"...we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere" none of these big brave boys will ever go anywhere near combat, probably all have bone spurs.

Amount of blood US has expended defending Greenland: zero. Amount of blood Denmark has expended defending the US: 43 Danish soldiers gave their lives in Afghanistan, responding to a US appeal under article 5 of NATO. Ogles has no idea about any of this, because he's an incompetent buffoon.

Did you know? A petard was a kind of medieval pair of assless chaps. The expression "Hoisted by his own petard" comes from putting a leg through the hole in the groinal area instead of the trouser leg and stumbling over slapstick style.

Can't believe they spelt BOAT incorrectly.

Starmer at PMQs: “Can I begin by saying I hope all colleagues had a happy Christmas. “It probably feels quite a long time ago now, but not for Reform, of course, because today is the day that they celebrate Christmas in Russia.”

'In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since. Washing machines live longer with Calgon!'

"But soft! What light through yonder Everest uPVC window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.”

‘The past is another country. They go to work on an egg there.’

"The man in black Adidas fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed in an Uber."

‘Hale knew, before he had been in Brighton three hours, that they meant to murder him. Probably just by the Pret A Manger that is now doing hot mac and cheese for £5.50.’

'It was a bright cold day in April, and the time sponsored by Accurist was thirteen o'clock precisely.'

‘The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. Should have gone to Radio Rentals!’

A thread to start your day with

Bohemian Shat-sody

Done ✅

How I Met Your Mothra

Mothra Mia

Ok, as we’re talking MADI… how about a signed copy of the new @imagecomics.com edition? Repost this post and we’ll pick a winner at random on Sunday 11th January. Winner will get this copy signed by @manmademoon.bsky.social Open to anyone anywhere in the world!

Go pick up MADI Once Upon a Time in the Future graphic novel by Duncan and @alexdecampi.bsky.social to see these and even more incredible artwork from a host of amazing artists! Available from your favourite book stores (go support an indie!) and now in digital format too.

Great stuff, as usual, from @attaboyclarence.com. Not just the story of The Thin Man, but also its creator Dashiell Hammett and the genesis of detective / who done it fiction. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.

The most ambitious TV crossover event in history? I. Think. Not. #corriedale

“Can I have one of your delicious South African steak bakes, please”

Because no one's brought it up yet: The icing on the cake is that in most states, it's perfectly legal for an employer to fire you without notice for any reason or real explanation. It's how they get around "can't fire someone for being disabled, speaking up, or whistleblowing, etc." laws.

birds do it bees do it even educated fleas do it let's do it let's fly into a window

German here. I regret to inform you that we have no word in our language for the twee thing you just thought up.

If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.

Chris Philp, a minister at the Home Office 2022-2024, when his government spent over £700m and four years, to deport - voluntarily, at that - a total of four people to Rwanda, reckons it should easily be happening "within a week". 🤡 ~AA

Life of Chuck now on Netflix UK and Ireland, anyone seen? I like Mike Flanagan stuff and Tom Hiddleston and is based on a Stephen King novella so I *should* like it... also a return to the screen for Mia Sara /sighs

Are you worried things can’t get stupider? I assure you they can and will

A lot more Americans moved to The Netherlands since Trump. In interviews they say they feel more human, feel that they are really alive and that they have time to discover that life - for the first time.

Absolutely blows my mind that Americans have this attitude to work / life. That they put up with hardly any annual leave, being in massive debt for health and education, no paid maternity leave. Greatest land in the World though... for employers.

A Dutch worker went viral after explaining to their American boss that they have a life outside work.

Imagine all the flowers and fruit baskets Glasner will be receiving this morning.

The greed for oil. The need to conceal sexual abuse. And thus …

🎶 When your team's in the shit and you can't handle it sack Amorim 🎶

🚨🚨EMERGENCY EPISODE🚨🚨 Very few people can claim to have met and known 🇻🇪's Maduro, Chavez & interim president Delcy Rodriguez. Well, my guest @catheriner.bsky.social, former 🇬🇧 ambassador in Caracas, is one of them and she spoke to me earlier today. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

Trade ya. Even the witches are wearing crocheted nipple warmers in southern Finland right now

Is Moscow just Butlins for assholes? And can they take one more, a big orange one?

-1 but feels like -3 says the weather app. So one is an actual measurement taken by equipment near my location and the other is? What? Are there people employed to pop out and guess?

The maths of 'Kung Fu Fighting': Carl Douglas says 'those kids were fast as lightning, it was a little bit frightening'. No kidding. A trained fighter can punch at 25mph generating a force of 500 pounds per square inch in the case of flyweights (these are kids, so not comparable to heavyweights) 1/

The end of last year I discovered the amazing band “Big Special” so I’m sharing this with you in case you’d like them too. youtu.be/bVpCaJeqR_k?... this one’s a banger

Probably getting the lads back together to tour a full play through of Slippery When Wet, always though it was weird him being FBI to begin with

Hermann Böring

GAKPOOOOOOL! #LFC 💪🏻💪🏻❤️

Might take a bit longer than 15 min, BBC, they’re in London rn #LFC

This shot from the Blackstar video, iykyk ❤️ ★ 🙂 #BowieForever #ImABlackstar