To be fair it's 40C in England, it was always going to take time to adjust to a rainy 19C climate

People laugh at the English response to heat but the country just isn't built for it. "Just take off the 3-piece suit" they say. Uh ever heard of your social lessers laughing at you

There's just something cursed about an NYT probability needle standing at 99 percent

The Openreach have finally rigged up our block of flats to 21st century fibre internet, connecting every one of the 54 flats, with the weird and sole exception of ours

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

Livid. Five minutes into the Bond game and MI6 call him a liability as he hasn't "signed the Official Secrets Act". You fools! It applies regardless! Sack the writers

The Greeks have solved the single-use plastic straws thing, by giving out those same straws but in a plastic wrapper reading RE-USE 50 TIMES. Genius

Doing a day trip to Delphi and the coach tour guide has come on the tannoy to point out: 1) the acropolis 2) the ancient city of thebes 3) some wind turbines she thinks are neat this is the right level of respect for wind turbines

He found room 1 and room 4 🙏

The thing with using Happy Cow to plan holiday food is that the vegans use 5 stars to mean "yes, this is vegan" rather than "this is good"

Turned off motion smoothing on the hotel room TV. I am a greater hero than any doctor or firefighter

nw

Blue Prince (2025)

too little too late motherfucker

[guy from Omelas joins Bluesky] OK firstly the sad kid is IMPORTANT??? to our CULTURE????

[watching myself jump an airport security barrier to chase Marilyn Monroe to her departure gate:] I wouldn't do that. This writing sucks. I am a coward

At the wedding there was a TV meant to be showing a photo slideshow of the couple, but the venue owner picked the wrong folder, so it was showing a carousel of his old tax returns and planning applications for about 20 minutes

I don't think a single phenomenon has ever been better understood by using the word 'populism'

[whispering to wife during the new Malcolm in the Middle] that's Frankie Muniz! Off NASCAR!

They're absolutely right to call him out for this

Many people doing Melania edits of "my 'not involved in X' is raising questions already answered", but as the original was "not involved in human trafficking", it did not need to be edited.

Not really watched The Apprentice for years but tonight one had a business plan which was "invent an AI-based PR firm" which was rightly, and entertainingly, rejected

Public Service Broadcasting “Go!” bass riff intensifies

Brussels. The one upside is they have trains that go to Gent

Getting this ready

Possibly eaten more books than he's read.

nirvanna the band the show the movie, excellently dumb, thank you people here who kept saying the name until I watched

"Kids in pubs" discourse is undefeated because both terms are so broad everyone can just argue past each other and get madder and madder forever

Guy at an empty Deptford market stall shouting "next customer, please", completely deadpan

[film is 1h29] wow. This is nothing. I can watch this and it will be the same time when as I started [film is 2h01] when I die my obit will just read "watched this film" as I won't ever have time to achieve anything else

AI-era "who's on first" sketch

It's not a loop there's loads of him. That car is SO FULL.

BBC have been playing this 10 second clip on loop for at least the half hour I've been watching, we're well into the hundreds now

It’s on Google, even though it is making search worse. It’s on WhatsApp, even though I absolutely do not want “homework help” or “relationship advice” from my messaging app. In the year of our lord 2026, it is everywhere. And it *doesn’t work*.

the elder millenial poster's retirement home has achieved its final form

nerds: i have made AI everyone else: you fucked up a perfectly good abacus is what you did. look at it. It's got anxiety

"I'm a politics YouTuber and podcaster with almost half a million views, so I know the odd thing about backstabbing and deception! Also I was the Prime Minister for a brief period in 2022."

It's about time I let the rest of you Faithful in on a secret. Just before this, I was recruited to super spy school, where I learned to read minds and smell lies. I came top of my class and got an A and everyone clapped

It's nice to just get fifteen minutes to yourself, some aimless time to stare out the windows, and that time runs from the words "in today's task" on the traitors

Worst FA Cup thing: teams getting to use any mad old shirt font. Serifs have no place on a football shirt and the PL rightly protects us from that

How dare they say this, when it's just because my posts here are much worse

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

Make the "feels like" temperature the real temperature. Call the other one the "doesn't feel like" temperature. "Nerd temperature" for sciencey things, no-one else need care

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

You can't do another Traitors right now. We just had one. You have to put more shows in between

If you start singing "Auld Lang Syne" at exactly 11:58:41, you will start 2026 with everyone at the party saying they're sick of your shit

so many greats, I think about this one a lot

Expedition 33 seems to be "what if we did Pokemon but with sexy French people", this is an excellent development in gaming

Stranger Things is full of unimaginable lovecraftian horrors but I watch one scene in which they give Will dialogue and I'm like, good luck lovecraftian horrors