Hungary: Kukafej Gróf (bin head count) Norwegian: Grev Søppelbøttefjes Apparently Swedish version is simply Dustbin (Soptunna) within quotation marks Welsh, tentatively: Cownt Binwyneb? (Grateful if confirmed)

Another reader writes: In Russian they seem to be going for Граф Урнолиций Граф (graf) = Count Урно- (urna) = bin (from урна, but modified as compound noun) -лицый (litsiy) = adjectival form of face "Made even better as it hints at избирателбная урна (lit. "Electoral bin"), i.e. a ballot box"

Via a reader - Chinese: 垃圾桶臉伯爵 (traditional) / 垃圾桶脸伯爵 (simplified) Transliteration (pinyin): Lèsètǒng liǎn bójué Translation: "Rubbish-Bin-Face Count", more literal than shortened version some outlets use (垃圾桶伯爵, Lèsètǒng bójué), which drops 臉/脸 (liǎn, "face") and just means "Rubbish Bin Count"

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

Third behind a bin and also not a bin

Why wasn’t the badger at school? It was an in-sett day.

I despised Ann Widdicombe but no one deserves what happened to her. Yet it says so much about the hate and division far right politicians like her have created I was relieved to hear the suspect police are looking for is a white man and the "protecting women and girls" crowd won't be out rioting.

Cluckscarraldo.

The men’s football World Cup has reached the quarter finals stage ⚽️ Wondering what the trophy the eventual winners lift is made of? This edition of #PeriodicGraphics in @cenmag.bsky.social takes a look! cen.acs.org/materials/in... #PeriodicGraphics#ChemSky 🧪

feel like I've spent a long time online vaguely alluding to "my circus years" so in this week's newsletter! I finally wrote about the formative years I spent at circus school, and what the circus means to me: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/in-which-i... [free to read!]

I will be signing at The ARC festival this Sunday from 1-2pm at the @goshcomics.bsky.social sky.social table. @arcfestivallondon.bsky.social al is an exciting, new, free comics festival in London on the 11th and 12th of July. Come along! www.arc-london.uk

From instagram, a classic Second Mention @secondmentions.com

Simply En-chant-ing #Chanterelle #FungiFriday 🍄‍🟫

I'm sorry, I am not here for the rehabilitation of a person who *checks notes* maintained a policy of shackling birthing women to beds when she was Prisons Minister.

alternately, the Pret on Ship Street in Oxford has both aircon and Fun Features

Two baby beaver kits have arrived at Ealing's Paradise Fields. Reintroduced in 2023 with Ealing Wildlife Group and Citizen Zoo, beavers are already stopping Greenford station from flooding and saving us money on infrastructure. Here’s what they’ve been up to 🦫

Stream (Newlycombe lake) near Burrator reservoir last July, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography

I absolutely love the fact that Aotearoa and Japan have star festivals in such close proximity! Japan’s Tanabata 七夕 was celebrated on July 7, and Sendai is known for their celebrations! 💫

Here's a Friday holler for ya all!

Got The Meece some cheese.

Basically, this is going to become the new "I was doing the housework naked, and I fell backwards" line while some nurse at A&E gives a knowing half smile?

Sitting In The Dock Of The Bayeaux. #1066songs

Coloniser carpet more like.

I'm on Australia's ABC Radio! I spoke to @natashamitchell.bsky.social about Japan’s unique approach to blending secular and sacred, and how it can help you navigate complicated times. It was recorded at the 2026 Melbourne Writers Festival; now you can listen here! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

CHARLIE BIT THAT FUCKING FINGER

#UxbridgeEnglishDictionary FLEECIER: An observer of bloodsucking insects.

Just found this Blake's 7 spoof from 2005 on YouTube - never seen it before. Mackenzie Crook as Servalan is priceless! 😆 youtu.be/9EukmcmB8A0?...

With Penelope Keith’s passing, I got to thinking about Paul Eddington, in his final days, facing the camera that one last time, despite the shitty hand life had dealt him, and the courage it must have taken to do so. Given the chance to spin some grandstanding bullshit, he chose to say this instead:

I'm sure it's fine; there's nothing to see here is there >_>

I *didn't* need to know this, having paid full whack a few months ago (50th birthday pressie to self) 😭 but yes, if you needed any further encouragement, do it!

It’s 7 o’clock, so it’s time for me to carp from the sidelines about the offerings on tonight’s episodes of #TOTP

Divine prospect: one of my favourite views of Wells Cathedral from the moat of the Bishop's Palace.

Nothing says “this insurance company knows my country” than using an AI generated map of Belgium that puts Ghent in Wallonie, gives us two Namurs and a south coast on the Med.

What a beautiful day - Mabel is soaking up the sunshine

NOW DO MURDOCH

'That box, Mr. Ambassador, is 100% invincitanium. But, rest assured, if the Bayeux tapestries ever broke out, the full might of the US Army are here to meet them. Those stitchy bastards won't know what hit them.'

JIzo statues at Zojo-ji temple in Tokyo, right near Tokyo Tower. #Japan #Tokyo

I keep thinking of how HM Queen is now mainly remembered for being in sketches with James Bond and Paddington Bear, rather than paying for her son’s problems to disappear. Light Ent is a great laundry of the otherwise unacceptable.

In many ways Anne Widdecombe helped to usher in this culture of people with despicable views being tolerated because they're 'so funny!' that's led us to where we are now. A miserable legacy but one I suspect she would be quite pleased with.

Now there’s a heated debate: Which was the worst game show of all time? Ann Widdecombe’s Clever Dicks Robert Kilroy-Silk’s Shafted Don’t Scare The Hare

Little to say about Widdecombe that's positive, although I'm never quite convinced she was the jolly get-on-with-it spirit she always claimed to be. She also presented a very short-lived 'tough' quiz called Clever Dicks in which after a correct answer, she'd say, 'clever dick'. It was no black chair

Did they just chuck it at the front door of the British Museum, ring the door bell then bugger off? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Heliers Swans

@secondmentions.com “The sentient wheelie bin”

Mānawatia a Matariki! ✨ ✧ #Matariki ✧ #HappyMatariki ✧ #Matariki2026 ✧

With her big hair, lots of jewellery and lashings of eyeliner, Tyler epitomised not just the sound but the look of the new decade

Mānawatia a Matariki! My #cartoon today #Matariki #NZpol

Matariki Short video of morning sunrise sky at Ōrewa Beach and sound of waiata and keen cold crowd😁

Remembering our loved ones who have died, celebrating our friends and family, and looking forward to a new year with hope. Mānawatia a Matariki. ✨

It closes with the new Bonnie Tyler song "One World One Home", featuring the Dallas Street Choir. Pre-save: Bonnie.lnk.to/OneWorldOneH...