they are desperate smears. don't fall for it. don't encourage them!

Look at the picture they've used for the original Dalziel and Pascoe. www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle...

Talking of royal correspondents, I recall one lad who did a long thing about how Chas would bounce back from cancer because he had "none of the tendency of excess of his ancestors Edward VII, George IV or Henry VIII". Only one of those three was his ancestor. Absolutely stealing a living these lads.

keep calling him prince andrew imo, i don't think the institution which shielded and funded him should get to cut ties so easily

Does King's evidence work when he's your brother and probably knows it all anyway?

Noncequences.

*wwhoooeeeeoooooo* "There's a voice, keeps on calling me, Down the snow, that's where I'll always be…"

Deleted a long thread about pool staff trying to pretend they had not stolen my googgles because it was a slow day and they just wanted to have a laugh seeing just how long they could pretend to the old bloke that the goggles they picked up off the side of the pool and hid could not possibly be his.

Important to understand that when all of these lads wail loudly about how much The Left Hates Britain, they don’t mean we hate Bargain Hunt or Greggs or Jarvis Cocker or Dundee United. They mean that we dislike and are opposed to *them*: they do not draw distinctions between themselves and “Britain”

An 8% drop in circulation in just four months, you say? Well, who could have predicted that.

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Crépeybara #art #capybara #PancakeDay

You (crying): "Colm, you can't just call everything social transition!" Me (hurriedly leaving for work leaving the kids to cook their own pancakes for the first time) "That's social transition"

Shriving? In this economy?

I refuse to buy the framing of that nonsense poll about introducing American laws on walking on roads by even using the term. How exactly would that work for people living in a village with no pavements? Or walking in the Lake District? It's a stupid suggestion and shouldn't even be entertained.

The problem isn’t teenage brains being exposed to social media. It’s teenage brains owning and running social media.

Banning social media for under-16s is on the cards in the UK. Age verification is the only way to do this, meaning millions will have to hand over sensitive data. This industry lacks effective regulation. An U16s ban would multiply existing privacy risks. www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

I'm not sure why but there seems to be temperature discourse, so time to wheel out the Finnemore. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nROK...

To which I'd add: i) it creates a suspicion that people who actually need glasses are equally noncey, so THANKS FOR THAT; ii) hopefully anyone seen wearing Ray-Bans from now on will be shunned and mocked; iii) have chewing gum ready at all times to stick over those lenses.

Just looking through some old comics and found a mail order advert for Small Prophets

If you've seen the Sunday Times today you'll know Labour Together were secretly hiring people to investigate journalists. Sadly you won't know that The National broke this story six months ago, since our work is not credited at all. Here's the original 👇 www.thenational.scot/news/2550403...

Something extremely funny could happen tomorrow

Even if you sort of knew the Dems were a bit shit, I promise you that the Pelosi ramble in this is the equal of any of Biden or Trump's deranged non-sequiturs. Also "politics pub"? Limmy wants a word.

Just to reiterate that all you need to know about UK class system is that Lord of the Flies is read as a comment about human nature and not about how inept and bullying public school boys can be.

The fact that Four Women Scotland are celebrating having driven Dr Upton out of the NHS should tell the media everything about their actual aims

Nothing but sympathy for Beth Upton. Never did a thing wrong but had her life completely upended, her character assassinated and her bins publicly raked through to the point she's had to leave the country for the crime of simply existing. And still the bigots won't leave her alone.

Yeah, i don't mind the rain. But we've reached the point where Wilfred Owen is standing outside my patio door doing poetry.

This week's @mindlessones.bsky.social Sunday colour supplement is here for you. mindless-ones.ghost.io/bored-witles...

So I carved off a lean chunk of the steak before cooking it, And made sure to set it on the edge of my plate, after I was done. And then to look the other way. To let her steal it. I got her her favorite thing, for her birthday - Crime.

Every single person involved in this hate campaign and everyone who has supported them - Anas Sarwar, for example - needs to be run out of public life the way they've run Dr Upton out the NHS. Being trans isn't a risk factor for people around you; this obsessive hate absolutely is.

John Carroll says his nighttime rounds are protecting the community. Critics say his “abhorrent” views on Hitler, the Holocaust and race are incompatible with his adopted role. https://www.theferret.scot/self-styled-nightwatchmen-patrol-a-scottish-village-their-leader-is-a-nazi

I just went on LBC to talk about Rothermere’s attempt to buy the Telegraph titles. The long and the short of it for me is that while it would philosophically be a terrible thing for him to control 49% of the British newspaper market, the idea that there is a plurality of views is a joke anyway.

11yo: what’s that show you wanted us to watch, from when you were kids, about rats or something, that paraded around london us: 11yo: the theme tune was like (sings the wombles theme)

I wonder if generations of our leaders in the UK took the wrong message about the Berlin Wall, that it was great and sensible politics, actually.

We need a hit record playing in shops with the lyrics "Hey, Meta, wipe all files" on a loop.

The Welsh government get a DRS including glass whereas the Scottish government got partisan shenanigans and costly legal battles. www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/wales-g...

I regularly look through a company's spam folder to check for false positives and bin hundreds of scams. Among all those many thousands of emails, not one has bothered trying to sell AI stuff. If even the scammers know nobody wants it, what does that say about the big firms betting the farm on it?

💦 The weather otter get better!🦦 Before we all need webbed feet.😉 📸 Lovely shot by George Kelsey at the Water of Leith.👏

Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

*Guy who listens to @bloodwork.show too much* "Listen to @bloodwork.show"

Hell yeah. Pressure works. Keep it up.

happy birthday gromit 🥹 🎂 🐶

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

It would have been Rutger Gunnarsson's 80th birthday today, and he deserves to be better remembered. He was the guy whose basslines go flying all over your favourite ABBA tracks in wild ways you have probably never even noticed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B139...

Going to start referring to reading as getting "mind-cucked", saying that letting another man put thoughts into your head is beta behaviour. This is going to make me seventeen grand a month on patreon, and lead to at least one regime change.