Strawberries and mint surviving amongst the weeds in my garden as if nature is suggesting Pimm's.

Stephen King's editor:

Ir didn't occur to me that the creepy ghost island TV show would be creepy and ghostly so I decided to start watching it when I'm all alone and the howling wind is making mysterious knocks and bangs all around the house.

I don't know what everyone's complaining about. Just go to settings > features > worms, then change the "worms pouring out of my phone" toggle from "yes" to "maybe later"

This one by Rory McLeod is up there rorymcleod.bandcamp.com/track/till-i...

This is more American than a bald eagle clutching an ar15 and a flag

The Gower's not so bad.

Why not get dependent on a package that is pre-enshittified. Simply why not.

I'm sure I remember that the queen's 2 birthdays were on different dates

The Scottish opposition parties really need to be having more fun with the Peter Murrell story. A lot less “comparing it to organised crime” and a lot more “a bald man bought two expensive hair dryers and his wife didn’t wonder where they came from?”

Creepy af but ok

It’s not even the mistake but being called out on it that is the hack

Conversations we should have had in advance no. 538

The pressure on parents to actively parent, provide activities for kids at all times and be very overprotective in terms of allowing them out of the house on their own, coupled with generally declining social support is making parenthood unviable for many

Tell me you went to Oxford without saying you went to Oxford

How about bands you've narrowly avoided? I once shut my festival stall early so my staff and I could run off the site before the Levellers struck a chord.

I don't know whether the Greens would have tried to brazen it out had he decided to stay. I DO know that the Greens brazened it out when we approached them about their main party videographer doing the same sort of thing, as detailed in this piece. www.jewishnews.co.uk/eight-questi...

Sabotage!

Fucking Trump

Should be a law against it (Nicola not winning the lottery)

Didn't win the lottery yet this week despite badly needing to, which feels off.

HEAD OF TEETH

The best time for Starrmer to back away from Mahmood's polices was before she was appointed but the second best time is now.

Latest in automation tools improving your life: Google running ads for products it's "sourced info about from your website" which I no longer sell, do not have in stock, and when I did have them whenever that may have been, they were £300 not £8.99 Luckily you can turn this off once you've spent...

cc. EVERYONE IN GOVERNMENT

Case in point: the average branch of Lidl made just £130 a day profit last year. Average that up across a lot of stores and it's a nice profit – but it's *blatantly* not profiteering.

He used an upper case He used a lower case He used a number key He used a symbol key He tried the password he updated the other day He tried the password he updated the start of May

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

Guardian are running a list of the 100 best “is Britain now ungovernable” articles next weekend

If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.

Surprised to report I have read 28 of these books, ticking off mainly on Austen and "Post-colonial" fiction (is it still called that?)

My response to my beloved showing my his RDR2 outfits: "It's astonishing that you are the best boyfriend I've ever had"

007 doesn't like the Beatles (canon) and has never seen a Bond film. Not very patriotic.

Hah

Don't forget what Reform promised the crypto industry after Farage took the cash: Farage....took an undisclosed £5mn personal gift from a crypto billionaire in 2024, months before pledging to slash tax and regulation on the digital assets industry if he becomes PM www.ft.com/content/6a56...

Been ages since we've had a new centrist party. Just saying.

Mis-clicked on Map Tap game. Day ruined.

This seems like it'll be a handy image, whomsoever shall be the next PM.

This is my version of the social contract. Well let you have a “dynamic” tax regime that enables economic vitality or whatever if you don’t dick around funding Neo-fascist media. Minute you do, down comes the hammer.

I don't usually subtweet on here but today I have Opinions About Some Of You.

Person who doesn't like Jess Phillips (and I know that's not a particularly niche position) telling on himself a bit by only just finding out that the term VAWG exists.

Having seen everyone else's responses to this I would say a policy to promote Taking a Deep Breath, Realising it Doesn't Matter and Being More Patient wouldn't go amiss.

Meta: AMAZING NEW AI TOOLS TO IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCT CATALOGUE ON META, AUTOMATICALLY ENABLED! My web developers (within 2 days): The meta AI crawl bot has crashed your website

"I'm becoming a Reform councillor... For an hour."

Corbyn in 2016

What's missing is a sense of whatever it is that *enough* people want or could be convinced to get behind. Enough MPs and enough of the public. It's understandable that swathes of people are sure that what they don't want is *This*, but they're coming at it from every direction.