🚨 This evening, a notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news wire, to all media across the UK We believe it is strongly in the public interest to publish this memo. This is it in full 👇

AOC on the Kennedy Center: The renaming is completely illegitimate. All they did was screw some nameplates onto the building. That’s coming right off. Enjoy your name on there for a year or two, but that’s getting ripped right out.

Relax, bread department

I look at a short list of all the things to look forwards to this year, then the litany of things to dread, the disasters, the flashpoints, the transnational crises that have grown inevitable, and I'm just saying: Sheep Detectives better be fucking amazing.

One of the most powerful things I ever heard from a victim of abuse was 'they only need to persuade other men they're not abusers, and they're all great at that'. It's why every woman sees luminous neon warning signs, and men don't see anything. The onus is on men to believe, look, see.

Like the penny, the slop money beloved by pedophiles now costs more to make than it's worth.

My god. Who ever thought this would happen apart from fucking everyone with a damn brain... What an unbelivable waste of time that has cost us all so much. The contempt I have for these chancers and crooks is immeasurable.

... and he'd have more money than he started with. That's the real dark art. His ex, MacKenzie Scott, got $38bn in the divorce. She's given away $19bn. Her current net worth is ... $32bn. Bezos makes c.$26m a day. He could burn a $1m *an hour*, and buy your house from just today's takings.

Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.

NB: This chat up line only works if you are Prince, if you are not Prince do not use this chat up line.

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

Exciting news from the latest DWM: the new season 21 boxset includes the full edition of The Adventure Game on which Janet Fielding was a contestant (and which was the not terribly subtle inspiration for my @bigfinish.bsky.social play Power Game) www.bigfinish.com/releases/v/d...

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

fraggle rock implies the existence of fraggle jazz and fraggle rap

Xkcd pointing out it does sound odd when you say it out loud.

Added Yakety Sax to that video from Minneapolis

The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version. This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/

I am out and about, and just overheard a conversation that went "the thing about the metric system is that it's more subjective"/"yeah, I heard that" and I believe I deserve great credit for staying quiet instead of breaking the Prime Directive.

My mystery novel THE DEAD COME TO STAY is a BookRiot deal of the day! bookriot.com/book-riots-d... Book trailer below (I made it with stop motion and construction paper) #autistic #mystery #BookSky 📚

Pro tip: don't say this if you're trying to get on the board of directors at Great Ormond Street.

His enablers shouldn't be allowed to skip away from this to become edgy pundits on the lecture circuit. We really need to agree the penalty now for people who'll go 'ha ha it was an open secret he had dementia'.

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

Astronomers have learned Jupiter's actually the size of a beach ball, and only about 50,000 feet above sea level.

Utah Republicans have just packed their state supreme court. It had a partisan conservative majority already. www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Roko's Basilisk except it's seeing the photographic evidence of Trump's crimes against children makes you a sex criminal.

10/10 ICE protest sign

If Andrew's not still a Prince, some shitty newspaper columnist or Boomer professor who already got moved to another parish can lose his sinecure.

FYI, Kristi Noem’s full initials are K.L.A.N.

Hell froze over.

Tulsi Gabbard has committed such a heinous breach of security, it would be a crime if Congress was informed of what she'd done.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA *breathes* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA

It's the 2008 Crash. We are still living in the rubble of that. We are all poorer because of it.

1. Cold Fusion - Lance Parkin: The best VNA and best VMA at the same time, as these stories collide in the best way. Parkin deftly handles complex time travel, gallifreyian history, a huge host of characters, fun concepts and an assortment of ideas without ever losing track. A true masterpiece.

2. The Dying Days - Lance Parkin: A marvellous end to the Doctor's adventures with the VNAs and definitely the most thrilling. In the old who tradition of taking disperate elements to make something new, this is War of the Worlds meets House of Cards, and surprisingly enjoyable for it.

42 days after Trump put his name on the building, the Kennedy Center is out of business. Even by the standards of his casinos and hotels, that’s quick.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Kennedy Center just died.

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

Oh fuck yeah

Let the child have peace. Let those who took him, the entire chain, never know peace again.

It is the feast day of Brigid of Kildare. One of her miracles was that she touched a pregnant nun and the foetus vanished. The patron saint of retcons and frantic footnotes, the Catholic Encyclopedia concludes Irish people are liars, so it's probably that. www.newadvent.org/cathen/02784...

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Feeble human minds fail to understand the value of AI, so the plan is all those companies who were sued for bundling their products because that's illegal are going to bundle AI in with stuff people want.

People need to stop being so scathing and cynical - I think they look just like Stig, Nasty, Dirk and Barry.

BREAKING: The Senate just blocked a bill that would have renewed ICE's budget without real, enforceable changes. This is a direct result of hundreds of thousands of people across the nation demanding that our Senators vote no.

An idle moment so had a quick check of Cardiff's Nantgarw cinema. Screenings of Melania scheduled: 5 Tickets sold to date: 0 tickets.showcasecinemas.co.uk/login/0114/1...

in response to Hamnet I’m going to write a movie about how Chloe Zhao made Marvel’s “The Eternals” to process her feelings about the time she had to fight supervillain aliens in an exploding volcano