The "technology secretary" can't work hair tongs.

You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.

America is building rockets that can go to Mars and is taking AI to new levels. Meanwhile, in Britain, our Government is banning underfloor heating and wants to regulate our use of towel rails. I despair for our future under these student socialist imbeciles.

Morning all. I think with the Defence Secretary and Armed Forces Minister resigning yesterday, this clip from Yes Prime Minister is very apt. Enjoy.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nikola Tesla ✍️

John v. Neumann on 'the usefulness of Mathematics' A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful. -- as mentioned in "The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society" (1954)

They used exactly the same playbook against farmers who campaigned against inheritance tax by framing the debate as tax money being required for the NHS. Shameful manipulative tactics.

The government says nationalising water would cost £100 billion. @Feargal_Sharkey dug into where that number came from and found it came from a think tank report that was paid for by the water companies themselves, including @AnglianWater, @stwater, @SouthWestWater , and @unitedutilities . So the water industry essentially funded a report to inflate the cost of taking them back into public ownership, and the government then used that number to argue against nationalisation. Sharkey is saying the number is nonsense because the source is the industry that benefits from staying private. He also points out that these same companies have racked up £64 billion in debt and paid out £78 billion in dividends to shareholders since privatisation in 1989, while bills went up 40% and rivers filled with sewage.

I'm not saying I'm old, but I just had to read the manual to learn how to work a new kettle.

What kind of government warns us not to enter very dangerous countries, yet lets people from those same countries just walk into ours without a passport?

Is it necessary to caption coverage of #PMQs with "House of Commons"? #politicslive #BBC2

When I was at school, Dad convinced my friend that when you flushed away a huge turd you had to phone Thames Water so they could 'deal with it' to stop the pipes blocking. He gave my friend the landline number of his mate who was in on it. The calls carried on for several years.

Artist John Berry was born on this day 9th June 1920. This picture shows just some of his work for Ladybird

Patrick Lindesay Archibald Godfrey. 13 February 1933 – 4 June 2026.

£370 instead of £2,475.

On this day in 1984, a Soviet programmer at a Moscow research lab built a puzzle game in about three weeks, got hooked on it, and accidentally created one of the most played games in history. A thread 🧵