OK but how many have you read of this Best Novels list compiled in 1898? (27 in my case) www.openculture.com/2013/11/the-...

Bad choice of comparison: anyone outside the US has to Google "Chicago's Cloud Gate" - please use buses or something.

What if memes are actually more fun than kids as.ft.com/r/f6910735-e...

For 2 weeks a year, we are self-sufficient for peonies

Whenever I watch something Americans describe as a "brutal" it always feels a bit like half-hearted slapstick (this is Colbert on Tony Dokoupil and Bari Weiss) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQpq...

soooooorta funny that Twitter is only 5x the size of Bluesky, considering the head start and its status as a household brand name for nearly 20 years

Pretty wholesome as Reform Councillor revelations go www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Quite like this as a term for the mid 2020s.

All the "is Miliband popular/competent/acceptable after losing 11 years ago" is missing the most crucial point: that the most dramatically satisfying ending is that the guy who lost the election after which everything went wrong comes back and fixes it all. Ask Chekov. Ask Aristotle

[my shocked face]

Must we keep holding our politicians to such impossible standards?

LOL

The 15 year old's taste in chocolate is quite something

Wes Streeting is already facing growing calls to stand down as PM

@icod.bsky.social On holibobs? Washed down with mum petrol?

NEW: No 10 has come out fighting tonight, announcing replacements for the six junior ministerial aides who publicly called for Starmer's resignation earlier today

The Very Ill Kennedys

huh

WUT?

fresh evidence for my campaign to randomise candidate order on open lists by polling station

Reform mobilising non-voters looks to be a big story from this year’s locals. As so often, non-voters are the “dark matter” of politics - rarely discussed but so numerous they even mobilising a small slice can have big effects. Particularly in low turnout local elections.

i think people are too harsh on bsky because it is actually social media itself that is dying, not any particular site

The results: Extinction level as serious parties of government for Labour & Conservatives. Strong showing for Reform, but still too narrow to win a majority at a general election. Good for Greens. But only winning in a narrow set of seats. Ditto for Lib Dems. Strong for Scottish/Welsh nationalists.

@chimpman.bsky.social Green Mayor....

I think it's worth people knowing that Enfield has a Labour MP and a Conservative councillor who are *both* called Bambos Charalambous.

The Greens win the Hackney mayoralty, famously a bellwether for England as a whole.

Today in "not the future we were promised"

PSA: the "driving a tank on heroin" scene in Buffalo Soldiers is one of the best (but not very well-known) cinema drug sequences. (the film is great but was first screened just before 9/11 which kinda tanked the market for pitch-black satires about the US army) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAXD...

I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

i'm such a nerd for arctic exploration bullshit

FIGHT!

Voting mainly to dig the vibe at Lewisham's most rustic polling station

Just imagine: it's only one more sleep till literally everyone's prejudice is proven right about what the election results mean. "How Labour's wipeout means everyone should have listened to me all along" will be mushrooming up all over the media. Can't wait!

Fernando has just caught and eaten the really loud fly that has been bugging me for 40 minutes and I couldn't love him more

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

One of those things that makes me feel as if I'm living in William Gibson's imagination: gossip about 3D-printed submarines being used to smuggle drugs into Cornish coves.

We Used To Be A Country. A Proper Country. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ryan...

people who spent the 2010s stretching the definition of "microaggression" to breaking point now think antisemitism is not really a big deal unless someone gets stabbed, shot or killed

people posting terrible AI nonsense from overseas to rile up people here is becoming increasingly common and wew lad tbh

Perfectly normal. Absolutely nothing to worry about.

LOL, local councillor is doo-to-door canvassing on our street. Random bloke appears next to him. It's Ed Miliband.

A surprisingly common argument - I find it wherever I go around the country and it’s fairly common on here, too - is “a relative of mine is, in my view, defrauding the benefit system. Time to cut spending”. You could, you know, report the person you believe to be committing an offence?

Fine, fine, I'll order the toddler

How could anyone have known "Boosie Badazz" was a poor role model for kids?

#ResistanceUnited The U.S. Mint is required by law to use only American gold, but it has flouted the law for years. As gold prices soar, the agency has been laundering gold from illicit sources, funding drug cartels, terrorism, war and environmental destruction. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/w...

In the 90s, Harrison Ford was the right age to play the president in movies. In 2026, Harrison Ford is the right age to play the president in movies.

Apex (Netflix) has me remarkably uninvested in whether hot rock climber Charlize Theron lives or dies in the Outback

Name your top 15 TV shows, no overthinking (in no particular order) Bodies The Americans Brass Eye Breaking Bad Ozark The Sopranos The Shield Starblazers (as a child) The Simpsons Succession South Park Narcos Our Friends in the North This Life Moonlighting

Half of me recognises the need to drastically cut the front garden back. The other half is tempted to accept that I live in Narnia now and move on.

What do you expect when you close all the youth clubs? www.thetimes.com/article/30e3...