I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?

The cool thing about having a political world view that's not a weird personality cult tied to one old man is that there's no one so integral to your policy preferences that whether or not to overlook and conceal their complicity in mass paedophilia is a hard choice. I really recommend it.

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

There is no earthly reason why this abomination should have ever been conceived, let alone developed and marketed. And even less rational justification for it being so unfathomably delicious or utterly addictive. It is crack in a bottle and must be regulated, before the whole country is lost to it.

The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025. Probably should add: '(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise' to cover most cats

Online Finance discourse be like

Having carefully calculated that there is absolutely nothing in the budget, floated, mooted or recommended that isn't going to hit me (rightly, though less rightly for some options) I'd just like the love shared a bit so real money got raised and the country visibly got better as a result.

Oh. This is going to go well

Who was the guido fawks alumnus who bragged he was too stupid to catch a train at euston? Cqn he team up with noah smith to do a travel doc?

idea for the BBC if it survives: Bloggers Race Across The World you CAN get planes because you are very special, but you must navigate entirely without asking people for help

On Her Majesty's Secret Service Bhat 'At

Trump is incredibly unpopular here! including amongst Tory voters. What are they doing?

Sing muse of a man who should get into the wine dark sea

I think the almost zealous commitment to 'Lore' and 'The Canon' that has risen over the past decade is the most frustrating and restrictive cultural movement we've seen, on par with how streaming means no one commissions tv beyond one series at a time anymore.

Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.

Fun fact: Gordon Lightfoot wrote the song first, and then sank the Edmund Fitzgerald himself in what has come to be recognized as one of the first viral marketing stunts

50 years www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT...

TBH that would be a significant softening of their current stance

What is going on with bluesky lables?

Ah, the first Freudian chip.

I'm hearing that the new BBC editorial policy is to ask "grok, is this true" after every news item.

But her legend lives on...

Fifty years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her final voyage.

Is it: "What the hell have I done with my life?"

My annual post about how the Morning Star reported the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 hatfulofhistory.com/2014/11/07/h...

*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man Why are people

This on the right is one of worst elements of legacy Thatcher brain, as if there is no difference between cutting tax from a top rate of 83% and of 45%

You have people on the left who are essentially making the argument that George Osborne was right to starve the beast, because "billionaires" should be paying for everything instead; we're comprehensively fucked

I made a “how do you do, fellow kids?” joke to someone in their mid 20s who, it turns out, was too young to have heard of that meme. So “how do you do, fellow kids?” is now an example of “how do you do, fellow kids?”

I couldn't be a mainstream journalist these days. One day you're doing a completely normal interview with an actress and suddenly thousands of poorly socialised weirdos are getting the callipers out to say you're biologically pre-destined to be a HR officer

The geordie accent in that one episode of castle

applying for jobs again

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

There is literally like infinity money going into solar and batteries. Most of the fight being put up here is NIMBYism, culture warrior stuff, coal producers using the state, private/state utilities making things hard. Like Trump just cancelled one of the biggest solar projects

[87% mamdani canvassers are women] male loneliness epidemic? try canvassing! [update] I’d like to clarify i was not implying women should gather and be hunted by suitors like xenophon’s gymnopaedia, this was a reasonable and Normal way to intercept my post. I apologize for my misstatement

If the wrapper did not split, you must acquit!

Schrodingers ciabatta

Defense begins, “This case, ladies and gentlemen, is about a sandwich. A sandwich that according to Agent Lairmore somehow both exploded on his chest in a spray of mustard and onions but also landed intact on the ground still in its Subway wrapper.”

ICE won't allow communion to be given in detention centers because demons quail and shiver at the divine presence in the Host.

racist tradcath has to be seen, I think, as its own form of heresy

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

You know how we think its a bit weird when us politicians hace views on sasiq kahn being mayor of london? Well its fine for that to go both ways

A nation wakes up and says "wait, we made WHO president? FOR A SECOND TIME?!"

Sure the sandwich guy didn't actually hurt that cop, but that was because he was propelling the sandwich by hand, what if he'd had a sub machine gun

Its officially that time.