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Samantha Mathis and Christian Slater both looking devastating in Pump Up the Volume (1990).
A graphic showing how 2024 Westminster voters voted in the 2026 local elections. It shows that the majority of Reform's increased share came from the Conservatives, with only a tiny amount from former Labour voters. Around a fifth of Labour voters were lost to the Greens and another sixth to the Lib Dems. Only a tiny fraction went to Reform. The source is given as YouGov.
Poster for Pickleball Pete, the legendary classic film starring Kevin Sorbo. It shows three interchangeable middle-aged men along with the slogan "A washed up champ, a crazy crew, one shot to save their court." One of the men is Kevin Sorbo. Presumably.
The b side of a Dead Kennedys tape with the message "home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help."
A picture of a young Adam Silver from the famous cover of Weekly World News with the headline "Bat Boy Found in Cave"
The cover of Green City Wars. Skyscrapers covered in plants rise in the background, with a raccoon looking out at the reader.
A picture of a hand from the Simpsons, with three fingers and a thumb.
The cover of The Invisible Life...
The cover of Little Beauty, a picture book by Anthony Browne. A watercolour painting of a gorilla's head and face. He has a wide, rather goofy smile and sad, wrinkly eyes looking up. A very, very tiny kitten is sitting on his head.
A box for Aubergines / Eggplants called "Purple Pride"
The Malevolent Eight
Xkcd cartoon. Two geochemists talking. Geochemist 1: SILICATE CHEMISTRY IS SECOND NATURE TO US GEOCHEMISTS, SO IT'S EASY TO FORGET THAT THE AVERAGE PERSON PROBABLY ONLY KNOWS THE FORMULAS FOR OLIVINE AND ONE OR TWO FELDSPARS. Geochemist 2: AND QUARTZ, OF COURSE. Geochemist 1: OF COURSE. Caption: EVEN WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO COMPENSATE FOR IT, EXPERTS IN ANYTHING WILDLY OVERESTIMATE THE AVERAGE PERSON'S FAMILIARITY WITH THEIR FIELD.
The photo of workers from the original article, but rotated 180 degrees so they're upside down like bats
The same painting, but this time as the cover of The Sunday Times magazine alongside the title "Her First Year".
The book description from Audible with a two-line "summarized by AI" box at the top. What it's about A woman cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets lives for 300 years - until someone finally remembers her name. Summarized by Al Summary "[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten... Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." -Booklist In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force. A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be... (Image cropped here)
The cover of the book showing a woman dressed in blue sitting slumped in a carved throne.
Screenshot from Merlin of today's dawn chorus: Common Wood-Pigeon Eurasian Blackbird Eurasian Blackcap Great Tit Common Swift Eurasian Collared-Dove House Sparrow Eurasian Blue Tit Eurasian Tree Sparrow
110 In the light of recital 42 of Directive 2000/31, these two conditions of knowledge and control should be understood as being alternative and autonomous from each other. Hence, the operator of an information society service that controls the stored information is excluded from the benefit of Article 14(1) of that Directive, even if he does not take cognisance of that information because of the automation of its processing. 111 However, as noted, in essence, by the Advocate General in point 239 of his findings, it is in particular by means of the algorithm used that such an operator exercises control over the stored information. As long as it has predetermined, by means of this algorithm, the conditions for the dissemination or not of such information, it is irrelevant that the operator does not itself carry out additional interventions with the effect of promoting, modifying or deleting information stored for its dissemination. 112 In that regard, it is important to specify that if, beyond a simple categorisation and indexation of information with a view to its better accessibility, the algorithm used determines, in the interest of the operator or his service, under what conditions, how and in what order of priority this information is disseminated or is not disseminated, the operator exercises control over it, so that the service it offers cannot be classified as a "information society service consisting of storing information provided by a recipient", within the meaning of Article 14(1) of Directive 2000/31 (see, to that effect, judgements of 23 March 2010, Google France and Google, C-236/08 to C-238/08, EU:C:2010:159, paragraphs 115 and 117; of 12 July 2011, L'Oréal and others, C-324/09, EU:C:2011:474, paragraph 116, and of 22 June 2021, YouTube and Cyando, C-682/18 and C-683/18, EU:C:2021:503, paragraph 114).
Cartoon of a man shouting, "I don't like thing". A beatific angel flies down to bestow upon him a precious message. After she ascends back to the heavens, he reads it. It says, "Ok". The cartoon is signed Jo Bee Art.
