It's party conference time so Starmer is taking a few days off from trying to appeal to racists

Nobody reads anymore, also everyone except you has read everything

took me five minutes, but here is an explanation: “man, this cover of that Tom waits song absolutely slaps, we should use it for the title.” Then (fateful moment) “there’s a bunch of covers of it, we should switch season by season. Okay, the og is pick of the bunch, let’s use that now for season 2”

I've sometimes wondered whether copyright law prevents other people from putting up unpaywalled versions of these papers but when I've tried looking it up I haven't been able to get a straightforward answer

Anyone know who the Australia team is riding for in the big cycling race today? I think Vine might be a reasonable outside bet but there's no point picking him if he's just going to be a superdomestique for Hindley

I've never had a personal assistant but I didn't think their main job was presenting me with a custom-generated set of stuff I might be interested in every morning

having a bad birthday month is not a moral failing. we need to nurture and care for our friends who suffer under the ignominy of being born during a busted time of year

This article seems to feature a gif of a boat with people on it being blown up, just looping round and round while you try to read the story. Is that what NBC think people want

Somehow, Hollande returned

Well don't I feel stupid

Watching Signs. Does it suck? I don't even know anymore

The first time I came across a plastic microwave food cover it was in French packaging for some reason and so I refer to the one I've since bought as a "cloche micro-ondes"; I always knew that loanwords existed but I never thought I'd be the person to import one myself

Is the reason why geek-rock musicians wear overshirts and avuncular emeritus professors wear cardigans that it's hard to pull jumpers on and off while you're wearing glasses

Congratulations to the UK and Taiwan for ranking hobbies above occupation

I guess the only thing for it is for Labour voters to tactically defect to the Greens

Have these guys ever met a Fabian? We're like the anglers of socialists. Not interesting enough for a stereotype to develop

"Nobody wants to work". Au contraire. Too many people want to work. It makes life miserable for the rest of us, having to put up the facade, having to adopt grind and hustle mindset and pretend boring business bullshit is what we want most out of life.

I mean I'm not a meteorologist but I'm guessing yes?

This. On everything. Forever.

I have a forthcoming paper in Phil Imprint! It's an attempt to reconstruct Suhrawardī’s theory of imagination. Please admire the insane Figure 1 (it took me hours!!). philpapers.org/rec/HADIAI

I was reading an NDPR review the other day and Paul Boghossian dropped the bombshell that "there really is considerable empirical evidence that something like the Augustinian picture [of linguistic meaning] is correct in rough outline"; say it isn't so

this would fix me

I wonder if I can reach 0 followers on here with off-putting skeets

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

Yes sir we're chanting "Release the Earhart Files"

I only listen to LCD Soundsystem in December because I like their Christmas song; sounds like I've been missing out

one time I accidentally brought a pizza to a gunfight instead of a gun and we ate the pizza and resolved differences until the last slice of pizza was up for grabs and a gunfight broke out

I bit my dentist today. Wasn't even getting a checkup at the time, I just saw him at the supermarket

Taking the L. If you see Trump II as an experiment in what boundaries to push, the result here is that speech restrictions are a losing battle, and nobody has to comply in advance.

i've literally never angered so many residents of new mexico. i had no idea this was like the only thing going on in their lives

Rachel Reeves, welcome to the resistance.

one of my coworkers confessed to using ChatGPT to help her when she was down & I took her by the shoulders & said "GIRL YOU LITERALLY COULD HAVE TEXTED ~ME~" and her eyes grew wide & she started crying I'm literally real & I'll help you make the WORST decisions while telling you you're beautiful

How close are we talking here? Should I count that one cashier who sometimes says Hi back to me if he's not too busy with a customer, or just real friends like SpideySuitAtTheRenFaire and ohno_matter_peeer from the crossword twitch?

CHOTINER: Record shows you didn’t post a Chotiner meme until Thursday? ME: That’s correct. CHOTINER: That seems unusual. Wouldn’t you say you usually jump on all the viral ‘bits?’ ME: I’d say so, but I had lots of work to do yesterday. CHOTINER: So, that work is done now?

This is what unity looks like.

Trump: Where do women keep Tylenol? Staffer: I guess kitchen cabinets, bathroom vanities and associated products.

Sure but for those seven days my hot tub was pretty darn desalinated

breast pocket is too close to the armhole

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

It's not easy being a great band's fourth best album

I don't really think of 'mere' as an obscure word because when I was a child they constructed an artificial pond near me and I was told it was called Cubbin's Mere, but looking into it now I'm wondering if my parents may have made the name up themselves

Me whenever people start talking about declining fertility rates or gender relations

Going to Specsavers this morning to pick up my first ever pair of prescription glasses, so I'm looking forward to finally having the fabled "so that's what everyone else has been seeing all this time" moment

Good question! One theory I had about why Brits got so grumpy about EU regulations was that the British way is to have a few rules which we adhere to meticulously, whereas the continental way is to have a lot of rules and largely ignore them, so British adherence to a European rule-set caused >>

One of the only things we know for sure about the Sea Peoples is from a partial hieroglyphic of a chicken and a roost. It trails off as the inscriber was dying at the time, but it clearly says “we had it coming”

Apparently the usual fee for the Super Bowl halftime show is zero to nominal www.si.com/nfl/how-much...

Hey look he's wearing glasses like serious-mode Dave Bautista does

basic white girls (me) next week when ms. swift drops a party album just as we hit peak autumn

Aren't opportunities supposed to make things easier