Has anyone every really looked at squirrels? I mean, properly. They're up to something. Apropos of nothing, look at Trump's hair. Squirrel? Sneaky bastards.

<Points at stuff> LOOK! Good things!

I would like to apologise to everyone for my excessive public rantiness today. I have no one to blame except all of you.

Quick! Someone Ask Jeeves why.

I blame Belgium.

I am properly in one today. I have been exposed to Excessive Whiny Teenager. Despite my best attempts at compassion and understanding it has rendered me mildly choleric. I am rocking back and forward in the foetal position murmuring "We shall overrrrcommmmeee". My coffee was interrupted with moron

On the relentless horror of seeing those lives that are deemed worthless or just a number by media and politicians #poetry #gaza #news #starmer

A reminder: It is okay not to like a piece of art. Having black people or women in a show is not oppression. Your childhood has not been retroactively ruined because someone did a new version of something. The original still exists. The "off" button exists. Your "criticism" is not important.

Wow, this one was from 16 years ago. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2010-1...

The fact that Trump is even permitted to have a conversation about *whether or not* he will use force shows how degraded the discourse has become. The question should be phrased to ask him why he is seemingly willing to be the aggressor that starts a new world war.

This is obviously better than him saying that he will use force, but I really hope nobody is popping the champagne. What Trump says today has no bearing on what he’ll say tomorrow, and this is pretty clearly some mob boss shakedown protection racket bullshit.

Haven't we had enough evidence yet that Trump, global Trump-likes and Trump-lites, and the supporters both explicit and implicit are not stupid? That "stupidity" is a very inaccurate explanation of them? They are *working* at this. They have been for decades. This is not an isolated one off.

Thread. I don’t think enough people are genuinely prepared for how our long national nightmare is only on the verge of entering into a new phase.

hey i skimmed your post and saw some words i recognize. anyway here's my opinion on what i imagine you said

Okay: The USA has fucked up, the UK should take it back. BUT the UK has fucked up, the Romans should take it back. BUT Italy, pretty much where the Romans were from, has fucked up, the Greeks should take it back. It is no way a convenient argument that we should stop there and put me in charge.

An unrealised project of mine is to dig out some digital phone book and systematically insult every single person person via bot, in tribute to the great Douglas Adams, who would, if it was alive probably go "it was a joke, don't take me literally"

I emigrated to the UK as a small child, largely because of the actions of the UK and others in my native country. I arrived a bit browner than I am today, unable to speak English beyond a phrase or two (from an ex-UK colony BTW), and with a Funny Surname(TM). All major crimes in the 70s/80s. 1/n

I am 100% here for this. I can't remember where I saw this anecdote: A chap was parking his car and was making a hash of it, briefly slowing another driver in the car park. This person shouted "WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" at the chap. The reply: "Making a mistake."

Wise

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

I'm no economist, but couldn't everyone just dump US government treasury bonds, switch the reserve currency to the...oh I don't know...Euro?..., and start trading oil in the Euro as well? I'm not saying this is easy or not dramatically chaotic, but missiles might not be the answer.

My 16 year old son asked me why we can't just have a revolution and overthrow governments, billionaires etc. Bless him, he's 16 and a sweetheart and not even remotely violent. The problem is I couldn't think of a good reason why not.

Breaking news: Usain Bolt gives Donald Trump the Men's 100m Spirit World Record. Neil Armstrong gives Donald Trump the accolade of being the first human to walk on the moon. I give Donald Trump the title of "World's Greatest Lover"... ...Okay, the Usain Bolt thing was too far. I agree. WHAT!?

This is correct reporting and all UK and international media outlets should adopt this as their style guide. I only object to the use of the word "cunt". None of these people have the warmth, depth, or ability to give pleasure that typifies the original. ;-)

*upset adhd noises*

Rumour has it that the Techno Viking has been deployed to defend Greenland. Shit's about to get real.

I don't know when reality jumped the shark, maybe ages ago, maybe it hasn't yet, but I think that future historians will be able to successfully argue that this was yet another option. Fuck me deftly.

Again it is something that people in previous eras have commented on but I still find it just astonishing to witness in my own: fascism is somehow the natural ideology of loser men, just all of our most pathetic and contemptible instincts rendered into a worldview.

Nerve agents have a specific definition. They bind with the enzyme acetylcholinesterase to create a cholinergic crisis. Yes, it's technical. But I go to great lengths to explain it in my book on this exact subject. www.hurstpublishers.com/book/toxic/

My mind is still boggled (and it really shouldn't be) by the (alleged?) handing over of the Nobel Prize medal to Trump. it's not the actual prize. Does he not grasp this? I understand the gesture, but this isn't a capitulation or compliment. It's not even placation. It's condescension.

"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."

We're no more civilised than we've ever been. Slavery is contracted out to sweatshops. Drone footage of battlefield deaths have replaced amphitheatres. Tyrants sit on thrones appointed by a mob. Wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few while others starve. We are savage.

I think we can call that a wrap on Giving A Shit About The Nobel Prize

lmfao nice participation trophy boomer

If María Corina Machado truly has given her Nobel Prize medal to Trump, just think about that. The Nobel Committee aren't going to change the award. He's got a bauble. What does it say about the man that this is in any way something he wants? It's incredible that any grown adult would accept it.

They fill you with the faults they have From other people, stolen too

Scolding people on the internet is not praxis. Yes, I am aware of the irony here.

Timeline cleansing

Privatisation in a nutshell: Steal from us something we own. Sell us back an inferior service at a higher price. The most obvious example is the railways. But the pattern is the same everywhere else: water, electricity, gas, the NHS, public services, council services…

A friend of mine is a proctologist. He said that after medical school he wasn't sure what to do, he kind of fell into the field by accident. He just saw an opening.

This is excellent from @natashaloder.bsky.social on yesterday's nonsense open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...

Another must read from SK for these ominous times.

Am I right in thinking/remembering that the ICE agents in the US are/were hastily recruited, offered comparatively high salaires, are not necessarily trained police officer (or were rushed through training)?

And they say people cannot write compelling short stories any more.

/4 Trump and ICE and the rest of the fascist scum can murder and lie and oppress, but they can’t kill that decency that some real Americans have. They don’t have it, they are inadequate without it, and it infuriates them. But they can’t kill it.

/3 Think about it. Faced with lawless, violent thugs who feel entitled to murder and abuse, and faced with an unimaginably powerful government openly praising and endorsing murder and lying to justify it, these people are still showing up, often for people they don’t even know.

/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.