if you get angry about kids in pubs i think fundamentally you are just quite an antisocial person

NEW ESSAY — “Fear and Fragility: The Glass Delusion and Its History” — In early modern Europe, patients started appearing in medical records with a particular ailment: a firm belief that they were made of glass. Tamara Sanderson explores: publicdomainreview.org/essay/fear-a...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

The BBC are really going out of their way to not call these The Peter Files.

Important to understand that when all of these lads wail loudly about how much The Left Hates Britain, they don’t mean we hate Bargain Hunt or Greggs or Jarvis Cocker or Dundee United. They mean that we dislike and are opposed to *them*: they do not draw distinctions between themselves and “Britain”

I mean, *even I* would much prefer it if they had at least been basically competent, because I have to live in this country and raise a child here. Being able to say “We told you this would happen” is no comfort at all, it makes it much worse that it was all so avoidable and unnecessary.

not an iron law or anything but basically every assassination attempt on a political figure over the last 20 years has turned out to be driven by a disturbed person with functionally illegible politics

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

It's hard to be polite about this drivel. Herzog carries water for Netanyahu, constantly. He has embraced settlements in the West Bank. He has no real independent support among the Israeli public. Most opposition voters see him as an embarrassment or worse. There is NO value in meeting him.

Generally I think it’s a lot easier to understand Reform UK and the general right wing movement behind it as the successful politicisation of being a cunt

Pulp’s Britpop classic “Common People,” the lead single to their album ‘Different Class,’ came out 30 years ago today! 🛒 The band just released another great song “Got To Have Her Love.” That’s from ‘More,’ their first album in 24 years, coming out next month. 👉 www.stereogum.com/2309148/pulp...

who called it woke pope and not Opus DEI

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

and yet they come to Europe and lecture everyone on free speech

Good morning! This week's theme is St Paul's Cathedral. ------ 'St Paul's and Ludgate Hill' (c.1887) by William Logsdail (Private collection)

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

People talking and peacefully demonstrating is not a threat to society; but stopping them is. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Look guys, what even is a Nazi salute? Who even were the Nazis? What is reality? Who am I? Where is this? Wha

Happy 99th birthday to Dick Van Dyke, inventor of the DVD player.

Sorry, but I genuinely laughed out loud at that.

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years theonion.com/cia-realizes...

Sometimes you just need a website dedicated to old Japanese cassette tapes. tapefan.exblog.jp

"I have called a general election by mistake"

Uber: we can't make money if we have to follow the law Google: we can't make money if we're not allowed to be a monopoly Nestle: we can't make money without using slave labor OpenAI: we can't make money if we can't steal media: should shoplifters be executed?

“When I got sober, the career I thought I had was pretty much gone… I didn’t know if I was ever going to write music again. And then I was asked to write the songs for The Muppet Christmas Carol. Every now and then, the universe will line up to do something at the right time in your life.”

The abrupt warming in September – due primarily to Antarctica – came on top of already extraordinary warmth in August. The Antarctic changes might simply reflect natural polar variability but it added to a system already greatly warmed by man-made and natural causes. 9/