The cover of Sleeper Beach by Nick Hathaway. Executed in black and gold, it shows a lighthouse on a rocky coast against the silhouette of a man. A cover quote by William Gibson describes the book as "cross-genre brilliance"
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones Haye Kesteloo 10-12 minutes Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots. Most of the players had no idea.
An incredibly chic pigeon clearly pausing to be papped. It's mostly a restrained slate black but with glorious long green and blue feathers worn as a kind of short cape and a shimmer of the same colours down its back. It has a pronounced cere on its beak, that being the structure that contains the nares (so now you know). OK, technically it's the Nicobar pigeon not the Met Gala pigeon.
Dandelion from the film version of Water ship Down
The cover of the book. A wooden ship - a dhow - lies splintered on rocks beneath a tattered sail, waves crashing around it. A griffin stoops, grasping claws extended, beak open in a screech and wings beating the air. Behind, a golden city of towers and domes rises above red cliffs.
A large vending machine, all polished steel, with 20 glass-fronted doors. A large sign says "Bramboromat", a portmanteau of Brambor - potato - and automat.
Anthony Head as Frank n Furter in London, 1990. In this black-and-white image he's standing cockily akimbo, heeled feet planted, hands on hips. Torn fishnets show off surprisingly shapely legs - we always knew Giles was a sex bomb under those tweeds - and he's wearing a tightly laced bustier. His hair looks rather glam rock and he's smirking.
The white house and south lawn. On the left, as it was, with a fountain at the far end of the lawn. On the right, with a stage and cage between the fountain and white house.
A field of red flowers almost identical to the field in the first picture.
A cat sitting in an egg box. As the cat is twice the size of the box, he's actually just got the front half in the box. But whatever guy he's chillin
An ad for Hastings Pirate Festival 2025 with the slogan "Peg or be pegged"
A very blurry accidental shot of what's probably a bit of bedsheet. It's pink and there's a bit of shadow in one corner.
The so-called pregnant guppy aircraft, a plane used for large cargo such as parts used in the Apollo space program. It looks rather like a normal plane that's been inflated to three times it's expected size.
A pony's nose poking out from under a fringe of hair that a 1980s glam rocker would be proud of
The picture shows part of the instructions for a barbecue. The last point is "Be environmental, take away all the garbage especially the white trash."
Xkcd comic. A table with "Just to clear things up" at the top and in the cells, "a few: anywhere from 2 to 5. A handful: anywhere from 2 to 5. Several: anywhere from 2 to 5. A couple: 2 (but sometimes up to 5)." The mouse over text on the original comic read "If things are too quiet, try asking a couple of friends whether "a couple" should always mean "two". As with the question of how many spaces should go after a period, it can turn acrimonious surprisingly fast unless all three of them agree."
Skeet from Micah joined this site almost three years ago me not a single solitary thing that has happened since has convinced me that arguing with people online is a good use of time Reply from Anna Holmes They can them! Pickle them! Do unholy things with an air fryer! Salads on salads on salads! Doesn't matter. You have to eat them til they're gone, and even when they're out of season, you definitely preserved a whole bunch.
The image from the meme "they're the same picture" but with no text
Red apples labelled "Cosmic Crips"
An ngram comparing "raining cats and dogs", "pissing down" and "chucking it down". The first was common in the 19th century, moderately used throughout the 20th then rises somewhat from about the 1980s on. "Chucking it down" surged to overtake it around 2000, while "pissing down" is about 5 times as common.
A snippet from the Guardian's live coverage of the Iran crisis. Extract begins: The White House then told CNN that Vance will be going – “Things changed,” an official said – and in fact, Vance will be leading the delegation that includes special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law.
On the left, a river stretches away into the distance, banked by trees. On the right, a rocky cliff dotted with yellow flowers. Wooded hills shape the horizon under a perfect blue sky with little fluffy clouds. The river is the Berounka, a tributary of Prague's Vltava, and the rock is Kazin, just opposite Mokropsy.
