Some British heatwave observations: a) it really brings out those annoying competitive people who have to “win”everything, totally disregarding people’s bodies and houses are built differently. You didn’t win the heatwave because you’re not on SSRIs, or menopausal, or living in a new build flat.

BBC: “So what advice did David Hockney give to you?” BBC Guest: “Fuck everyone.”

reading about the May government for a thing and mad, mad, mad that a Conservative Prime Minister said this nine years ago, I hate how much we've lost since then! I hate it so much! www.theguardian.com/society/2017...

this is a masterpiece

Can’t wait to start describing myself as “under-babied” when people ask if I have kids

This has had a lot of quote posts but the first two sentences are just insane. Telling it that it has great intellectual firepower doesn’t somehow bestow it with any greater ability. Why would you do that? It’s like worship. A mad prayer to kick things off

‘British expats, he claimed, were refusing to fill out evacuation forms provided by the British government “just in case it somehow turns into a tax form instead”.’ No notes. as.ft.com/r/65cf2b43-6...

I wonder if they’ve tried more blue book covers

Totally ridiculous rule. Almost had a personal hyperventilate about coming trip until it clarified Irish citizens are exempt.

Anyone need an odd sock?? @rhodri.biz #duvetknowitschristmas

The only reply needed

Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄

if you can't savor the villains losing you've lost the spark of beauty and ingenuity that makes life worth living

Remember, back in the day, when the general consensus was strong enough to shame these guys/make them too fearful of being pilloried if they said guff like this in public. Let’s go back to that.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

The bitterly ironic transformation of the iconography of the poppy, from sombre reminder of the senseless futility of a war in which the British ruling class systematically ordered the wholesale slaughter of millions of working-class men, to 'War Christmas', says everything about the current crisis

FYI for Google Drive users.

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Wouldn’t it be nice to have Reform and Farage called out like this in actual Britain, by say… the Prime Minister

Realized Frankenstein is just this

In the end, it's going to come down to whether you believe it's important that a song, or a poem, or novel, or whatever, was made by another human; whether you believe that's what art *is*, an expression of our shared humanity. If not, well, goodnight and good luck I guess.

Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

I have not heard anything at all from government ministers nor the opposition nor many media outlets about the dangers of this epidemic of sweeping casual racism. It is sometimes seen as comical - as with Rupert Lowe and the rowers - but it is dangerous and dehumanising

Nothing like having access to limitless social media and getting a published newspaper article to decry your loss of free speech 🙃

Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.

You’d think the spokesman might just have googled to see Sally Rooney is an Irish citizen, living in Ireland, and realised their law can do diddly squat to her before embarrassing themselves like this

Extraordinary to roll out the red carpet for plagiaristic, energy-guzzling AI companies while telling ordinary citizens to save electricity

I love to go to Chat GPT 5 with its alleged “PhD level expertise” and an ask it about my MA thesis work and see that it really cannot do that level of academic work whatever. It can do a SIMULACRUM of that work, which might fool you if you did not have any expertise.

What the ever loving fuck is wrong with the ghouls at the Telegraph, and likes of Laura Trott, when they are complaining about kids being compassionate and caring towards people trying to rebuild their lives in safety after fleeing unimaginable shit? 1/2

Honest to god, I would dump anyone who used AI to text me. Spouse, family member, friend, I don’t care. Binned.

Apparently “women-only spaces” now includes…M&S shopfloors. Any male workers, partners, dads etc are going to be compelled to leave lingerie departments too then, not just trans people? Right? 🙃

Horrible story. Apologising because a trans employee had the temerity to interact with a customer. What are we becoming? www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...

I had been thinking this summer felt like it was missing something, and I just realised what it is. An Olympics. Craving a bit of climbing or a peloton or beach volleyball for a treat.

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

This show surprised and enthralled and uplifted me. A beautiful portrayal of friendship and dying.

Interesting observation: and why the education sector needs to understand the effect of cognitive outsourcing on the outcomes of education itself. There are no short cuts to 'doing the work' #EduSky #UKEd

Even linkedin gets it

James Acaster has mastered chat shows like nobody else in comedy. This is a tour de force 15 minutes, Seth Meyers is fighting for his life 🤣 youtu.be/pTbALzICA6c?...

Guys like this are why I quit the gym years ago. Toxically insecure, cranking up the speed in case a woman is faster than them 🙄

Also, UK publishing is worth £11bn and yet our IP and creative resources are being given away...

Jenkyns gets hit by the dull reality of county councils. #ukpolitics

Two properties, summer holiday every year, and the stone cold classic of a line “families with a household income of £100,000 take home less than the minimum wage if they send two children to private school” 🤪🤡🤪

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

This is what it comes down to in terms of how we actually function in society: not “what is a woman?”, but “how do you know I’m a woman?” Nobody has ever asked to inspect my gametes or chromosomes. Presentation is literally all anyone is going on.

Another great day in the news for people I’d happily fire out of a cannon