Should have gone in the Kohen Gadol outfit that Belloq wore at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, just to be more subtle.

It'd be quite nice to have fewer moments that history books will describe as "having lit the fuse" of something.

Kate Bush blurbing Tom Berners-Lee's book is a bit of a curve ball.

Sadiq Khan to ITV London on Donald Trump’s comments about him to the UN: “I think I’ve got squatters right for the amount of time I’ve spent in Donald Trump’s head. I’m just hoping he doesn’t send me an invoice for all the time I’ve spent there.”

Counterpoint: the reality of MTD isn't particularly onerous, hasn't any actual cost difference, but HMRC has done a very bad job with communication on it.

Corbyn says shit like that with Putin basically sitting Mr Burns-like, tented hands, saying "yes, I did it".

All correct, except the nightlife is fucked.

Well, I enjoyed the first 6 episodes of Alien Earth a lot, but Jesus Christ the last two fell off badly. Absolutely terrible.

A nationalist utterly colonised by foreigners.

Women don't just want pockets. We want 70s dad pockets, with capacity for door keys, house keys, wallet, change, dirty hanky, clean hanky (to offer ladies), travel card, driving licence, pack of 20 Embassy Number 1, a lighter, comb and several conkers picked up on the way home

the fact that so many people frame autism as “a problem that needs to be solved” is a constant reminder that being “not normal” isn’t acceptable to a large amount of the world. it’s the same reason there’s a trans panic right now too. they think people are defective

This is IMO why you can't understand Morgan McSweeney's approach to politics without reference to Liz Kendall (whose campaign he managed) getting 4.5 per cent, a contest from which he basically took the lesson 'don't try and argue for something, ever'.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

Fair play to Sadiq Khan. To live rent-free inside the head of the president of the USA is a massive achievement for any Mayor of London.

Trump is a silly billy. A daft hapeth. A wally. A plonker. A dipstick. A berk. A massive cunt.

HAPPY BISEXUAL VISIBILITY DAY

Rainbow lanyards are great, because it means my annual medical checkup turns into a very long gossip session because I know it's a safe space for being a massive bitch.

"Getting pregnant has been linked to having autistic children."

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

"autism announcement" but in the style of a gender reveal party would be like "it's trains autism!!!!"

They've made it so slim! 😂

Nice. Adobe illustrator seems to have a memory leak that is bringing my system down every half hour

I think I prefer the Chinese government.

Very high chance that it's Yes.

Kremlin subdivided into bedsits.

It's just a meal shake. People really overthink this stuff. It's not dystopian, it's just food.

The Disney parodies… holy shit

Turned over to BBC Four to TOTP 1998 and Mousse T's Horny is playing and I flashed back so hard to getting absolutely tanked up on Metz before clubbing I nearly had a breakdown. Beware the Judderman indeed.

Quite nice to just be able to point and laugh at Corbyn now rather than banging my head against the wall.

you need cold, salt and a meal at the same time

the american right has been getting away with this plausible deniability shit for so long that they don't even have to do it anymore to be mainstream. they can openly say vile shit and the "liberal media" will find some way to make it plausibly deniable.

Always behind a politician who doesn't actually have any idea about governance so easily fall for the hyper-confident technocrat who doesn't actually know anything.

Just straight-up nazi shit.

right! well everyone seems to want to know about that janky podcast I worked on with Morgan McSweeney back in 2018, so I wrote about it - TL;DR it was........a mess: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

This is so deeply unserious. Throughout the entire 14 years of the Conservative government oil and gas licenses were routinely issued and for much of the period there was a policy of maximising extraction. Production still fell, the economy flatlined, and energy security got worse.

At least the war between Aberbaijan and Albania is finally over.

This is actually a great way to spend the money I was spending on that.

This is all very COVID council meeting "you don't have the authority", but it's just depressing instead of funny. The Greens have the initiative now, go there.

It's not an entity at all. It's a concept.

I and many others have got rinsed over the past year for having assumed that Keir Starmer knew what he was doing, back when he was first elected Labour leader, but I feel like in our collective defence he at least didn't turn up in a clown car that was actively on fire from the very start

I am trying not to be too mean-spirited about the people who apparently got genuinely excited at the idea that a party made up of "Jeremy Corbyn" and "some independents with real funky socially conservative views" could somehow be the future of the left but I am finding it hard!

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

if you want to amuse yourself for a few minutes post a mild criticism of the platform on Mastodon the Social Media Network and gape in amazement as the sort of people who demand CWs for pictures of food try and insult you

Yeah, this is a solid list. And adds further evidence to my theory that the 60s was the shittest decade for movies.

The live blogging of anything that is said, regardless of veracity, has been a disaster for news. The BBC needs to stop doing this.

Someone's Party, maybe, who knows.

Been using the forehead stick for my headache, so I've just been under perpetual attack by the cats going batshit for the menthol.