He should just appoint someone.

Hard to believe these guys are being outwitted by algae.

'As a member of the Bureau I spend most of my time seeking simple answers to difficult questions ... I have employed Bureau guidelines, deductive technique, Tibetan method, instinct and luck ... '

I'm drinking a drink called Frazil, the Tropical Fruit flavour. This is the best health and nutrition boast the Frazilians could come up with. This doesn't quite beat my favourite American food label ever 'inspired by the taste of beef'.

David Lynch is much more prolific if you factor in that you need to watch each one three or four times, and they hit differently each time. He made forty movies, he just packed them into ten.

This is such a clever response.

If this isn't against the law, change the law. If you can't change the law, sanction him like a Russian oligarch. He never gets to spend a dollar or use a plane again.

I mean, y'know, glad he understands the assignment.

Using the standard fascist conversion rate where a 'thousand year Reich' lasts twelve years, that means the very last time we'll ever hear the name 'Lindsay Graham' will be November 2028. Sounds like the upper range of plausible.

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren has called on JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon to say whether he lobbied the UK government against a tax on bankers’ bonuses on the advice of child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein www.ft.com/content/4f49...

Dog bites man.

Trump claims he spoke to Lindsey Graham "minutes before" the sudden illness that led to his death

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

A reminder at this time that weasels have feelings and the ones born with no backbone are particularly marginalized even within the weasel community. He can't read your posts, they might. Call him something else.

One of the things that warms me is the certain knowledge that the kids of MAGA will instinctively lie to their kids about their grandparents' attitudes.

Ultimately almost all of them are so unmemorable and unloved and interchangeable that their entire legacy will be a vague sense that they were horrible and about a 50/50 chance you're actually picturing a different arsehole.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

SPECTRE deals with its agents it no longer has use for, however they may have served the cause of crime and evil in the past. Don't know why that came to mind.

I learned that Lindsey Graham died by waking up to a "Lindsey Graham dead 🔥" text from one of my kids.

It occurs to me that one of the most efficient ways to learn if you woke up in a parallel universe would be to get someone to sing We Didn't Start the Fire.

OMG, I feel like such a fool because today I learned the Wal-Mart logo is called the 'Wal-Mart Sparkle' and all these years I've just assumed it was an anus.

There is a *massive* gap in British politics for people who aren't racists and would like functioning public services and jobs to be less fragile.

There's a very serious question about whether the Trumpistas are trying to con stupid people with obvious AI slop or whether they are stupid people who believe anything the weird shimmying plastic faced slopponoids say.

Publishers would rather not appear on Google than appear on Google if Google uses [the thing hucksters are calling] AI.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

I mean credit where credit is due: "If he wants to spend the summer arguing with a bin, I won't stop him" is top tier posting

Let's stop talking about the objective fact this guy has senile dementia, and start talking about the Russian-oligarch style sanctions those enabling him should face. Debank them. Flight bans. Seizure of property.

Zingerlenskyy.

I love watching right-wingers try to invent culture. no idea how to do anything besides pour money on stuff and then also simultaneously get mad that someone might benefit from that money

Really tough time trying to process the McConnell news. Can we still speak ill of him or not? We're in limbo here. Which, tbf, is a floor higher than where McConnell is.

Mitch McConnell's possible death raises new questions about Joe Biden's health.

when this is proven demonstrably false CNN should can his ass

Oh shut up everyone, the Farage thing is just a shot for shot remake of the David Davis clownshow thing. news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news...

They say the pressure groups with the most power apply that pressure directly at cabinet level, they barely have a public presence. We don't think of, say, the BMA or National Trust as 'pressure groups' but they usually get their way. Anyway, the President of Israel is making his case on CNN today.

I just realised what AI image generators remind me of: Pin Impression Toys. They're diverting for a minute, you go 'yeah, that's fun', then you've basically seen it. And sure, you can keep pushing different shapes to make yet another shape, but that's all they actually do, it's profoundly empty.

A reminder that at the end of the World Cup Final, Trump will be awarded the trophy, the winning team will be allowed to celebrate Trump's sporting victory and bask in his glory. The grand prize is to be a prop for Trump. He doesn't plan to attend the match itself. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

There is this anecdote about *all* of them. Everyone lets them win for years, or overlooks the fucking obvious cheating and poor sportsmanship, until the one time someone just doesn't. Chess, golf, marathon running.

I think the issue Americans have with soccer rules is a total lack of understanding of how a sport they pay zero attention to most of the time actually works - it is very different to the very high scoring games they are used to.

We need to start thinking about sanctions against people who are telling the public this person is of sound mind.

It's a Putin playbook tactic to untether what you say or do from any sense of reality or what words mean.

'Why are we making the entire branch of species of primate containing sivapithecus, the ancestor of modern orangutangs, migrate away from us to Asia?' 'Because they ponginae'.

Not into 'the football', but I'd definitely read this c1991 Booker shortlisted novel.

Could be a weird coincidence but if McConnell died ...

Trump is glitching heavily tonight: "All voters must show voter ID. All motorsssss must-- all voters"

Remember that time Obama jumped out of a plane without a parachute grasping lit sticks of dynamite in one hand? No President will ever beat that. They'd be better than Obama if they did.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

As seen over at the Nazi bar, Kylie Jane Kremer, who still has her "cavalry" post from Jan6 posted, claiming that someone geoengineered DC to be the hottest place on earth for July 4.

Wow, the day after the Pope excommunicated a whole bunch of fascists. I guess it's a coincidence.

It's the ultimate @paulmagrs.bsky.social story - Dr Who and James Bond's adventures growing up together as working class lads in Newcastle.

OK, let me think, because while I'm worried I'm reading too much into it, I think I might be able to glean some 'symbolism' from this moment.