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…

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

"which is nice."

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Madrid

This guy is in charge of US health care.

Salamanca

Your own personal Negus, Someone to look at your wares Someone who cares.

Perfectly normal country

She called it. The media blew it by letting a serial liar off the hook

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

THIS THIS ONE MILLION TIMES THIS

I have bought and installed a new printer. I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor embarking on her eighth marriage.

Let the #eXodus continue

You want fame? Well, fame costs and right here's where you start paying, in sweat.

Guess what makes immigrants feel integrated, wanting to be part of their communities? Feeling welcomed, embraced, appreciated - like I felt from the moment I stepped in Scotland nearly 10 years ago. The people here made me feel Scottish, by simply not being xenophobic twats demanding I prove myself.

painting "MEDBED" on the side of a dumpster and leaving it outside an evangelical church

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

It would be terrific if Jimmy Kimmel just turned around and said, ‘Thanks but no thanks.’

Better times ahead now for Niecy, who gave birth to puppies in a local municipal kennel where she was stuck inside for six months. She’s loving the sun and fresh air at my own small shelter.

Trip to #Madrid booked! Any recommendations (beyond the Prado, which has already been on my bucket list for years)?