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Janet Jackson Reveals She Almost Played This 1 Iconic Superhero Role

26 April 2024 @ 7:48 am

Janet Jackson performing last yeaJanet Jackson performing last yeaJanet Jackson has revealed she came close to playing an iconic superhero character on the big screen.During a new interview on Drew Barrymore’s US talk show, the five-time Grammy winner was asked about long-held rumours that she was “almost in The Matrix”, though she claimed this was not the case.However, the

Emmanuel Macron Launches Bitter Attack On Rishi Sunak's Rwanda Plan

26 April 2024 @ 6:48 am

Emmanuel Macron with Rishi Sunak during the Transforming Climate Finance session at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai last December.Emmanuel Macron with Rishi Sunak during the Transforming Climate Finance session at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai last December.Emmanuel Macron has launched a furious attack on Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda plan.The French president said the UK go

Denise Welch, Matty Healy's Mum, Has Finally Spoken Out About Taylor Swift's New Album

26 April 2024 @ 6:44 am

Denise Welch in the Loose Women studioDenise Welch in the Loose Women studioWhile many Swifties were left feeling rather conflicted by their idol’s widely-rumoured romance with Matty Healy last year, for Loose Women viewers it was a rather different story – namely due to the irresistible idea of Denise W

The 1 Disturbing Reason You Should Befriend A Crow

26 April 2024 @ 6:00 am

According to National Geographic, crows are some of the most intelligent birds in the world. They have also always been held in incredibly high esteem and are considered to be symbols of prophecy, transformation, change, and freedom. However, as majestic and revered as these birds are, they are also not to be messed with. According to

Judge Rejects Trump's Effort To Toss Out $83 Million Payout To E Jean Carroll

25 April 2024 @ 10:00 pm

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Supreme Court Conservatives Likely To Give Trump What He Wants In Immunity Case: Further Delay

25 April 2024 @ 9:30 pm

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Tory Minister Mocked For Asking If Rwanda And Congo Are Different Countries

25 April 2024 @ 9:00 pm

The audience reaction to Conservative minister Chris Philp.The audience reaction to Conservative minister Chris Philp.A Conservative minister has faced ridicule on BBC Question Time for saying: “Rwanda is a different country to Congo, isn’t i

The Tories Aren't Even Ahead Of Labour With GB News Viewers, Poll Suggests

25 April 2024 @ 6:21 pm

Jacob Rees-Mogg in the studio at GB News during his new show Jacob Rees-Mogg's State of The Nation last year.Jacob Rees-Mogg in the studio at GB News during his new show Jacob Rees-Mogg's State of The Nation last year.Rishi Sunak faces more poll woe as even viewers of GB News, the opinion-led TV network with Tory MPs as presenters, would rather see the Labour Party in government than his Conservatives. Since it launched in 2021, the channel has paid

Family Of 'Bowelbabe' Dame Deborah James Call For A National Cancer Strategy

25 April 2024 @ 3:38 pm

According to Bowel Research UK, 16,000 people die of bowel cancer every year in the UK and now, the family of a broadcaster who died of the condition at age 40 are calling on the UK government for a national cancer strategy.Dame Deborah James was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer in 2016 and died in 2022 at age 40 of the disease. A memorial fund in her name raised £12m for cancer research.Now, her family believes that all political parties should commit to ensuring earlier diagnosis and improve access

Ever Seen A Demon In The Middle Of The Night? You Weren't Imagining It

25 April 2024 @ 3:36 pm

Around 15 years ago, I was living in a cottage in the countryside and I woke from my sleep to a woman at the end of my bed in what I’d describe as Victorian clothes, just staring at me. I wasn’t scared but I definitely saw her and can even picture what she looked like to this day.However, when I told the family I was living with about my ghostly visitor, none of them believed me and they even said that there was no way she’d be there because the cottage was only built 30 years prior.I’d argue that there’s no reason to believe that ghosts can’t wander the countryside at will, but that’s for another day.Now I’ve learned from

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Essays and articles with a eclectic edge.

