Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

The Liz Truss Show - Behind the Scenes

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year. As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet

Reform UK are learning the hard way that it's easy to shout insults at the players from the touchline. Far harder to get up on the pitch and play. They've been an absolute disaster wherever they are elected.

Reform UK-led Derbyshire council announce closure of eight residential care homes just days before Christmas. That's going to spell misery and considerable upset for hundreds of vulnerable people and their carers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“So he tells me he’s been grounded, and I says to him… I says Hank, it’s probably because of your bad altitude!”

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

Whenever my Samsung washing machine finishes a cycle, I always race to turn it off before the tune ends and I don't know why.

Your usual reminder that the UCKG is an extraordinarily shady outfit. It is not clear what the money they collect is for or where it goes. They are collecting all over London today. Avoid.

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Me: So do you like Christmas Carols? Carol: Yes. Carol: Yes Carol: I really do. Carol: Same Carol: I can't believe you're gonna post this

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

He is sovereign, but He is just

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

That Samsung AI ad where the guy goes to a museum and his phone tells him about all the art is such a good idea. I hate when you go to museums and they never tell you what any of the stuff is

'The king - standing on the left'

Just this. Thank you @theguardian.com

Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors

My mum's done over 38 years for GirlGuiding. A Queen's Guide, she ran Brownie troupes, was a commissioner, even had her Brownie troupe at her wedding. Tonight, bc of this decision, she has requested immediate removal of her membership because she stands with ALL women and girls, not just cis ones.

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

haha, "considered precious by people who probably thought their Tamagotchi was alive" is actually the best description of AI i've ever read lol - amazing.

Daily Mail once again battles against fact because the "consensus that the drive to renewable energy leads to ... high energy bills instantly collapses the moment it makes contact with ... the real world." Ads by #Asda, #Sainsburys, #Nationwide, #SkyUK, #LidlGB & #TescoMobile & #Morrisons

There was actually a time quite recently when the Young People still used Tinder (Published around the time of Dawn Chorus Day)

Sublime. Assuming you get the reference. youtu.be/asUyK6JWt9U?...

Reporter: Are affirming that you think Trump is a fascist? Mamdani: We’ve spoken about— Trump: That’s ok, you can just say it.

Baby blues Darcy Padilla

Six weeks since the PM said Britain faced a choice between decency or division and our bad, obviously, for not understanding that he was in fact Team Division

Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example: It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally) It shows no understanding of why there is AS www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3

Optimistic defibrillator locations, an occasional series...

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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

when every other person on social media saw the aurora borealis but you

Paper by Sylvaine Tuncer and me on what more there is to rapport in cafe service. How tensions between conviviality and instrumentality play out in small talk. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?

I think organisations should take unsolicited, murkily-funded 'reports' from people who used to work for a rival that has made your destruction a life's mission a little more sceptically.

good morning I failed to sleep on my red eye but just managed a three-hour nap at home

sam altman’s wife after sex: wow, you were… actually pretty bad sam altman: yeah but just imagine how good i’ll be in six months if you just give me another twenty billion dollars

TAXIS WILL BE REPLACED BY CAMELS

I’m sure Matt Goodwin will be along shortly to tell us all whether LNER Customer Service Host Samir Zitouni counts as British or not. news.sky.com/story/train-...

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC

Until a white Anglo-Saxon Christian with a private education runs amok, there’ll be people willing to blame minorities for every crime. And when the posh bloke does it they’ll say he was pushed into it by VAT on school fees.

Makes his own kimchi and likes the warm sound you only get with vinyl.

Lol I just asked Grok whether Grokipedia is more neutral than Wikipedia and even it can't lie about this