'The solid mass consisted mainly of wet wipes held together by fat, oil and grease.' The Fatberg is perhaps the Ur-metaphor of our era.

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

Neoreactionary architecture.

Putting the 'Y' back into Mone. Good news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

Flat-u-lent.

The Pontipines are flatulent.

Remember to turn everything they say upside down, before reading.

Banging it down out there.

Woe the old vessel is spent, yea, scraped unto its depths and lo, the dregs of margarine cling to its walls like the sins of the stubborn peoples. Great shall be the lamentation and wailing of the toast-eaters so Repent! Cast out the crusted remnant! Lest ye be consumed in the judgment of grease.

The stuffquake was coming to an end. Just bits of debris at the surface then suddenly CONEMELT oh my heart my heart.

This deep clear-out is excavating layers from the 1980s nobody wants to see, the fucking teeth are enough to have you reaching for the lighter fluid.

Right at the moment there's barely anything left of it. Slow handclap. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

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It should also be clear by now that the monarchy are as otiose as they get: all Charles' supposedly deep ecological principles and here he is. They belong together in some way though, because they're both as mad as a balloon. An end to all this courtly horseshit and chests full of unearned medals.

All that effort, expense and rictus grinning. A week later and he'll be slapping the back of some other dodgy geezer and Putin'll be his mate again. They swap something that might have at least looked like principled governance for this?

HELL YES WAY AHEAD

A short review of an important book, doesn't do it justice but my time is limited. manchestereviewofbooks.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b...

Seemed like an hour.

The Tombliboos' pants blew around in the wind for an hour before the Pinky Ponk blew them back into their house, the interior of which is made from the popular salty snack Twiglets. I've worked out that my only escape from this new world is to jump off the top floor of Beetham Tower.

I feel you, Dave.

IT REALLY HAPPENED

Kids, eh?

I'm about to shit a whole book, I can feel it coming...

It's September 2025 and I'm watching some pretend communists behaving like capitalists and then I look at the news to see all the fascists claiming to care about community.

FT supplements: the absolute cutting edge in terms of redefining first world problems.

I never thought I'd say it but it isn't anywhere near ludicrous enough. Or horrifying. Each subsequent day trumps it at local and global levels.

The DVD of Terminator Salvation... is looking at me funny...

One of the richest men in the world supports a cokehead sunbed pimp from Luton in his bid to... do something or other... quite possibly take over the country. I'm really just typing it out to stare at it. Like I used to have to stare at Boris Johnson to quite believe it happened.

As things get grimmer it's important we remember adorable kittens and of course the music of Selfish Cunt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CNz...

"Thrust your sword into his heart, I will hover near and direct the steel aright." - Mary Shelley

Read everything in the inverse, they call it Unite the Kingdom when they mean precisely to divide. 100,000 knuckleheads turning out for the Sunbed Cokehead King is just 0.15% of the population. Too many fascists for sure, but...

This deep clean clear-out has been delayed far too long.

Where on earth is the bread knife?

Peter Mandelson, Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) 2016 to 2024 and mate of dodgy bastards the world over 'oh I was naive!' Ha Ha Fuck Off Peter.

Then Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=862t...

They turned the old man into a ventriloquist dummy years ago, Lachlan has his hand up the back and James is doing 'gottle of gear', so obvious. Plus you can see the join around the mouth.

These bin bags are shit.

The UK populist carny medicine show. I'd say look at America before you vote, but there's no point reasoning with those beyond reason.

As things get grimmer it's important we remember there is still trifle in the world. And of course, Deicide's back catalogue.

ChatGPT the new dumb and dumber. Or maybe that's me for being lazy and trying to use it, rather than working it out myself...

It's like fucking Mad Max out there.

My 18 month old daughter stood over my Record Collector Hawkwind special edition, without any clothes on, aimed and pissed.

Neoreactionary architecture.

Is anyone else getting the impression that we're at that low cultural entropy point where nothing is worth doing?

TERMINATOR 3: seen worse but I've definitely seen better.

PROBLEM maintaining continuous spreadability without perceptible disruption NO PROBLEM residual consumable asset transfer (hereafter referred to as 'legacy product') COMPLETE.

I HAVE CLEANED THE FRIDGE AND THE FREEZER so don't mess.