Retired ghost train animatronic Streeting said: “I’m so nervous. What if he picks up? What if he’s seen this ADHD thing and gone ‘Attaboy, Streeting! Why don’t you come to the White House and play a round of golf with me and my friends? They’re your friends now, too, Wes, and so am I’?”

I wonder how much Ofcom’s failure to use even the limited powers it has against Twitter is based on concern that it would be quite revealing when Musk just ignores any ruling.

You want there to be a legal challenge to this? Support the one that's already in progress that, if successful, will remove the risk of legal action against Guides and WI, or other organisations, for being trans inclusive goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...

Zipcar is shutting down its UK operations, basically the only car club that worked in London. Massive kick to anyone who tries to live in capital without owning a car. Having been a customer for 17 years and used Zipvans to move house repeatedly, this is.... very bad! (Zipcar is owned by Avis)

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Have to say I find the proposals to take away the route to permanent settlement of refugees both shocking and repulsive. It's code for 'whatever you do and contribute you can never become one of us so we won't allow you to try.' Racism, pure and simple.

My radical driving proposal is that cities shouldn’t just have LEZs, they should have size limits (commercial vehicles excepted) AND headlight brightness limits. Little cars with dimmer lights please.

everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?

One thing people kind of tell you, but not really, about middle age: One day you'll be like "oh [thing] looks fun but people will think I'm a loser" about a thing And then you'll say. Wait a second. Fuck 'em

The #OnlineSafetyAct breaks the internet, destroys online privacy, kills independent websites, wrecks accessibility, trains users to routinely bypass government blocks, and offers less protection to children than tools that are already freely available. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/age-ver...

Instapaper. www.instapaper.com

That the murder of Brianna Ghey has been so completely co-opted by the "ban kids from using phones" brigade sickens me to my fucking core. Whatever her killers were looking at it's undeniable that the landslide of transphobic propaganda in the media played a crucial role in their choice of victim.

Day drinking is the best drinking

So Kier basically shut the Fuck Up, stop using this to further your fucking culture war. If they go and anything does happen, it's on you.

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IMPORTANT All freelancers, self-employed, creatives This is the first I've heard of this, but the Department for Business and Trade is running a consultation on the scourge of late payments, they want to introduce new legislation to tackle poor practices Deadline to respond is 23 October 1/2

And obviously I have to reshare this, because it took me ages and ages and it was the best date I have ever planned. I took 25 *different* forms of London transport in one day: www.girlonthenet.com/london-trans...

“The Riyadh Comedy Festival” should be a Comic Strips Presents… episode about a group of edgy comedians staying at the same luxury hotel for the festival, all trying to out ‘edge’ each other and terrified of appearing woke, while also panicking as members of their group start disappearing.

Dating someone who makes me laugh < Dating someone who laughs at my jokes NEW blog: www.girlonthenet.com/blog/good-se... Fabulous art by @stuartcb.bsky.social ❤️

Still waiting on the Prime Minister’s statement condemning the huge, violent, Nazi mob that attacked police officers in London…

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Pensions, productivity and the myth of the migrant “drain” – why Britain’s real crisis is ageing, not immigration. Another cracker from the Bear. @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

I don’t want to become kintsugi, my friends: I am already made of gold. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/kintsug...

Them: even if he dies, nothing with change Me: except he’s dead and I’ll be glad he’s dead and everyone will be glad he’s dead. Now give me my tambourine back, Susan

in this week's newsletter! I realised I'd been pretty serious for some weeks so I wrote quite a daft list on the things which make me realise that, at heart, I'm still extremely French, even after 16 years here: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/10-ways-in...

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

Now's a good time to join my Patreon because I accidentally put TWO new pieces of #AudioPorn live instead of one. Also, use code WANKER at checkout for money off an annual sub. I set that up out of pure childish glee that it would let me. patreon.com/girlonthenet

"The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. The window isn't closing; it's closed."

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For thousands of years, horses were a central part of practically all armies and their campaigns, culminating in WW2, which was the last war in which they saw widespread use. After the horse fell out of use, we've had 80 years of relative peace They were the problem all along

Regulate the water industry, require these massive consumers to pay their fair share, build capacity. Build infrastructure! Run a fucking society!

"AI is not that novel. It is not that potentially revolutionary. It is in a long continuum of technologies that promise to transform education, starting with the TV, the typewriter, VCRs, tablets [and] Chromebooks." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

They think you are stupid. They think you will believe that a party came into government and decided for no reason to release loads of prisoners. They won’t tell you what the previous party did to engineer this crisis. Treating their readers with contempt.

Mo Salah is asking the right questions

it does remain enraging that we had a perfectly decent social media platform - not without its faults! but is anything? - which helped sustain the careers of tons of creatives and one guy, LITERALLY THIS ONE GUY, decided to ruin it for all of us

Tom Lehrer.

This ought to be the axiom:

Oh my god

Hulk Hogan truly was the real America: an icon you were dutifully instructed to adore as a child and then every single piece of information about what he was, what he did, and what he thought about things made you hate him more and more, and in a way, yourself for falling for it.

Forgive me for posting a lot today, I want to check clicks/engagement now that the UK filtering has come in. I'll focus on SFW posts, and only publish archive ones that I think are genuinely good. Like this guide on writing the best online dating profile. www.girlonthenet.com/blog/best-on...