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Having a fine time with Sam Byers's smartly written Perfidious Albion, whose concerns about identity, data privacy, and political extremism have only gotten more pressing since it was published in 2018. But the tone is frequently absurdist rather than solemn, so it goes down easy

#books #reading #satire #SamByers #literature

Paperback copy of Perfidious Albion by Sam Byers, published by Faber & Faber. It features the 2017 artwork Babel Britain by Emily Allchurch, a satirical piece based on one of Verhaecht's Towers of Babel. Overlaid on this are the title and author's name in bright green sans-serif all-caps, and between these are three cover quotes: "Darkly plausible, witty and intelligent" (Financial Times), "Furiously smart...madly funny" (Guardian), and "A mordant, needle-sharp satire" (Jonathan Coe).

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Don't #Hang Up On #AI #Scammers. Do THIS Instead. #Kitboga #yt #satire #comedyGold #privacy #security

https://youtu.be/lk3jCuITwcE 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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We're ready to help get your bills down.
We're ready to break down your door
And gift you a pre-payment meter
To stop you from shivering more…

—Nuala Watt, “Important Information Enclosed”
published in The Department of Work & Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish (Blue Diode, 2024)

https://www.bluediode.co.uk/product-page/the-department-of-work-and-pensions-assesses-a-jade-fish-by-nuala-watt

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #benefits #Disability #DisabilityBenefits #satire

Nuala Watt
Important Information Enclosed

We're ready to help get your bills down.
We're ready to break down your door
And gift you a pre-payment meter
To stop you from shivering more.

Perhaps you did not learn to budget,
But we can assist you with that.
And can we suggest, in the meantime,
You stay in one room in your flat?

We see you've restarted your asthma.
There's not enough gas for a bath.
You cough when you go to the bathroom.
A more parsimonious path

Could help you to quash all these problems.
And follow our energy plan.
We do understand, and we promise
To help you as much as we can.

Perhaps you could turn down your boiler.
Is your jacket too thin? Buy a spare.
The weather created this crisis.
We want you to know that we care.

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82d

Zero-Knowledge Proof of Wasta with Applications in Lebanon https://lobste.rs/s/gwktul #pdf #cryptography #satire
https://eprint.gacr.info/2025/003.pdf

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Additional Publications (2005) via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/phafdg #math #satire
https://jeremymartinmath.github.io/morepubs.html

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96d

The Makeover ... why stop at just a wig?

My cartoon for today. #AIcartoons #Trumpolini #satire

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95d

Today's artificial satirical fun - playing with book covers. #auspol #satire #AIart #AIcartoons #cartoons

It's a short way to the top - life as a sausage roll (AI cartoon by me)

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It's a short way to the top - my life as a sausage roll (AI cartoon by me)

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93d

Trumpugula, the latest bouffant makeover. #AIcartoons #satire #AIart #USFascism

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Every Fucking Website https://lobste.rs/s/ii5tun #satire #web
https://op.tngl.io/every-fucking-website/

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The first Science of Discworld book gets 4/5 stars... I think, wait let me check my math.The Science parts got 3 and the Wizard parts got 5 so if you add 'em up carry the 1, always carry the one, divide by two you get 4... I think.Unless we take into account that the Science chapters were longer than the Wizard chapters, wigheted data-points and all that, but a little lying to children is to be expected, it is #Discworld after all, the narrativum has to go somewhere.

#TerryPratchett #Pratchett #Humor #Satire #Fantasy #Comedy #Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Novel #Books #Fiction #Recommendation #Bookrecommendation #Review #Bookreview #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

(comment on Science of Discworld)

Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett: Science of Discworld (Paperback, 2002, EBURY PRESS (RAND))

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Ebook: https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences

The painter of the universe, known as Life, just wanted to fulfill her reason for being, by creating a universe full of beautiful wonders and living things, but her twin brother, Death, exists solely to destroy her work, leading to an intractable argument about whose work should prevail.

@bookstodon
#author #indieauthor #writing #fantasy #fiction #shortstory #life #death #creation #destruction #humor #satire #darkhumor

(Left) The Cover of Emergent Consequences, by Owen Tyme, illustrated by Ryan Johnson.

Life and Death lay asleep in a the grass, the way they lay slightly resembling the yin-yang symbol. The tools of their trades are scattered around them.

Life is a woman with black hair, in a white robe. Behind her are the paint brush and palette she paints the universe with. She's rather short and has rosy cheeks.

Death is a skeleton in a black robe, which appears to be continually disintegrating at the hem line. Behind him lay his scythe and scroll of names.

Between Life and Death is the hourglass that serves as the source of time for the entire universe, an item that's most commonly carried by Death, but which is part of the work of both of them.

The artwork is cartoonish, with some bushes and a tree that has one red piece of fruit dangling from it. The scene is looked upon by the sun, which frowns at everything.

(Right) The background is an image of some green bacteria with the following quote over the top:

"I think I'll call it Ted."

"Ted? You want to name micro-organism Ted? Are you serious?"

"Yes, Ted."

"Alright, I just thought Bob would fit better."

(Bottom) https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences

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Creating CSS with SQL https://lobste.rs/s/m5bp95 #css #databases #satire #web
https://dthung1602.github.io/sqss/

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84d

Via Andrea Borgia

grandios - und Ton aus für Deutsche Zuschauer

https://xcancel.com/kiwicopple/status/2089917700822999275?s=46&t=dpTFaAUHYJGptoIMoZL4qA

#vibecoding #satire #hitlerrant

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103d

The Rolled Gold range - in the defence of #satire and tickling upwards. #AIart #satire

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How to code without AI https://lobste.rs/s/guye0s #video #practices #satire
https://youtu.be/aFMVGx1Gsoc

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The Hollow Man ... a #Trumpolini effigy effort for today. May all abhor him and his crooked, vicious, planet-destroying regime and the foul economic system that propels its kakistocracy.

'This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.'

#USFascism #AIcartoons #AIart #satire #cartoons