Joint Resolution To designate the rose as the national floral emblem. Whereas the study of fossils has shown that the rose has been a native wild flower in America for over thirty-five million years; Whereas the rose is grown today in every State; Whereas the rose has been cultivated and grown in gardens for over five thousand years and is referred to in both the Old and New Testaments; Whereas the rose has long represented love, friendship, peace, and the devotion of the American people to their country; Whereas the rose has for many years been the favorite flower of the American people, has captivated the affection of human kind, and has been revered and renowned in art, music, and literature; Whereas our first President was also our first rose breeder, one of his varieties being named after his mother and still being grown today; and Whereas the United States is without a national flower: Now, therefore, be itResolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the flower commonly known as the rose is designated and adopted as the national floral emblem of the United States of America, and the President of the United States is authorized and requested to declare such fact by proclamation. Approved October 7, 1986.
Xkcd "everyone knows" comic, which celebrates when someone discovers the thing everyone knows for the first time
XKCD's "When everybody knows something" strip. The message is that there are thousands of people every day who are only just learning the thing that "everyone knows", and it's something to take delight in, not something to mock.
Cai posted: I was thinking about what the most unpopular possible government policy could be, and I think it would be that every person had to have a public database of whatever they ate every day. Riker Googling posted: clear replicator recent items
Tomorrow night I am going to hobnob, chez Lewis, with - Joad of Joad Hall!
The 15.5m / 51 ft Stalin Monument in Prague, unveiled in 1955 and demolished in 1961. It shows Stalin in triumphal pose with various symbolic proletariats and soldiers lined up behind him. If I remember rightly, it was no-so-affectionately nicknamed The Meat Queue after the lines that formed outside understocked butchers' shops.
Fabio in his 40s or 50s, probably. He's kinda svelte and muscular still but has the looks and shoulder-length hair of a rock star who's refusing to admit the passage of time. He's wearing a cheesy grin and a bright yellow scoop-necked sleeveless top. Oh, and he's holding up a piece of toast with what I imagine is meant to be his face burnt into it while leaning on an I Can't Believe It's Not Butter toaster about the size of a small car, with a tub of said margarine in front of him. A printed tropical beach backdrop is behind - you can see the wrinkles in the fabric - and there's a plastic palm tree and a couple of plastic gulls. It's very tasteful.
A beautiful golden-brown loaf. Its rough crust is covered in gnarly swirls and imperfections. It looks good enough to eat.
A scatter plot dividing the UK population into four segments regarding vehicle running costs by low Vs higher income and low Vs high costs. The vast majority fall below the line of spending under 10% of income on running motor vehicles (the chart's cutoff for "high costs"). Of those who spend over 10%, a minority are in the low income bracket. The data are quite old, however (2012).
Adjacent skeets: One saying we are not in the right headspace for April Fool's Day this year, the next about Bryon Noem's cross-dressing and bimbofication kink.
Hmm, I'm still not getting it right. Let me think carefully about the actual Cool S construction — it's drawn step by step: three horizontal lines, then top and bottom caps, then the two diagonals connecting them into an S. Let me try again properly. That should be the real Cool S now — three horizontal lines, left vertical cap on top, right vertical cap on bottom, and two crossing diagonals forming the S shape in the middle! Reader, it was not the Cool S.
To Claude: You did not draw the Cool S. Nor did you draw what you described. Claude: You're right, I'm sorry! Let me actually draw it correctly. The Cool S is made by: Two parallel horizontal lines on top Two parallel horizontal lines on bottom Three vertical connectors on the sides Two diagonals that cross in the middle to form the S shape The resulting picture is a weird cropped z
An instruction for Claude AI: Draw the Cool S. Underneath it says, "The Cool S - a childhood classic. Six horizontals, two verticals on each end, and two diagonals crossing in the middle. Every 90s kid knew the construction by heart." The accompanying drawing is not the Cool S.
A frequency graph of the word kaiju in published books etc in the English language. There is low use in the mid-20th century then a significant uptick from the late 1970s. It holds roughly level until 2010ish then rockets.
A carved wooden elephant carrying a two-storey castle-like howdah on its back. The elephant has roughly the proportions and shape of a rather short-legged horse, including apparent hooves. Its neck is long and arched. Its head looks if anything rather birdlike, while its trunk seems clicked into place like the hose on an early gas mask. It's unclear if it has short, rather square ears or a neatly bobbed mane. Its eyes are huge, round and set high on its head, on either side of a bony-looking forehead.
A screenshot from the Northstar publisher site, listing "pocket-friendly pricing" as one of their key benefits.
A right-angled cat. His back half is vertical, wedged between boxes, while his front half is stretched out flat. He appears to have no legs.
A pair of ratty brown shoes along with peas and fork 'andles on a shop counter.
An approval graph with margins of error.