Anyone notice that Speaker Johnson subtly dismissed Congress today so that they won't be in session on Friday? Hmmm, anything big set to happen on Friday that might upset people?

In UK English I’ve encountered “they got into the gene pool when the lifeguard wasn’t watching” and “come the brain-eating zombie apocalypse, they’ll be the diet option.” Another one, more for someone considered mad, is “they’re a bit Upton Park” (Upton Park station is two stops short of Barking).

The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.” * read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…

The fight over the Colorado River has become a political nightmare

After unseasonable mildness the future is chilled in Europe. Every indication it will be a long duration episode….

Harlequin is a division of HarperCollins so I imagine this is a test case for expanding it far beyond France.

French publishing house Harlequin decided to use AI translation instead of human translations. All their freelance translators (some of whom had been working with Harlequin for +30y!!!) were told they would no longer receive work from Harlequin

Hea meel, et @annateele-orav.bsky.social veel jaksab sel teemal kirjutada. Morbiidne on see Eesti liikluskultuur. Päris idioote on muidugi vaid väike kild ühiskonnast, aga nad annavad tooni nii internetis kui liikluses ja ma kahtlustan, et need on tihtilugu ka ühed ja samad inimesed.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Just really awesome how our financial elite just spent the last several decades admonishing people for pursing the humanities and creative fields, and are now suddenly pedaling the idea that "there are no good ideas anymore" after spending the last 5 years laying off everybody with a brain

A novel influenza variant called subclade K appears to be driving an uptick in cases and hospitalizations throughout the U.S. and other countries

(1) Tegevuse eest, millega avalikult on kutsutud üles diskrimineerimisele, vihkamisele või vägivallale seoses soo, keele, puude, seksuaalse sättumuse, poliitiliste veendumuste või varalise või sotsiaalse seisundiga viisil, mis annab alust karta õhutusele järgnevat vägivallategu või vara kahjustamist

showerthought: kui sa ostad vee ja pärast seda lähed tasulisse WCsse, siis sa oled vee eest kaks korda maksnud.

Jagan enda profiiliga. Peame hakkama NTTK profiili ellu äratama siin ka.

People have had enough of Labour. They can change leader but the problem is the hundreds of corporate lobbyists who are Labour MPs. More and more people joining the Green Party every day! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

I’ve missed the Twitter experience. Over here, when I say hello, nobody responds with “what about black on black crime in Chicago?”

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

Fuck email Extra fuck corporate IT and email Extraextra fuck corporate IT breaking email Extraextraextra fuck corporate IT breaking email and taking zero responsibility Extraextraextraextra fuck corporate IT doing zero planning, testing, breaking email in multiple ways and taking zero responsibility

Koduvägivallatsejatele kohustuslik antidepresandikuur? futurism.com/health-medic...

"Bluesky is an echo chamber." "Bluesky doesn't have enough reach" "Liberals must return to X to challenge the far right" I'm not a tech bro or a journalist. Your priorities are not my priorities. Stop telling me I need to do anything other than chat about comics & telly with people who seem nice.

Well, the question of whether Kast is really far right seems to have been solved by himself. Authoritarianism and nativism central to his campaign.

Sometimes when I complete reading a book by Adrian Tchaikovsky, I stop and ask myself: Is England okay? And it's a very silly question to ask myself because at that moment I've just completed reading an entire book in which Adrian Tchaikovsky explains to me that England is not okay

'The company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.' Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it.

This entire weekend

From Lisbon to Tallinn, Europeans are overwhelmed by soaring home prices. This week, Brussels intends to do something about it.

Basically “No Country for Elder Millennial Posters”?

old twitter was like a place in interwar berlin, paris, or shanghai people have romantic memories about in spite of witnessing knife fights between prostitutes daily and heroin junkies overdosing

Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.

😳🇺🇸

Hero, this is the guy all those Americans with their guns claim they'll be during a mass shooting, but never are. This man actually disarmed the mass shooting terrorist loser while being himself unarmed

A notably “warm” start to meteorological winter across Europe only far north of Norway, Finland and Sweden have escaped. The first half has been perhaps been the warmest on record this December though is not expected to exceed 2015... (1/2)

Bears vs. Trail cameras

Via clivemaxfield.com

Austraalias oli Hanukah puhul pikniku pidajate vastu terrorirünnak, vähemalt 16 surnud sh laps, paljud haiglas : www.bbc.com/news/live/ck...

Teadlane: peame kaitsma Antarktikat, muidu on Pärnu, Kuressaare ja Haapsalu tulevikus vee all - Eesti Päevaleht epl.delfi.ee/artikkel/120...

Russia launched mercenary recruitment in Iran offering $20,000 signing bonus and $2,000 monthly via Telegram, targeting economically vulnerable populations as part of campaign that recruited 18,000 foreigners from 128 countries, Ukraine's disinformation center reports.

Those tree hugging hippies in Hungary now lead the world in the share of electricity generated from solar with almost 25% of their electricity coming from solar in 2024. A remarkable leap from just 7% five years ago.

I assume everybody has seen this graph before but just in case not: bsky.app/profile/omeg...

Europe, you make me proud 👊

Honestly hope it ends his career, and I’ve always like Liam Neeson. But children are dying and becoming disabled. Public health is gone. The healthcare system is on its knees. It’s unconscionable to glorify RFK Jr or peddle anti vaccine rhetoric.

Fuck Liam Neeson.

The release of the Epstein files is required by law to happen on December 19th. On December 18th, we will "officially" be at war with Venezuela. Bank on it.

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered new evidence which suggests humankind's ability to master fire is some 350,000 years older than previously thought.

GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered? GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now THOMPSON: What does that mean?

Rahvakogu jaanuar-veebruar 2026: Mida on heaks eluks vaja? Milline sotsiaal-majanduslik poliitika tagaks inimeste ja looduse heaolu? 30 juhuvalimiga eripalgelist inimest arutamas. #Eestitwitter #Rahvakogu #DeliberativeDemocracy Rohkem lugeda ja enda huvi osaleda saad märkida siin: rahvakogu.info

Disney accuses Google of copyright infringement on a ‘massive scale’ following deal with OpenAI