In M&S buying jeans and wondering when they stopped selling old people clothes and started selling clothes for young hip people like myself

freaks my nut out just how small Paris is, end up having these endless days here because everything is just 15 minutes away from everything else so you can keep adding more stuff, no slack at all from having to spend a stray half hour on the tube as you would in London, undignified little toy town

Who has made this 🤣

The design of the new FIFA peace prize reminds me of this reference to Gulf+Western in Mel Brooks’s ‘Silent Movie’ (1976).

So participation awards are no longer woke now?

Just heard a great line from the writer Paul Waldman: Trumpism is based on the idea that "our worst selves are our truest selves". It is fundamentally a bleak, brutal view of human nature — we all secretly want to be sadistic and corrupt so let it all out. It's not true but it explains a lot.

“That's not even Michael Nesmith's real hat!”

The background track from John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”used in this post promoting a patriotic celebration of this “#christainholiday” stops just before the song mentions that Xmas is also “for black and for white [and] for the yellow and red ones.”‬

Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be. You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.

Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

Now imagining an alternative history in which 1930s Mickey Mouse continued taking on the establishment rather than selling out to it.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

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Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once.

Speed dating is when you have to tell Keanu Reeves a little bit about yourself or this bus will explode

All roads lead to Rome but many were very wiggly, new survey finds as it doubles the number known to 185,000 miles. bit.ly/4qNZwO5

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants

This here is one of the great U-boat hunters of the Second World War. Grab a comfy seat and a glass of something pleasing. We're going on a journey...

A movie you've seen more than 7 times with a gif

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If Paris ever decides to raise a statue to its (in)famous son Paul Gauguin it could a lot worse than follow Colwyn Bay’s example.

I thought Mary Shelley was buried in Bournemouth.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

New on Patreon: Before she was the sophisticated rich widow Margaret Dumont of the Marx Brothers fame, she was Daisy Dumont...and Daisy was wild. www.patreon.com/posts/before...

An even better version! (Apparently hand-drawn, rather than AI.)

“Celebration of Amphibious Strength”

I’m afraid that if you emigrate to Dubai for the tax breaks and 24-hour security, you really should give up your citizenship here for someone who wants it.

“Pesky antifa keeping Hitler out of power until 1933…” 🤪

Everyone who advocates for turning the UK into the UAE assumes they'll be the one with a marina penthouse rather than the guy working on a building site in 50c heat

Reform: Lefties are disrespecting our national saint! Also Reform: (Spotted at rally held yesterday by N.E. Lincolnshire County Councillor Oliver Freeston)

AI strikes again…

So much of this shit in the other place. Describing the forced removal of human beings as ‘the humane option’ doesn’t convince me of your humaneness; it only makes me wonder how far down the menu of less humane options you would be willing to go before you reached one that you found unacceptable.

'Morning!

However, the blue lapel still exhibits some human made elements, such as the white dandruff. Thus far, machines are unable to recreate this effect.

Wait until Liz finds out what percentage of the UK mammal population are meerkats…

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Two anti-immigration protestors came down from Scotland to take part in today’s UKIP Mass Deportation rally in Newcastle and were told to go back to where they came from… by their own side.

Share your favourite black and white movie.

If the Rapture does happen, rest assured that your favourite archive won't be heading upstairs and will continue bringing you the latest and greatest of heritage jokes until the end of all things

Every election is a sort of collective entrance exam into the future. It occasionally happens that populations fail the exam. But for the US to fail essentially a resit of its 2016 exam, featuring the same questions, having studied the answers for eight years, is much rarer and pretty unforgivable.

Here’s an apothogem for Thursday night: you can’t say you know a painting well until you’ve done the jigsaw of it. @lordbonkers.bsky.social

Antifa terrorist

Progressive outlet The Lead have launched a petition to ban Elon Musk from the UK following his incitement at the Tommy Robinson demo. Perhaps someone will launch one for Govt departments and politicians to ditch X... open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

Too little, too late. (How often have these words been applicable to politicians without the moral courage to confront extremists and wrong doing?) Racism and violence need to be nipped in the bud, before they become huge, ugly unstoppable monsters. Zero tolerance should be the approach.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

RW media: The Oxford Union president slagged off Charlie Kirk! Boris Johnson: This looks like just the bandwagon for me! I was Oxford Union prez once! RW media: He got into Oxford with only ABB grades at A-Level! BJ: Perhaps not…

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

Yet somehow the murder and attempted murder of two elected Democrat members of the Minnesota state legislature and their spouses *in their own &#%ing homes* in June this year didn’t “bring violence to a new realm” and certainly prompted zero handwringing from Konstantin.

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers