Well, that's a bad sign.

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Sun’s out, guns out.

"why did people hate starmer so much?" people ask of a man whose very instructive and clear nickname was sir queer harmer

If nothing else, this weather has made me want to run screaming for relief into a painted, 150-year-old mountain storm.

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

FUCK

Whenever I make a bad decision, I sit down in front of the mirror, and tell myself “at least you didn't embezzle £400,000 from the SNP to spend on 2 x Ideal Standard toilet seat and 2 x Tom Chambers fat ball globe feeder” x

It’s nowhere the most important part of this interview but at around 1:36, when he starts talking about being attacked, there is what appears to be the sound of someone noisily sucking on a milkshake.

Good morning!

Every time a big political story drops I allow myself to believe that this place is just one 'Cameron fucked a pig's head'-era Twitter moment away from achieving its full potential.

The nice thing about the UK at the moment is that the racist guy round the corner who has two flagpoles in his garden and permanent George Cross bunting along his fence just looks like he has football fever. The bad thing is that I can't openly scowl at him again until the World Cup is over.

Perfect opening sentence to a Ray Bradbury short story.

I did not alter the positioning of these magazines in Morrisons.

Greater Manchester police used to stop my brother three times a night for the offence of Driving My Mother’s BMW While Black

It has been a source of great irritation to me that I have never been able to verify something I was told as a teenager, that there is a Yiddish word which means "someone who improves a room by leaving it"

We'll still have a leadership contest because we are nothing if not a Richard Osman's World Cup of Crisps-ass nation.

last day you can use this

‘Politicians are less trusted than ever, which is just a thing the terrible pig people have started doing and not a consequence of their actions‘

"It's just weather"

we should all be given the day off to shitpost

We will soon have had more Prime Ministers this decade than Journey has had lead singers since 1974. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Would've liked to have seen this actor in more movies

Mentally preparing myself for Wednesday, when my every movement will feel like I’m conducting it while sitting in a bowl of hot soup.

New cards for sale on my website www.8bitnorthxstitch.com Smiths’ Queen is Dead, Piccadilly Records, and many Fall cards (as well as lots of Manchester music ones).

Potentially for the last time, please enjoy the best picture of Keir Starmer

I see Duolingo has started doing crisps.

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

This era will be studied with a particular emphasis on the rise of the dipshit smartarse.

How I feel when I take my litter home with me x

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

I feel like the line of retreat is moving way too fast and doing a big sigh of relief because Reform only got 35% of the vote is a sign that it's all going really wrong.

What do you use your Danny DeVito wooden spoon for? Mine is exclusively for getting snagged bread out of the toaster.

'Three Men In A Boat' (BBC, 1975, adapted by Tom Stoppard, directed by Stephen Frears) is a fine bit of summer telly. Very funny, beautifully shot, perfectly performed, with nicely whimsical and thoughtful asides and the occasional sobering stab.

A reminder of what your dad really wants this year.

The Spiderman-like reflexes I display when I realise I’ve accidentally clicked on unstitched right wing content and want to back out before my algorithm changes into a toxic swamp full of red-faced men.

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.

Please no, I’m not ready to die yet

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

Every earthy wet stink can be petrichor if you’re desperate enough to write a poem

A bump for this, because I listened to it again this morning to double check I’d not said anything stupid and of course I did but that’s a reason to listen to it if anything.

After this 100% wrong AI summary, I pledged some money to Wikipedia. I think we should all do that. It might be the answer. Imagine if it vanished cos more people wanted to invest in the planet-burning lying plagiarism machine than in crowd-sourced open access information.

Always wanted to do this

Lionel Derimais, Cashier, Funfair, England, 1982