5 Great Essays about Privilege

19 April 2024 @ 10:29 am

5 Great Essays about PrivilegeWhy Does It Feel Like Everyone Has More Money Than You? by Jen Doll - Financial help from parents comes in many forms, and it’s the basis of so many success stories. So why do millennials act like it doesn’t exist?The Radical Moral Implications of Luck in Human Life by David Roberts - Acknowledging the role of luck is the sec

50 Great Essays by Black Writers

17 March 2024 @ 7:53 pm

50 Great Essays by Black WritersWe’ve had several requests for a list of the best writing by black authors to read online, and we finally got around to putting one together. Click through for a huge collection of great reads, including classic essays from James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, Roxan

30 Great Articles and Essays about Gender and Sexuality

27 February 2024 @ 1:48 pm

30 Great Articles and Essays about Gender and SexualityClick through for 30 great pieces of writing about homosexuality, trans and nonbinary gender, and more…

10 Great Articles and Essays about Artificial Intelligence

8 February 2024 @ 8:36 pm

10 Great Articles and Essays about Artificial IntelligenceOver the last few years, AI has gone from an academic discipline to a real-world product used by millions of people. That transformation raises all kinds of questions about the technology and its impact on our lives. Click through for 10 of the best articles and essays about AI that examine this crucial subject from all kinds of fascinating perspectives.

The 100 Best Articles and Essays of 2023

22 January 2024 @ 8:42 pm

The 100 Best Articles and Essays of 2023Click here for our roundup of the net’s best nonfiction from 2023

20 Great Articles by Philip Ball

4 December 2023 @ 4:44 pm

20 Great Articles by Philip BallHe’s one of the best science writers around – he seems to be interested in everything and has an amazing ability to make any subject fascinating. Click through for 20 of Philip Ball’s best articles from around the net.

5 Great Articles about Cybercrime

30 October 2023 @ 11:40 am

5 Great Articles about CybercrimeThe Untold Story of Silk Road by Joshuah BearmanThe postman only rang once. Curtis Green was at home, greeting the morning with 64 ounces of Coca-Cola and powdered mini doughnuts…The Crypto Trap by Andy GreenbergInside the Bitcoin bust that took down the web’s biggest child abuse site…

5 Great Essays about the Psychology of Love

24 October 2023 @ 7:19 pm

5 Great Essays about the Psychology of LoveThe Science of Love by Barbara Fredrickson - We each carry an intricate machinery of love, calibrating and attuning our moods and bodies to one anotherThe Rejection Lab by Alison Kinney - What can researching human responses to rejection tell us about ourselves?

10 Essential Essays about Mental Health

10 October 2023 @ 8:10 pm

10 Essential Essays about Mental HealthThe Most Dangerous Idea in Mental Health by Ed Cara - The belief that hidden memories can be “recovered” in therapy should have been exorcised years ago…Darkness Visible by William Styron - A journey through depression

10 Great Essays about Music

9 October 2023 @ 8:29 pm

10 Great Essays about MusicIs Old Music Killing New Music? by Ted Gioia - Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking.The Dark Art of Mastering Music by Jordan Kisner - Shedding light on the elusive studio practice that’s all but necessary to make music sound great.

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How AI can enhance customer service

26 April 2024 @ 8:57 am

Virtual assistants with a conversational presence have been shown to increase trust — and consequently also engagement — compared to purely text-based chatbots. Virtual …

Q1 earnings call: CEO’s remarks

25 April 2024 @ 9:30 pm

Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai's remarks from Q1 2024 earnings call

Google Keep reminders will be saved to Tasks

25 April 2024 @ 4:00 pm

Over the next year, Keep reminders will automatically save to Google Tasks so you can also access them from Calendar, Tasks and Assistant.

A new report explores the economic impact of generative AI

25 April 2024 @ 4:00 pm

A new report from inaugural Technology & Society Visiting Fellow Andrew McAfee looks at the potential economic impacts of generative AI.

Our newest hardware office in Taiwan

25 April 2024 @ 1:42 pm

Today, we opened Google Taiwan’s newest hardware office in the TPark campus in New Taipei City

5 Google Play features for poetry lovers to try

24 April 2024 @ 4:00 pm

For National Poetry Month, try these Google Play Books features to remember your favorite lines, organize your poetry books and more.

Introducing new Chromebooks for Asia Pacific and Latin America

23 April 2024 @ 4:00 pm

Google launches new Chromebook devices and announces features for schools globally.

An update on our child safety efforts and commitments

23 April 2024 @ 1:00 pm

Combatting child sexual abuse and exploitation (CSAE) is profoundly important work for Google. We’ve invested significant resources in building detection technology, tra…

5 AI-powered tools to help you get outside more

22 April 2024 @ 5:00 pm

Learn more about Google's AI-powered tools that can help you explore the outdoors more.

How Chromebooks can support your school's Earth Day goals

22 April 2024 @ 4:00 pm

For Earth Day, we’re sharing how Chromebooks can help support sustainability goals at your school by building a repair program and more.

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Tech services tested and compared/

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A blog of all things from pop culture to developer snippets. Similar to huffingtonpost and wordpress amongst others.

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Business, innovation and technology blogging sphere.

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Tumblr text, photos, quotes, links, dialogues, audio, video, slideshows. Twitter on steroids and mainly filled with junk.

