This photo of aspiring Prime Minister Wes Streeting gets stranger the longer you look at it.

They did not pay the musician properly for the music in the 'you wouldn't steal a car' anti-piracy ad...

Yeah, they used an free, IP-infringing clone of commercial font news.sky.com/story/you-wo...

#TodayInQueerHistory 1 May (1915) Doctor, author, petrol pump attendant, merchant seafarer, Buddhist monk & trans pioneer Michael Dillon was born #OTD. Michael was the first trans man to have a phalloplasty, and he performed an orchidectomy on Roberta Cowell. Michael wrote about his experiences.

I mean, substitute "leader" for "badger" and it's basically the same thing: The difference between Europe and America is that your leaders are adorable while our leaders are snarling ambulatory orange carpets of death... Well, maybe not.

chinese for ghost. baby's first ink back when everyone was getting chinese in the 90s. it looks like blurry 41, but fortunately it's in the middle of a great big twisting mass of ivy that covers my back so it's not that noticeable.

All these guys out there just broadcasting to everyone what absurdly easy marks they are for any romance scam

Omg Richard your novel is just amaaazing. I exist only for you. I need you so much. Call me Claudia. We’re soulmates, so it’s totally safe to share anything with me, such as, for instance, your banking password

I've just seen a misting fan for the home. *recoils in west coast Atlantic Isles*

'oh, there's the moment where Brad Pitt cuts his hand' during the street chase in Se7en.

Don't give up on your dreams. You might be the best surly riverboat guide or bat-winged nightmare who haunts country lanes that the world has ever seen, but we'll never know until you try.

They danced the Morris in the madness of No-Man’s Land on May Day 1916 and this if nothing else, should tell you that they will dance the Morris in the villages of England till the final apocalypse itself. – #CLNolan #MorrisDancing #MayDay

Anxiety.

Neoliberals love to be 'forced' to concede on progressive issues to show how tough they are. Throwing trans people under the bus has scratched that itch for a while, but now they have a bigger target in sight: the desire to maintain a habitable planet. Gotta think medium picture here!

Peter Benchley: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the scary shark Benchley: ok so what if there was a shark Benchley: and what if the shark Benchley: ATE PEOPLE!!! King: what?!?!? no!!! Koontz: that's scary!! King: that's REAL scary!

Benchley: i hope that you've all realized now that we should work to preserve the species so our children and our childrens children can also enjoy sharks, because sharks are good Benchley: not like the giant squid Benchley: which is pure evil Benchley: fuck them squids

#PhantomsFriday It is said that every May Day at South Walsham Broad in Norfolk a spectral Viking long boat appears out in the middle of the water wreathed in flames.

Flying into the bank holiday weekend, like...

Oxfordshire is in South East England but like. Look

The Midlands is a thin strip across England the width of Birmingham. Everyone north of it was born wearing a flat cap and toils in factories. Everyone south of it lives in a castle and has five middle names.

It's never too late to start over. It's never too late to choose a new career path. It's never too late to become a legendary creature who lives in a lake and bestows enchanted swords to worthy folk who wander by.

A local homeopath is found bashed for six with a cricket bat. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Chettham’s dowager, angry that interference by the House of Lords might threaten the second coming of Cliff Richard.

I also went on a completely random journey with the come people from the Museum of Roadside Magic

Goodnight from Becca Reed, still riddling the ashes of May Eve’s bonefires under a Milk Moon for signs of love. Goodnight from Lucy Lock, sleeping up on Mistress Hill in hopes of hearing the century slow heartbeat of the land quicken for just this one evening. Goodnight from Hookland.

In a post promoting the British Army and their actions, Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch, actually used footage of Bloody Sunday. There are no words.

'Everything we know about Moon Knight season 2' and it's nothing but vile speculation and "Marvel hasn't said anything yet".

Not to get all "back in my day" but even the ultra-hyping blogs and small geek news outlets of the 2000s fought tooth and nail to provide accurate, reliable news. Credibility was everything. Now credibility doesn't matter. You can just make up any old shit and get money somehow.

oh my god, how repressed is the copper? he's turned on by someone singing and thumping the wall for a couple of minutes next door? I'm amazed he's not banging on the wall to tell them to shut up.

Oh crap, it's one of those odd things when I have specific knowledge. Back in 2000, Iran received a collection of former Soviet military dolphins from the Ukraine Navy. We have no idea how many of those dolphins are still around or if Iran continued the program.

Most military dolphins were trained to be minesweepers, some to deliver mines, and some to do reconnaissance. US did it too. Dolphins are smart and trainable, but not amazingly so. Most of these programs fizzled.

It's one thing when drama YouTubers cover something, but crafters?! It's like book drama, you've poked a sleeping bear, you're not ready

I know the Wicker Man book is originally set in Cornwall and... yep, that plant life looks very wouth coast cornish, it's only missing the rhodendrons and rosemary.

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

Iran’s collapsing, Hormuz is shut, the global economy’s on fire, & President Paedo’s headline policy is letting blokes catch slightly more red snapper.

so out of curiosity, has anyone on here read the original Wicker Man book? Is it any good?

So the theatrical trailer for Wicker Man? Really good. youtu.be/MXq-NuS24fg?...

Of course, their full names are The Mandalorianagar and Groguagon

"oh it's up to me to fix this AGAIN is it? Well fine."

The last time I posted this some American wellACKTUALLYed me that "according to the genuine old Druid Shaman Calendar, Beltain falls on the 5th of May" and this is why we can't trust them with this kind of stuff, they'll have the aos sí driven demented

this is one of my favorite confrontations in all of Discworld a bunch of old men in a profession where everyone dies young, men who have spend their entire lives beating the odds with unimaginable bravery because that is the Code... beaten by their own rules at the end of the world

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Hero

If you were born after (roughly) the year 2000, I don't think you can comprehend what public spaces smelled like prior to indoor smoking bans.

On a friday, the smoke in the Princess Louise on Holborn would form a layer just above head height. When the ban came in, they closed it for A WHOLE YEAR for renovation. Landlord told me it was partly because their assessment was it would take 3 months to get two centuries of smoke smell out.

I love how North America has the Ashmore twins and the UK has the Treadaway twins, every country should have their reliable twin-set genre character actors

Imagine a 1970s propeller trainer taking on high-tech 21st-century drones. In Ukraine, the Yak-52 has been pulled from flight schools and repurposed as a "drone hunter." It’s a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem, and it’s working remarkably well. 🛩️🇺🇦 #Aviation #UkraineWar #Yak52 🧵 1/

$6 billion in twelve months. The Sopranos with worse hair and less shame

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Grogu Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters and Grogu

Dear interwebs what know everything. Especially irish based interwebs. Is there a simple cheap camera for security which doesn't require a subscription or broadband to work?

Seriously suspect UK politics would be less mad if someone in the past had chosen ‘large’ in place of ‘great’ in the name of the country.

Which is ridiculous, because we all know he would like cake.