I'd expect nothing less from this part of philistine grifters. They claim to support "British cultcha" but they wouldn't know it if it roughed them up outside a Wetherspoons.

It is cold and heckin wimdy and I don't WANNA go for my silly little walk today!

If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online. Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.

Remember just 11 months ago when everyone said "Oh, this stuff about annexing Greenland is just a distraction, Trump's not really going to DO it"?

Maybe this is what happened - someone told Trump he should "take Mounjaro" and his geriatric brain misunderstood.

Grok: shit-for-brains edgelord as a service.

Since we're all reminiscing about the early 00s: The news of the invasion of Iraq broke for me in a trashed living room full of half-naked friends and lovers, the morning after a sex party, crashing into our hangovers. "Well, end of the world, then." "Yeah. Wanna fuck?"

yup. if you want a good read of a guy just ask him what his view of trans women is. it's not a perfect test but it'll give you an idea.

"This is our last territorial claim in the Americas"

Reminded of the bit in the West Wing where a scientist is asked "is this our first death from climate change?" "it's certainly a death from climate change. But I doubt it's the first."

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you. I am Juvenile Onset Hashimoto's, Slayer of Thyroids, Destroyer of Metabolisms, Wrecker of Childhoods. Tremble before my autoimmune might.

Trump AI-generated himself a battleship

Down another leg of the Trousers of Time, horseboys on cowback are herding stallions across the Wild West.

Why is eggnog not A Thing in the UK? Sure, there's advocaat, but not fresh eggnog in the dairy aisle.

Why does nowhere seem to sell normal fishcakes any more? It's all "melting middle artisan wensleydale and artichoke stuffed koi carp fish cakes". I just want fishcakes! Bit of fish, bit of potato, breadcrumbs.

"Grooming [...] is in many cases a racist crime" is just flat out untrue. Even if we just look at the so-called "Muslim grooming gang" cases, they weren't targeting girls from outside their community *because* they were (mostly) white, it was because they were easier targets.

Is the term "heritage American" being used because they can't say "native"?

I SCREAMED www.instagram.com/reel/DSaex-X...

That Lewis Capaldi ad for Android AI where he prompts fake dating profile photos is so disgusting. Was there no woman in the pitch meeting to point out that using fake images is dishonest and manipulative, not qualities most people look for in a relationship?

Increasingly wondering if the sleazy talentless "author" in Leonard & Hungry Paul was based on David Walliams.

This is rather lovely. Ignore the dickhead reply guys in the comments who think they can make up a better ending to a fable than Joanne fucking Harris.

I knew the 'AI-in-everything' business reminded me of something...

My occasional reminder to Americans that in British slang, "trump" means fart.

It is a beautiful day in the village...

British version of this is multiple different preparations of potatoes on one plate, because is it really Christmas if it doesn't involve roast *and* mashed?

Plaques matter. A few yrs ago for @hyperallergic.com, I wrote on the import of museum labels. hyperallergic.com/can-art-muse... The reports on the new plaques written by Trump for the presidential portraits are worrying—but the political silence is even scarier 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

I'm delighted to announce that I'll be co-editing a special issue of Gothic Studies: Arctic Gothic with Monica Germanà and Sara Wasson. Check out the CFP here: www.globalgoth.org/blog/arctic-...

It is now theoretically possible to be the Man Who Shopped for a Liberty Valance.

Trump flat-out saying that Rob Reiner and his wife were executed by MAGA thugs. I'd akk what the fuck is wrong with him, but I'm pretty sure we can all make an educated guess.

Tiny Tommy Tennames and his Christo-fascist pals get really pissed off if you point out that Jesus was a refugee.

I am SEETHING with rage at the suggestion that Muppets do not have souls and I - as a often cited expert on ghosts - have set the record straight. I will fight people on this. www.theghostgeek.com/p/in-defence...

Oh no. By all accounts a lovely guy. And The Princess Bride is a movie that will live in my heart forever. So awful.

Wait, hang on, the pre-bomb bits of Fallout (TV series) are set in the 2070s not the 1950s? Even though the fashion, architecture, attitudes, politics and gender roles are all quintessentially 1950s? What the flip happened to make society regress like that?

Want a glimpse into my spooky lil soul? Check out my wishlist. wishlist.com/l/WJgloe

This is literally the opposite of why the term "birthing person" is used. It's not that all women are birthing people, it's that not all people who give birth are women. Did she skip class the day they taught Venn diagrams?

I did speak to Graham directly. I sat down with him with a coffee. We both talked peacefully without anger. He still calls me an "abuser" a "Stalinist" & mutters my name to his baffled mob who then sigh & nod like they've any clue who I am. It's not true that he's different if only they'd talk.

RIP the Queen of the Aga Saga. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Are we not doing phrasing anymore?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "The few trans people I have encountered are discreet. They [..] do not march for “trans rights”. They understand that they are exceptional & that it will take time for many others to accept them". Get tae fuck. Civil rights are won by struggle, not patience.

My masseur put on Best of the Eagles as the ambient music during my session today and now I'm horribly earwormed with tedious AOR.

My spicy socialization take is that we mostly use the phrase "female socialization" to refer to raising someone to be a people-pleaser so they don't get hit, and as people constantly at risk of getting hit, trans femmes receive it as much as anyone else

Why is Trump seizing Venezuelan oil tankers now? Is the oil made of cocaine? Or was the "war on drugs" just a front for American expansionism and an oil grab? Make it make sense!

Seconded, had it 20 years ago, shingles suuuuucks! Excruciatingly painful and can lead to scarring, nerve damage and sensory loss (depending on the area affected).

Maybe if TERFs stopped bringing vexacious legal cases to try to hound trans people out of public life, we wouldn't have such a massive jury trial backlog.

Finally got age verification to recognise me as human, so I can get messages.

Snacks assigned at birth.

Is there a non-gendered honoric equivalent to sir/ma'am/miss to use in situations where that's expected? Or should we just be dropping these outdated courtesies anyway?

Saw a kid doing the 6-7 "dance" (it's really more of a gesture, isn't it?) in a shopping centre yesterday. First sighting in the wild. I thought Starmer's attempt had killed that meme stone dead?