*smashes the buzzer so hard it shatters into a million pieces* WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU’D SAY IN BED

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

It has come to this: agreeing with the Torygraph now. FML! www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consum...

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God it's so cool that so much of British and European nationalist politics has broadly been shaped by warehouse clickfarms rented by guys in South Asia running "how to make money from racist old people" workshops, and that this has had more influence on media and politics than any grassroots group

Not eating animals is a very robust rule of thumb when it comes to reducing your environmental footprint and the amount of suffering your diet may be producing.

Damn. Now I will have to listen, and probably disagree churlishly that Flateartha the Numidian, Ekonomikrisis the Phoenician, Orangeade and Lemonade etc were racist names, not just funny ...

Quis Cloudflariet ipsos Cloudflares?

“the findings could explain the fondness for moist, loamy soils Hitler described in his autobiography Mein Kampf” 👏👏

I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC. The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.

Turns out there is actually a zero cost way to minimise exposure to the shit-gibbons across the pond, and go about minding our own business ... Idk if this is common knowledge, @katie0martin.ft.com @robarmstrong.bsky.social @iankmsmith.ft.com

Surprised to find out that #TheGoldenRoad reached Colombia! FYI @willdalrymple.bsky.social

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

But the packaging of Tylenol says "acetaminophen" not paracetamol, because different people made different choices when abbreviating N-acetyl-para-aminophenol.

There is a reason... albeit a depressing one: they are making a pitch to billionaire daddies to come in (and make them millionaires) 😔

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It's been said a million times before, in more eloquent ways, but seeing the misery first-hand makes it hard to ignore how much of contemporary life is shaped by social dislocation and chronic male loneliness. Half of this would go away if Warhammer and lower league football tickets were on the NHS.

Actually, Frankenstein is a doctor success at the Venice film festival

@anandmenon.bsky.social "the politics of it all make no sense", indeed. But the origins of it can be explained if we consider that Labour might be guided by Reform-sympathetic journeymen strategists motivated only by short-term polling ...

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Bloody hell, @jemima.bsky.social ! I sometimes sneak off to Halwa Poori on weekend for a cheeky halwa-poori. Now I'm thinking how to explain to the owner the significance of Yarvin, and whether he will be happy or appalled to have served him ... (Kudos to you on picking out a hidden gem though)

the scenario we all feared

Check out these stunning photo and video explorations of Streatham Hill Theatre - https://streathamhilltheatre.org/urban-explorers-visit-sht-📺

People do stuff out of misplaced loyalties, hormonal derangement, stubbornness and embarrassment, all held in balance by a sense of duty and/or a need to be paid. You don't get efficiency by taking averages of their decisions, you just shore their decisions of their human purpose.

Dunno, maybe give asylum seekers the right to work? Maybe we could start by reducing the UK's one-year work ban on applicants to 60 days (as it is in Italy) or three months (as it is in Germany), or even six months (as it is in US, Canada, France, Spain, and Japan)? Maybe that's the thing to fix?

Mass starvation in Gaza and over 1,000 Palestinians killed while seeking aid since May. The government says the situation is intolerable yet they continue to tolerate it. The UK needs to stop all arms exports to the Israeli Government - today.

Susie Essman, the brilliant comedian from “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” recently offered some wise advice: focus on the small things in life that give you happiness. As Susie memorably put it, “The macro is fucked. We gotta go micro.” — @borowitzreport.bsky.social (July 11, 2025)

Fix This Sign xkcd.com/3113/

FYI, there is a 'Moderation' section in Bluesky settings, where you can ask for all posts containing words like Grok, Nazi, Musk to be removed from your feed either temporarily (until your followed commentors have spent their outrage), or forever. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

At long last, something to look forward to ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m08T...

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

The ceramics of Rama Duwaji, wife of the New York Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani are beautiful www.ramaduwaji.com/ceramics

Anyone wishing to learn more about the background of Zohran Mamdani, the brilliant new progressive Democrat Mayor of New York, can listen to his father Mahmood talk about his family's migrations @EmpirePodUK podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/1...

It struck me yesterday that Trump’s appointees look like evil versions of the eternally delightful Guy Goma whenever they appear on TV & now I can’t stop seeing it. youtu.be/e6Y2uQn_wvc

@financialtimes.com just saw this image in your review of Osip. "crudités of vegetables", apparently. Thank you for the 😂

In London, you don’t just find stability and certainty.   You find a city which stands strong as a bastion against hate.   And a city which shines bright as a beacon of hope, progress and possibility.

Bellingcat CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social:

London is the place to be.

On World Bicycle Day, we pedal towards a greener Europe! 🚲 Last year, Parliament, alongside the Commission and the Council, adopted the European Declaration on Cycling. This will help the EU to meet its emission and climate neutrality goals. 🔗 Learn more: europa.eu/!QnQ6nn

VICTORY! DEFEAT! Unpleasant mental images! My SKETCH of Today in Let's Get Back Together And Brexit Again!

Discovered this morning that I am married to a proper Leftie!

Here's a great comment from @seamas.bsky.social

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

One hidden AI website that's guaranteed not to make your life easier. on.ft.com/3Gpe5Vt

@caseynewton.bsky.social @kevinroose.com listened to the Hard Fork episode, and checked out ai-2027.com/summary out of curiosity. Made my day, the Silicon Valley kool-aid quenched nerds thinking so hard about artificial intelligence that they completely omitted to consider the organic variety

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

My favourite version of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhkZ...

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