I like how this gag turned out.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Really hoping that Reform's trajectory mirrors Keegan's Newcastle from 95/96. Streets ahead at the halfway point, but crumbling as they got near the finish line. Although ideally not still finishing 2nd.

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com

This is very good.

This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.

My 7 year old has loved Bowie since he was 2 and he watched some of the Glastonbury headline set with me. That night he asked me to sing Ziggy to him. Now he can smash out whole songs and it's lush. This weekend we listened and watched loads of Bowie with his little sister...

art

First of all, I didn’t “karate chop” your baby. We were sparring

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

11 days from now marks one year since this guy got away with doing a Nazi salute on live TV. Since then, he - the world's richest man - has gutted govt programmes causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children and turned his microblogging website into a child porn generator. Consequences!

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

The antidote to both apathy and despair is action. Doing anything is better than nothing. You’ve got this.

10/10 for headline, FT, a++ No notes. www.ft.com/content/ad94...

There we go. That there’s a headline.

Why is it every 'genius' running Downing Street seems to have recently arrived on Earth to observe humanity with thinly veiled disdain. .

This normalisation is absurd. How is it so hard to say that it’s not OK to go round invading other countries?! Or that it’s not OK to kidnap another country’s leader, even if they are not a nice person?! The events are wild enough but the reluctance to actually name them is surreal.

If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I’ve been reading about influential new “conservative intellectuals” or “post-liberals” for at least a decade now and every time it’s just racism with a different hat on. Whatever the spin, it’s always fundamentally the same idea

There is no moral, legal, or political justification for the US to attack Caracas. None. Don’t entertain the musings or of those who claim otherwise. This is a city of 3.2 million people, and their lives are not fodder for parlor debates.

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Watching Knight's Tale and tempted to play the drinking game of taking a swig every time there's an anachronism. Pretty sure I'd be dead within half an hour.

It’s exhausting and boring, but because the wilful misunderstanders will be out in force some of us are going to have to spend a lot of time saying: No, we do not like or support Maduro. We like and support the rule of law.

This is the worst possible thing to read from your friendly neighbourhood historian.

Happy birthday to the most stylish, gentlemanly genius facilitator of sone of the most stylish ragamuffin geniuses.

Forgot to post this one

it’s stupid to not use ai just because it can induce psychosis and generate child porn. it’s like saying you’re hungry when there’s a hot dog on the ground outside that induces psychosis and generates child porn

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

throwing pizza into the pond until these turtles start doing kung fu

Here's a simple happiness hack: Do something for someone that is truly altruistic. Do it in secret if you can, and take no credit, if you can manage that in a world that sees everything. Do this as often as your circumstances allow, which may be once a year or once a day. Try it and see.

How much port have I drunk this evening? I've had so much port that I've just failed to use the word crow bar and instead plumped for "shoe horn bank robbers use to open safes." That much port.

As the husband/son-in-law of a Scots-Italian I would like to refute this hot bullshit. Pannetone with hot choclate is Christmastime distilled. We hammer through 3 or 4 over the month. At least.

So, just to confirm, the BBC can’t keep Robin Ince on the air because his trans allyship brings the organisation into disrepute, but they can keep David Walliams, who performed Nazi salutes at the recording of this very show, on the air despite him being predatory towards women. Cool. Very normal.

A reminder that Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra’s parents emigrated here during a period when Italians were considered to be a genetically inferior and criminal-minded underclass that Stephen Miller’s racist predecessors said should be excluded from America

This is lovely and pure and kind. Proper good lump in the throat. God bless George Michael.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Games Workshop would make a lot of money if they turned some of their classic paints into a line of nail polishes.

My in-laws have goaded me into having a second pudding and now I am bursting with sticky toffee pudding, Oreo ice cream and 5 pints of regret.

Tiny Tim, who was clearly <checks observational data> NOT dead when we last observed him

[breathing a sigh of relief as I carefully remove the poison, hammer, Geiger counter, and radioactive source before helping Tiny Tim out of the box]

and Tiny Tim, who did die and was secretly replaced in 1966 by a lookalike

🏳️‍⚧️✊ #OnlyConnect

oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003

frodo: "gandalf.. could we not have tom bombadil carry the ring?" gandalf, wincing slightly, sighing pissedly, rubbing the bridge of his nose: "tom is.. extremely high"

actually i prefer savory caroline

Surely this is fine ammunition against the Tories and Reform. The BBC has such heritage and support in this country, coming for it is a mad mistake. I trust @zackpolanski.bsky.social to know this, but surely @teamlabouruk.bsky.social aren't so daft as to miss this open goal. Are they?

If handing someone their arse, was a video clip

This is a litmus test of British people's patriotism. Do you back your national broadcaster? Or do you back this guy?