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  • Blamin’ Ek

    Ryan Priest 03 Feb 2022
  • The White House has welcomed Swedish audio streaming giant Spotify’s decision to add advisory warnings to any content discussing Covid-19 – namely The Joe Rogan Experience, in light of the recent ...

  • Mr 500,000 Chips

    Ryan Priest 26 Jan 2022
  • We recently saw a TikTok of the new guy on Dragons’ Den explaining the virtues of obtaining enough money to own a private jet: to maximise the number of what he refers to as his 500,000 chips – the ...

  • Live from the Lord Moon of the Mall (Pt. III)

    Ryan Priest 14 Dec 2021
  • Matt Baker once asked David Cameron, “How on earth do you sleep at night?” But for Matt Hancock, a big cup of Horlicks usually sees him spark out by eight o’clock. By nine, he’s stumbling into his ...

  • Prime suspect

    Ryan Priest 10 Nov 2021
  • Jeff Bezos was jiffy-bagging copies of William Shakespeare’s plays around the time Leonardo DiCaprio was cast in the leading role for the 1996 Hollywood film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Bring ...

  • Fully automated luxury community guidelines

    Ryan Priest 28 Oct 2021
  • Novara Media has become the latest media outlet to have its YouTube channel removed from the website without warning or any kind of explanation. But just like Talkradio, a channel on the other end ...

  • Another girl, another palate

    Ryan Priest 09 Sep 2021
  • The launch of dating app Power of Music (POM), which matches up users who like the same music to spare them from ever having to grow as human beings or have any new experiences whatsoever, has ...

  • Atlas hugged

    Ryan Priest 19 Aug 2021
  • Boston Dynamics’ latest attempt to promote its “most dynamic” humanoid robot, Atlas, has seen the firm release footage showcasing its prowess at parkour. Benjamin Stephens, control lead of the ...

  • All my exes avoid Texas

    Ryan Priest 22 Jul 2021
  • Jeff Bezos has taken his rocket ship, New Shepherd, for its first ride. A ragtag team of Bezos, his brother, wee Wally Funk and the teenage son of a Dutch financier left Earth for 10 minutes and 10 ...

  • Nuisance for a reason

    Ryan Priest 08 Jul 2021
  • The past week has seen many businesses complaining that the NHS Covid-19 contact tracing app has started sending out too many self-isolate alerts, leaving them short of staff.  It’s the new jury ...

  • Pepper production grinds to a halt

    Ryan Priest 01 Jul 2021
  • While – if one of the most peculiar songs of the 21st century is to be believed – there are upwards of nine million bicycles in Beijing alone, Reuters reports that there are just 27,000 Pepper ...

  • Work different

    Ryan Priest 09 Jun 2021
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook’s call for his employees to return to their offices at least three times a week by September has been met with a detailed response that effectively tells him, “Nah.” His initial ...

  • The non-fungible kind

    Ryan Priest 05 May 2021
  • Not long ago, somewhere in Mebane, North Carolina, Zoë Roth – better known as the Disaster Girl meme – picked up her phone and consulted Kyle Craven – better known as the Bad Luck Brian meme – ...

  • The tedium is the message

    Ryan Priest 22 Apr 2021
  • The president of football’s crumbling European Super League project has cited teenagers’ enjoyment of video games as a reason to constantly pit the continent’s elite teams against each other like ...

  • The tracks of National Rail’s tears

    Ryan Priest 14 Apr 2021
  • To the meme generation he was simply known as the Airplane Mode Prince, but it seems nobody has taken the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh quite as hard as National Rail. Users of the website woke ...

  • Bamby on thin ice

    Ryan Priest 24 Mar 2021
  • YouTube has claimed it rushed to remove an offensive rap advert before the Advertising Standards Authority’s verdict on it even came in. The promo for Bamby H2O, an artist with fewer Instagram ...