Tumblr Tuesday: Women Loving Women in Art

23 April 2024 @ 6:40 pm

It’s Lesbian Visibility Week, an excellent time to be celebrating women who love women. Give it up for the sapphics, their muses, and the gorgeous art that honors them. @greenfinchg: @ripleylarue:

flycoffee: egax: I have been saving this since last year....

22 April 2024 @ 10:20 pm

flycoffee: egax: I have been saving this since last year. Happy Earth Day everyone. Happy earth day

Tumblr Tuesday: Day of the Mushroom

16 April 2024 @ 8:11 pm

Happy Tuesday, and a happy Day of the Mushroom to all who celebrate those delicious, brainy lifeforms. Whether you love them or loathe them, please feast your eyes on these delightful depictions of all manner of fungi—many but not all of which were created during @feefal’s #funguary art challenge.@amandaherzman:

Tumblr Tuesday: An Eclipse for The Ages

9 April 2024 @ 8:08 pm

Well, wow. Who knew one thing moving in front of the other could elicit in us such childlike wonder? Turns out, pretty much everyone, actually. The untimely darkness! The crescent dapples! That bright corona! You’ve all enjoyed them immensely. Here’s an eclipse collection for the annals. @endcant @quanajean:

Boop Breakdown

8 April 2024 @ 4:46 pm

Well, you did it. You booped. You booped all over your dashboard with reckless abandon, your finger gnashing away at the boop button, much like a lovely raccoon discovering a glorious half-eaten baked potato. A treasure was presented, and you knew you deserved it. You deserved to boop. Collectively, you booped 142,566,897 times. To repeat: one hundred forty-two million five hundred sixty-six thousand eight hundred ninety-seven boops were had on tumblr dot com the website and the app.Specifically: Normal boops: 119,204,929Self boops: 12,645,652Cat boops: 7,925,241Super boops: 2,095,231Mischievous, aka evil boops: 695,844One particularly boopable Tumblr was booped a total of 874,212 times. To be so rich in boops is a blessing. The Tumblr that gave the most boops found it in their heart to bestow 127,073 boops upon those they found worthy. Over 500,000 Tumblrs were booped and booped back in return. And for wha

Tumblr Tuesday: Stardew Valley update, your beloved

26 March 2024 @ 9:28 pm

Tumblr Tuesday: Stardew Valley update, your beloved Look at you, farming, wooing your loves, and being so, so normal about the little patch you have, the simple life, the love you found in that small settlement by the sea. Sure, it has mines, and in those mines, some monsters, it’s true. But look into that sunset with the one you love and tell Yoba you wouldn’t trade every blue chicken in the world for a few monsters and another night in Stardew Valley. This is your Stardew Valley 1.6 fanart roundup.@surelyanne:

Tumblr Tuesday: Photography!

12 March 2024 @ 5:47 pm

Hello, Tuesday, hello Tumblr. Have some beautiful photographic images for your dash, courtesy of some of the supreme #photographers on tumblr. @dantemarshall: @cleocartwrightphotography:

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

27 February 2024 @ 8:43 pm

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.Here are the important details:We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, s

A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:

24 February 2024 @ 5:00 pm

A message from a few of the trans staff at Tumblr & Automattic:We want trans people, and LGBTQ+ people broadly, to feel welcome on Tumblr, in part because we as trans people at Tumblr and Automattic want it to be a space where we ourselves feel included. We want to feel like this is a platform that supports us and fights for our safety. Tumblr is made brighter and more vibrant by your presence, and the LGBTQ+ folks who help run it are fighting all the time for this, for you, internally. A few days ago, Matt Mullenweg (the CEO of Automattic, Tumblr’s parent company) responded to a user’s ask about an account suspension in a way that negatively affected Tumblr’s LGBTQ+ community. We believe that Matt’s response to this ask and his continued commentary has been unwarranted and harmful. Tumblr staff do not comment on moderation decisions as

Tumblr Tuesday: Year of the Dragon

13 February 2024 @ 7:47 pm

Happy belated Lunar New Year, Tumblr! It’s the year of the dragon, and your local Artists on Tumblr have been churning out the most incredible dragon art you could possibly imagine. Please enjoy these dragons!@midnightmart: @mochipong:

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The Pokes are the first and only awards celebrating British comic talent on the internet.

This marvellous moggy’s spectacular first taste of watermelon is a funny cat video for the ages

26 April 2024 @ 10:04 am

Just a cat, enjoying a slice of watermelon. How much are they enjoying it? This much. When the juice hits byu/ExactlySorta inMadeMeSmile Mega ooof. The clip went wildly viral on Reddit and also on Twitter. When he realized red is the good part of the watermelon.. pic.twitter.com/LJ6nDFdIb6 — place where cat shouldn’t be (@catshouldnt) September […] The post This marvellous moggy’s spectacular first taste of watermelon is a funny cat video for the ages appeared first on The Poke.

