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For a man like Elon Musk, promising results is easy. It’s delivering them that’s the hard part. Case in point: Eagle-eyed Bluesky user Wild Geerters noticed this old YouTube post of Elon Musk talking to the Wall Street Journal. In the screenshot, Elon sits awkwardly for an interview above a headline declaring that he will […]

There’s something slightly disorientating about the period between Christmas and New Year. I can’t explain it but this time between Christmas and Jan 1st always feels like this shot from The Fellowship of the Ring: pic.twitter.com/0AqQvovsbo — Josh RR Jokien (@joshcarlosjosh) December 26, 2025 There’s even a word for it … Word of the Day: […]

During his campaign to remodel the White House as a Poundland Kremlin become President of the USA for a second term, Donald Trump repeatedly promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day, simply by telephoning his good buddy, Vladimir Putin. Unless this has been the longest day, and World War II historians might have […]

Some places in the UK are considered to be nice, and have names that reflect that, like Belgravia or Houghton-le-Spring or Royal Leamington Spa. And at the other end of the scale, there are towns with undeniably prickly names. They’ve been chewing over the UK’s most tough-sounding areas on the AskUK subreddit after PuzzleheadedCarob921 asked […]

It’s still the holidays, but our thoughts will unfortunately be turning to the looming day when we have to stop eating and drinking anything that comes to hand and return to work and school. Woe is all of us. They’ve been mulling over the alleged best days of our lives on the AskUK subreddit after […]

Certain things in life are obviously very dangerous, and people go out of their way to avoid them. Other risks, however, fly under the radar because they’re so commonplace. To help protect you from these threats – or at least raise awareness – Reddit user nealie_20 decided to highlight what to look out for by […]

Professional Googler, Joe Rogan, was doing what some people think he does best: assertively spewing inaccurate health theories that don’t hold up when confronted with actual data and statistics. Here he is talking about how measles were not a problem for him when he was a kid. Joe Rogan: “Measles was what everyone got when […]

Symbolism doesn’t get much more on-the-nose than this. As humans continue to rely more on technology to make our lives better, technology continues to warn us maybe that’s not the correct path forward. Science fiction books and movies have served up any number of gruesome depictions of what might happen if technology turns on humans, […]

Time to return now to the transatlantic chasm that appears to widen (and deepen) with every passing day. And while it’s not the first time we’ve seen a confidently incorrect Maga schooled somewhere into next year (not as far as it might be at this time of year, obviously) it might just be one of […]

Someone especially famous always seems to die at Christmas, and just when we thought it wasn’t going to happen this year, Brigitte Bardot died aged 91. We mention it not only because she was a true icon (who later embraced far right politics, we’re only just finding out) but because her passing necessitated an update […]