I found out today that one of the forces pushing Trump the hardest for this Greenland shit is… the owner of Estée Lauder. Sharing this here because they own SO MANY makeup brands and I bet a lot of you might like to join me in not repurchasing anything from this makeup brand family!

We're on the hunt for an experienced Miniatures Designer to help bring the brutal world of Trench Crusade to life through high-quality plastic tabletop miniatures! If you fancy joining us in the trenches, you can apply for the position via the link below: www.trenchcrusade.com/careers/were...

Oh my God a literal wallet inspector

Operation Mincemeat (1943)

I’ll never get tired of this ad at our local indie theater 😂

Oh come on, someone must want a mechanical scorpion from the Natural History Museum for free! www.freecycle.org/posts/10075...

Love the reveal of what the rescuers look like: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

"It is the most shattering experience of a US President‘s life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself 'I will never defeat the Dane.' “When that moment comes, one's ambition ceases."

A motto for editors and proofreaders everywhere

I can't trust politicians who are anti-trans. Not because I'm "only searching for perfection" which is what centrists will be accusing me of for the rest of my life, it's because if you're not pro-trans you'll be garbage on lots of other issues too. Being anti-trans NEVER exists in a vacuum.

I’ve learnt that only hyperfocus can keep me from disappointing others. Sometimes.

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

What a thread. Worth reading all of it

Thread. If you have spare money, these are wonderful organizations doing the work:

‘Defecting to the reform party’ is a polite euphemism for telling guests at a dinner party that you need to go for a poo. “I’d love to hear all about your holiday in Sardinia but first I just need to defect to the reform party”

I had to look up Lizardman's Constant: the 4% of people who will tell a pollster lizard people are taking over the world, ie the minimum answer you will get for even the most absurd question.

I have never used AI in my research. Even before any ethical or ideological concerns, the way the technology works means you cannot be sure what it says is correct, so anything you get from it needs to fact-checked anyway. So what's the fucking point?

Scott Adams dying at 68 rather than 69 is the perfect capstone to a life of being almost — but not quite — funny

What four classic video games to you find yourself replaying no matter how old they are?

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

[sombrely, with tears in eyes] "truly the people of Iran embody the great spirit of Flumpo The Fart Wizard" - author of Flumpo The Fart Wizard

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

Post a pic of the venue where you saw your first concert and the band or artist.

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

In honor of the Andor trailer out today, I today repost my greatest online achievement: The Andor Characters as Dril Tweets series. I'm going to put them out as I get spare time over the next couple days, as I'm going to put alt text on them too. Starting with the man himself CASSIAN ANDOR

Bristol Patriots are holding an anti-Keir Starmer march in Bristol on Saturday. Anti-racism campaigners are calling their counter-protest 'We Hate Keir Starmer More Than You' in response. Full story here: www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

Not even the prompts. If you are a Twitter user in the UK and Twitter sticks a Grok CSAM image in your feed for WHATEVER reason, well congrats your device just downloaded child porn. And you are legally responsible for that.

guy who’s learning Latin but only so he can understand the lyrics of the songs that the choirs sing during video game boss fights

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

An absolute long shot, but if anyone in 1980s wrestling or queer activism circles in London knows anything about Don Black, please get in touch!

One for @taikonaut.bsky.social here

- The Second World War started no later than 1937 (and arguably even earlier), when the Japanese invasion of Manchuria turned into full-scale war with China. - Hadrian's Wall wasn't called Hadrian's Wall or indeed associated with Hadrian at all until 1840 (tip of the hat to @garius for that one).

This by @ecfr.eu’s Majda Ruge is a good guide to Trump’s calculus on Venezuela. Rival factions (primacists, prioritisers, restrainers) have been counseling different courses of action, but “the answers depend on what the president decides will bring him the biggest ‘win’.” ecfr.eu/article/maga...

The real reason we have January

One of the few accurate statements from the UK government in a long time

Love to visit abbeys in search of hidden pigs of yore

Quote with a GIF that depicts the energy you're going into 2026 with.

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

All it takes is one bad gig.

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

Houseplants are proper little whiny bitches. "Oh! You have moved me four inches along the shelf! I will now shed all my leaves and look sad for an entire year!"

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

telling my kid this is BLACKPINK

Seven years since I watched one of the most important documentaries ever made. A masterpiece

And a good morning to everyone reading the “later life” section of Brigitte Bardot’s wikipedia page for the first time

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential