I have obtained a letter of marque and reprisal from a small landlocked Caucasian breakaway republic, I have access to the family rowboat and am in the process of buying several axes, so I would hardly say it's correct to label me "unemployed".

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

The worst person you know if having a terrible day.

Writer in the top 1% of writerly success: "Can't wait to alienate myself from my peers and audience to work with literally the worst boss in the world for a cool 80k a year."

At this rate he'll be reduced to remaining uncharged and unarrested in an even slightly smaller picturesque Royal lodge that he doesn't have to pay for

Gannet A picture card by C F Tunnicliffe. Watching gannets plunge into the sea is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen

I'm not on here too much these days, things have been a little busy 👀🤭 But the love and support I'm feeling on here is incredible. Being a woman, in politics, online is often utterly grim. So thank you to everyone who has my back. It means the world 💚

hey @salvey1.bsky.social

Am I going to have to find out who Will Stancil is? I simply do not want to

Bet there are countless reasons why Skippy never resurrected this "Special Edition". 😱

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

“What’s the deal with human rights?”

For anyone still publishing on Substack (if you’re not a Nazi, why are you still there?), this is a great read on what you need to do to escape.

An extraordinary novel, and my favourite Hoban. The author said he was a good speller before he wrote it; afterwards, not so much, but he could live with that.

hey i know y'all are having a hard time now so i thought i would let you know that we have a train that runs from santa fe to belen, with my city, albuquerque, in the middle. it's called the rail runner. they all use the "meep meep" loony toons roadrunner sound to indicate the doors are closing

I saw the rain dirty valley you saw Brigadoon I saw the croissant you saw the whole of Sassoon #NationalCroissantDay

30th January 1649 Charles 1 was beheaded in Whitehall. A lost traditional but nonetheless Happy Beheading King Day!

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

Like everyone else I’ve been watching the horrors unfold as emboldened fascists take to the streets and murder people. However seeing people band together and fight back has been heartening and that inspired this piece I drew up this weekend, depicting a good old fashioned peasants’ revolt.

Nationalisation *without compensation* goes some way to solving this alleged problem

I can't stop laughing lmaooooo Literal tears

86% of people (out of 38,000!) want to keep the Hampstead Ponds trans-inclusive. It’s almost as if TERFs are a hate-driven minority well out of step with decent society.

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread #KirbyFraming

BREAKING: WIN 🏳️‍⚧️ 💥 The High Court just refused Sex Matters' permission to ban trans women from the Hampstead ponds. We're relieved that the ponds can remain a place where trans people have always belonged. Thank you to the all the people that pushed back against division.

Labour keeps talking about saving the high street without naming the real problem. Car dependency. You cannot fix town centres while planning everything around driving. The internet is permanent. Retail only survives where footfall is dense, local, frequent, and cheap to access.

I set up a workshop for colouring textiles, at the top of a rocky ascent, at some altitude. The police arrived and asked what I was doing there, so I told them I chose this hill to dye on.

I can confirm that Sex Matters has been refused permission to bring its anti-democratic, exclusionary, and bigoted challenge to the inclusive space at Hampstead Ponds. More to follow.

"legalise everything" is the only sane drug policy but sure, keep speedrunning that dive into the dustbin of history

Waited until Bruce came.

Private Eye have, incidentally, never apologized to anywhere near the extent necessary for their role in promoting this.

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

Imagine having Bruce Springsteen AND Billy Bragg release songs about how much you fucking suck and how much the people fighting you rule you within the same 48 hours

My cat got a new box and he is very excited about it

much is made of "meat's back on the menu boys" but personally I'm quite compelled by the Uruk Hai complaining about days-old bread, man's been alive for at most two weeks, was grown from some revolting fleshy underground alien womb and already he yearns for a warm baguette

I have always said it, I will continue to say it, we are limiting the productive potential of millions of freaks by demanding they earn a wage to survive instead of enabling them to do whatever thing their brain is broken for

keeper up is always the best thing

Think of all the tips lost.

WATER-BURN [waa•tur-burn] sb. The phosphorescent appearance of the sea. It is much disliked by the herring-yawlers, as the cunning fish can then see the net and will not go into it.—F. Auckland.

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money "‘Even tyrants have to obey the law.’ He paused, looking thoughtful, and continued: ‘No, I tell a lie, tyrants do not have to obey the law, obviously, but they do have to observe the niceties.’"

Latest evidence that UK Treasury has one rule for roads, another for public transport 🛣️⚖️🚋 Leeds tram delayed for a business case, meanwhile business case delayed to get building Lower Thames Crossing. Ministers betting £billions on wrong horse 💸🎠

Quick iconic comic cover edit to laud Ilhan Omar.

As a Canadian, what I've learned so far: - Minnesotans are very nice and VERY organized - Mainers are aggressively xenophobic but in a way that lCE will not like - Philadelphians crave the blood of their enemies - LA is ground zero for chaos tactics that never lose - New Yorkers love gay hockey

The History of Sound is out now in the UK and streamable on Mubi and elsewhere in the US. Here's a piece I just wrote for the Guardian about my experience working on the film:

1. Discovery is hard in any era of social media, and on any platform, in any time, ever 2. This is neither here nor there to my point that on your own site you are not subject to the whims of fascists and/or billionaires 3. These days it's actually really easy to start one's own site! (con't)

Yer da blows up ULEZ cameras

Hello! Ep 62 is out today - another belter! We talk to the fabulous Sean Feast about the Bomber Command attack on Hitler's V-Weapons at Peenemünde www.buzzsprout.com/2327200/epis...

Yer da phones in to LBC

This is interesting but only tells half the story. My high street is actually doing well for empty shops, but the quality of what’s there has plummeted – no more Debenhams/Woolies/Wilko, only B&M and pound shops. If I want to buy decent stuff it has to be online www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...