunner become ever more elaborate and comical but – and this is the crucial bit – he never catches the roadrunner. Here are some of the common tropes used…”

Same here, it was never mentioned. I had a child's illustrated Bible which had to have *something* about Revelations, but as I recall it was about as specific on the details as the last paragraph of the Narnia books.

Once again I am duty bound to point out that in 15 years of living in the US working in media I never once heard a single person, media outlet, consumer, or rando in the bar use the term 'Special Relationship'. It's the "I have a girlfriend but she goes to another school" of international relations.

From Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 3: The Captive Castaways Mickey, covered in chains, looks down at a tube that rolled over to him, Opium written on the side. Mickey: Good gosh! Opium!

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