Aaand, In Other News...

[Hatredsheart]

https://x.com/drericding/status/1844018 ... qYnaxJcJKA

[Rusty]

10 seconds in, wow, that's a lot of water.
30 seconds in.. oh, it's a new sea.

[Wrathbone]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8dx4l4pl6o

Reminds me of that Blackadder Comic Relief special with Stephen Fry as King Charles.

"This is the head of a traitor"

"No it's not! It's a huge pumpkin with a ridiculous moustache drawn on!"

[Animalmother]

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry ... -channels/

[eny]

The Onion buys bankrupt Info Wars:


https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsk ... w22gmbfk26

[Animalmother]

The rancid, shit awfulness of this whole event makes me cringe. Saying that I do hope Tyson goes off script and beats the Edwin into oblivion.

[Raid]

I know AI can typically get in the bin, but this is particularly brilliant.

https://www.techspot.com/news/105571-ph ... -time.html

[Snowy]

Just give the fucking money to me you drooling cuntard, fuck me I have seen it all now...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesig ... rk-auction

[eny]

Harry Enfield comes to mind...

[Wrathbone]

Imagine telling Michaelangelo that instead of spending four years of back-breaking work and creative genius painting the Creation of Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he could have just taped a banana to it and made a fortune.

[Raid]

Of course it was bought by a crypto "entrepreneur". Could have given their ill-gotten wealth to a charity and done some good in the world, but instead they paid $5.2million for an entirely worthless statement.

[Mantis]

I'm sure there's some other angle here that we're all not aware of. Like money laundering.

[eny]

Who ate all the pies?


https://apnews.com/article/uk-chef-pies ... 45c5fac79a

[Wrathbone]

I can't decide if this turmoil in South Korea is the most half-arsed coup attempt in history or something that came disturbingly close to success but was defeated with lightning speed. On the one hand, you have an unpopular president with little political power who thought declaring martial law without any sort of contingencies would be fine, and on the other hand you've got MPs bashing past police and military, scaling fences, to get into parliament to veto the martial law, with rumours that Yoon was attempting to arrest the major political leaders. As daft a move as it seems now the dust is settling, I can't help but feel we came incredibly close to another SK dictatorship.

Also concerning that this is plausibly the sort of move Trump could attempt in the next few years. It probably (hopefully) won't come to that, but it has to have crossed his mind.

[Raid]

I've been trying to find any detail on his whole "this is to protect us against the anti-government enemies from the north!" reasoning, other than the general distrust of their Northern neighbour, but the coverage I've seen hasn't really commented on it. Was it just a crackpot populist conspiracy theory or does the South regularly deal with infiltrators from North Korea? The former is basically the same logic I'd see Trump using were he to at some point impose martial law in the States, and frankly, one of the measures I genuinely see as being realistic to deal with his deportation promise.

Either way, it's nice to see an idiot of a leader thoroughly rebuked like this by both sides of a democratic government. I wish it happened more often.