My inner monologue on reading this was literally: "Oh? Ooooohhhhh...!" It's a good joke when it takes the perfect amount of time for the penny to drop :)

I was today years old when I learned "Draconian" has nothing to do with dragons and am unaccountably sad about this development

That weary feeling when you're asked to perform *another* efficiency drive: the French call it DOGE vu

At the Young V&A with my 5 year old, and I love this place but there was a huge school group in. Struck me how just a few people being destructive can ruin things for everyone, not only because of their actions but because it makes destruction the only engagement option for everyone else, too.

The original post in this thread has both replies and quotes turned off, but the scary message for the future of Britain is that the Greens are, as ever, a crank magnet. Meanwhile Labour are a catastrophic disappointment & still nobody trusts the Lib Dems anymore.

There's a certain irony that this is more of a "bad homeopathy take" than a "bad medical take" 🤣

Glad I got all my flowers planted just before the massive *hail* storm...

The more Ilan Wurman says "prominent law professors" the more it sounds like a coded warning and one day we'll regret not heeding it

The more Ilan Wurman says "prominent law professors" the more it sounds like a coded warning and one day we'll regret not heeding it

Trump: Snap! Vance: That's a 5 and an 8, sir Trump: Who has all the cards, Vince? Vance (passing him the pile): You do, sir. You do...

The crowd around him cheers and yeets Their copies of the works of Keats. Those who need a bit more welly Threaten him with (Mary) Shelley

Trailer for a new "The Thing" sequel just dropped

Dear political commentators: stop ducking pretending he's planning anything rather than reacting. I realise it's less column inches, but *that* may be the point...

Happy "American Pi" day

I'll admit this variation on the theme made me chuckle

Yeah, but it's "pigeon chess": Knocking over the pieces, crapping on the board, then rejoining the flock to declare victory

Don't make me defend Noem's intelligence...

Happy #KidLitArtPostcard day! I have wool (and cats) on the brain just now! See more of my work here: 🌐 NicolaSchofield.com I'm repped by the fantastic @sallymkim.bsky.social at @andreabrownlit.bsky.social #kidlitart #illustration

Worth a long read!

😮 "Donald Trump was anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth”

Manual device

Still up on the official White House website: www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

Can't let the warring interrupt the golfing

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

We should round up all the people who keep making this argument and put them in a chamber filled with 100% oxygen. I'll even be nice and remove all sources of ignition to prevent accidents

The persistent use of the euphemism "detention camp" in this is an interesting editorial choice given the mid-article paragraph saying "this meets the dictionary definition of 'concentration camp' "

Took me far too long to realise how devious a joke this is:

"Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate." www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

Haven't the "divorced widows" suffered enough?

One can only hope!

I thought this was going to be one of "we can't express right wing opinions" rants, without ever saying *which* opinions. But no... The 2nd paragraph is a doozy! It's a real sign of the times that people can and do openly say they want their country to be like Nazi Germany

Wednesday.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

Seeing some criticism of Superbowl Vs Turning Point/US admin turning malicious in a way that doesn't support the people who'll want to boycott the World Cup and create their own entertainment around it in a few months. /Sad face

*looking at the Mona Lisa* there is no way a turtle painted this

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Jaw, meet floor

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond.

Looking for ideas for a company sweepstake to run in place of our usual World Cup one

Television is 100 years old today! 🎉

"but, but, editorial balance" I cried as the water lapped at my ankles

Yesterday, I awoke to news of another ICE killing in MN. On Bluesky, the conversation was deeply critical of ICE. But I wanted to see how things were going on X. Surprisingly, the attempts there to blame the victim weren't getting as much traction as I suspected. So I wrote a thing.

stuff like this, etc

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Usha Vance should demonstrate how safe Minnesota is by walking calmly in broad daylight through the suburbs past an ICE contingent

"Competing to be the most accommodating is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination"

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure