Euro Car Parks next 🤞

When I was offered the meningitis vaccine my doctor dithered so much I forgot about it so if I catch it I guess I die

This is how we incentivise 15 minute cities (because nobody can afford to drive anywhere)

A lot of people do not understand how Weimar/Nazi antisemitism was able to exploit both the image of the rich capitalist Jew and the poor religious Jew. The nature of European Jewry meant antisemites were able to exploit a wide range of often contradictory stereotypes.

Here's a nice article if you're vaguely into folk www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

I don't know what NYT Connections writers were on about but after watching an inordinate amount of American media I don't think I've ever heard someone use "Bogart" as a verb

This was a big turning point for how I saw the internet too, and indeed how I interacted with it.

Aw www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There is a brilliant cadence to their posts. They will post the same three photos every day (weighing, feeding, sleeping) for weeks and then suddenly they post a photo of their guinea pig with lasers coming out of its eyes.

cerberus at the gates

1) This is a clear signal that there needs to be an accelerated adoption of heat pumps 2) I really wish people on BlueSky would stop saying "why don't all those people using heating oil just get heat pumps? Are they stupid?" - the things are often prohibitively expensive to install

Jürgen Habermas has died.

I had a nice sunny run. I saw the lambs back hiding under their fallen branch. Everyone I saw said "good morning" back.

Just seen someone reply to Gunther Fehlinger with "I'm unfollowing, this man has lost his marbles."

Zweig wrote of Austrian Jews in denial. "Everybody had a ready-made phrase: “That cannot last long...” It was the self deception that we practice because of reluctance to abandon our accustomed life."

When I was in primary school (must've been 2005?) we had a mock election with parties. Things like Tidy, Sports, and I think Art? Our local MP came to watch but right after the "hustings" he declared that he was going to run and he'd do everything the other parties stood for. He still lost...

Found my physical copy of the GOAT Victoria II, including a fold-out paper map featuring Yellow Prussia

The state of libraries in the UK is sad

Wrong! Osteoporosis

The state of Holocaust denial online is depressing but you also realise that Holocaust deniers have not had an original argument for 20+ years.

I do generally agree and blaming every price increase on profiteering is silly, but I've found it hard to put (for example) the initial heating oil situation down to anything but price gouging

I realise that I've been on a bit of a Hitler roll recently so please don't get the wrong idea about me

This is a fair point; although as someone who also lives rurally (not through choice) I wonder how much is a specific spurning of rural communities and how much is just a symptom of the general breakdown of the state.

Thoughts?

Just found my old Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone PC CD. There's a sticker inside which reveals it was purchased from *Safeway*

I hope he doesn't miss his family 🥲

Can I say that I don't really like the new banknote concepts without everyone getting angry at me

They're making a Lego Tintin rocket!

Gangster being paid for a hit in 2029: That's right... Gimme em hedgehogs...

Interesting. Just eyeballing PiP's map it looked quite fair. But there's clearly a lot of places being left out.

Would you believe me if I said when I was 12 or so I went to a WWII fair and some strange man gave me a replica Hitler Youth dagger and I've kept it hidden in a box because I genuinely don't know how to get rid of it

I always thought it's probably not a sign of a healthy setup that their app is buggy and randomly doesn't work for purchases, or that there's a random chance that they block your account for no reason.

Why am I getting slower 😭😭😭

Me: it's a beautiful night tonight. A 52 year old dad who watched a documentary about how Betelgeuse is going to explode some time in the future: there's Orion. Say,

What are you looking at me like that for

My dog Molly is frightened of these sheep

If they're mining the Straight of Hormuz it might actually be over

Scenic walk. Saw a lot.

Asked my boss if he'd refilled the heating oil tank recently and he just looked at me like this

For just 500 Euros you can know where Hitler was on every single day of his life

It's worth pointing out there are people in the government who have been agitating to ban wood burning stoves - the same things that many who can't afford to heat their homes with heating oil will now be turning to.

Yeah that's right

This is taken in Japan, right? Why do I have a single negative of Japan?

Tried listening to Vox's "Today Explained" podcast. Awful. Entire thing was like: "Is Trump going for Cuba because he's been TOO SUCCESSFUL in Iran?? 🤔🤔🤔 *EXPLOSION SOUND EFFECT* We speak to a Cuban who WANTS him to invade. But first a message from our sponsor, FUCK MARRY KILL."

I saw a very beautiful sunset on the way home from Exmoor. Like all sunsets, it was better observed than photographed.

So I'm still going to be able to afford plane tickets to America this autumn right lads? 🙂

Fair credit to whoever made the stock market opening bell, it really is a very melodramatic and stressful thing to hear on the news