The worst city on Earth just got even worse* *notwithstanding Lauren Laverne and The Futureheads.

Drive. Grindingly boring, with a protagonist whose sole characteristic appears to be "extreme silent violence which for some reason I'm meant to admire."

Come on Villa, stop fucking about and spoiling our fun. #thefootball

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

I see Nigel Farage is out pretending to care about antisemitism again

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away..." GNU Sir Terry Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015)

every gordon brown post power intervention: child poverty is bad every tony blair institute (sponsored by genocide inc): we need to bombard every kitten in britain to power the genocide inc ai machine

Dammit Binface was quick with this one.

I have clearly reached peak middle-age, as I am now writing furious letters to the editors of newspapers. But the Jewish fucking Chronicle is publishing articles by Nigel Farage as though he's our friend and I think I'm going insane.

winnie the pooh getting hammered and waking up the next morning wearing pants

Just a reminder that Keir Starmer might be crap but will never ever be as dreadful as the previous 5 prime ministers. I mean, come on.

university is SUPPOSED to challenge your beliefs! unless of course your belief is that trans people are awful, in which case awwww poor ickle baby, did the nasty mean people exist near you, awwwww poor baby, here let me give you a book deal and a podcast so you can tell us how scared you were

I’m sorry, you’re telling me Dungeness isn’t in Scotland. Are you high? It’s the most Scottish sounding place I’ve ever heard of. Get it moved! x

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

This remains undefeated:

heartwarming video of astronaut Christina Koch greeting her dog for the first time after returning from space. the pup can be seen snarling, back arched, before scampering to its word buttons and pressing "IMPOSTOR" repeatedly, then "FALSE. SKIN. FALSE. SKIN." several times

Taking off your clothes so your debate opponent's eyes pop out and they howl like a cartoon wolf is known as an ad homina homina hominem

I was thinking this morning how both Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan would have been delighted to see a Westward-looking, centre-right party defeat a pro-Russian autocrat in a former Eastern Bloc country.

Iranian official: (shushing the giggling in the background) Uh yeah, the only person we'll negotiate with is JD Vance

My son is 11,autistic, and obsessed with Minecraft. I manage a team of 4 Database Engineers. At some point I started to talk to them like how the parenting courses told me to communicate with my son and the team morale and overall performance has shot up so much we got an award

They spent a decade complaining about safe spaces and then made a robot to give you compliments and tell you your mp3 of farting noises is Brian Eno

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Tremendous work to the team at Tunnocks teacakes for bagging the Artemis II sponsorship deal.

This infuriating attitude shows up on the bookshelves in learning environments, too. We expect girls to empathize with boys, but we kneecap every opportunity to let boys empathize with girls. And look where we are.

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Why not buy something for the kids this easter and help an indie bookshop keep going? Highly recommend this one by @athenakugblenu.bsky.social with art by Nicole Miles. #KidLitUK #Booksky afroribooks.co.uk/products/his...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

What a fucking weird vibe tonight is. He probably isn't going to unleash a nuke, but we've spent the last decade saying "he probably won't do X..." and then he does. Bizarre globally existential merrineum vibes.

Let me also note that the Germans had a generation traumatized by war and the Great Depression. The Americans had… a Black president and #metoo

For almost a century generations of scholars and thinkers have tried to understand why the Germans sleepwalked into disaster. Future generations will focus on a different case.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

Something I don't think the UK boasts about enough - and a great rebuttal to Reform and the Tories' anti-net zero propaganda: The UK is home to 7 out of the top 10 biggest offshore wind farms in the world. 10 of the top 20. And 6 in 10 of the largest ones in the world currently under construction.

"Thank you Houston, instruments went a little funny just now but we're in the green. Please tell President Harris we're on our way home."

Just going to leave this here.

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

A different perspective. Always helpful.

And Jesus Christ, who did NOT die...!

I do not believe in God but I do think there was a guy named Jesus who was killed totally on accident by his friends and the hasty cover story they agreed on got out of hand so fast nobody could back down and now here we are.

He has risen!

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

I feel like the leader of a Christian Nationalist administration dying over Easter weekend would only encourage them. The thought of JD Vance giving some weekend at Bernie's shit a good college try in 3 days time is appealing though.

This is so, so well-articulated.

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Know someone in the writers room on this & they are setting up an AWESOME twist for the opening of S2 #nospoilers