After a trial over the last few years, Ireland has launched a permanent scheme giving a basic income of €325 a week for artists. 2,000 will be eligible, and successful recipients will be chosen at random from applicants, who must be "professional artists" (definition tbc).

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

Who is the rogue staffer responsible for the offensive meme that appeared on Trump's social media? The suspect probably has a history of posting deranged content in the middle of the night, somehow has access to Trump's account, and is a massive racist piece of shit. The mystery continues.

Marina Hyde saying what every woman is thinking www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Please, my magic bean, it is very sick

Huge plaudits to @financialtimes.com which has led the way on exposing Mandelson and has also done great reporting on the corruption of Trump. What a contrast to @thetimes.com which did a soft interview with Mandy and has been hopeless on Trump

Fact of the day: When Trump met Melania at a party in 1998 he was with his then girlfriend Celina Midelfart - and honestly, if you're British, it feels like the whole thing was scripted by Mike Myers...

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Happy 3 year anniversary to this post

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Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit

Victoria Beckham at Brooklyn Beckham’s wedding

I feel like America plotting to annex Greenland while masked state goons terrorise their own communities at will should encourage British press and politicians to reflect on what happens when you act like "far right" is an unfair slur rather than a necessary descriptor of a real political position.

1️⃣ He didn't say that. 2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him. 3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling. 4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it. 5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented. 6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.

Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

After spending her whole life (7 years) on a chain, Pirata (in the bodysuit) may now be in a shelter, but it’s a shelter where she has space, relative freedom and doggy companionship. My shelter. ❤️

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

Banning books sends a strong message that you need to read more books.

I would love to see a California tech-enhanced billionaire try to live somewhere else. I would watch the reality show about that.

It's the American dream that anyone can grow up to become president. Now it’s evident that someone can become president without even growing up.

Tommy Robinson and his far right goons are holding a carol service to honour the birth of a displaced Middle Eastern refugee who started a religion that explicitly emphasized a belief in universal love, peace and tolerance over earthly nations and division. Dimmer than broken Christmas tree lights

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

God knows I've vehemently disagreed with many politicians in my voting life, but I have honestly never known a generation of politicians so lacking in basic political talent or ethics as this one. Right across the board.

The sick irony of pasting their logo over a symbol of remembrance for people who fought and died to prevent the very kind of divisive, hate-driven intolerance they promote.

Praise be

You can't make this up.

I think one of the (many) reasons that therapy works is that permission to be a moaning, self-obsessed weirdo for one hour a week somehow relieves you of the need to be like that the rest of the time.

blimey www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

When you investigate pseudoscience long enough, you start to see the same kind of ideas resurface in slightly different packaging. I’d like to call this phenomenon: deja woo. - Michael Marshall

My new tattoo that says "My Other Tattoo is not a Nazi Symbol," is failing to answer a lot of questions raised by my other tattoo, which is a Nazi symbol.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

For much of the 1960s and 1970s, Prince Andrew was second in line to the throne and could - had tragedy struck - have become king three years ago. Those who oppose a republic on the not entirely convincing grounds of "I don't want a President Farage/Blair etc" might do well to contemplate that one.

Pseudoscience is harmful in at least 3 ways. It can: 1. Directly produce harm 2. Indirectly deprive time/resources from supported treatments 3. Erode foundations/trust in scientific professions that promote its use

Just no absolutely not.

Yup, 100%.

Claims he's just a regular journalist doing his journalising on behalf of the silent millions... checks out for me..

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

If eating scotch eggs in an Austin Allegro had a face.

What a splendid thought. 😂

The reason the Right are so invested in the myth that the arts have no value isn’t because the arts don’t generate wealth (they do); it’s that studying the arts teaches people to imagine better ways of judging the value of an idea than by counting how much money it makes…