“.. What we are talking about is nothing short of the sitting president of the United States looting from the Treasury for his own gain,” she said. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/5733...

Everyone will be pardoned, and they know it.

This will be the most Singing With Furrowed Brow Sincerity Into the Balcony production ever. deadline.com/2026/05/stra...

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

This is the most corrupt act of the most corrupt presidency in American history.

It’s the anniversary of the great Mt St Helens eruption. I was a wee boy living in Washington when it happened. Leading up to it, you could regularly watch ash clouds pluming on the horizon. Having moved there from Hawaii, I assumed everyone had volcanoes. The mountain shows up in Burn.

It’s Rowling’s old pal, being viciously racist. Scratch a transphobe…

It’s Rowling’s old pal, being viciously racist. Scratch a transphobe…

Okay, it’s just a top 100 books for adults list, meant to open discussion, which it has. The votes are public, so probably some pressure to pretend you’ve read more than the blurbs of Proust. It’s all fine, nothing worth raging over.

What is wrong with men?

“I’ve been following the discourse about how I don’t have to get mad at everything and have written this essay about why that opinion is retrogressive and enraging…”

Okay, BlueSky, you don’t actually have to get mad at everything.

Wes Streeting origin story

Had a dream where Michael B Jordan was the next James Bond and the world became a better place.

Malcolm in the Middle

This is only getting worse: we're getting a lot of emails and phone calls from people receiving fraudulent emails claiming to be from Canongate editors.

Hahahaha.

Then take them, girl. No one will forgive anyone for PM Streeting. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gosh, so many gay couples approaching us about our fatherhood journey. It's really moving, especially in the face of homophobia from the right and, indeed, some of the "left" (name rhymes with Grendel). Sending love to all the potential gay fathers out there. All that love and safety to give!

If no goddess, then how pistachio?

My God, Wes Streeting is just a wet stripe of dribble, isn’t he? Like if the word “moist” was made human.

It’s 549am, I’ve got my 10-day-old daughter asleep on my chest, and I’m watching old Drag Race. She too is suspicious of Kornbread’s departure from season 14.

of course all the chaos is funny and I'm glad that Keir Starmer, a bad person, is having a bad time. but jfc what a waste of two years, what a waste of a majority, what a waste of a once in a generation window to improve things. and now it's just 24/7 infighting, briefing, backstabbing. pathetic

And we’ve all clocked that Rowling is now represented in the Scottish parliament by a trans person, yes? Just to brighten your day a little.

So if Orban was propping up this much rage media, how much of the rest is Putin?

I swear, England, if Wes Streeting is Prime Minister when I get back, I will give you such a pinch.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Oreo uses pillows like humans do.

I have performed a feat of Hercules and wrangled the wriggly newborn into her onesie and now it’s time for a nap. She’ll need one, too.

Jeesh, never underestimate how much white people don’t want to share, I guess.

and as trans people have already pointed out... It is literally just recycled "same sex attracted" or whatever. It's just some kind of shit euphemism where they avoid just calling gay people gay or trans people trans. Why? cos conversion therapists don't believe you can really be those things.

To the young couple with their baby in the Walmart parking lot who were kind to an exhausted new father and answered questions about bottles and nipples, I truly truly cannot thank you enough.

To the young couple with their baby in the Walmart parking lot who were kind to an exhausted new father and answered questions about bottles and nipples, I truly truly cannot thank you enough.

Baby fingernails, on the other hand, are an eldritch horror from the abyss.

When you’re expecting a baby, people do like to gleefully tell you how hard and sleepless it’ll be. And it is hard and sleepless, but my god, it’s also absolutely incredible. Having your newborn daughter settle into your arms to feel safe and sleep? Unmatchable in life experience.

An actual newborn is a whole other thing, isn’t it? So fragile, with a head that weighs a billion pounds and fingernails from the eldritch depths, but so so vulnerable and miraculous and impossible.

Okay, response to this has been overwhelming. Thank you all so so much. Too many to respond to with a wee little poop cannon to tend to! She’s perfect.

Some news. I became a father for the first time yesterday. @nmjcoveney.bsky.social and I are now dads to a beautiful daughter.

Richard Dawkins falls in love with sock he sewed eyes onto.

Richard Dawkins falls in love with sock he sewed eyes onto.

Blink is a Christian imprint. Having grown up in an evangelical church, I can say that this is par for the course. But condemning all of YA to immorality and cynicism is bold for a publisher who publishes so much of what it’s criticizing. But yes, this is evangelical nonsense. It’s teen Veggie Tales

I care about all human lives - but it seems like others only value some.

Christopher Plummer was only 34 years old when he filmed The Sound of Music.

@gossjam.bsky.social @guyadams.bsky.social hey, James, Guy, I’m sending you a private message about the Class novels you wrote all those years ago.

To be fair, she may indeed be the whitest person alive. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Hope is an act of defiance. And I am a spiteful bitch.

This makes me physically sick. I have beloved friends in Golders Green. Hate just rises and rises. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...