Call off the search! We’ve found a new definition of what it means to be English and you’ll surely never forget it

26 April 2024 @ 9:31 am

It all started when the good people of @PoliticsJOE_UK had a few words with these great British patriots celebrating St George’s Day in central London this week. “I’m just glad my grandad’s dead!” On St George’s Day, hundreds of proud Englishmen headed to central London to celebrate all things English – and Tommy Robinson avoiding […] The post Call off the search! We’ve found a new definition of what it means to be English and you’ll surely never forget it appeared first on The Poke.

25 Favourite Funny Tweets of the Week

26 April 2024 @ 9:14 am

What a week it’s been. Trump has been trying to persuade the Supreme Court that the President should be able to get away with (literal) murder, Big Ben stopped on the same morning that panicked cavalry horses ran bleeding through London, and a boy doing gull screeches was the least unhinged item on the news. […] The post 25 Favourite Funny Tweets of the Week appeared first on The Poke.

A former Coronation Street actor announced ‘straight pride month’ and this was surely the only response you need

26 April 2024 @ 9:09 am

Full disclosure – we hadn’t come across Matthew Marsden before but apparently he was in Coronation Street back in the day and had a fleeting pop career before finding his true vocation in America. More recently he’s been in Reacher and has made headlines as an outspoken conservative anti-vaxxer. Which will very possibly come as […] The post A former Coronation Street actor announced ‘straight pride month’ and this was surely the only response you need appeared first on The Poke.

This all-time classic newspaper correction has just gone viral again (and that’s no porkie)

26 April 2024 @ 8:51 am

We’ve featured a whole bunch of newspaper corrections on these pages over the years, like this classic in the Times about an interview they did with the great Michael Rosen. And this one from back in the day. And to this collection we can now add this, not a new one but it was new […] The post This all-time classic newspaper correction has just gone viral again (and that’s no porkie) appeared first on The Poke.

This dad’s most arresting way of stopping a toddler tantrum just won him father of the year

26 April 2024 @ 8:32 am

And the award for father of the year goes to … this dad who had a most arresting method for halting this toddler tantrum in its tracks. The video went viral for reasons which are about to become obvious. @pubity And the father of the year award goes to #Pubity (@Kat Bonny via @collab ♬ […] The post This dad’s most arresting way of stopping a toddler tantrum just won him father of the year appeared first on The Poke.

We regret to inform you that the Telegraph comments page is at it again

26 April 2024 @ 8:13 am

In case you were wondering when the next one would come along, there’s yet another Telegraph column on how dreadful the younger generation is. This one takes a particular swipe at ‘woke’ university students, partly in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests in the US. He may have a point. It’s a well-known fact that university […] The post We regret to inform you that the Telegraph comments page is at it again appeared first on The Poke.

Charli XCX’s lip sync to B*Witched’s C’est La Vie came with a side order of Union Jack WTF-ery

26 April 2024 @ 6:07 am

A 2018 episode of the American entertainment series Lip Sync Battle has left mouths open, eyebrows raised and Irish Twitter/X quite rightly up in arms. It saw singer Charli XCX miming to Irish girl band B*Witched‘s hit C’est La Vie, but the costumes and set decoration were way off the mark. Watch for yourself. charli […] The post Charli XCX’s lip sync to B*Witched’s C’est La Vie came with a side order of Union Jack WTF-ery appeared first on The Poke.

Wes Streeting’s face spoke for us all when this Tory MP asked if Congo is different to Rwanda – 19 top comments

26 April 2024 @ 4:58 am

This week’s Question Time inevitably touched on the Government’s Rwanda policy, just days after they finally got the bill through Parliament. Our second question tonight #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/d4ELkrCEJB — BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) April 25, 2024 One audience member, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, asked the Policing Minister Chris Philp if his family could theoretically […] The post Wes Streeting’s face spoke for us all when this Tory MP asked if Congo is different to Rwanda – 19 top comments appeared first on The Poke.

Andrew Tate said it was gay to enjoy sex with women and was fact checked til he farted

25 April 2024 @ 2:36 pm

Time now to return to the grim personification of the toxic manosphere, Andrew Tate (only for a short while, honest). You might remember it’s only a few days since Tate said men’s ‘genetic potential’ was being stumped ‘by the whims of some singular female,’ suggesting you were a proper loser if you didn’t have at […] The post Andrew Tate said it was gay to enjoy sex with women and was fact checked til he farted appeared first on The Poke.

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