oh it's going to be a Recession recession

I'm pleased to welcome Andrew Rosindell to Reform. With any luck most people will have forgotten he was a Tory MP, because he didn't come into Parliament for nearly two years while he was being investigated for sexual assault and rape.

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

if you want to give wikipedia a birthday present, edit an article! volunteer labor is wikipedia’s most valuable resource and always has been!!!!

What would be the funniest modification they could have made to the Nobel Peace Prize medal? a) Listening Device? b) Loudspeaker to emit brown note or to give Havana Syndrome? c) Little air freshener bottle to periodically release the smell of burned toast?

This seems like a maliciously put headline to make people feel a certain way. Wikipedia is not partaking in generative AI. They are making AI companies and scrappers having to pay for training their modules off wikipedia texts. And having an AI (not that ai) tasked with updating dead links.

Who wore it better?

Nigel Farage says “hand on heart” he wasn’t going to unveil Robert Jenrick as a defector at his second press conference of the day, planned at 430.

Could Wikipedia add a section "Major Controversies" to the Summary section for politicians please? I had to look through several pages of dodgy planning approval interventions to conclude that this chinless wonder prick was a different chinless wonder prick to Grant Schapps.

“A new step in a pattern of deliberate disregard for international law & the United Nations. Israeli forces stormed into an UNRWA health centre in East Jerusalem. This is a United Nations premises.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Live your life in such a way that your death doesn't result in a spontaneous open mic night on bluesky.

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ICE shot Renee Good in the face and then called her a "fuckin' bitch"

my Beck, my Zach, my Busey, and my Brak

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Oh, shove your 'smart speaker' up your arse, Radio 3. "All without touching a button!" I DON'T MIND TOUCHING A BUTTON! I CAN COPE WITH TOUCHING A FUCKING BUTTON! Good morning.

I’ve only just started manufacturing trousers for stilt-walkers but I’ve ALREADY made huge strides

ME (Terrified, tearfully repeating this over and over again under my duvet):

A message for you all to carry through the year

pound for pound this might be the funniest thing ever written

Best known as The Wire's sheeeeeeeeet-talking State Senator Clay Davis, Isiah Whitlock Jr. was 71.

This is what sand looks like under a microscope. Amazing.

Just in case you need any of these numbers this Christmas, here they are xx

Here it is, my big #EastEnders catch-up thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas with the family. Allow me to get you all caught up on the goings-on in Albert Square in its most explosive week of the year! KEEP THIS BY YOUR SIDE AT ALL TIMES.

Tomorrow. 9am. The Seventh Annual EastEnders Catch-Up Thread for people who only see it when they go home for Christmas. I'm saving your festive season again.

*Triumphantly to the room* Cakes on me (cakes on me) *To the waiter* Cake me hon *Legging it without paying* I'll be gooonnnneee in a haaaaaaaazzzzeeeee

And then 15% for the tip? Daytime telly quack here rodeo-clowning attention away from Epstein, an ideologically-forced measles outbreak, and a cost of living crisis in the nonciest conceivable way.

"this is a stick up" "no that is a gun up" and that's how I got shot

[North Pole, 3am] “You got the stuff?” “You got my money?” “I wanna see them first.” “Here you go, 50 squeaky toys.” “How’s the quality?” “100% pure, unchewed.” “Santa won’t notice them missing?” “You let me worry about that.”

If I get bored halfway through a big shop, I like to stop off by the gravy aisle and have an impromptu game of noughts and crosses with a complete stranger.

4 big sounds inna one big lawn / The Don sound a play, the other 3 keep calm / 4 big sounds inna one big lawn / The boom sound a play, the other 3 keep calm / [Me boy] Ring the alarm, another sound is dying...

The Employment Rights Bill has passed and will become law. As the voice of the working classes, I voted against this bill because I know the last thing people want is sick pay, paternity leave or protection from dismissal, harassment and exploitative zero hour contracts.

Storm Byron is worsening the already dire living conditions of thousands of people living in tents or damaged shelters. While #UNRWAworks to support displaced families, the Israeli Authorities have been blocking UNRWA from directly bringing aid into #Gaza for months. Aid must be allowed in at scale.

So, we’re at that stage of the end of days where the national broadcaster has a problem with someone because they’re *checks notes* kind?

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

deep down i think brits don't believe bilingualism (or multilingualism) is possible despite this not even being a monolingual country

British culture has normalised genderfluidity for literal centuries. We're traditionally obsessed with disrupted sex roles, with drag, with bi-romanticism, with gay transvestite celebrities. So HOW THE HELL DID *WE* END UP AS TERF ISLAND? It's like the Swiss becoming The People Who Resent Chocolate.

If only there were a cautionary tale about being too eager to accept the apparent time-saving capabilities of new technology.

Radiospread, who once opened for Sodium Chlor-Ride at Jericho Tavern...

RIP to Martin Parr, who photographed this classic

I don't think Netflix should get to eat anything else until it finishes all the prematurely cancelled shows on its plate

it might seem surprising that the people who said “look, let trans people live their lives, but i have Reasonable Concerns about sports and toilets” aren’t up in arms about this, but what you have to remember is that those people who said that are liars who were lying

The days run away like wild horses over the hills Bukowski

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

If Roland Emmerich’s “10,000 BC” was made today it would take place in 9,983 BC. It would be largely the same except that maybe a few more people would be benefitting from the agricultural revolution of the burgeoning Neolithic Era.