I know Count Binface has realistically no chance of winning that by-election, but if he did, it would be the funniest thing in British election history.

@hovisbakery.bsky.social Hey Hovis, I got the strangest loaf of bread. The loaf weighed well under 800g and the slices are all shaped like mittens

Historical linguists never so aggrieved

Why are all the commuter mugs in our house disgusting? Have some been merely rinsed? Panorama investigates.

I am sitting in my car in the rain drinking tea from a flask. I was even looking forward to it. Please don’t tell my 25 year-old past self about this.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social LENITION en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenition

Art of the day Guim Tió Zarraluki

Rooftop intensive care ward / garden — what an amazing fundraising proposition. Great example of something ‘additional’ and even visionary where donors can make a difference www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social MIDDEN (refuse heap) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midden

This is becoming a great series. “Supposedly fun things @annamerlan.bsky.social is persuaded to do (again)”

Has anyone checked whether Joe Kent is a Victorian time traveller? Someone ask his views on the Dreyfus affair

Never have so many fought so that so few could make so much money.

Has anyone recorded a song with the lyrics ‘Constant laundry’ to the tune of the KD Lang song?

can we please give my tax dollars to a blue haired 23 year old who will make weird alienating art with it instead of this wasteful bullshit

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I’m sorry to bring Stephen Miller on to your feed but this actually shocked me.

I failed to finish my French cheek-kissing map in time for Valentine's Day so I'm having a sale on my equally romantic cholera deaths map instead. Now 15% off! www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

@CardiffCouncil.bsky.social Relieved to see the figure isn’t higher, but we should not be feeding school children chicken imported from outside the EU. Any at all is shocking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".

The spectacular conclusion of MOBY-DICK WEEK at @flaminghydra.com just subscribe, it is worth $3/week for about forever Feat. a glorious essay from Carrie Frye, and an original SEA SHANTY via the offices of @joemacleod666.bsky.social I am not KIDDING. flaminghydra.com/lust-for-lif...

This @peterbakernyt.bsky.social paragraph is a perfect summary of our descent into authoritarianism. He’s not even editorializing. He’s just reporting what’s happened, and what we’ve become numb to. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/u...

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

Politicians can’t claim a mandate to do whatever they want on the basis of voter will if they deceived the electorate to get those votes in the first place.

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

ME: god i'm so sick of hollywood making movies and tv shows about "the industry." nobody cares ALSO ME: ANACONDA (2025) should be 85% jack black and paul rudd playing slightly exaggerated versions of themselves pitching execs on an ANACONDA reboot. at the end they fight a giant snake for like 10 min

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www.economist.com/britain/2025... plug!

Just got a mailing from Reform UK. It asked me what issues were important to me, but there wasn’t a box to tick for ‘Reform politicians accepting Russian money to peddle Russian propaganda.’ Must be an oversight.

The president of the United States just called for the execution of his political opponents. We cannot normalize this. This is a moment for moral clarity.

What a thrill to be part of @talkingpointsmemo.com's series about the past 25 years of digital media! I wrote about why private equity goons destroyed Deadspin and why it matters.

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Happy FBAR panic eve to all who celebrate! Is the acronym a joke or a threat? Who knows!

What a surprise, the middlemen are profiting the most

Exc - The publisher of the Washington Post, Will Lewis, is facing fresh questions over his independence after leaked files revealed he gave extensive crisis support to Boris Johnson as a secret political adviser. Lewis spent two days with Johnson in No10 as part of a team battling to save him.

"Friendship is not, in fact, forever. It lasts approximately nine to ten months when you’re an adult with elementary school-aged children. And our bell has rung; our time is up." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our...

This is a historic horror that the United States government allows to get worse every day.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were shot and killed early this morning in what appears to be a politically motivated assassination. Our state lost a great leader and I lost the dearest of friends...We must all stand against political violence."

Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

My phone just served me this picture, from a March 2021 CNBC hit, and I want to put it in a museum of pandemic times.

I think people reeeeealllly overestimate the role of trade and industrial policy in US dominance of heavy industry in the 1950s and really underestimate the importance of having dropped high explosives on every facility in Japan or Germany capable of manufacturing a ball bearing

There are two problem-solving approaches: 1) identify a problem that you want to solve, then find a method that will solve it or 2) pick a method you want to use, and go hunting for problems. The second way is the stupid way, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that it's the default method in tech.

this is gob-smacking: www.ft.com/content/e025...

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

Hey I just met you and I'm a whale But here's my number So call me, Ishmael

there are like three overlapping scandals with signalgate — illegal distribution of sensitive government materials by top members of the administration, illegal attempt to circumvent records laws and possible unlawful use of military force — and democrats should be screaming about them all