Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only

Supporters of male primogeniture during the Anarchy of the 12th century:

In the Shakespeare's Head, where the jukebox is still free, even though it's now a million track one, and there is a "Back to School" theme which I accidentally clicked...

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

based nancy

I remember, many years ago now (with ny transport strategist hat on) being asked in a BBC interview if Crossrail would be Khan's biggest legacy. The thing that had the biggest impact on London. I said: "No. It'll be ULEZ." (The low emissions zone)

You see a faded sign at the side of the road that says fifteen miles to the

Translating "hwaet" as "now THIS is a story all about HOW"

how happy we’d all be if this was all the internet was for

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

Take a few minutes to appreciate Drew Struzan creating the original artwork for THE PHANTOM MENACE. Truly a master at work.

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!" [Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

🪫NEW THING🪫 Any riff-raff can join Bluesky, but it takes true dedication to apply for this club vole.wtf/one-percent/

I miss REAL journalists

MARK KNOPFLER: Here comes Guitar George ME: Why do they call him that MARK KNOPFLER: He knows all the chords ME: Ah

The thing about the Joe Wicks protein bar is like yes if you purposefully put 100 bad ingredients into something it will be bad. It feels like me inventing cyanide gummies and being like wow they look me do this, what a world but the reality is we don’t sell cyanide gummies

Here's the crossword I made for Jilly Cooper's birthday earlier this year 💔 www.mycrossword.co.uk/cryptic/2285

We are already seeing some fantastic (but horrible) contributions to the Bad UX World Cup! 😃 This year's challenge: Create a horrible date picker! See all the contributions (so far) here: badux.lol #baduxworldcup

RISQUE GALORE

AI still can’t do this

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

You don’t have to be called Steve or Stephen to work at Blackpool, but it does help.

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Your timeline is hereby thoroughly cleansed.

Ah, 4 October! Happy fifth birthday to this marvellous thing…

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This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.

September 30th/October 1st

While I’m at it, The Drifter is one my favourite games to come out this year – a frantic pulp thriller in old-school point’n’click clothes store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/...

Some top games here – really enjoyed Hob‘s Barrow, Unavowed and Old Skies

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Noticing a semantic drift in “hostile environment” which serves to help no-one. It wasn’t “the vibe is anti-immigration” or “it’s hard to get a visa”, it was “the state will deputise the act of immigration enforcement to every layer of civil society”

Got my performance review.

Playing this delightful horse-strangling simulator is an excellent way to pass the time if you happen to be waiting at an airport and have no real horses to strangle

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Alien: Earth (N. Hawley and others, 2025)

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - the twenty-first night of september - changin' the minds of pretenders - chasin' the clouds away

we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

Big fat ratty sigh.

ICYMI, my post this week was on The Way of the Exploding Fist. Read about: - how its approach to martial arts stood out - the Hong Kong cinema influence on it and on early fighting games in Japan - the misfortunes of International Karate www.superchartisland.com/the-way-of-the-exploding-fist

Friends, we are running a winter coats and trainers donation drive. We are seeing lots of new arrivals wearing flip flops/t-shirts & shorts, who are in need of warm clothing. CLEAN and GOOD condition items only please. Drop off at the Lambeth Civic Centre, or one of Active Lambeth leisure centres.

There is a cure for buffetphobia, but first you’ve got to want to help yourself.

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

Congratulations fellas, we’ve all moved one spot up on the world’s most handsome man rankings

Would be nice to have a govt that even just does the bare minimum of saying these people are bad instead of pandering to them

a gec

BOURDAIN: so ive had joints of mutton everywhere. exeter, wroexeter, berwick. Ive never seen a joint of mutton prepared like this MEDIEVAL SPIT-BOY: we roaste thee meat under a pafte which keeps the juices, and renders the meat moft tendere BOURDAIN: *chuckling* wow

Here's a thread of relaxing fun websites to get away from the noise 1. This is sand dot com Let the sand flow and create weird little landscapes (this is one I did) thisissand.com