Hadrian’s wall being the biggest thing the romans ever built is such a good bit. if i ever had to deal with people from the borders i’d also go through infrastructure hell to prevent that happening again

me normally: clan tartans are stupid fucking Walter Scott hallucinated rubbish for stupid victorian-brained tourists and their even more illiterate outlander fan brethren me picking out things in connor’s tartan for our wedding: 🥰this is the most meaningful heavy polyester viscose ever printed🥰

watched cleopatra last night - now determined to make 2026 the year I learn about ancient history

Dawn finds the Company at the very feet of Caradhras. They halt for another day of sleep. Frodo overhears Gandalf questioning Aragorn’s decision to climb the Redhorn Pass—‘But there is another way, and not by the pass of Caradhras: the dark and secret way that we have spoken of.’

I always wonder what goes on at the Guardian - they honestly can’t seem to maintain a coherent editorial vision across anything. Even teenagers’ blogs are more consistent. “Alpha female”? Are we serious with this?

strongly recommend turning personalised ads OFF wherever you can because the ads you’ll be served are straight fire

baked tattle in a roll for breakfast lads

The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent’s room to unclog a toilet.

over in the NHL, they’ve lit 5 extra crosses at the rally tonight to compensate

do you think all of rachel reeves’ intelligence is stored in the hair she hacks off into that hideous fringe? certainly feels that way

The smartest person I know is in @scotnational.bsky.social today on why Scotland (and the Scottish Government in particular) need to divest from US tech www.thenational.scot/news/world/2...

I am reminded yet again of how every year in November we have to hear from the dumbest, most knuckle-dragging yanks about how they Could Not Possibly Be Mean To Uncle Hitler. how many ice agents are welcomed comfortably home? absurd

Here’s an eyewitness account from @mprnews.org

Do I have anyone on here who is located in or has contacts with anyone involved with the Greenland left?

just submitted my law school apps!!! please cross ur fingers for me, I simply cannot work in tech anymore

if you fall for this you should be euthanised

why are they letting helen lewis write about america? she’s not even mentally qualified to write about the 1 square mile posh worcester shithole she was born in.

so true!!!!!!! daryl morey, if you manage to get zeke “the freak” naji for anything less than $7M you are getting away with daylight robbery

end of evangelion best ever movie yes or yes

“how much money would you pay to make your child near-absolutely stupid?”

deeply unserious league

gandalf should be remanded to guantanamo bay and prodded with an electric baton once an hour every hour by a sweaty middle aged spook with tobacco breath

4 out of 5 of our starters are injured and we don’t even have big Val available to hold the bench together. and still we are not getting pummelled. also aaron gordon looks high as a kite on the bench. the world is wonderful

spencer jones g league to all star speedrun

god bless timothy chalamet for taking a harder battering ram to the cultural reputation of the french than vichy ever could

yum yum wookey hole cheese

you might find this shocking but please remember these fucking losers watched their colleague get bone sawed then promptly shrugged and decided a fuck ugly logan square townhouse is more valuable to them than their souls. so.

gotta get my fuck ass law conversion application done in the next 10 days…… yeehaw

was this written by a no child left behind victim? it’s barely english

crazy how much of tolkien’s languages are just 🤲✨straight up welsh✨🤲

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this guy is validating my will to live rn. absolutely remarkable stuff he’s got here youtube.com/playlist?lis...

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

very good of the EU to rush out a statement sucking off trump to completion. I was briefly worried class solidarity wasn’t going to overrule liberal nationalism for a second there

private school then oxford

to be fair, the peace prize is and has always been infinitely more craven! at least fifa isn’t trying to hide the corruption

senior political correspondent at the guardian, proving the brits will hire literally ANYONE so long as they slobber at all the correct moments

no american will see heaven. long live the bolivarian states

the sprinkles cupcake lady being so much of an obvious psychopath in that video that people clocked she was an investment banker without even googling her is class lmao

hot smoothie

we get married this year!!!

starting the year as I mean to go on: getting xiaolongbao and jianbing to eat in bed

happy new year to all xx

not to sound too much a tory but barbour have this jacket out this season and I would genuinely kill for it

sick on hogmanay. absolute rubbish, 0/10

I am happy to trade play-in status for a (broadly) okay GOAT. thank fuck

two euros fighting… lol, lmao even

genuinely mind boggling to me that there are people on Reddit who post about being managers in the British civil service who also use that same account to dox left wing teenagers and there is NO mechanism to deal with that

does christopher caldwell think queen elizabeth ii was american? does this make him officially the cleverest harvard grad?