Is one of the prizes free healthcare?

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

jump around is my favorite song about jumping around

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Always wonderful to bump into my old friend Daniel Radcliffe!

one of the weirder parts of this wave of total surrender of core civil liberties is there is no fucking reason for it. no world war 2, not even a 9/11. we're just bored and mad

WHAAAAAAAAT

Dunno, but a former UK prime minister declaring what will happen to Palestine is not something which went terribly well before.

Awwww. Poor feathery Cretaceous friends ☹️

The person whose house I searched had an "in the event of my demise" list, the absolute superstar. They also had this, which I remember from my parent's telephone table in the 80s.

When you look after your Italian baker neighbour's dog, the up side is you get free Italian pastries. The downside is the dog thinks all humans are up by 5:30am.

So we're going to force brown people to do unpaid labour against their will? The british do have previous on this one, but I think we gave it another name.

The fact that this has not had nearly enough reposts is, I feel, conclusive proof we're living in a simulation.

When Douglas Adams predicted Cryptocurrency and the Blockchain.

The entire history of the right wing in this country is about an insecure minority trying to subjugate a majority that disagrees with them. It's the reason they hate democracy. Draw a line from antebellum Southerners to today's billionaires. They own everything but they pretend they're under siege

Make a movie sausagie: When Hurka Met Sai ua.

Going to get trains banned by telling people how much water they use

It’s technically oranges, but it smells more like satsumas to me

The 'Riyadh Comedy Festival' reminds me of the story of Freddie Starr performing in the Middle East, under instruction not to swear or refer directly to Prince Hussein. He came on and said 'Which one of you fuckers is Prince Hussein?' and the curtain immediately came down.

arms folded and eyebrows fuming, my wife dragging me away in case I say something terrible as I watch your boyfriend fill the dishwasher

Apparently what I do in the middle of the night in a sleeping pill fugue is now "create bad little graphics on canva"

Oo this was an eye-opener for me because I'd learned everything up to that point from the official BBC tie-ins, so finding out how this stuff worked *generally* and comparing the two really set me up for my career. I was going to post this:

I loved all of the Usborne picture fact books (wildlife, paranormal, everything), but this one sticks in the mind due to the combination of kiddie presentation with surprisingly hardcore subject matter:

🎵bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug bug 🎵Mr bugman 🎵cent me a pede 🎵give him some feet that are many indeed

If you dropped this of the Eiffel Tower it could spell disaster.

Sitting on the porch all day peeling and pitting a whole family size bag of peanut m&ms

Turned up super early to the litfest venue today, only to remember that churches tend to be doing something else between 9:30 and 11:30. Now perched godlessly outdoors with a latte

i've spent this summer sick and injured. playing guitar again is both physical therapy and a bit of a painful stretch. trying to get into shape for a few shows this month though, including an online Bandcamp show in two weeks: mariancall.com

Me today with my purple-ink Bic Cristal that I reclaimed from the old dear who forgot she had it (sure you did, mate). OBVIOUSLY I was as delightful as possible

Anyone else have a knife sharpening truck that drives through their neighborhood? Oh, he's about to leave! I'd better grab my kitchen scissors and run out there as fast as

I don’t think it’s fair to pass judgement until we’ve seen it completely caked in gold painted bits of polystyrene to get the full effect.

Lol.

Comforting a friend whose team lost: There, there. Football is stupid

Apologies for the spam of this, but I'm hella proud of it! Written in a day, and on software I've never used before, in a medium I've never even previously considered! My first game! It's good!

Liking a post without sharing is bsky friendzoning

Couldn't take Chicago, so he's going after Portland. Like a high school bully that got bodied by a wrestler so he tries to take it out on a theater kid. Pathetic.

Got my performance review.

Autumnal sausage stew

“Even a cat can look at a king.” Cats: Can’t we just show him our assholes?

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

I am really not a fan of the patronising work management phrase ‘If you’re not sure about anything, just ask’. Dude. Every horrendous mistake I have made starts off with me being VERY sure about everything. That then defers to ‘Well I’m sure I can figure it out for am I not a Bloke? ‘Ask’, pfft.

“This is awesome! Don’t you think this is awesome? So awesome!” “You are SO immature.”

This seems wrong

Illegal Immigrants are NOT eating the swans. I am. And they’re delicious. In a red wine reduction. They’re a bastard to catch though. The beak is the best bit.

I remember, when I was a small boy in the 1960s, saying "Dad, what's an anachronism?", and he simply replied "Google it".

Fugitive

My latte has a bum on it

"Science fiction has to be logical," the publisher said, "but this doesn't stand up to #scrutiny. A little thought and it all falls apart." Greg sighed. "I'll give it another rewrite." He climbed out the window and hopped on a passing albatross. Overhead, the sun sang its goodnight song. #vss365