If the past really is a foreign country I’m surprised so many right-wingers want to live there.

Roll out, Troops! The Genetic Infantryman has landed! deadline.com/2026/04/rogu...

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🎵Robert! Robert the bear! Everyone knows his name.🎵

But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness

New UK plan to reduce oil dependence following Iran war to be revealed tomorrow, including: * speeding up plan to encourage the rapid take-up of solar & electric vehicles * expanding the use of solar on public land * delinking gas and electricity prices www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Do you live in the UK? Are you registered to vote in next month's elections? If not, you'd better get a move on, as tomorrow is the last day you can register. Fortunately, it's easy to do online. www.gov.uk/register-to-... 🗳️

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

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This will likely be me in a few short decades... "Oh, hello officer. Sorry.... um... you don't know how to defeat this guy do you?"

satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz

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Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

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

In the UK we call them lifts but in the US they call them elevators, because we’re raised differently.

Give a cannibal a dead scientist and he'll eat faraday...

Please enjoy this amazing freeze frame from Liara’s bathtub incident last night

Sharon Osborne was ▶️an immigrant into the USA in the late 1970s ▶️an immigrant into Ireland in the mid 1990s ▶️an immigrant into the USA again from 2002 to 2005 ▶️and then again from 2010 to 2020 She has been an immigrant for approx 48 of her 73 years www.nme.com/news/tv/shar...

July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.

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Happy #BaconButtyFriday everyone! 🥓🙂

Once again: who could possibly have guessed Peter Mandelson's appointment might have backfired. Oh wait, loads of us.

"If you should see it with with thine own eyes, say it with thine own voice, and lo, it shall be sorted"

Soooo... you're complaining about the noise from a nightclub that's been open for forty years when you bought a flat opposite eight years ago? Why am I unsurprised this guy is a property developer? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Zoë is a very cool person, and an excellent musician. You should all definitely follow her work! 🙂

The unmistakable voice of JD Vance: "Forgive me father, for I have sinned..." Priest: "Hoo boy..." *cancels afternoon appointments*

Interrupting cow: no one’s taken me seriously since I featured in that knock-knock joke Therapist: and how does that make you f... Interrupting cow: not great doc, not great

Well, this was worth waiting for Bluesky to start working again! 😂

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I mean, they could at least give us a #FailWhale to look at... 🙄

Listening to In Our Time on #BBCRadio4 discussing Escher, and I'm reminded of this classic from the New Yorker

I mean, they could at least give us a #FailWhale to look at... 🙄

Listening to In Our Time on #BBCRadio4 discussing Escher, and I'm reminded of this classic from the New Yorker

Netflix should really have got this back on a week ago 🙂

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

again I ask the youth to go read anything about the history of the music industry in america because it's all been like this for 100 years now

useful reminder from Private Eye

"My home is a Grade II Listed building," a local writes *in their objection to an expansion of a cancer hospital*. "The development would cause significant harm to its setting, character and historic significance, contrary to the statutory duty to preserve listed buildings and their surroundings."

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God grant me the confidence of a man schooling the Pope in theology.

This was my "Is there a doctor of philosophy on the plane?" moment.

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Clicked over to a Threads post of mine at a fortuitous time

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

£200 a night for what looks like a really nice city-centre hotel is an absolute bargain.

Spring/summer live dates are here! Even if we have to wait for the weather to catch up…🌦️ All info www.kaylapainter.com/instagram

The Telegraph are now *literally* threatening us with a good time! 🙂