Approved from my side. ✅ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

*laughs maniacally in currency exchangese*

Remove me from this list

Who is this vile slugwort Stourton is interviewing on R4?

I know there are privacy issues with it but if it wasn’t for Trucaller I would have had to field 14 calls from spammers and robots today already. And it’s only just gone 11 o’clock. Maybe I should change my number. My luck, I’d get one that’s recycled from someone who was on even more spam lists.

I genuinely hope Planthony is having a good day today

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion. "Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"

My favourite situational urban myth, at least until I remember some others, is the one where two Cambridge dons are walking down the street and one is overheard saying to the other, "and ninthly...."

Oops.

Wait so he’s going to invade polar land?

Where has the northern hemisphere been on plaids this winter? In or out? I wouldn’t mind a grungy last hurrah before my next birthday, after which I am due to be issued a straggly cardigan, two string vests and a mismatched pair of slippers.

Tech bros and VCs are hilarious. Remember that one time a bunch of them decided their company’s official motto should be ‘Don’t be evil’?

This one I disagree with. One of life's great pleasures is watching Italians being livid over minor changes to recipes, all of which were merely invented, some very recently (Carbonara? 1940s). It's a culture war with zero consequence; given the current state of the world we all need a bit of that.

Seasons pass. Civilizations rise and fall. There is nothing constant in this world. Except Peter Molyneux.

They’re setting a trunk atop two vast legs of stone bro you gotta see it, gonna last forever

Enduring an unexpected series of dentist appointments has not made for the ✨best✨ start to 2026, if I’m being honest. #ow #owowow

Getting all Man in the High Castle thar yonder innit

I do have a name, you know.

On a bit of a wuxia trip at the moment so have been down a medieval Chinese history rabbit hole and my god the period from the end of the Tang Dynasty, through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and into the Song Dynasty was peak af.

The secret to everything, as ever it was and ever will be, is butter.

Riddle me this, Bluesky: What are you supposed to do with ginger preserve? I got some for Christmas but all I’ve managed to come up with so far is adding it to porridge.

LG has a chorebot at CES this year. It can fold towels. If I start saving up now maybe I’ll be able to afford it by the time it figures out how to change duvet covers.

Poor Cliff. First had to be saved by mountain rescuers and now this.

Violence will now ensue. 🤬 Wordle 1,658 X/6* ⬛🟨🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛

Happy New Year everyone.

God I love the English translations of Asterix. And yes, they're the perfect example for why you need humans to actually understand the text and the purpose -- word-for-word translations simply do not work. See: how the initial translation failed, until translators adapted creatively:

I offer this as a contender LOL.

Meteor. Sure. Like we haven’t all seen Dandadan.

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

I've just published a new article about Shogatsu, the New Year in Japan. I've included a selection of traditions for both before and during the new year celebrations, plenty of art, and even a couple of #yokai. I hope you enjoy it. 🎍 open.substack.com/pub/curiouso... #JapaneseFolklore #JapaneseArt

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

Santa, baby, slip a saber under the tree, for me..." "Ho ho ho," laughed Santa. "I think you mean 'sable', little girl." "No," she replied in a whisper, her own naughty and nice list clutched so tightly her knuckles whitened. "Some folks got to get got."

Jacob Marley & Me

What are the stats on kids discovering the solo work Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami laid down pre-Demon Hunters? Cos their stuff is 🔥 🔥 🔥 but it sure as shit ain’t tween-friendly k-pop. youtu.be/qQsYEOzfwEI

up there with this classic:

we do not in fact know what this says but some things transcend language

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

If you begin Star Trek: Voyager episode Spirit Folk at exactly 11:49:35 on New Year's Eve, Ensign Harry Kim will kiss a cow as the clock strikes midnight. Join in a very dumb annual tradition and start 2026 off on the right hoof.

When we watched Andor I was like “oh they fucked with the cloth industry, no wonder the empire failed, that makes sense” and my husband paused the TV to stare at me. But like. I’m right tho.

Do we know what day of the week it is? I’ve heard rumours but it’s hard to trust people on this.

Typografie ist wichtig!

He’s spinning a web Of any size Gonna catch thieves Just like flies Spider-Man is coming to town

Cosmonaut being sent home for being terrible at space espionage is giving The Spy Humungous. #lowerdecks #trek @mikemcmahan.bsky.social www.bgr.com/2052380/why-...