Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

BLAZING SADDLES was released 52 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great comedies of the 1970s, and among the most popular of director Mel Brooks, the story of how it was made is a cascading waterfall of creative alternatives... 1/36

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People who are clever, kind and funny are also very attractive! shocker

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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

“The Night Train”, 1894 Lionel Walden (American, 1861-1933)

Oh I'm sure the Good Billionaires will ride in any minute now and fuck the Bad Billionaires up.

America, come on now, how many 'meds' did you REALLY neck?

seen this @drdsm.bsky.social?

Just saying, casually, that I renewed my over-70s driving licence earlier using QR codes, weird whatever, phone shit, setting up an account, installing, self-photographing, some fucking chip thing on my passport AND having to retype some stupid password saved somewhere else - where's my FUCKING OBE?

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

WaPo laying off entire Middle East team

Woodland Prayer, 1915 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25771

Fifteen years ago on this very day, I made this low quality photoshop of a photo I took in 2002, and somehow it became a meme. You’re welcome.

This, involving the internet's favourite moany bastard @quantick.bsky.social, is must-hear radio. Politicians changing parties WHATEVER NEXT. Brilliant Rosie Holt stars, Quant co-writes and as I typed those words the sun shone through the window. Come the fuck on! Laugh!

Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Breakfast starts: birdsong, some little fucker going "weugh! weugh! weugh!" SHUT UP then GOD what is this going "weh-weh, weh-weh, weh-weh" oh we know don't we Philip FUCKING Glass SHUT UP oh good it's Chopin going "bibbly-dribbly-wibbly" FUCK OFF oh an ad for R3 please let me get to Bach Before 7.

Twin Peaks: Agent Cooper.

Just heard that everyone who's seen 'Melania' has pledged, so we are in hyper mode now, comrades.

This is tremendous. Barely controlled anger. God these fucking people.

Love Poem https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-hofmann/love-poem-1962

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same. 100% same.

AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.

I'm blocking and reporting myself at this point.

Make. It. Stop.

QUEEN EMILY LIND.

Thank God at least ONE of you is taking this all seriously. Come on, don't stay on the DEATH LIST.

You heard. Five thousand. Ha ha ha. BUT. If 1 in 3 of my Bluesky followers promised (not even 'coughed up' but 'pledged to cough up') to risk the equivalent of TWO LONDON PINTS, we'd be on! And let me know if you do, I can't see a list of backers on the site. HAVE I TOLD YOU LATELY THAT I LOVE YOU?

what the fuck is wrong with people

I'm beginning - as so often - to regret this whole sorry fuckabout.

True. They do have a podcast though: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... 😁

oh of course there's a Substack, there's always a Substack...

Is there a podcast for Lord of the Rings fans called Tolkien Heads? I for one wouldn't listen to it, because it would be fucking insufferable, but still. Tolkien Heads.🔥

Bad Bunny at the other end of the red carpet with his knob hanging out of his fly

It's sometimes hard to convey just how nuts it is that in this pathetic gilded age, the most 'successful' human on the planet is also, right out there in public, one of its most ridiculous losers

If Trump gets his way, Cuba's going back to 1958, pre-Castro. A gambling, entertainment and prostitution economy brutally managed by organised crime. And somehow that would absolutely be the signature legacy of this heaving fucking pus-filled leather bladder, wouldn't it?

The remarkable Vivian Maier was born on 1 February 1926.

CYCLOPS #1 drops in ten days. Made with passion, respect, and a whole lot of care.

This shit hits like a sledgehammer right now. It's not even remotely an exaggeration.

Neighbourhood kitchen here lads.

Afternoon

Vivian Maier New York, 1959

As it’s LGBTQ+ History Month I thought I’d share some bits from my new book Tales of the Suburbs: LGBTQ+ Lives Behind Net Curtains (out in mid March) just to give a flavour of what was going on beyond the privet…