New Ea-nasir just dropped.

This is called evolution by natural selection. It's pretty famous.

Your occasional reminder that Ricky Gervais posed for this, so you never have to listen to him about anything.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Thinking about the Epstein paedophile rape gang and being Irish I reflect on the Catholic paedophile rape gang that preyed upon the children of this country for decades. Is this the inevitable outcome of unaccountable power? Does everyone with a conscience get filtered out of power structures?

My fave Kubrick anecdote: David Prowse on acting in A Clockwork Orange: 'So you want me to carry Patrick Magee, who weighs 17Olbs, plus the wheelchair, another 30lbs, so 200lbs, down the stairs & then do a dialogue scene?' 'Yeah, you can do it.' 'I know but your name isn't One Take Kubrick, is it?'

Hard to wrestle with the fact that the world really IS run by a shadowy cabal of paedophiles. It's like the Loch Ness monster strolled out of the water and held a press conference.

This sounds stupid. But things like this make me wish heaven was real.

God grant me the confidence of a little old Dublin lady barging up the inside of a bus queue, elbows out, teeth bared.

Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

The lyrics to Thunderball make the guy sound like one of those tools on The Apprentice. ‘I always run while others walk, Lord Sugar. I act while other men just talk.’

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Me: (a new vampire) I still kinda want a hotdog

The more obvious it is he shouldn't go, the more condescending the insistence that he must. Also, if the "cautious" option is meeting with a fascist leader who stands by while citizens are executed on the street, what does that say about your politics?

we call our cat Harold Pinter because of his long paws!!! also he had an affair with Joan Bakewell

* rising slowly, wringing cap between shaking hands * I think those little electronic signs that tell you when the bus is coming should have accurate information about when the bus is coming.

Back to goose-stepping around his apartment alone, occasionally banging his head off the coffee table.

I got fooled by someone who is famous for being a conman until it was too late. Here’s why that’s actually smarter than seeing it coming:

The media should cover sport the way they cover the state murder of civilians: ‘Jannik Sinner appeared to win the French Open yesterday after what supporters say was a comeback from being two sets down.’

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

Villains in The Night Manager: 'Come. Let us discuss our incredibly illegal arms deal in the hotel lobby using our outdoor voices.'

I see Liz Lemon has started posting on /r/AskHistorians.

I’ve lost my thesaurus. I've lost it. It's lost.

This is one of my favourite gags. www.youtube.com/shorts/u1hzR...

Do you ever add a job to your job list that wasn't on the list before, even though you've just done the job so technically it doesn't need to be added but you like the feeling of crossing it off anyway

I hate when The Traitors goes to penalties.

One of my favourite things in Traitors is when someone whose existence has barely registered goes ‘What’s the fiendish logic behind keeping ME alive?’

* SELF-PROMOTION ALARM *

At least we have clarity now about America. It’s like there’s a neighbour down the street and people say he’s a nice guy but you’ve always thought he was a bit odd, then one day everyone sees him naked and waving a sword around in a shopping centre car park, screaming about the hamster people.

Remember when we used to say 'Surely now ...?' about Trump. * sighs, shakes head * We were so young.

cool name why’s it called that

James Bond only does extreme weather. You never see him mooching about on an overcast day, wondering if it will rain.

'Sugar is crucial for healthy teeth,' said Harris, after his visit to Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

I can’t believe I have to have a real job when all I really want to do is go around solving mysteries with my capybara sidekick who sits in the sidecar of my motorcycle wearing little goggles.

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

‘We had a great meeting. The Prime Minister jingled a bunch of keys, perhaps the greatest bunch of keys in history. Beautiful keys, incredible. People say they’ve never seen that kind of jingling for any President, ever.’

I hate this so much. Every time I see it I go 'Hey, I don't remember saying that', like Homer when Bart drew a speech bubble on his photo.

Heard a lad earlier talking about ‘Belgian whistles’ “A basic website costs 10k or 25k upwards if you want all the Belgian whistles” BELGIAN WHISTLES

My friend's Dad doesn't know who Cookie Monster is and referred to him as COLD ELMO.

'The time has come for me to reveal that I haven't been entirely honest with you all. I'm not an accountant.' * Faithful and Traitors gasp * 'I amuh, inuh fact, I say, I amuh Benoit Blanc, the World's Greatest Detective and so forth!'

You're getting warmer, God.

This is the funniest shirt ever to be wearing during a “man on the street” local news interview. 🤣 I had to rewind multiple times for screenshots. I’m dead

What’s all this ‘Welcome, everyone joining from X’? If you were on X until a couple of days ago, fuck you.

Charlie: thank you so much! I'm gonna call it Chaz Bucket's Chocolate Fuck Hut Willy Wonka: I have changed my mind

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.