think the refugee deportation proposal is where i go from "wow! this government is shit" to "these people are actively dangerous and need to be prized out of power immediately"

Why were the last posting dates for France so early? It's right next door! You have to drive through France to take letters and parcels to Austria, couldn't you just drop them off on the way?

For the Aussies, the zoologists and the architects out there. 💩🧊🧪 By @chazhutton.com

Mandelson revealed in SHAMEFUL visit to George Osborne's house minutes before innocent piss.

Truly one of my best pieces.

i've been thinking about this for the last week and a half

Many are saying I have a choice to make, a Jellicle Choice, but you have to be careful with that, right? Because Grizabella is someone who, frankly, wouldn’t have gone to the Heaviside Layer without my help, and she admitted that at the time, but she’s been very, very nasty to me lately.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

At the

The fake admiral can be recognised by his perfectly circular head and uncannily smooth face.

The Complete Far Side and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, so the readers are impressed by how strong and weight-bearing my coffee table is.

extremely delightful to be retroactively validated in all my most self-indulgent mid-20s narcissicisms. "you know who I bet is reading my posts? extremely cool hot girls. I bet they're reading them to each other out loud and talking about how funny I am"

The mayor’s bought a Canva subscription and is angling for those sweet sweet Adsense payments.

In the end, trans ppl will get to be as insufferably boring as everyone else. And that’s a good thing.

Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever

Berlin überrascht von US-Entscheidung zu "Antifa Ost"#AntifaOst

"Orgasmatronik für den Après-Sex-Rave" is the kind of delightful sentence only German could ever come up with. (The fact that "für" and "den" are the only definitely German words in that sentence just adds to the charm)

Trying to log into my work computer after a couple of months of parental leave, and you know what? I'm fully on Starmer's side now. Let's ban all VPNs.

Finally

Estate agent had a long lunch break and unfortunately your bitcoin bid on the house is now only worth $320k and so now you've been outbid. damn. shouldn't have had the dessert I suppose *burp*

The Frankfurt/Rhine-Main transport agency RMV, serving a population of c 5 million*, has no gates at all, and estimates it loses €50m (£45m) a year to evasion. TfL, serving c 9 million*, estimates it loses £130m. www.ffh.de/nachrichten/... www.bbc.com/news/article...

They’re running Under Milk Wood as originally broadcast, for the first time, this weekend on R4 Extra. Obviously, it’s brilliant. And I highly recommend a listen. It still sounds amazing; truly timeless. The most dated bit is the credits - but, oh, those character names.

Happy 31st Birthday eurostar! On this day in 1994, the first commercial services started. 2 trains a day each way between London and Paris/Brussels back then.

I'm sorry, Whitby? The best value for money? £15 fish and chips Whitby? That Whitby?

Every ad now

You know those skits where there's one performer, but they cut back and forth to make it look like a conversation between two people? Well, YouTube's dubber thinks it's just one person speaking an insanely long nonsense sentence. It's like watching AI do Lucky's soliloquy from Waiting For Godot.

Get ready for a heaping helping of cinematic turkeys this Thanksgiving! 🦃 The #MST3K Turkey Day Marathon is back and for the first time features episodes from Seasons 11 & 12 via our Double Troubled Features Marathon starting 11/27 at 3 am ET / 12 am PT on the MST3K channel.

TIRED: problematic age gap WIRED: problematic population gap

south tucson is a tiny city w/about 6,000 people completely surrounded by tucson but never annexed by it for various historical reasons. willing to bet this is the sexual relationship btwn two former or current mayors w/the largest ever population difference between their respective municipalities

I kind of enjoyed this goofy ass hate mail tbh. shades of 2013 #tcot, a better time

Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years. youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU

Thinking about the only good leaked email (Channing Tatum from the Sony leak)

But they do love to gossip in what they think are safe spaces (apparently a very good source of German intelligence in WWI was gossip from supposed neutrals in London's gentlemen's clubs)

Once a week or so, I remember an old Homestar Runner bit and start laughing uncontrollably. Today it's the character name "Mrs. Tompkins'-robot-mom-erson" It's amazing that H*R managed a such a consistent run of quotable comedy while being genuinely all-ages. Funny for 8 yr olds and adults alike

This is I think an underrated truth: being intelligent is I think primarily a matter of habit. Do you actually listen and try and take on board what you've heard or read before responding? Do you go 'okay, is that true?' about your own thoughts and prejudices? These are learnt, not innate.

The "Children don't belong in the city" activist, who resents the fact that money and space is used on fun things that aren't directly reducing his rent.

A big challenge for urbanism/Yimbyism is a necessary part of your coalition is 'guy who hates living in the city but is forced to either live or commute there', and you need to make him feel involved while chucking out maybe 90 per cent of his ideas.

We have chaos and Ed Miliband, they're just not evenly distributed.

It is crazy that there is no testing or licensing regime for these things, dozens of deaths later. A drug which had such serious mental side effects would have been withdrawn instantly

Our short, pointless and barely-noticed national nightmare is over.

Peter Mandelson:

genuinely very few things more satisfying than reading the kinds of emails rich and famous people send each other

[know nothing voice] just punched a hole in the wall because the new mayor is yet another Catholic

Impossible to find a more mid-Noughties stock image than this one of Nell McAndrew and Chris Tarrant launching the 13th Year of Tesco's "Computers For Schools" at Snowsfields Primary School in Southwark (2004). I'm sorry, but can you IMAGINE anything like this happening today?!

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

The craziest thing here is he keeps saying "FFT". This is the Fast Fourier Transform, an algorithm for breaking a complex pattern into its constituent wave frequencies (it can be used to process sound and image data). It's a reasonably high-level concept, which nothing else here strikes me as.

Jeffrey Epstein every time he sent an email.

Is there a good biography about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as a couple? All the books I can see are about them as individuals. (In general, I'd be curious about *any* good shared biographies of famous couples. There seem to be surprisingly few)