now the technology is only available to a closed circle of paid users a “closed circle” is also known as “a ring”

Or if the royal family actually take their duty to the public seriously, they could waive the rent on this building. But they won't, because they don't.

Fundamentally, the UK has a series of regulators that are incapable of prosecuting the brazen and so spend their time persecuting minor infractions because it’s easier.

Anyone know if cycleway 2 from Stratford has been gritted?

Hegelly Blonde

Vampires are always impressively neat for beings who can't use mirrors

What idiot called it Fairytale of New York and not Police Navidad

A good reminder to revisit the doctor.

Mick Jagger Anton Corbijn, 1996

Verstehe ich das richtig – die britischen Rechtsextremen haben jahrelang ihre Bürger überzeugt, die EU zu verlassen? Und nachdem das katastrophale Folgen für ihre Wirtschaft gehabt hat, kommen jetzt die gleichen Rechtsextremen und behaupten, sie würden diese Zustände fixen können? Und DAS KLAPPT?!

—I’ve been asked to baptise the King of Spain’s daughter —Infanta? —No, holy water as usual. Weird thing to ask honestly

In the bargain bins are UK campuses There are auctions at Universities of Birm'ham, Essex, Gloucester & Nott'ham for bricks, glass, listed buildings & grass just to keep lights on Bankrupted by “strategy" from the six-figure mega-mind Vice Chancellors thetab.com/2025/12/11/u...

In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door. But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.

Gingerly eating a bag of Hula Hoops and noticed the “no msg ✔️” on the packet. So I just went and added some MSG and shook the bag and they taste infinitely better. I recommend this to all foods that brag they’re MSG free

Lovely to see people openly sharing their support for the struggling weapons loving music platform slopify.

They were 8 and 11 years old

Took him long enough.

White-faced heron plucking crustaceans from the wall in Sydney harbour.

This will tip a number of universities into crisis. I'm sure we are all glad the banking sector has been spared further tax increases, and fuel duty has been *cut* despite the climate emergency.

The government’s stated number one goal is growth. Its actual number one goal is scrabbling together enough money to meet the fiscal rules while trying not to actually make any tough decisions or piss anyone off. It is not very good at that goal, not least because it’s a stupid one.

harold's auto center, horizontal view, sinclair gas station, route 19, spring hill, florida, 1979

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

80s: Japan is the future 90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture Now: oh, that WAS the future

This is illiterate policy. For the policy to have a clear rationale, it needs to apply to all vehicles, with rates staggered by weight class and fuel economy. It's then also a way of clawing back the indirect subsidy to drivers over the past 15 years through constant deferral of fuel duty rises.

This is why we shouldn't let Palantir run stuff. Anything!

IMPORTANT: DO NOT PRACTICE YOUR 1970S DISCO STRUT ON THE MILITARY FIRING RANGE.

This is why “listening” isn’t reducible to something like “resonance” or even “sympathy.” The necessary conditions for feeling heard go include doing something with what is heard beyond echoing to responding and acting on it.

Caerphilly 💪💪💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Well done Caerphilly, well done Wales, well done Plaid Cymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💪

remove her from her job, let nobody ever forget the horrendous nonsense she came out swinging for, and take all of her printed music scores and bury them under the north sea. this person should never be put in front of the public ever again

Play isn’t just for playgrounds.

Make America Argentina again

As Lacan would say, they are enjoying their symptom.

'Piccadilly Circus Underground Station' (from 'This Is London', 1959) by Miroslav Šašek

To be absolutely clear, it is impossible to vote for a party that cannot bring itself to unequivocally defend the rights of people living and working legally in this country. Because arbitrary removal of legal rights, or sudden varying of terms, for some is ultimately a threat to everyone.

A very interesting thread that shows how labour regulation is not only a matter of law, but also a matter of enforcement and sanction. The UK has shown itself to be systematically negligent on this, leading to a free-for-all for unscrupulous employers.

Basically the US Treasury burnt USD400 million on the altar of neoliberal ideology, predictably benefiting financiers

The world I was born into: a world of brown, sensible, sobre things. And brown sensible drunk things

In light of all the ruckus around Maccabi and Villa, let's remember what happened in Amsterdam. Ultras came to the city looking for a scrap, found it with some street youths, police had to intervene. Same old story. The difference was a foreign government using it as a propaganda wedge issue.

That's it, I'm moving to Brussels.

Every country with English expat populations should retaliate.

Pamuk's My Name Is Red is poorly disguised rip-off of The Name Of The Rose.

I can’t express how dually maddening and affirming it is to have spent years reading philosophy and theory trying to make sense of myself, my politics and my place in the universe as our leaders get worked by dickheads who believe they’ve cracked the code by abusing amphetamines and watching anime.

The sort of epistemological naiveté you wouldn't even accept from an undergraduate.

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

The British understanding of the benefits of multilinguality remains poor - quelle surprise!

Yesterday 250.000 people assembled in Amsterdam to protest the complicity of the Dutch government with the genocide in Gaza. This amounts to 1.4% of the country's entire population. We were there to show our solidarity with the Palestinians, but this massive turn-out also conveys something else.

Nikon N60 | Fuji 400 #filmphotography

"Let them eat Tesco sandwiches"