The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn. Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains. No one becomes this rich by working. They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.

2026 is Shueisha's 100th anniversary. An ad today in the Yomiuri Shimbun and Sankei Shimbun newspapers features some of their characters that are over 100 years old: Dorry, Brogy, Tamamo, Sukuna, Vearn, Netero, Yamamoto, Muzan, Geparuto, Uroro, Millennium Earl, Oji, Ryuk, All For One, Kureha, DIO

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

US fines for dirty money drop 61% as Trump retreats from enforcement. Pay-off for political donations by corporations/rich. Convicted criminals pardoned, deregulation accelerated. Is the UK different? Regulators required to promote growth, frauds buried. www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

“We’re gonna just steal all your stuff, without permission, to train our money-making answering machine. Don’t like it? Tough! You’re just a Poor. Come back when you’ve got enough money to sue us.” …That’s the message, is it? Well, the backlash has begun… 😏

Happy New Year everyone! ⭐️🎉 Let this year bring more cursed experiences and bizarre opportunities for all of us!

Trieste Cathedral was built over a Roman temple next to the forum and retains the original mosaic floor. #TilesOnTuesday 🗃️🏺

Unlike @humanists.uk, and your patrons - Suzanne Moore, Ricky Gervais etc - Terry Pratchett was a true humanist, who proudly supported the human rights of trans people. Pratchett would certainly have opposed Moore's call to kill 'trans ideology' (people).

WHOA!! WtF happened?!

Odd that the BBC have adapted a new version of The Fanous Five by putting them specifically into the Second World War - which the books aren't - when The Machine Gunners is right there.

The Amityville Horror Sometimes the TV channels had a strange idea about what movies should be on TV in the afternoon slot on a weekend... I was so scared my legs mottled.

I've seen people reference the claim that RFK Jr. believes the 1918 influenza came from lab research, but since no one provided a link, I was skeptical that even he could be that stupid. Boy, was I wrong. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This message hits hard.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Spot on.

Xmas Day build is complete. The Eagle 5 flies again!

Happy Christmas to all you lovely people in my phone!

I looked this up due to people with the bad faith "we didn't have autism when *I* was young!" We have only been using the word influenza in English for 250 years and the abbreviation flu for less than 200. The Italians have been using it longer but linked the disease to the stars and astrology.

I feel like Pippins constant fuckwittery is the most "Player Character Energy" of all the Fellowship. You think you're Aragorn or Legolas but deep down you know you're all Pippin.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

Okay I figured out why this was bugging me

via The New Yorker, Ellis Rosen cartoon

A little early gift for all of you... KS launching on 01/20/26: SINK YOUR TEETH IN #1. A sapphic vampire noir following Corsica Smith, a disgraced Chicago PI working for scraps, who finds herself embroiled in a dangerous conspiracy. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...

This is a great example of what we're trying to tell you about the breadth of information historians use to do our research.

Someone is going to Hell for this

Tolkien’s Merton College desk fetched £330,200 at auction, almost seven times the estimate. Christies say it is likely that “he managed the proofs of The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King” from the desk: “the roll-top formed part of his daily editorial practice”.

If you love the Welsh language and uninhibited shape-shifting, time-travelling witches, then this is the book for you.

I remember reading how therapists are struggling with helping us in a lot of ways right now because we are reacting normally to the totally hellish nightmare world. Like, if someone is ripping off your fingernails the proper response is to scream.

Remember: Type out "Trump" and put a space at the end.

Hooray its Christmas week!

Had a look at these reels on a Steenbeck and they are a fascinating mix of off-cuts and b-roll from a variety of programmes including #DoctorWho. Due to the large variety of shots I'll share some pics over the coming days, in case anyone can help identify them.

We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.

So if the wheels of a 200000 Euro transport container break and a 20 million Euro satellite spills onto the tarmac, because the machine translation system did not catch that the author of the source text got "brake" and "break" mixed up, hey, at least you saved a few hundred bucks for a translator.

“I trust my immune system. I don’t need a vaccine.” Ok, I trust mine to protect me too. Which is why I trained it extensively on what the virus looks like so it can handle it. Boxers don’t enter the ring without a plan. It’s the punch you don’t see coming that knocks you out.

#FilmSky #LOTR The large scale ‘one ring’ prop used for close up shots in the Lord Of The Rings film franchise:

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

a lot of cis ppl think transphobia is hard to navigate but it isn't really. if you wouldn't say something about a gay or lesbian person then don't say it about a trans person. that's a pretty simple rule of thumb.

I'd missed this until the indie RPG newsletter linked to it - Cannibal Halfling writes on the OSR onion structure and compares and contrasts how you can view Burning Wheel and DIE RPG's structure tweaking the layers, both putting character at the centre. Er... that's not the best paraphrase.

In the sixth largest economy, millions of Britons rely on food banks. No curbs on profiteering. Energy prices up 44% since 2021-22. Thousands of people can't afford heating, rely on community ‘warm spaces’. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Govts appease the rich.

Every single day someone finds a new and innovative way to be a cunt at us 😂

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

why use AI placeholder when the perfect placeholder already exists

Published by the National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company in 1917, this little book's pages are entirely blank. More on it here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/why-women-should-not-vote

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Éomersmith #LotRCoverBand

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Tolkien Heads