it is with a grim certainty that it seems the Winchester Christmas Tree will be up before the middle of November.

well. sunday afternoon. nearly dark, and soon about to utterly p*ss down rain... this means i am going to have to... make some sausage rolls!!!

The Dalgety Bay Eyesore. It continues.

i have just eaten my bodyweight in mushed up broccoli. i should warn everyone in the world that i have also eaten a weapons grade amount of chilli, garlic, and anchovies in that mush. i believe my breath is now toxic to human life out to 10-12 metres, perhaps further. please avoid.

newsom's trolling reaches places unimagined previously. fantastic that he is doing it; california is the 6th biggest economy in the world. trump on the other hand... what punitive measures is he imagining right now? i trust his handlers have taken his phone for a short while... (until he forgets!)

In the best tradition of Swift, Henry skirts the edges of believability so masterfully that you feel obliged to check it's actually satire.

winchester-villains... it looks to me that our peregrines might still be in residence! this morning on St. Stephens (their favourite cliff face) these look very peregrine like!

the thing i don't get is where these brainfart announcements come from. trump must have all sorts of things to occupy whatever neurons are left, but then out of nowhere, he decides that obese people should not be allowed into the US. has he looked around himself? or even the mirror?

Kids will be kids

oh, there can only be one answer to that question...

bunny currently kicking bottom on Mars!

anyone else suddenly singing "skeet surfin'"...?

KPBS News: 'Obesity drug seen as effective for long COVID, gets clinical trial' “The Scripps trial is unique because it’s the first long COVID clinical trial that enables patients to participate remotely,” said John Redd, CEO of SILC www.kpbs.org/news/science...

I'm surprised he hates John Lennon's Imagine. I like it myself. Interesting to read his opinions. I agree one of our great singer songwriters.

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one of the best musicians and songwriters from Oz. looks fabulous at 70 as well!

GO GIRLS! Soooooooo proud and exciting!

oh, this is genius! all you'd need to do is develop a cleaner/sweeper that you could run on the rails from time to time and this could generate stupid amounts of energy. plus because it is on the rail network, it is guaranteed to be close to the power network infrastructure. genius!

So the one to 25,000 bad apples in the NYPD are "self-deporting?" What a great way to weed out the most prejudiced assholes. Congratulations, New York City!

"So, Bushin and her colleagues made the bacteria an offer they couldn't refuse. They genetically engineered "sick" cells, which could only grow if they continued producing two compounds: xanthommatin and formic acid." not sure if it is genius or bacteria abuse! i love science!

youtu.be/eO1dt-qpYVA?.... #Auspol Australia's only Shutdown. Result, rightly or wrongly the Whitlam Government was sacked by the Governor General

Upon reflection, electing a president who has nothing to lose because he’s been granted immunity and is at death’s door seems like not a great idea

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections go.nature.com/4nLbCoC

oh, governments everywhere absolutely wet themselves in pleasure. you don't need people to confess to whatever crime you're trying to accuse them of, they'll just think their confession for you! what could possibly go wrong!!!

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

good morning, everyone! no matter what crap is going on in the world, a couple of baby platypusses can only make things better!!! aren't they bloody gorgeous!!!

Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say

i'm sorry. they're detaining who now...? native americans. where the very hell do they think they can deport them??? send them "home"? they already are.

If I were to defy a court order, I'd be in jail, not building a ballroom. Reopen government, swear in Adelita Grivala, release the Epstein Files, restore healthcare subsidies, and fund SNAP.

...or. a list of cities where people only throw their old stuff out as a last resort!

Oh, goody... I'll just pop over to say hi. www.space.com/astronomy/ja...

anti communism week. wasn't aware that it was even a thing, except in the fevered imaginings or GOP strategists.

UK folk... is it just me or is this a picture of Farage?

I don’t think “The Simple-minded, Sociopathic Wheezing Orange Gargoyle Stadium” is a good name for a sports venue.

Crockett: When you go and you hit those booths come the midterms, think about which party decided that it was okay to literally be on vacation while people were going hungry in the streets of America.

Especially when you have citizens that own 434 million guns.

Fun fact: water in the desert is hard to come by so animals have learnt different ways to get it. The fog-basking beetle climbs up the sand dunes when it's foggy, does a little handstand, & its body collects water which trickles towards its mouth frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Priorities. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Trump was at his golf club in Palm Beach when this was posted

Argentina President Javier Milei doing the “Trump dance” at Mar-a-Lago after getting an $40 billion bailout. Meanwhile, Trump won’t renew subsides for American healthcare.

Kevin O’Leary is upset Zohran Mamdani didn’t return his call? I wouldn’t want to speak to this idiot either. Slam Dunk this mthfkr.

it is amazing the quality of the reporting and opinion in @rollingstone.com some of the most amazing social commentary can be found there. this is an amazing article. please read!

the Republicans are the ones that have shut down congress, and now they're moaning that they're squandering the majority they were elected with. honestly, are they this stupid? do they think the populace is this stupid? does seem so.

Speaking of donkeys, a lovely species deserving respect.