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If you cast your mind back to the early days of Elon Musk’s Twitter ownership or before that – *sighs* – you may remember when the white-on-blue tick was a sign that an account was who it was claiming to be …if we ignore the verified accounts of dead celebrities, which is a whole other […]
These days, adverts, TV shows, and films aimed at kids generally have positive messages to help children grow and develop using gentle and kind ways. If you were a kid in the 70s, 80s, or 90s, though, there wasn’t so much of that attitude. The consensus seemed to be that scaring the crap out of […]
Under the very different US government of September 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced a raft of charges against the Russian state-sponsored TV network Russia Today for attempting to interfere with the US election by paying right-wing influencers to spread Kremlin talking points via Tenet Media. BREAKING Per the DOJ and other sources, Tenet Media—bankrollers […]
You might already be familiar with the work of the amazing investigative journalist and author Carole Cadwalladr who wrote her final piece for the Observer this weekend. We mention her because she’s just given a TED talk which is very much worth you watching in full, but this bit in particular just went wildly viral […]
We love Bob Mortimer in all his many forms, from panel show Bob to Gone Fishing Bob, from author Bob to Last One Laughing Bob, that series on Amazon which is well worth a look. But rarely have we loved Bob Mortimer more than when he shared his ‘reverse toilet’ idea with Richard Ayoade on […]
Millions of Catholics around the world are mourning the death of Pope Francis, who has died at the age of 88. World leaders have been expressing their condolences after the death of the pontiff, whose popular appeal reached far beyond his global congregation. And no leader’s message was weirder than – you’re way ahead of […]
A man has this morning decided to publicly out himself as a low-information simpleton by pointing at the sky and loudly shouting ‘chemtrails’. Simon Williams, 46, has never been one for formal education, having spent most of his science classes at school melting plastic pens with a bunsen burner. However, he has decided that he
On Sunday morning, Pope Francis died, just a day after he delivered his Easter Sunday message from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. His Easter message was written about in all of the newspapers the following day, so it was a bit unfortunate that on the Sky News Press Preview on Monday, […]
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Thanks to scientists with strong stomachs, the problem of toddlers – and drunks – swallowing* things they shouldn’t could be solved by something that looks as though Ridley Scott commissioned it. *Not just swallowing – if you catch our drift This curious mixture of neodymium magnet particles, borax and polyvinyl alcohol – revealed to the […]
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