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To win power, populist leaders focus on immigration and crime; once in power, they indulge hugely in corruption, because part of the motivation to get political power is access to economic power; and central to governing is performative cruelty ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Man Spends Whole Day Dreading Fun Activity He Signed Up For https://theonion.com/man-spends-whole-day-dreading-fun-activity-he-signed-up-1819579571/

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“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

@mitchbenn.bsky.social lyric.

Goddamn this is good, and also a way to fire up the real journalists working, and fighting, to tell the truth.

Eldest son is back from uni. He left his bag of weed on the kitchen counter. Was going to bollock him for leaving it where his sister could find it but instead rolled a fat one and have just eaten 10 mince pies.

a molecule is a group of non-monogamous moles

It's finally happened: my photos have been hacked, and I'm being blackmailed. This will have terrible consequences. For the hacker: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

I've never understood the mockery of Adrian Chiles' Guardian columns by people who've surely seen all the other Guardian columns.

I always try to keep ticket price low - I am coming to Falmouth in February - tickets £12 of £10 concs #cornwall #comedy #poetry thepoly.savoysystems.co.uk/ThePoly.dll/...

This message hits hard.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

You boy, what colour are you?

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/

My son bought me what I thought was a drill. Turned out to be a toblerone gaffer-taped to a bottle of Bailey’s.

In other news, expecting Trump will distance himself, Greenland has changed its name.

Webb: Dwarf stars in a glittering sky www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... This star cluster, known as Westerlund 2, resides in a stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20 000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina (the Keel).

Ackerman is reportedly just sizing everyone up and looking for weaknesses they can exploit when Monopoly starts to heat up, which they believe is “as inevitable as death”.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Inner sleeve instructions ‘Play this album loud’.

Here is a little piece about the day of my final Monkey Cage recording - a couple of weeks ago in beautiful #manchester www.bigissue.com/opinion/robi...

Crystal Pier at Pacific Beach in San Diego, California. Just after sunset #sandiego #sdca #pacificbeach #beach #surfing #sunset #sunsetchasers #ocean #crystalpier #landscapes_lovers #photography

ESA/Webb's final Picture of the Month for 2025 features Westerlund 2 containing many of the Milky Way’s hottest, brightest & most massive stars. Located 20,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Carina Link for more info: esawebb.org/images/potm2... Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

i've been thinking recently about why i have a reflexive dislike of the 'comedy needs balance' line, and i think it's because political comedy is the act of saying "hey, you're not mad, the world really does look like THIS", and that doesn't need "balancing" because *the rest of society* does that

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Tonight, just after solstice sunset. The clouds swiftly filled an earlier gap leaving just a patch of pale orange glowing in the greying sky. The surface of the sea briefly shone with light before the gap closed and the light was extinguished at the end of the day. #IronMenCrosby

One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.

He saw the light.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Renaming the Kennedy Center, our national fine arts center, after such a coarse, lowbrow, and ignorant buffoon is America at its very stupidest.

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

Mags and I are in Manchester to watch the marvellous Mitch Benn perform his one man version of “A Christmas Carol” using the same abridged text that Dickens himself used when he performed it. Mitch is seriously talented and well worth following. #Excited #Christmas @mitchbenn.bsky.social

Things are going great over at X, The Everything App

Penultimate blog post of the year. 'Mitch Benn - A Christmas Carol'. www.gayleramage.co.uk/post/theatre...

I don’t look at media at the moment but just received this text - so difficult for these poor journalists who are keen supporters of transphobia but also want to attack the BBC

Succinctly put

I heard there was a secret meat With paprika, and spicy heat But you don't really care for sausage Nduja ...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

Reminded of when, during lockdown, the Princess Bride became an actual folk tale, to be retold, lovingly. Warning: that ending might choke you up a bit. youtu.be/29s1yU3nGkQ?...

If Trump can sue the BBC for $5bn for splicing two of his sentences together, imagine what the estate of Rob and Michelle Reiner could sue him for for being a c*nt?

Of course, SOME of us were getting kicked off of Radio 4 BEFORE it was cool… (grumble grumble)

An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. - Bryan Stevenson Pic of the day #photography

For better or worse, public figures are judged when they die — their character, contributions, beliefs. It's undeniable that millions have mourned Rob Reiner's tragic death, celebrating his talent and contributions. I suspect when a certain public figure kicks the bucket, sentiments wont be the same