Pray you never have to know the desperation of displacement or homelessness. It sucks. Refugees deserve RESPECT not just safe harbour.

seems bad

Just remembered that time Rishi asked the Royal Mint to make a special British NFT & started laughing again

This is tremendously short-sighted - if you don't hire junior people, where are your experienced, senior people going to come from in 10 years' time?

It used to be so much easier on the internet. You’d have a video of a dramatic chipmunk and everyone would agree it was perfect but then you could add a little lightsaber to him and everyone would go huzzah now the text is even richer

SEE HOW CAESER DRAPES HIMSELF IN THE TRAPPINGS OF IMPERIAL POWER!

My first ever game "i will strangle a horse" has recieved its first substantial update! 7 new ways to die! many more silly choices! Ladder Amnesia! free to play right here and right now! brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran... #textadventure #indiegame

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

we're gonna need a bigger trireme

oh my god, big swig of tea, immediate coughing fit. there was nothing i could do

Roman-era *any horror film* and I'm sold

god remember when that person said that Romans didn't know about sharks? just remembered suddenly and can't stop giggling

Something lovely to start the week! 🐙🏺❤️ Ancient clay pots with octopus decoration, made by artisans from Bronze Age Crete some 3,500 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

theres a whole bunch of cultures that don't do rings to mark marriage but do do necklaces for the purpose, so do only Christians get to keep wedding jewelry or

Refugees have often smuggled valuables so that they aren’t completely destitute on arrival at their destination. Sewing coins or jewelry into clothing as a nest egg for starting a new life. This is deliberate impoverishment followed by complaints about dependence on state resources.

www.youtube.com/shorts/JGJaf... Look at this beaver yawn

I don’t really like showcasing AI. Ironic usage is still usage. The clocks this one is putting out though are just so spectacularly fucked. And people think these things are going to save the world. My god. Come onnnnn.

this looks fun! good to see something new from Gore Verbinski, a weirdly underrated filmmaker considering how many massive movies he's done

man i ate some pecans thinking maybe i might be over the thing where i eat pecans and they give me a headache, but no, here comes the headache

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

I'm sure you guys are all great at shopping like normal ppl but I wish I could remind some folks: Take bags, or at least don't kick off at having to pay for one. That's been the law for 10 years now. Don't fucking haggle, you're not Indiana Jones You're not The Protagonist. Neither's your kids.

Yes, fantasy is very much in the ascendant over SF right now, but it all becomes a bit self-fulfiling if retailers won't take open-goal opportunities to promote SF because they've decided readers aren't interested.

What I find odd about this: it's basically a Christmas gift list, and is therefore Waterstones' opportunity to promote books. So why not tell people about SF novels they may not have heard of? It's not like they have limited space, they could easily have recommended another five or ten books.

Good morning. We were apparently looking for that cormorant who dove and disappeared about two years ago. Weirdly it’s still not there.

name changed. you have to believe that 'Ewa' rhymes with 'Treasure'. don't worry it's temporary until i find a better one

Wish you could turn off RTs. Some posts just aren’t made for them.

#BBCNews inexplicably just went live to this like it was a breaking news story which backfired pretty quickly because Sally Philips said FUCK and they had to apologise

Me, asleep on a plane, being woken up by the attendant asking if I want a bag of nuts

Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc

Anti Romantasy this, Anti Romantasy that, well your AUNTIE* is going to love my fantasy romcom (if she likes LGBT+ romcoms & Tudor-set urban fantasy) *pronounced the the Northern English, Welsh or American way farragobooks.com/book/cursed-...

ABIIIIIIII

all i'm saying is there are market research companies other than Himmler, Himmler & Göring

"we need to tax wealth probably." "best i can do is milkshakes and robbing every refugee who arrives"

Pope Leo said you should chill out

All the pairings which the narrative tries to get you root for end up with completely different people for apparently no reason, and are all very miserable about it. So basically every ship is sunk by canon. ^^

i infer that it’s anti-romance AND anti-fantasy, so it’s probably shirley valentine except she never goes to greece to bang tom conti

Or maybe the opposite of fantasy is something set in an incredibly mundane world? Exactly like our world in every way. Not even an unlikely coincidence to liven things up.

as romance requires some sort of happy ending (depending on the author and subgenre what this means is weird and convoluted) i am assuming it cannot therefore be a romance, and if it's not fantasy then it is, what, sci fi? so i'm assuming this is hard sci fi

There’s a local firm who have custom plates on their vans, with the last three letters HOT, TAP etc

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Day7 M4 Tamawashi 4-2 (L) Yz Hōshōryū 4-2 (R) Love it! That shared look mid-bout - Are we doing this?! #kyushubasho2025

Day8 M3 Ura 3-4 (L) Yz Hōshōryū 5-2 (R) Pink magic takes many forms 🤗. Ura has a decent record vs Hoss, but has only faced him once so far as a yokozuna #kyushubasho2025

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

look at this little CLOUD

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

So many dog action shots

People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.