What's the most innocuous thing on the internet you bear a grudge about? Me: the guy On Here who breezily said that lemons are the least interesting citrus fruit. Genuinely still irate months later.

Choosing to dwell in the timeline where this was a hit.

hoooooooo this beats the bollocks off DDG - which has become unusably bad lately... new default search - thanks Erin!

It was kind of Robert Jenrick to set me up for an obvious joke at his expense.

The world may never know what my problem is

then engage the hyperdrive

Reform are on C4 News and seem to have sent, in lieu of a spokesperson, a bottle of 19 Crimes wine

If we wanted to chart a dynamic of “just dumb” to “even dumb has to be smartarse”, how about the vector from Beavis & Butthead to Rick & Morty?

Yes. Also: everything everywhere has to be a conspiracy or false flag now. Even the most vanilla socdems aren't immune to this.

I will never stop banging this drum: the government that introduces legislation to force retailers to offer a choice of courier companies, let alone force the couriers to have an automated delay repay type system, would get a very significant popularity boost.

Somebody's goin' home with The SCUM Manifesto

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Start your Monday RIGHT 🚀🚀🚀

more innocent times

Pretty clear he wants the ballroom built ASAP because he wants it to be his tomb

OK my kids are consistently putting me on to the good stuff now

Without the library, there is no history, only the stories power wants told.

*passive aggressively rubs CBD moisturizer on feet while FaceTiming*

Bill Cassidy, conceding defeat, throws shade at Donald Trump: “When you participate in democracy, sometimes it doesn’t turn out the way you want it to. But you don’t pout. You don’t whine. You don’t claim the election was stolen.” His crowd immediately gets the reference.

that guardian novels list needs more stories about rich english people being sad in the past!

Against better judgement checked out a bit of Pattinson Batman on TV, started kinda enjoying the aesthetic and pacing, idly googled to gauge opinion on whether it's worth sticking with, fell into Batman Reddit, and now I'm back to DC AND ALL WHO ENJOY IT MUST BE ERASED FROM ALL TIMELINES. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

The sounds like a job for the.... KINGINTHENROTH!!!!!!!!11!

apropos of nothing

Photographer Karl Ferris writes "This photo was taken in Ibiza, Spain in summer 1970. Joni contacted me on the recommendation of my friend Graham Nash. I took her to 'a party down a red dirt road, where there were people, reading Rolling Stone reading Vogue'.

my man looks like Gary Barlow embarking on a rap career

Punk 14yo: I would love to be a nepo baby but in private so I wasn't judged… oh wait that’s just being rich.

My man looks like he works security at a fancy bakery.

Everyone just wants a nice lie down. Can we just have a nice lie down please?

Talking of Lukes who keep bashing it out decade after decade... MAN Luke Vibert has some strong magic doesn't he?

Holy FUCK how does Luke Slater do it? Nigh on 40 years in and relentlessly prolific and he still rolls out stuff this pure and perfect

"ACHTUNG COMRADES . . . " "SLOWLY AT FIRST AND THEN ALL AT ONCE . . . " "HISTORY IS A MYSTERY IF YOU ARE NOT LEARNING . . . " "WELL PLAYED MISTER PUTIN WELL PLAYED INDEED . . . " "THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS *AND* DRAIN THE SWAMPS . . . " churlish chekist corrupt clowns party con-sequences #CCCP

Torn between thinking this is evil and that we must respond in kind.

The French pioneered having a competitive market in telecoms, and it works very well (even better than in the UK in my experience). They privatised motorways and use tolling to fund the construction of new ones (also works very well). They also have private water companies (does not work well!)

This is the thing: with Trump there’s no “he thinks” involved. he A/B tests phrases all the time and sticks with the ones that get numbers. That’s why “my good friend Hannibal Lecter” “and they’re eating the cats and dogs” kept on. Second guessing what they mean - to him or generally - is moot.

Has this been done yet?

We’re just innocent men

donut stands for today i will do nuthing

Case in point. One of my neighbours asked me if Keir Starmer was going to go. I said, yeah, it was just a matter of time. They replied that it would be a shame not to have the prime minister as our MP anymore and then called Starmer the C-word. People contain multitudes.

Ahhh my old bandmates (and flatmate).... So many memories of leaving these two, nearly 30 years ago, sitting with a bottle of vodka, a keyboard and sampler, then coming back a couple of hours later to find them in hysterics having written something like this AND NOW IT'S HAPPENING AGAIN (sans vodka)

Everyone just wants a nice lie down. Can we just have a nice lie down please?

crucial context: Peter Mandelson was sacked from the first New Labour government for having a £373,000 *loan* (not a gift) from a Labour colleague (Geoffrey Robinson) to buy a house

Sophus Helle, in an essay at the end of his Gilgamesh translation, notes that in the original language ‘He Is Very Wise’ literally means ‘He is Extraordinarily Listening.’ Have to love that.

Woah, only just realised how far ahead of his time Meades was. This is High YouTube isn't it? People like ContraPoints hit the same beats, presentation-wise, to the millisecond... I'm not imagining this am I?

I hadn't really thought about it, but I was insanely sleep deprived and had been clobbered about the head by life for days before this - but even given all that WOW this is heavy on the Sad Bangers. Proper staring into the abyss for the first hour. The pensioners having carvery loved it tho.

Josh Simons is "offering up his seat" to Burnham.

If you feel compelled to quote the single line of Letter from Birmingham Jail you’re familiar with to me but don’t know who Albert Boutwell is I’m going to gently encourage you to rethink your strategy here