They love flags because there's no spelling involved in using them.

I particularly liked the scene in one of them where Langdon clung to the skids of what was very explicitly labelled a UH-6O Blackhawk. Which has wheels.

This rings horribly true.

I struggle to imagine a decision the Israeli government could have made regarding the UK that would evoke more widespread revulsion among the British public.

Bad Enoch strikes again.

Generations not just of Americans but of people all over the world are going to quote Charlton Heston's line from the end of The Planet of the Apes - "You maniacs! You blew it up!" - looking not at a ruined Statue of Liberty but every time they see a picture of Donald Trump.

I thought a "procreate brush" was something arborists used to pollinate trees.

Love this. I have headed notepaper and everything.

This @theguardian.com headline really reads like one from @theonion.com. It also shows the consequences of conflating disruptive social movements with real terrorism, such as the Manchester attack.

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

I believe this is what the term "big yikes" was coined for.

Fun ecclesiastical fact: "the body of the kirk" has a very different meaning in Scotland than it does in America.

This feels like a Presidential burn.

I get all the news I need from the weather report - Simon & Garfunkel Some dance to remember; some dance to forget - Eagles All I do is keep the beat and bad company And all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme - Dire Straits

Vote as many times as you like, no need to tick boxes or give email, just scroll down to submit & view results…

Bigotry - in all its forms - is something that festers and corrodes. It is noxious, and does nothing but harm. Do not tolerate bigotry for the same reason that you would not tolerate acid dripping on your skin. Signed, Northern Irishman

I would love for Craig Ferguson to interview Donald Trump. "Iceland is an island in the North Atlantic. Its capital city is Reykjavik. Why do you continue to refuse to release the Epstein files?"

The whole world has been screaming at you that the emperor is naked for quite some time now. It is only Americans who have failed to spot it.

See also: Pan Pan vs Mayday

It is getting harder and harder to ignore that feeling that, when I first experienced it, my sergeant explained to me with brutal simplicity: fight's comin'.

The language of non-consent around AI is really telling. "It's too late to be scared." "It's here whether we want it or not." "You'll have to learn to work with it." "You can't fight the inevitable." All just variations of "you're not allowed to say no." Creepy technology made by creepy people.

This is the reason I find Remembrance Sunday so difficult. And, more broadly, it's the reason why I find people who don't value preventing death - like Hegseth or, in a different way, RFK Jr - so abhorrent.

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

Pete Hegseth as he saw himself. Pete Hegseth as he was.

Bang on.

Courage is a virtue you can build, and kindness is an excellent place from which to start. Because in America today, every act of kindness is an act of resistance. If you are kind, you will come to care. If you care, you will find the courage to act. If you have the courage to act, you will win.

If they haven’t done so already, a lot of senior military officers need to start thinking hard about what they’re going to do if and when they’re ordered to break their oath of allegiance to the Constitution and the American people.

Kim-Jong Trump.

Tom would like you to know that this is what "Big Kid Democracy" looks like: www.irishlegal.com/articles/us-...

I wonder if Stephen Miller's hatred for transgender people is a result of his own total and utter failure to grow a pair?

Calling something people in Northern Ireland will be required to have a ‘Brit card’ doesn’t sound sensible to me. Maybe it won’t be required in NI or maybe someone needs to spend 10 seconds thinking about these things before they blabber to the press.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

I know it isn't, but it sounds like a *very* personal question... 🤣

This

The author of the literature review Trump is basing his Tylenol claims on registered a ‘competing interest’ in the paper hsph.harvard.edu/news/using-a...

For those living in America, British tv has spent the morning debunking the ridiculous horse shit Trump and the regime are pumping out about Tylenol. Here is a newspaper headline as well. This is how far the world stand of America has fallen. Doctors around the world calling bullshit.

I recommend keeping your twitter account but never using it, simply so that no one takes your handle and uses it for reputational damage and defamation.

The single biggest mistake anyone left of centre anywhere is making right now is legitimising fascist tendencies, tools or tactics. That includes staying on X and treating it as though it were still a site of legitimate debate as opposed to a toxic cesspool of self-sustaining rightwing rage.

This is why I still believe in the pre-eminence of physical media. It's why I buy DVDs rather than streaming subscriptions.

The ACIP meeting, in which actual experts were ignored, felt like this: www.tiktok.com/@filmflicka/...

If you mislead people, what you get is uninformed consent.

I'm kinda curious about this myself, as only a bare handful of my online friends have ever met me in the flesh (although I have had zoom/phone calls with rather more).

The next #Disney film in theatres is #Tron:Ares Don't think I'll bother. It cost $175 million dollars: that's a lot for Disney to lose if it tanks. And if it tanks because people are unhappy with the company, well, maybe that will make them sit up and pay attention.

How many marriages have ended after one partner found the other INEXCUSABLY ATHWART someone else?

Here’s a link to all the studies I know of, that report on outcomes of COVID vaccination during pregnancy. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth or for babies followed up to the age of 18 months. bsky.app/profile/viki...

Dutch late night TV has its take

Ben Shapiro's new book "is a perfect encapsulation of Brandolini’s law that the energy required to refute bullshit is orders of magnitude greater than what it takes to produce it." Absolutely savage takedown of Shapiro from @mattpolprof.bsky.social: www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...

Making students less capable of independent thought is not a "growth mindset." It is, in fact, a superb way to cripple innovation and thus cause massive harm to your country's economic development.

I will be in #York in the coming weeks. Anyone got recommendations for things to do or see there? (@dreadships.bsky.social, is that your neck of the woods, or am I misremembering?)

Dear UK, Just wanted to let you know that you don’t, in fact, have to take immigration advice from Donald Trump.