The estimated annual running costs if Jeff Bezos yacht Koru is $30 million

"Go that way really fast. If anything gets in your way, turn. "

Those VC guys paid extra for the Premium Service package, eh?

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Absolute Units vs Total Pillock.

This just gets funnier the more you see it.

Frit

Automated Ben Garrison isn't riding to anyone's rescue.

It needs pointing out that this voter ID requirement was introduced in the UK by Boris Johnson, is wildy unpopular and discriminatory, undemocratic, and the Labour Government under Starmer still failed to bin the fucking thing. I hope Burnham addresses this in his likely constitutional reforms.

Police say they've narrowed down the suspect list to approximately half the Brits posting on Bluesky this morning.

Never drink the Keffir that you forgot to put back in the fridge last night. Follow me for more recipe tips.

Best Star Trek Captain, wrong answers only

TBH Trump is more use to the Iranians alive.

Is it all over for Nige? I'm getting reports of an electrical contractor at the Crown & Treaty pub in Uxbridge.

Well the reasoning here is plausible, but I don't think the infrastructure is there for it. Could fake a serious illness though, be forced to step down through ill health. Same outcome.

Had to double check that this wasn't @theonion.com Still not convinced.

Good job the payment by the Crown for the post of Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead is notional otherwise Reeves would never be shot of him.

Less than 24hrs after Farages announcement, still awaiting 10 nominations in the constituency, and yet already @countbinface.bsky.social is living in their heads rent free. They're only going to get more ridiculous as this goes on, until voting for the Count actually looks like the rational option.

This is how you do it. An absolute masterclass in questioning.

Mr Muscle: Dutch Fashion Police

Time for a Man in White single alternative independent candidate like they did to Neil Hamilton.

Family?? Cottrell calls Farage 'Daddy', is there more to this relationship than money?

We should all be grateful that Farage only turned into a dark money dependent grifter after the 2016 EU membership referendum and was up until that point a highly principled activist in the civic space concerned only with the future of the country. /sarcasm_off

2 things about this: 1. Without a 'second jobs' element Farage is just going to end up doing notional work for his dodgy mates at eye-watering hourly rates instead of taking donations. 2. Anyone who pays £15k for a domestic flight in the US really can't be taken seriously in any fiscal sense.

So, next up is Anglo-Saxons vs Vikings. If history is anything to go by, a combined England/Norway team is heading to the Semis. #ENGNOR

Child enters Me: I thought you were playing in the garden? Child: play-house is haunted. Me: What? Child (loading gun): play-house is haunted.

Londonistan = bad London Stans = good, for some reason

This is wrong. Everyone knows peas are stored in a ball.

This is how Curtis Mayfield died.

NANDY-BOT! ACTIVATE!

Top: fuck around Bottom: find out

I remain convinced that the enthusiasm with which Americans kill other Americans with guns and cholesterol is the main limiting factor on how much harm they can inflict on the rest of the world.

Hydration break

The number of reports from journalists about this State Fair shambles, combined with the obviously low turn out, makes me think around 80% of the people attending this are media.

Dr Oz there, a man so smart he crashes his car every year to maximise the value of his auto insurance.

Surprising and very late move by the Mail against flagship Thatcher policy "right to buy". They'll be cheered by Andy Burnham making explicit mention of building "Council Houses " in his speech today.

The greatest challenge to executive management since May 2020 has been distinguishing between inputs and outputs. They have not yet cracked it. They may _never_ crack it.

Ever wondered what a Lame Duck Home Secretary looked like? Wonder no longer.

Please, my Freeedom 250 State Fair, she is verrrrry sick

Noses on roses, and luminous kittens, Conversing hedgehogs and wire wool mittens Brown paper houses and cheap moodstone rings These are a few of my LSD things.

Who's your favourite movie Dad?

I do love it when a nice, straightforward, crystal clear, piece of history makes it plain that people who claim things in society because of "traditional values" are full of shit.

1. These are large drones with heavy payloads 2. They fly past one residential building, one under construction, two chimneys (indicating industrial buildings below) and into a smoke cloud from an existing attack. Conclusion: Ukraine is now operating with almost total freedom over Moscow.

No Cuban Boys, No Crazy Frog. It's that simple.

Senior Dems seem to have missed how they are called radical leftists by Trump and his outriders, and as soon as some genuine left leaners are in position they suddenly pivot to be all concerned about the integrity and future of the Democrats.

Hmmm. If you'd asked me a couple of years ago to name a country where black robed religiously motivated moral arbiters issue judgments that are more consequential to politics and national life than anything elected representatives do, I'd have said "Iran".

You've hootied your last blowfish

I won't get it, but - 1. Reconstitute the Heptarchy; break England up into regions with resonant historic names, use that to reform both parliamentary representation and the upper house, and rebalance power with the other nations of the UK.